Jason doesn't say much as they get the furniture in the car. He just storms about, having chosen things that he can argue were valuable enough to sell and that he won't care if they go missing. It's mostly things from Ben's room anyway. He glares at Linden but refrains from anything else.
He feels sick with anger, with the kind that can't explosively emerge in a vindictive fury against the nearest target, with the kind that has to be crumpled and squeezed into servility by circumstance. And loss, too; he just lost his mother, putting his world on a sort of tilt-a-whirl, and now he'll be losing Peggy. The anger takes a persecuted turn as he thinks that Peggy honestly couldn't have timed this better to cut the legs out from under him.
"Get in," he says when the decoy furniture has been loaded. "Let's make this quick, I told you I had a buyer waiting for me tonight and it's a few hours out."
He'll have to come up with some excuse for why he bothered to do an illegal transaction in front of people, one of whom he doesn't like. Peggy can be passed off as an issue of trust, but Linden...?
They'll have at least three hours of driving to figure it out, and then Jason will have the whole ride back to come up with something. It isn't the first time he's had to hide money or belongings or people. He starts the car and doesn't wait to make sure either of them are strapped in before going towards the nearest blind spot.
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He feels sick with anger, with the kind that can't explosively emerge in a vindictive fury against the nearest target, with the kind that has to be crumpled and squeezed into servility by circumstance. And loss, too; he just lost his mother, putting his world on a sort of tilt-a-whirl, and now he'll be losing Peggy. The anger takes a persecuted turn as he thinks that Peggy honestly couldn't have timed this better to cut the legs out from under him.
"Get in," he says when the decoy furniture has been loaded. "Let's make this quick, I told you I had a buyer waiting for me tonight and it's a few hours out."
He'll have to come up with some excuse for why he bothered to do an illegal transaction in front of people, one of whom he doesn't like. Peggy can be passed off as an issue of trust, but Linden...?
They'll have at least three hours of driving to figure it out, and then Jason will have the whole ride back to come up with something. It isn't the first time he's had to hide money or belongings or people. He starts the car and doesn't wait to make sure either of them are strapped in before going towards the nearest blind spot.