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Summary
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Direct follow up to 1x06 "Meltdown". A few hours after the end of the episode, Helen and Dale talk, and try to figure out what to do.
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"By the time he made it to her place, thirty minutes after her as promised, she’d already downed a couple of heavy-handed glasses, along with a couple of pills, finding her half-passed out on her couch, her sleep-deprived metabolism no match for what she’d put in her system.
He’d helped her into bed, fully clothed, only removing her earrings and her watch, like he had a few times before. He could have gone the moment she crashed; he didn’t.
He’s still here, hours later, their relentless thoughts slowly filling up the room with a heavy kind of tension, until it’s smothering her more tightly than her stupid jacket."
Series
- Part 3 of Drawn by the Moon, Pulled by the Tide