Uh...[ She'd been doing miscellaneous work in her home office. She was busy and focused on some shipments that she had coming in soon. While she almost explains that, she stops. That was the very thing her mother would have done. So pulls her head out of her work. ] Just give me a sec...
[ She puts some things into folders and then locks them away. ]
[ There's a wave of relief that comes over her when she puts her work aside, letting out a breath she hadn't been fully even meaning to hold. ]
I um... I mean, I know that there's... There's a lot of stuff missing in my head right now and I'm trying really hard to not try and piece things together because I know that brains can remember things wrong, but— I mean— Dad—
... Daddy's not... dead, right? S-Someone was... They were talking about their dad and how he died and all this stuff about trying to get him back and I just suddenly couldn't— I couldn't breathe and I kept thinking it's just because of what happened in May, y'know, but— But then I thought about how I didn't really know, and— And... I...
[ Oh shit, she remembered that. Ashe can think about how much worse that whole situation would have been if it had been Chloe against her parents.
She also knows that Chloe's father back in the real world, is dead. She's confusing the two and it's not an easy question to answer? So she'll go with the truth. ]
Jesse?
[ She lets out a long breath. ] He ain't dead. Man has nine lives and May was only one of them. I am sure he has at least four or five left, so I wouldn't worry about it.
[ There's an extremely heavy sigh of gratitude towards her answer the tension seeming to leave Chloe all at once with it, and she feels her shoulders relax rather suddenly. ]
Good. Good. I— She said that... That maybe my mind was trying to protect itself from something awful, and I thought maybe—
... I'm glad he's okay. I feel stupid for getting scared about it.
[ She figures her mind probably is, but she doesn't really know how to fix it for her right now. She certainly doesn't need to worry about Jesse at the moment. ]
No need to feel stupid about that. It's okay to worry and it makes sense you would.
Do I gotta have a talk with anyone about makin' sure they don't add to your confusion?
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[ She puts some things into folders and then locks them away. ]
Not busy anymore. What's up?
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I um... I mean, I know that there's... There's a lot of stuff missing in my head right now and I'm trying really hard to not try and piece things together because I know that brains can remember things wrong, but— I mean— Dad—
... Daddy's not... dead, right? S-Someone was... They were talking about their dad and how he died and all this stuff about trying to get him back and I just suddenly couldn't— I couldn't breathe and I kept thinking it's just because of what happened in May, y'know, but— But then I thought about how I didn't really know, and— And... I...
He's okay, isn't he?
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She also knows that Chloe's father back in the real world, is dead. She's confusing the two and it's not an easy question to answer? So she'll go with the truth. ]
Jesse?
[ She lets out a long breath. ] He ain't dead. Man has nine lives and May was only one of them. I am sure he has at least four or five left, so I wouldn't worry about it.
Yeah. He's okay.
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Good. Good. I— She said that... That maybe my mind was trying to protect itself from something awful, and I thought maybe—
... I'm glad he's okay. I feel stupid for getting scared about it.
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No need to feel stupid about that. It's okay to worry and it makes sense you would.
Do I gotta have a talk with anyone about makin' sure they don't add to your confusion?
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I dunno why I flipped like I did. Her story just felt so... real. Even though it sounded so crazy.