[ raleigh pushes himself up so he can sit on the counter next to her. there's some perfectly good chairs nearby he could probably use, but they're much too far away. if he can't work up the courage to do anything about how much he really wants to kiss her, he can at least be close to her. ]

Reporters like that annoy the shit out of me. [ he can't help but frown as he says it. there's a lot about his time up on the wall that he really does not like talking about. it was a shitty time all around and he may have gone a little out of his mind, so it's a difficult subject. but like fuck is he just going to let people talk like the wall was a good idea or like the people who worked on it didn't deserve respect for what they did. ] You'd think they would've learned by now to shut their traps about stuff like that.