He nods, because all of that was why he'd very much cared about her as well. Loved her, in his own way. In the way that was quiet and honest and raw, that they'd shared with each other. She'd understood things even Iris didn't. Gave him somewhere to go with his very specific pain that so few here understood.
"Is there a reason you didn't... why you didn't want to mourn her disappearance with me?"
That had been the question, hadn't it? With Maxwell? The way he'd shut down, the way he'd pretended everything was fine. He'd done it for a specific reason, for his mission, because Hera and the rest of the crew didn't deserve to see his pain, because his mourning involved finishing the job she'd died for. And then this.
He knows there has to be a reason. But he needs to know what it is. From Jacobi.
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Date: 2021-08-27 04:12 am (UTC)"Is there a reason you didn't... why you didn't want to mourn her disappearance with me?"
That had been the question, hadn't it? With Maxwell? The way he'd shut down, the way he'd pretended everything was fine. He'd done it for a specific reason, for his mission, because Hera and the rest of the crew didn't deserve to see his pain, because his mourning involved finishing the job she'd died for. And then this.
He knows there has to be a reason. But he needs to know what it is. From Jacobi.