That smile and those words... It felt like he'd reached out, grabbed hold of her heart, and given it a good twist. Suddenly the progress they'd made in that conversation was completely washed away and they were twelve steps back from where they'd started. She closed her eyes for a moment, then slid off his lap so she could stand, putting the same physical distance between them as there now was emotionally.
"Maybe you've forgotten, Jack," she said quietly, "or maybe you never knew in the first place, but I only had a few months in that universe after we left you there." She used his words, throwing them back at him because she was hurting too. "Just a few more months and then I had to spend three years just trying to get back to it. Maybe 's hard for you to believe, but I thought about you every day I was there, knowing I'd probly never see you again. Then these past five, after 'd seen you and knew there was something he wouldn't tell me..." She took a deep breath and told herself firmly that she wasn't going to cry. "Maybe eight years is really nothing compared to the hundred I made you live through, but that doesn't mean it hurt any less."
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Date: 2009-03-08 01:21 am (UTC)"Maybe you've forgotten, Jack," she said quietly, "or maybe you never knew in the first place, but I only had a few months in that universe after we left you there." She used his words, throwing them back at him because she was hurting too. "Just a few more months and then I had to spend three years just trying to get back to it. Maybe 's hard for you to believe, but I thought about you every day I was there, knowing I'd probly never see you again. Then these past five, after 'd seen you and knew there was something he wouldn't tell me..." She took a deep breath and told herself firmly that she wasn't going to cry. "Maybe eight years is really nothing compared to the hundred I made you live through, but that doesn't mean it hurt any less."