[ Her last return had been full of joy and warmth. This one is painful, wrenching, full of the wrong kind of tears and an undercurrent of great sorrow.
She knows why. Last time, she'd been on a mission. Something she'd been able to give him warning of. But this time... this time she'd been kidnapped. Experimented on. And ultimately returned a little broken. And he'd suffered for it. She knows he did.... if it wasn't obvious from the way he's holding her now, from the way hurt she now sees glaringly obvious in her memories.... she'd know it from the way she felt when the exact same thing happened to him.
So she wraps her arms around him just as tightly and does not let go, whispering in his ear over and over again that she's sorry. So, so, so sorry. ]
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She knows why. Last time, she'd been on a mission. Something she'd been able to give him warning of. But this time... this time she'd been kidnapped. Experimented on. And ultimately returned a little broken. And he'd suffered for it. She knows he did.... if it wasn't obvious from the way he's holding her now, from the way hurt she now sees glaringly obvious in her memories.... she'd know it from the way she felt when the exact same thing happened to him.
So she wraps her arms around him just as tightly and does not let go, whispering in his ear over and over again that she's sorry. So, so, so sorry. ]