No, it is good. It's just a start, maybe, but it shows you can control it. With Armand's help, with Wanda's, you can practice and get better at it.
[ Not that Yelena would give up on him even if it seemed like a lost cause. But she knows he already sees himself that way on his worst days. It can't hurt for him to hear otherwise.
He doesn't answer her question, which tells her it was the wrong question to ask. Maybe he doesn't know the answer. Maybe he doesn't know how to say it. Whatever the case, she realizes he doesn't need the pressure of decision-making right now.
She tries a different way. ]
I am going to come and sit with you. Is that okay?
[ with the onus no longer on bob, when he has so little faith in himself — even after getting out of embry’s room the second he could manage it. after fighting the thing in his head with armand’s help (or not fighting it, rather, breathing through it; inhale, exhale — the lamp on in the corner, the record playing to drown out the rest of the noise). ]
[ quieter, ] That’d be nice. I’ll go to Armand’s room, so no one else. Y’know.
[ shows up. risks themselves. it’s an imposition on armand, certainly, and yet it’s been offered without question. ]
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Date: 2025-12-26 11:00 pm (UTC)[ Not that Yelena would give up on him even if it seemed like a lost cause. But she knows he already sees himself that way on his worst days. It can't hurt for him to hear otherwise.
He doesn't answer her question, which tells her it was the wrong question to ask. Maybe he doesn't know the answer. Maybe he doesn't know how to say it. Whatever the case, she realizes he doesn't need the pressure of decision-making right now.
She tries a different way. ]
I am going to come and sit with you. Is that okay?
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Date: 2025-12-26 11:37 pm (UTC)[ with the onus no longer on bob, when he has so little faith in himself — even after getting out of embry’s room the second he could manage it. after fighting the thing in his head with armand’s help (or not fighting it, rather, breathing through it; inhale, exhale — the lamp on in the corner, the record playing to drown out the rest of the noise). ]
[ quieter, ] That’d be nice. I’ll go to Armand’s room, so no one else. Y’know.
[ shows up. risks themselves. it’s an imposition on armand, certainly, and yet it’s been offered without question. ]