she pauses for a long time, considering jasper's question in the slow, deliberate way drunk people have. "you know?" she says slowly, "maybe. i want to hear that he was wrong. not that i was right, but that he wasn't. to be left alone"

"you want to be left alone? or," he rolls his bottom lip between his teeth, "to hear that he was... wrong, to leave you alone? both are. understandable"

her shoulders hunch up toward her ears. "both. i guess. it's all i know how to do now. figures, doesn't it. only things i can do right are what he taught he to do. fight, fight more, and shove everyone away..."

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