It's not like he didn't expect something like this - you can't heal trauma just by saying it's okay - but something in him twinges when she startles away from him.
"It's fine," he says, because it has to be - he doesn't get to hold this against her when he's the one who shot her in the first place, and he doesn't particularly want to. Instead, he puts her mug back in its place on her desk. It's fine. Everything's fine.
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It's not like he didn't expect something like this - you can't heal trauma just by saying it's okay - but something in him twinges when she startles away from him.
"It's fine," he says, because it has to be - he doesn't get to hold this against her when he's the one who shot her in the first place, and he doesn't particularly want to. Instead, he puts her mug back in its place on her desk. It's fine. Everything's fine.