[Hand over heart. Cross it and hope to die and all that. But he's still procuring... something. Something edible, even. Dirk and cooking are generally best kept separate from one another, but they've got to have some kind of food that even he can't ruin somewhere. John can follow him to the kitchen if he's really so intent on looking him over.
He does, as he passes, give a more honest response over his shoulder, though:]
I'd appreciate it if you didn't take this personally, but I really don't like doctors.
[Better to wait to be poked and prodded at by someone he can trust if it's got to happen at all, is the point.]
Anyway, I've had way worse. Are you coming?
[It's not really a question so much as a hidden imperative: you'd best be. He sets to rifling through the kitchen, rather more thoughtfully than the task actually requires, though this is because he's attempting to accomplish two things at once: decide on what to (attempt to) make, and decide on what to say. How to broach the subject. The big one. John obviously doesn't want to, and that's fine, but doesn't change Dirk's opinion on the matter, which is that he really should. With someone, if not him. And so, finally, addressing the inside of a cupboard as much as anything:]
no subject
[Hand over heart. Cross it and hope to die and all that. But he's still procuring... something. Something edible, even. Dirk and cooking are generally best kept separate from one another, but they've got to have some kind of food that even he can't ruin somewhere. John can follow him to the kitchen if he's really so intent on looking him over.
He does, as he passes, give a more honest response over his shoulder, though:]
I'd appreciate it if you didn't take this personally, but I really don't like doctors.
[Better to wait to be poked and prodded at by someone he can trust if it's got to happen at all, is the point.]
Anyway, I've had way worse. Are you coming?
[It's not really a question so much as a hidden imperative: you'd best be. He sets to rifling through the kitchen, rather more thoughtfully than the task actually requires, though this is because he's attempting to accomplish two things at once: decide on what to (attempt to) make, and decide on what to say. How to broach the subject. The big one. John obviously doesn't want to, and that's fine, but doesn't change Dirk's opinion on the matter, which is that he really should. With someone, if not him. And so, finally, addressing the inside of a cupboard as much as anything:]
You know, I threw a shark at someone once.