Title: Independence
Timeline: During Bag 'em.
Rating: K
Independence
"Why'd you leave?"
He shrugged. The question was pointless; she already knew the answer.
"You didn't like working together?"
He shifted his shoulders again, smiling slightly when she scowled at his indifferent reply. "You told me to stay."
"So you go against everything I tell you to do just because I'm telling you to do it?"
Of course. "I'd rather be on my own," he said instead. That seemed to tell her everything she needed to know.
A beat of silence.
"Why'd you come back?"
Ah, now that question wasn't quite as pointless.
He grinned. "You didn't tell me to."