Re: [Recovery: Marta & Hannah]
Hannah was sad and sorry and hopeful that Marta had misunderstood. She still looked around this place, which was really, really nice, and she had to believe Seven cared. People didn't do this without caring, right? And there was the baby, and Hannah still thought of the child as a baby, because she didn't know age or anything like that. But they'd made a baby together, and Hannah thought that had to matter. Everyone called her naive, and maybe she was in some ways, but she really, really did believe that Marta had to be misunderstanding, and maybe she'd been really sick at the time or really confused. Sick people made bad decisions that they didn't make when they weren't sick, like when Si was sick. Right? "Maybe he didn't mean it that way," she said.
"Repose is small," she suggested, because Repose was, and maybe Si's family just hadn't come up in his conversations with Marta. But she wasn't judging, and she maybe even understood the desire to not be someone's brother all the time, to just be one person without a circle of responsibilities and weights pulling you down.
But Marta was thinking, and Hannah had already realized that it took Marta a little bit of time to get things from mind to tablet, and so Hannah waited. She toyed with the camera that still hung around her neck. She thought of pictures she could take. She thought about going to the old house, the bad one, and maybe she could figure out who she was if she did that. She could take the camera. She could find out, for once and all, if CARNEM would come after her, if they would know where she was or if they didn't have the type of technology Tethys had.
"I'm sorry. I don't mean to make you uncomfortable," she said when Marta admitted to being uncomfortable a little bit. She listened to details quietly, fingers flipping the camera's shutter button. Marta was blushing, and Hannah was trying really hard not to imagine whatever it was Marta was thinking about. "Oh," she finally said, and she shook her head. "We didn't talk about details, not like that," she said, though she really didn't know what amount of detail was too much in this case. "We just realized we both knew you, and he asked me what you looked like, and I said you were pretty," she added, assuming that would make it clear that she knew they, Marta and Si, hadn't been together before.