John had always been tricky to get a handle on, for him at least, anyway. Scott and Virgil seem to have a handle on him, on all of them. They were all fairly open to the eldest pair and it wasn't that surprising when he actually thought about it. They had spent a large chuck of their teens looking after the three of them, and Gordon knows he should be thankful that the two of them never decided to just leave him somewhere and never come back; he was not the easiest of children to look after.
This wasn't what he was trying to stress to Penny, though—what he needed to get across to her and what he needed her to understand was that John was setting off alarm bells for him.
The lanky ginger could be cryptic and secretive, sure, but he was never openly evasive, never to the point of rudeness. Now, though, he was being just that and kinda weird on top of it all, but Gordon couldn't put his finger on what it was he was up to. John just wasn't right and the more Gordon spoke to him, the more he was convinced John was up to something.
Penny didn't seem convinced and while she didn't openly shoot his concerns down, he suspected that was due to her manners; instead, she pointed out that none of them were really themselves right now. He knew better, though, and a gut feeling told him things were going to get far worse before he got answers. He just hoped it wouldn't be as bad as he suspected.