Re: [PTL Game] Julia, upstairs

[Derek Rayne]

> Julia nodded and gently took his hand from his forehead and held it "He
was
> scared you'd be disappointed in him."
>
> "And I know you wouldn't be," she said before he could, trying to explain
> Nick's reasoning "But he looked up to you and... and abuse cases always
end
> up being made to feel like it was somehow their fault for getting hit in
the
> first place."
>
> She kissed his hand gently and sighed herself "There wasn't anything you
> could have done anyway.  Nick was... well he was very proud and at the
same
> time... scared."
>
"If I'd known while it was happening," Derek pointed out, "I would have done
something about it."  Another thing happening right under his nose that he
hadn't noticed.