Re: [phone call: louis d/lin a]
[A groan.] Lin, I can't. I can't be kind to you, right now. I can't joke. I want to do something stupid like break the television, or knock someone out. I don't have it in me to be any more kind to anyone. Do you understand? I've gotten nowhere being good, and I've gotten nowhere being cruel, and I feel like I am losing my mind because nothing I do makes any kind of a difference. I was going to [Instantly colder, as he remembers all of this will go straight back to his sister:] - nevermind what I was going to do. Tell Sam I'm fine and find out where she's actually staying because she didn't tell me and it's still my fucking job to make sure EVERYONE in this family stays sane and safe because there is never a FUCKING SECOND when everything isn't FALLING APART and THERE'S NO ONE ELSE.
[Breaking glass. The glass heard earlier has apparently shattered against something hard - either picked up and thrown or tossed to the floor.]