[ frank follows eddie back into the kitchen and starts battoning down the hatches. he shuts the doors and stuffs the pillows left nearby into the frame, blankets sealing in the gaps and the rest of the noise. once he's satisfied that it'll be effective, he moves away from the door, into the center of the room so their voices won't carry, regarding the boy silently for a moment.
he thinks of what jess said then: that frank associating with all of the children here would paint targets on them via kilgrave. he can't ignore them though, it isn't inside him to leave these kids stranded. he has to believe he can help them in the end, or else what's the point in them being here at all? not for the first time, he wants to strangle whoever thought it would be such a great idea to drag minors into this, but there are plenty of unequipped adults too. "you can't even help grown adults if you haven't noticed." he swallows, fixing eddie with his stare for probably too long, and finally he unwinds his arms from where they'd ended up folded over his big barrel chest.
frank extends a hand to eddie, like a man. the same way he'd done for mike. ] Frank. But it's a secret, okay? You can call me Hotdog out there. [ he nods his head towards the outside. ]
so fun story i wrote a really beautiful tag to this and it got eaten so this is take2
he thinks of what jess said then: that frank associating with all of the children here would paint targets on them via kilgrave. he can't ignore them though, it isn't inside him to leave these kids stranded. he has to believe he can help them in the end, or else what's the point in them being here at all? not for the first time, he wants to strangle whoever thought it would be such a great idea to drag minors into this, but there are plenty of unequipped adults too. "you can't even help grown adults if you haven't noticed." he swallows, fixing eddie with his stare for probably too long, and finally he unwinds his arms from where they'd ended up folded over his big barrel chest.
frank extends a hand to eddie, like a man. the same way he'd done for mike. ] Frank. But it's a secret, okay? You can call me Hotdog out there. [ he nods his head towards the outside. ]