I'm not some sort of...of counselor, mother. I'm still trying to figure out everything my life has become. It's not torture but it's twenty years worth of lies.
[ It was an unfair dig, and she knows it. But her mother's so busy trying to fix someone else, when there's still so much they need to work on together. ]
I can't be whatever he needs, whatever it is you think I could do for him. Not right now.
[I'm not asking you to be his counselor, she almost begins to type, but reads the rest of the message. It hurts. It hurts a lot, on top of Theon being so upset over Claire not telling him her story.]
[ Bree almost feels bad, almost. But why can't she be the focus for once in her life? She's been second to medical school, then second to doctoring. She has to own up to being second to Jamie - Bree told her to go, after all. But now, here she is, and aside from being forced into quarters and reminiscing about the past rather than discuss the present, they haven't talked. Not about any of it.
Not that she's going to say any of that right now. ]
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He didn't love the torture, Bree. He was toyed with, not just physically, but mentally, too. He's still trying to come back from that.
I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't trying to scare you away. He does that. He's terrified, all the time, and it doesn't stop.
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[ It was an unfair dig, and she knows it. But her mother's so busy trying to fix someone else, when there's still so much they need to work on together. ]
I can't be whatever he needs, whatever it is you think I could do for him. Not right now.
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I understand.
He'll stay out of your way.
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Not that she's going to say any of that right now. ]
Thank you.
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