[Sob she doesn't like saying this stuff either, Harry. :(]
[There's a flatness in her tone.]
Well, you ARE.
Fine, so I'm friends with the only reason that I HAD no friends. That's not making me feel like crap or anything.
I mean, gee whiz, he was only the one guy left who actually cared enough to tell me to stay in school, talk to the principal and even the police on my behalf, or to my last few track meets...
[She realizes even as she says this that this sounds like just as much of an accusation towards Harry as she felt the 'He's the REASON you didn't have anybody else in the world!' had been towards her. She doesn't WANT it to be, but... she doesn't know how else to say this.]
[It's perhaps for this reason, though, that her voice self-consciously lowers from 'angry' to just plain old 'upset'. There's that familiar croopy sound to her voice when she speaks next.]
I mean, what was I supposed to do after that? Just stay alone?
Push away the only person who still cared about me?
I did that enough while you were alive, Dad. I didn't wanna make the same mistakes again. I didn't wanna be a stupid ungrateful asshole anymore.
[Even if what Douglas had accidentally brought down on them (and the world) sort of balanced out any reasons Heather could have for feeling grateful to him, it was still...]
[Action]
[There's a flatness in her tone.]
Well, you ARE.
Fine, so I'm friends with the only reason that I HAD no friends. That's not making me feel like crap or anything.
I mean, gee whiz, he was only the one guy left who actually cared enough to tell me to stay in school, talk to the principal and even the police on my behalf, or to my last few track meets...
[She realizes even as she says this that this sounds like just as much of an accusation towards Harry as she felt the 'He's the REASON you didn't have anybody else in the world!' had been towards her. She doesn't WANT it to be, but... she doesn't know how else to say this.]
[It's perhaps for this reason, though, that her voice self-consciously lowers from 'angry' to just plain old 'upset'. There's that familiar croopy sound to her voice when she speaks next.]
I mean, what was I supposed to do after that? Just stay alone?
Push away the only person who still cared about me?
I did that enough while you were alive, Dad. I didn't wanna make the same mistakes again. I didn't wanna be a stupid ungrateful asshole anymore.
[Even if what Douglas had accidentally brought down on them (and the world) sort of balanced out any reasons Heather could have for feeling grateful to him, it was still...]