Ashe had been too quick to get herself injured, she'd been as stealthy as she had in other situations where she had removed problems. Here it was less likely to remove the actual problem, but it had been a start. She'd never hid the fact that she thought this was a war between the sleepers and everyone else and she reacted from the perspective.
The shock of what he says outweighs her knee jerk response to snap right back at him with a line of defense. When they were teenagers the thought to leave him behind for such a thing wouldn't have ever occurred. As adults that had changed as they had changed. To hear him say not just that he would have but that he should have been there with her shifts her focus just slightly. "You would have come with me?"
The water was hot now and she leaned in to turn it down just a little so it would be perfect for climbing in to, but she didn't want the water to drown out his response so she waits a moment longer. Apparently their argument with her naked would have to go on a moment longer.
"I don't know what to think Jesse! I would have wanted you there, but we haven't exactly laid out the updates to you newer morality so I don't know what the limits are. And I don't want to lose you again!" Her voice grew impassioned as she said her own piece. "I didn't kill Reaper because I hated the thought of losin' you more than I hated him!" It comes out quickly, and she can't take the honesty back. She was really getting too comfortable with open conversation, and she worried it would get her into some kind of trouble. But there it was, a truth she hadn't fully wanted to recognize, but was clearly truthful. Sure it had felt good to one up them both, but she hadn't been able to fully shove aside the fear that Jesse might have given up on her if she had.
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The shock of what he says outweighs her knee jerk response to snap right back at him with a line of defense. When they were teenagers the thought to leave him behind for such a thing wouldn't have ever occurred. As adults that had changed as they had changed. To hear him say not just that he would have but that he should have been there with her shifts her focus just slightly. "You would have come with me?"
The water was hot now and she leaned in to turn it down just a little so it would be perfect for climbing in to, but she didn't want the water to drown out his response so she waits a moment longer. Apparently their argument with her naked would have to go on a moment longer.
"I don't know what to think Jesse! I would have wanted you there, but we haven't exactly laid out the updates to you newer morality so I don't know what the limits are. And I don't want to lose you again!" Her voice grew impassioned as she said her own piece. "I didn't kill Reaper because I hated the thought of losin' you more than I hated him!" It comes out quickly, and she can't take the honesty back. She was really getting too comfortable with open conversation, and she worried it would get her into some kind of trouble. But there it was, a truth she hadn't fully wanted to recognize, but was clearly truthful. Sure it had felt good to one up them both, but she hadn't been able to fully shove aside the fear that Jesse might have given up on her if she had.