[What should have the greatest impact: Mike is hallucinating the other half of this conversation, which he seems to believe he's having with Helpy.
What does have the greatest impact: He'd miss her if she left.
There's suddenly a tight, snarled ball of... something in her chest, so tight that it hurts to breathe. She backs away from the door with a hand over her mouth, the expression beneath it half wince and half smile. Part of her wants to walk right out there and demand that he say it to her face, but what's the point? He'd just get defensive again - and so would she.
Oh no. What's happening here?
Gen doesn't actually leave the room until about 4 am, an inhumanly early morning partially caused by how early she went to bed but mostly caused by Mike's words rattling around in her brain. She tends to change out of her pyjamas before showing her face but that's a bit too much to ask at ass o'clock in the morning, so Mike gets to see the utterly terrifying oversized t-shirt she wears as a nightgown when they eventually run into each other.]
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What does have the greatest impact: He'd miss her if she left.
There's suddenly a tight, snarled ball of... something in her chest, so tight that it hurts to breathe. She backs away from the door with a hand over her mouth, the expression beneath it half wince and half smile. Part of her wants to walk right out there and demand that he say it to her face, but what's the point? He'd just get defensive again - and so would she.
Oh no. What's happening here?
Gen doesn't actually leave the room until about 4 am, an inhumanly early morning partially caused by how early she went to bed but mostly caused by Mike's words rattling around in her brain. She tends to change out of her pyjamas before showing her face but that's a bit too much to ask at ass o'clock in the morning, so Mike gets to see the utterly terrifying oversized t-shirt she wears as a nightgown when they eventually run into each other.]