I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling your puzzles apart

[pushesgently]

Who: Altaïr and assorted loved ones
What: The aftermath of this fight
When: Night of 459 through early the next morning
Where: Odin 105 - A Needle in a Haystack
Rating: Man angst

[Altaïr isn't one to leave things undone or storm out to nurse his own feelings, but there is nothing to be gained by staying in their apartment, and everything to be lost.

How could she think what she does—and how could she say it? Anger and heartbreak vie for supremacy inside him until he tries to push all of it away, though there's guilt there too. But he can't take back his own words and Maria won't take back hers.

Asgard is quiet at this hour, and he finds his feet take the path toward the shop automatically. He'll return in a few hours, no doubt, but for now he has to be—elsewhere. It might as well be there.]

Comments

[Desmond]

[pushesgently]

[It doesn't even occur to him that his grandson, their houseguest—who he forgot about entirely during the fight—might have been awake to hear words that should be private, nor that he might want to say anything himself afterward.]

[Ezio]

[pushesgently]

[Quiet sounds or a sixth sense in the early morning might lead Ezio to the top floor of the bureua, where Altaïr is busy at work...and clearly has been at it for quite some time.]

[Maria]

[pushesgently]