So much was weird lately. Sad and weird. To the point that this little bit of happy was worth questioning. Was she losing her mind? Would she wake up in a few minutes and have this have all been a dream? Somehow, it seemed more believable than actually having Everett there right then. Considering she'd been waiting for what seemed like forever for him or Christina to show up, it was just... hard to believe.
But when he hugged her, she blinked a couple times, before squeezing him tight and doing her darnedest not to cry. She wasn't going to ruin how good it was to have her brother back by starting up the waterworks. But... it was seeming like her body had other plans, because she could feel the warm moisture in the corners of her eyes. “Wh-what the heck took you so long?” she asked her brother, trying for indignation, but the relieve in her voice completely invalidated that.