[ Well, that would certainly be a unique way of telling her that he needed her. It would probably work, though, in terms of convincing her, just because she has a tendency to believe him when he says things. The main problem seems to simply be their refusal to talk it over clearly.
Neither one of them is being very good at functionality at all. She's not fracturing and she's not anywhere near broken, but she's just very very tired and she wants time and space to shut down persistent memories and remember where she is and that she's okay, and this is not a place designed to give her that even if intellectually she can realize that medical care is a good idea.
But he's helping, if the staff isn't really helping at all, and she thinks she murmurs a thank you to him somewhere halfway down the halls but if she does she's not entirely certain of it, looks up at him when she sits down abruptly on the cot offered her and feels the need to say it again .] Thank you. I'm sorry. [ Before anyone else comes in to interrupt them again, before she has to lock down all her shields again because they are sending in an empath and she's not letting any such person have any chance at reading her mind at all. ]
they are exceptionally complicated people
Neither one of them is being very good at functionality at all. She's not fracturing and she's not anywhere near broken, but she's just very very tired and she wants time and space to shut down persistent memories and remember where she is and that she's okay, and this is not a place designed to give her that even if intellectually she can realize that medical care is a good idea.
But he's helping, if the staff isn't really helping at all, and she thinks she murmurs a thank you to him somewhere halfway down the halls but if she does she's not entirely certain of it, looks up at him when she sits down abruptly on the cot offered her and feels the need to say it again .] Thank you. I'm sorry. [ Before anyone else comes in to interrupt them again, before she has to lock down all her shields again because they are sending in an empath and she's not letting any such person have any chance at reading her mind at all. ]