[What can she say? 'That's horrible'? 'I'm sorry'? None of it fits— none of it will make him feel any better. Them feel any better.
But she leaves her expression open, sets her hand across his own and lets the warmth sit sheltered between them. Something grounding, if that matters to him. All those little, tangible signs that it's real.] If you think about it, he wasn't.
He was just trying to protect you.
[Despite everything that happened, she still remembers seeing Taylor behind those glassy, reinforced lines of code. Secured. Safe.]
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But she leaves her expression open, sets her hand across his own and lets the warmth sit sheltered between them. Something grounding, if that matters to him. All those little, tangible signs that it's real.] If you think about it, he wasn't.
He was just trying to protect you.
[Despite everything that happened, she still remembers seeing Taylor behind those glassy, reinforced lines of code. Secured. Safe.]