Cal sighs inwardly, wishing there had been a way to do that without making it look like he was siding against Sherlock. It had been dangerously close to getting ugly in there, though, and ugliness tends not to leave any attractive choices. Tony is a complicating factor, especially since Obadiah has no problem using him as leverage. (And he doesn't even fucking notice.)

He puts the box he's carrying down on the table and flips it open, for all the world as if its contents are his most immediate concern.