[ why ISN'T she angry at him, really? she was sure certainly angry at literally everyone else involved who lied to her. but then again, they'd all been walking on eggshells around her since day one. while henry--
and then he calls her mom and she feels her heart seize up in her chest. it's one thing to have someone tell her that she's a mother, it's another to find herself staring at someone who believes it so wholeheartedly. and there he is, looking no worse for the wear of her raising him, and she thinks of the mess her own mother made of her life, how possible it was to take things so far in the wrong direction, and for a moment she can't talk. ]
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and then he calls her mom and she feels her heart seize up in her chest. it's one thing to have someone tell her that she's a mother, it's another to find herself staring at someone who believes it so wholeheartedly. and there he is, looking no worse for the wear of her raising him, and she thinks of the mess her own mother made of her life, how possible it was to take things so far in the wrong direction, and for a moment she can't talk. ]
Henry...