There was another person now - why the hell were there so many people? - and when he touched her, Pepper almost did something very stupid to try and get him off her, squeezing Shadow's hand in a way that probably wasn't very comfortable. And then the pain lessened.
The nausea got a little more bearable and things weren't quite so difficult to focus on. When she heard the man's voice she felt another flag go up, similar to the one with the library man. But this was from his voice. She knew that voice, she was certainly she...
"Angel..." she said softly as he brushed some hair out of her face.
When his final words hit, though, Pepper had another flash, this one back to what Adam said, and her eyebrows knitted together furiously. "Didn't pick a fight," she growled through grit teeth, though she knew he couldn't hear her, he was already walking away. Someone had to believe her on this, for Christ's sake. "Didn't start anything, why is everybody...."
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The nausea got a little more bearable and things weren't quite so difficult to focus on. When she heard the man's voice she felt another flag go up, similar to the one with the library man. But this was from his voice. She knew that voice, she was certainly she...
"Angel..." she said softly as he brushed some hair out of her face.
When his final words hit, though, Pepper had another flash, this one back to what Adam said, and her eyebrows knitted together furiously. "Didn't pick a fight," she growled through grit teeth, though she knew he couldn't hear her, he was already walking away. Someone had to believe her on this, for Christ's sake. "Didn't start anything, why is everybody...."