::rereads AGAIN:: Okay, I'd sort of dismissed the assaulty vibe for a couple of reasons. Assault (sexual or no-frills) is not a squick of mine, plus Kowalski is unhappy and spoiling for a fight, and I took the shoving as more of a posture (even though it freaked Vecchio out, it didn't really freak me because I don't think Kowalski would force himself on someone, but Vecchio is understandably cautious because he doesn't know Kowalski too well, presumably). I can totally see Kowalski physically confronting another guy and have it not mean too much to him.
So maybe the R/R I saw was sometime in the future, after they'd been partners for a while and things had settled down in Kowalski's mind, and there was calmness and understanding between them, and not so much with the adversarial verbal taunting and sudden closeness with walls.
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So maybe the R/R I saw was sometime in the future, after they'd been partners for a while and things had settled down in Kowalski's mind, and there was calmness and understanding between them, and not so much with the adversarial verbal taunting and sudden closeness with walls.