[ Yeah, it's... really fucking hard to pick a fight when he tells her something like this, when the truth of the matter is that she can put two and two together, even if she isn't the genius prodigy that Chuck is.
It's in the way he's looking at her, defensive and challenging, closing over the hurt -- and Raleigh almost forgets the turkey she's stuffing because what do you say to that? What do you say to someone who'd gone through something like that? He was only eleven, and Raleigh has an inkling of how things had possibly gone down.
He lost a mother, and a father that day; no wonder he is who he is -- and she damn well isn't going to change him. ]
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It's in the way he's looking at her, defensive and challenging, closing over the hurt -- and Raleigh almost forgets the turkey she's stuffing because what do you say to that? What do you say to someone who'd gone through something like that? He was only eleven, and Raleigh has an inkling of how things had possibly gone down.
He lost a mother, and a father that day; no wonder he is who he is -- and she damn well isn't going to change him. ]
...I'm sorry.