[ her voice is barely a whisper, like anything louder than that will shatter the moment and he'll pull away again. her palm settles on the low of his back, and slips upward in soothing and circular patterns. iris isn't thinking of her conversation with patty, specifically, but much of what iris said during that conversation still holds true: barry can be guarded with his feelings. he believes he is protecting others from his pain by shouldering it entirely on his own.
sometimes joe will look to iris as though she is the answer, but she isn't, really.
the answer is lost somewhere in the pages of a book called the runaway dinosaur. ]
And you don't have to tell me, even if I wish you would. [ even if she thinks he really needs to talk to someone, and not just about his nightmares. it may not be her he can talk to, when all is said and done; she'll learn to make her peace with that if it's the case. ] But I'm here.
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[ her voice is barely a whisper, like anything louder than that will shatter the moment and he'll pull away again. her palm settles on the low of his back, and slips upward in soothing and circular patterns. iris isn't thinking of her conversation with patty, specifically, but much of what iris said during that conversation still holds true: barry can be guarded with his feelings. he believes he is protecting others from his pain by shouldering it entirely on his own.
sometimes joe will look to iris as though she is the answer, but she isn't, really.
the answer is lost somewhere in the pages of a book called the runaway dinosaur. ]
And you don't have to tell me, even if I wish you would. [ even if she thinks he really needs to talk to someone, and not just about his nightmares. it may not be her he can talk to, when all is said and done; she'll learn to make her peace with that if it's the case. ] But I'm here.
[ he knows that, doesn't he? ]