[...Young enough to want to establish his teenagerhood because he cares about being seen as grown up, apparently.]
[He rolls his eyes at her.]
Look, Mabel comes up with magical fix-it ideas like that because she wants to help people and thinks she can do some single dramatic thing and make them all better. If it's something that wouldn't really work, usually I tell her and she doesn't follow through. She's not really going to try to tie you up.
[He gestures with the pipe.]
Just like you're never going to hurt her, right? Or like I said. Knees. Not working. At a bad time.
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[...Young enough to want to establish his teenagerhood because he cares about being seen as grown up, apparently.]
[He rolls his eyes at her.]
Look, Mabel comes up with magical fix-it ideas like that because she wants to help people and thinks she can do some single dramatic thing and make them all better. If it's something that wouldn't really work, usually I tell her and she doesn't follow through. She's not really going to try to tie you up.
[He gestures with the pipe.]
Just like you're never going to hurt her, right? Or like I said. Knees. Not working. At a bad time.
[He's not messing around on that threat.]