A/N: Quick update on my lack of update: I am swamped with make-up work and AP exam preparation and life in general. Therefore, it is taking me a while to write chapter 3 to All We Are. And that being said, I can at least write up one of these (these being 'That's What She Said') fairly quickly. So I won't be completely off grid . . . . . Anyway, keep the peace until next time, much love, Kit.
DISCLAIMER: And it's still nada.
"Who is the bad guy? Be a man. Go tell her what she needs to hear."
She is not a good person, she knows, but when she tells him this, her intentions are pure out of genuine concern. And she has been hurt, badly, by open ended break-ups, where men do the leaving with no explanation, and while they eventually come and go with no pain from her behalf, it still hurt before the calluses. And besides, he is a good person and she knows the doctor meant something to him. And therefore she knows he does not wish to cause her pain. The pain of what ifs, of could haves. The agony of what was reality and what was an act –none of which, she is almost certain, was an act. He had fallen in love with that girl. And it was a grave error and erroneous judgment, but it had happened. And now both were hurting. So she gives him a shove, even when he is at his absolute lowest, tells him too man up after what is one of the worst days of his life. And she does not know Jeanne Benoit, but he does, and he knows exactly what she needs to be told. Because it is so very easy to channel pain into hate, to concentrate desolate sadness into righteous anger. And he knows this. And she knows this and it is all to familiar. And the scariest part? The fact that she is hurting just as much as he is for the same reason.
And eventually, he tells her exactly what she needs to hear.