[It breaks her heart it has to be this way for him and that somehow, despite escaping those kinds of experiments, whatever they did still managed to make things worse.
But at least he isn't running from her. Their tenuous friendship still within reach, even if she's too afraid to say that word again in his presence. She wants to pretend, to believe, that they are even as he denies it, over and over. Maybe that love is there too-she can't tell. Thinks maybe that's part of what's fueling this, but it could be what's setting the fire and she doesn't want to talk about that right now.
And she really wants to hold his hand, but he doesn't like it and being selfish is out of the question right now. He's tense and she doesn't want to make it worse-not when the next question is likely to do that on its own.]
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But at least he isn't running from her. Their tenuous friendship still within reach, even if she's too afraid to say that word again in his presence. She wants to pretend, to believe, that they are even as he denies it, over and over. Maybe that love is there too-she can't tell. Thinks maybe that's part of what's fueling this, but it could be what's setting the fire and she doesn't want to talk about that right now.
And she really wants to hold his hand, but he doesn't like it and being selfish is out of the question right now. He's tense and she doesn't want to make it worse-not when the next question is likely to do that on its own.]
Do you want to watch the water with me?
[Can she stay with him for a little bit longer?]