For a moment, Alex just watches Simon. If so much of their interaction hadn't happened over the phone, then she would be better to read the language of Simon Reese. In some ways that was the real work that she'd needed to do when it came to the show and all of the players within it: very rarely did someone actually say what it was that they were meaning to, and Alex always needed to find the thread and tease out what was at the core of it. With Strand, it was something that had become second nature--the silences between his words had needed a Rosetta stone since the beginning, never mind his sighs and the things that he'd left out. In a non-romantic way, Alex too had learned to read his body language so she knew just how far and how hard to push. With Simon, the Rosetta stone had only ever had the cryptic way that he'd spoken about things and the phrasing in it.
Alex hadn't ever thought that she would end up being able to learn the physical parts of his language as well. Being good at reading people is one of the things that has made Alex good at her job, but with the way that he looks now, nearly anyone would be able to see the reluctance in him. It makes her sigh softly, and Alex bites her lip for a moment. While she's not aware that Simon would do anything for her (and she never would want that for him either. Not at all. She doesn't want people who are willing to do anything for her even if that's what Alex herself does.) she does know that he equates her with the sunsets that he loves, which means that he thinks that she's going to be the one to stop this. It's not a comfortable thought, but at this point Alex knows that comfortable thoughts aren't exactly on the table for her.
"Simon..." Alex starts and then she stops, her voice low because she knows that he doesn't want to teach Strand. "What can I do to make this easier for you?" Because someone needs to teach him so he doesn't end up... however this would mess him up, and the only person who gets what he's going through, for better or worse, is Simon himself. "Would it help if I were there when you needed to teach him?"
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Alex hadn't ever thought that she would end up being able to learn the physical parts of his language as well. Being good at reading people is one of the things that has made Alex good at her job, but with the way that he looks now, nearly anyone would be able to see the reluctance in him. It makes her sigh softly, and Alex bites her lip for a moment. While she's not aware that Simon would do anything for her (and she never would want that for him either. Not at all. She doesn't want people who are willing to do anything for her even if that's what Alex herself does.) she does know that he equates her with the sunsets that he loves, which means that he thinks that she's going to be the one to stop this. It's not a comfortable thought, but at this point Alex knows that comfortable thoughts aren't exactly on the table for her.
"Simon..." Alex starts and then she stops, her voice low because she knows that he doesn't want to teach Strand. "What can I do to make this easier for you?" Because someone needs to teach him so he doesn't end up... however this would mess him up, and the only person who gets what he's going through, for better or worse, is Simon himself. "Would it help if I were there when you needed to teach him?"