And that's why abandoning you would make me a terrible friend. It would be a different matter if you had killed those people of your own volition. But neither of you deliberately chose this!
[She shakes her head, slowly, opens her mouth to continue a few times, though nothing comes out. Tears threaten to fall again, but this time she manages to blink them back. The initial possession had been sooner for Katherine than Anders, and she'd had a recent reminder of him, at that, in her search for Morrigan. A child's doodle in the back of a book, an expression of pain she didn't understand and quickly forgot in her earlier years, but saw with awful clarity now. He had hurt so much back then, and hearing him hurting still, worse so, now...
She finally finds her voice in the past, saying something she'd told him once before. Something she hoped this Robyn would have said, too:]
Friends stick up for each other. You can't expect me to turn my back on you.
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[She shakes her head, slowly, opens her mouth to continue a few times, though nothing comes out. Tears threaten to fall again, but this time she manages to blink them back. The initial possession had been sooner for Katherine than Anders, and she'd had a recent reminder of him, at that, in her search for Morrigan. A child's doodle in the back of a book, an expression of pain she didn't understand and quickly forgot in her earlier years, but saw with awful clarity now. He had hurt so much back then, and hearing him hurting still, worse so, now...
She finally finds her voice in the past, saying something she'd told him once before. Something she hoped this Robyn would have said, too:]
Friends stick up for each other. You can't expect me to turn my back on you.