[A master wordsmith Abbacchio is not, but he thinks he got the right idea across anyway, if not totally precisely. So they're working it out somehow -- alright, fine. But they could be smarter about it, if Giorno's still dreaming up flashbacks to that one night. Abbacchio has said it before, that Giorno not being in top form is dangerous and not only for himself, and he stands by that. He'd bring it up again, he thinks, if they weren't suddenly talking about him.
It's surprising. Abbacchio blinks and looks at Bruno while he speaks, his brow furrowed. He's been terrible to Giorno and he knows and understands that. Giorno wanted him to get angry--he knows that too, frowning as he remembers Giorno offering to meet him somewhere private, somewhere Abbacchio could get as angry as he wanted and nobody would come around to stop him. But he also remembers telling him in no uncertain terms to fuck off in response to that, to not use Abbacchio as some kind of vehicle for his martyrdom about all that happened before any of them arrived here. So, really, if Giorno wants to try to manipulate them, that's still his own problem.
None of that changes the fact that he has nothing left to say when Bruno is through. All he can come up with is it isn't fair to use that as a defense for being the leader and the fixer all the time - maybe Giorno shouldn't have done what he did in the first place, and things would have gone differently without the need for such hasty restructuring of all their pieces. But things have fallen where they are, and Abbacchio is petty and mean but he isn't a child, so he says nothing.
He was ready to be told he was wrong or at least not completely right. He could have thought of something to say if Bruno had stopped after the implication of his part in the imbalance between Bruno and Giorno right now. Even being put up against the idea that Giorno's problems stem partially from him (and it's true that he's guilty, it is, it is, Giorno fucked up and people died but how better than Giorno is Abbacchio in that regard anyway--) he could have taken. Sheer stubbornness would give him a way to argue that, yes, he would come around without any nudging from Bruno.
But.
'I would never risk you on a maybe.'
He has nothing; he expected a dozen things and none of them were that and he can't think of anything to say to it that actually sounds true. Abruptly he realizes he's been staring at Bruno in silence for too long a pause and looks down at the railing.
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It's surprising. Abbacchio blinks and looks at Bruno while he speaks, his brow furrowed. He's been terrible to Giorno and he knows and understands that. Giorno wanted him to get angry--he knows that too, frowning as he remembers Giorno offering to meet him somewhere private, somewhere Abbacchio could get as angry as he wanted and nobody would come around to stop him. But he also remembers telling him in no uncertain terms to fuck off in response to that, to not use Abbacchio as some kind of vehicle for his martyrdom about all that happened before any of them arrived here. So, really, if Giorno wants to try to manipulate them, that's still his own problem.
None of that changes the fact that he has nothing left to say when Bruno is through. All he can come up with is it isn't fair to use that as a defense for being the leader and the fixer all the time - maybe Giorno shouldn't have done what he did in the first place, and things would have gone differently without the need for such hasty restructuring of all their pieces. But things have fallen where they are, and Abbacchio is petty and mean but he isn't a child, so he says nothing.
He was ready to be told he was wrong or at least not completely right. He could have thought of something to say if Bruno had stopped after the implication of his part in the imbalance between Bruno and Giorno right now. Even being put up against the idea that Giorno's problems stem partially from him (and it's true that he's guilty, it is, it is, Giorno fucked up and people died but how better than Giorno is Abbacchio in that regard anyway--) he could have taken. Sheer stubbornness would give him a way to argue that, yes, he would come around without any nudging from Bruno.
But.
'I would never risk you on a maybe.'
He has nothing; he expected a dozen things and none of them were that and he can't think of anything to say to it that actually sounds true. Abruptly he realizes he's been staring at Bruno in silence for too long a pause and looks down at the railing.
Shit.]
This still isn't about me.