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She’d handled it on her own

"I guess what I don’t understand is"--Michael paused, searching for the right words--"after all those years of keeping it to yourself, why did you do it for her?"

Michael’s guitar leaned against his dresser He’d tried to teach ed to remember three I picked it up and played each one twice before slapping s to silence the sound

"The over Re to wait for my answer

"My eht in" I touchedan ache that didn’t come "She listened"

Before E time

"She was co just how broken she’d been "Like a repeat of Mom, after Dad and the lab You kno terrible it was"

"I reer than life, but so much of her life had revolved around Dad I’d watched her close in on herself after the accident, convinced that her love for

I discovered that I’d failed her theI found her unconscious on her bathroom floor She’d been that way ever since

"I knew I could change it for E for a second "I didn’t with Mo in to take it I didn’t try until she was already in the co that made a difference"

"Em said it hurt you, physically"

"That didn’tit to ease one situation opened the doors to the past, where every eainst the one beside it Pull out one, all the others fell It was hard to knohere to cut it off, if you got it all or if pain still remained to destroy, like cancer

"Did your rief?"

"I would’ve insisted" And she’d be here now

"No one knehat Jack was doing I should have paid attention, done h You took action That’s whyher back, he can"

"Thank you," he said,he felt was for E care of her If … anything ever happened, I hope you’d do it again"

Sorrow Way too much for an offhand colass in hand

"Are y’all done?" Ee of Michael’s desk She smoothed down her hair and then sot that way

"Yes" I put the guitar back in the corner "I’ll get out of your way"

"No, sit I wanted to talk to both of you About Jack"

I warily lowered iant baseball lass, she cleared her throat "I’ve been thinking about Liam, and how he doesn’t want our help to find Jack"

"He has reasons" Michael’s fingers curled around the edge of the bed

"Oh, I know he does," she said "But I don’t like therinned at me "There’s one easy way to find Jack, and that’s to travel through time to somewhere he could be intercepted Dune tracked Jack and Catplane tickets to Heathrow, so we have ti is iives Lia from the exotic matter formula Michael and I need to be there to help him" She turned wide, innocent eyes on ht you didn’t want her to help," I said, more than nervous Almost twitchy

"I didn’t Then she yelled at me" Em winced at the memory "A lot"