decrypter: (nightmare.)
helena adams. ([personal profile] decrypter) wrote 2022-11-23 07:43 am (UTC)

Whatever Helena was expecting, it's not this. This open pouring out of vulnerability, of exactly how to counter her - it's more than she would have expected, and though neither of them can see her face, the stunned silence probably says enough. Helena swallows down why would you tell me this much and instead takes a deep breath instead. That's a lot to take in over two sips of orange juice.

She could have held back, but she didn't. Could have left it at that people knew how to destroy her, and Helena would have thought it enough, and left it there. But instead, in response to a lack of trust, she gave out more of her own. People don't...do that. Not around her. It's not something she foresaw in this discussion, and so instead she has to gather her thoughts on the fly.

What comes out instead of something practiced is something soft, honest.

"Thank you, for telling me all of this. Not a hint of it will I share with anyone, or so help me."

What comes next? She doesn't know. But...

"Do you want to come back?"

To the cabin, she means. If she decides to stay with her girlfriend, Helena won't blame her. But she wants it to be Erin's choice as much as anything else.

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