[Do you feel better, Tim, now that it's all out in the open? Now that you've made her say it out loud? Does it feel better that it's out there and you know exactly what it said to her?]
[Not really. Nothing about this feels good, just necessary in the way everything in his life becomes a series of necessary, shitty patterns he doesn't want to go through with committing to. He does anyway.]
[He closes his eyes.]
Okay. [The word is nearly soundless.]
[But, of course, the interrogation isn't done. It's never done. He's worse than Jay. Worse than Alex, worse than Brian. He honestly, truly is. None of them brought that thing into anyone else's lives, and made it their problem to deal with, and then promptly refused to take responsibility for it.]
Did he hurt you?
[In more ways than just the verbal, he means, though he doesn't specify.]
no subject
[Not really. Nothing about this feels good, just necessary in the way everything in his life becomes a series of necessary, shitty patterns he doesn't want to go through with committing to. He does anyway.]
[He closes his eyes.]
Okay. [The word is nearly soundless.]
[But, of course, the interrogation isn't done. It's never done. He's worse than Jay. Worse than Alex, worse than Brian. He honestly, truly is. None of them brought that thing into anyone else's lives, and made it their problem to deal with, and then promptly refused to take responsibility for it.]
Did he hurt you?
[In more ways than just the verbal, he means, though he doesn't specify.]