[ ouch. that stings, pretty much every part of it - his tone, the words he's saying, it all sucks and she wants to give in now, to apologize like a million times and tell him she's being stupid so he'll quit looking at her like she punched him square in the face.
but that's her problem, isn't it? she can never do what you have to do to keep people safe. she ruins shit with the best of intentions, is what josh told her, when she tried to help emily. and going back on this now, she'd be doing it again. making them both feel better now, just to probably get him killed later.
so despite the way her face crumples just a little at his words - not much, but he knows her too well by now - sally pulls her shit together before more than a second or two and just swallows inaudibly and nods. ]
Yeah, [ she says. ] No problem. [ and then she's turning for real to head for the door, because she can't do this - this argument thing. she never factored any arguments in when she figured this was a good idea. the way it went down in her head, she stopped arbitrarily harassing him and in light of how busy he is with SEC and whatever else, he gradually forgot she was ever a thing. ]
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but that's her problem, isn't it? she can never do what you have to do to keep people safe. she ruins shit with the best of intentions, is what josh told her, when she tried to help emily. and going back on this now, she'd be doing it again. making them both feel better now, just to probably get him killed later.
so despite the way her face crumples just a little at his words - not much, but he knows her too well by now - sally pulls her shit together before more than a second or two and just swallows inaudibly and nods. ]
Yeah, [ she says. ] No problem. [ and then she's turning for real to head for the door, because she can't do this - this argument thing. she never factored any arguments in when she figured this was a good idea. the way it went down in her head, she stopped arbitrarily harassing him and in light of how busy he is with SEC and whatever else, he gradually forgot she was ever a thing. ]