action;

_{[And he does follow suit, even if only so he can still watch her face. Watching for anything now, any sign of what might've happened, anything to indicate that she's not as okay as she says, or that she ... well, that something might be wrong between them now, too.]

[Who's to say the other him wasn't really him?]}

I'm listening, _{[He says kind of breathlessly once he's on his knees, his hands reaching for hers. It's quite an obvious request, even a plea. There's nothing he wants more right now than to know what happened between her and - well, him - so that he can know how to tackle it, both as a problem, that he has to fix or alter or remedy -- and as a riddle, something to be solved and understood.]}