A long, long time ago some asshole set Hank's phone to make its alerts as loud and annoying as possible, knowing Hank would never bother to figure out how to change it. He never had. So he knows he's got something there waiting for him and if he wants to really on-purpose ignore it he's got to take a look at that something so he knows what it is.

These days there are two possibilities for what this could be about, and the first one doesn't count. It might be Fowler telling Hank he finally grew enough balls to stand up to his bosses and asking Hank to come back to the station after all so he can go down on his knees and kiss Hank's ass until Hank accepts his apology. Or, a little more likely, it might be another spam text telling him he's won a brand new android.

That one'd made him laugh. It shouldn't of, probably, but it had. He could use a laugh, probably, so after a while Hank manages to badger himself into rolling off the couch, and standing up, and walking all the way across the room to his phone so he can look.

So, eventually, he reads it. He swallows. He clears his throat. Once he does he types back quick, before the shaky rush of actually hearing from Connor and knowing he's okay has time to fade, so he doesn't have time to talk himself into ignoring it.

i just punched a guy n let myself get turned n2 a hostage u guys did the real work