Something in her chest is clenched so tightly that she's not sure it will ever come undone. She's hurting him, isn't she? By denying her own hurt which she can't really have. It's not the same, it's not-- she's causing him more of his own.]
[She finds herself rereading that last part.]
I'll stop.
[She wants to say that she doesn't have a right to be so selfish, to say these things to him, but-- but saying that would be selfish, too.]
I care about you too.
['As much as I can' is forced aside and erased. 'That's why I want you to be safe' suffers the same fate.]
I will.
You've already done it. [If what the Journal said was true, then....]
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Something in her chest is clenched so tightly that she's not sure it will ever come undone. She's hurting him, isn't she? By denying her own hurt
which she can't really have. It's not the same, it's not--she's causing him more of his own.][
She finds herself rereading that last part.]I'll stop.
[She wants to say that she doesn't have a right to be so selfish, to say these things to him, but-- but saying that would be selfish, too.]
I care about you too.
['As much as I can' is forced aside and erased. 'That's why I want you to be safe' suffers the same fate.]
I will.
You've already done it. [If what the Journal said was true, then....]