[ He remembers telling her what he was on Takodana and waiting for everything to change. Waiting for the anger, the disgust, the fear to roll in.
And all the moments where he'd almost told her before, where he'd thought about how to do it, only to get sidetracked or to lose his nerve, to end up sitting on the truth a little longer-- the thing about that was that it weighed everything down. Threaded through everything. Even the brightest spots.
He hadn't known her nearly well enough to feel distant; but he'd known it was something that made close a much more distant possibility in the first place. ]
I'd rather know. [ That much, he knows too. He'd rather know now than find out some other way. He'd rather know than have her resign herself to feeling far away again.
So that's one thing figured out. ]
Can... [ Finn swallows. ] Are you safe? Can you promise you're safe?
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And all the moments where he'd almost told her before, where he'd thought about how to do it, only to get sidetracked or to lose his nerve, to end up sitting on the truth a little longer-- the thing about that was that it weighed everything down. Threaded through everything. Even the brightest spots.
He hadn't known her nearly well enough to feel distant; but he'd known it was something that made close a much more distant possibility in the first place. ]
I'd rather know. [ That much, he knows too. He'd rather know now than find out some other way. He'd rather know than have her resign herself to feeling far away again.
So that's one thing figured out. ]
Can... [ Finn swallows. ] Are you safe? Can you promise you're safe?