"My first flood, we were temped. It was the uh, the one with emotional injuries--I don't remember if you were here for it, basically if you'd been hurt, emotionally, those injuries started bleeding in some less-than-metaphorical way. Some wounds worse than others. Only way to fix it, to get the bleeding to at least slow down, was to talk about what happened. I died twice that week."
He glances at her, eyebrows raised. She can probably start to guess where he's going with this.
"Then we got paired. Didn't take a brilliant profiler to realize I wasn't thrilled with anyone having a file on my life. So he did something I didn't expect. He gave it to me, after reading probably the first two pages, at most."
Neal shrugs. "The night before I woke up alive and free I gave it back to him."
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"My first flood, we were temped. It was the uh, the one with emotional injuries--I don't remember if you were here for it, basically if you'd been hurt, emotionally, those injuries started bleeding in some less-than-metaphorical way. Some wounds worse than others. Only way to fix it, to get the bleeding to at least slow down, was to talk about what happened. I died twice that week."
He glances at her, eyebrows raised. She can probably start to guess where he's going with this.
"Then we got paired. Didn't take a brilliant profiler to realize I wasn't thrilled with anyone having a file on my life. So he did something I didn't expect. He gave it to me, after reading probably the first two pages, at most."
Neal shrugs. "The night before I woke up alive and free I gave it back to him."