thinking about dale who treats you like you’re his granddaughter, constantly being nosy and overprotective— and hates shane.
and then we have shane, who knows this. he stays out of dales way for the most part aside from the odd disagreement, but you’ve told him to chill. dales an old man with a broken heart and he needs this. so, shane tries. until dale pushes his luck.
“if you’re gonna pack up and go i suggest you do it right now.” the old man speaks suddenly, appearing behind shane as he’s rummaging the RV preparing to train those at the farm who were willing.
the buzzed hair man turns around, scoffing out a chuckle as he looks around.
“dead serious. you’ve done enough around here and the last thing anyone needs is you runnin’ around tainting that poor girls mind with your nonsense. she is too. young.” dale weakly points his finger, wide eyed and accusatory. shane licks his lips, trying to control himself as he slowly strolls towards him.
“n’whos gonna make me leave, huh? you? ‘cus… ‘cus it sure as hell ain’t her. shit, that girl would be dead without me, that what you want?” he tilts his head, before the smirk returns. it’s dark, malicious, sinister. “nah, but this ain’t about that, is it?”
“you’re a danger.” dale defends.
“i save your asses every damn day.” shane rebukes the point, waving a dismissive hand. “nah, you… you got some fucked up… attachment to her and i think it’s time you let it go, man. she’s an adult. she wants to… hang around with me and do whatever then that’s her choice.” he barks before wandering off down the RV, continuing to search for his gun that he knew the old man was hiding.
“she doesn’t have a parental figure. hell, son she was probably looking for that in you and you took advantage of he—”
“i didn’t take advantage of shit.” shane whisper yells, lurching forward to shove a finger in his face. “she came onto me she — she was hungry for it and wanted to feel good and shit, i delivered. i gave her what she wanted and you know what i liked it. i’ll do it again tonight, i’ll do it again tomorrow and i’ll keep doin’ it as long as she’ll let me.” he’s wound up now, running a hand down his face, mouth turned downstairs, nostrils flared. “now i—i don’t know how much play you got back in your day, judging by the way you’re carryin’ on it clearly weren’t much, but when a girl comes onto you like that… you can’t say no. it’s impossible as a man.”
dale is stunned into silence at the sheer audacity of the man, and that’s enough to satisfy shane — so he continues rummaging, thinking he might have found the duffel bag.
“take advantage.” he scoffs to himself. “you di’nt see her. she loves that shit. never seen eyes rolled back like that but yeah, i took advantage.” he shrugs, not sparing dale of the details as he grabs his rifle, hoisting up and storming off past the old man, leaving him with a brutal lasting image.