Stop insulting him. Emilia did not say it, but she thought it. It was her natural instinct when it came to their father, and no one could have really said why since he had never been the one to defend her. If any of the Kavanagh children had had a really good reason to dislike their father then it would have been Emilia, and yet she was the one most likely to want his approval. Her therapist would have said it was because she had never really gotten it as a child. How was she supposed to explain that? How was she supposed to tell Arwen, and Desi, that she was not trying to betray the memory of what had happened to their sister? She was not trying to protect Doran - had the table killed him then she might have been relieved in some sense - she was trying to... not listen to her sisters. They were saying Neil should care, she was thinking he would not because it could easily be looked at as something that she had done wrong. Again. Or so her head was telling her. Well, trying to tell her, because her sister's thoughts kept intruding on her own and it was getting very, very loud in there.
"Please be quieter," she whispered, elbows on the table and her face in her hands to try and hide both the tears that had started and the trembling that always got worse when her head got loud. Even though she had been living with this her entire life, Emilia's refusal to pay attention to her telepathy had left her without any real shields, and she had noticed that everyone's thoughts seemed much louder when they were angry. Like they were shouting in their own heads where no one was supposed to be able to hear them. "How can I think when you're so loud?" It was always like that when Emilia was in any sort of situation that could be considered confrontational; if she did not start shouting back then she started breaking down. What was coming across was that they both... really, it was Arwen. Arwen thought she needed to do this and if she did not then it was betraying Alice. What would Alice say?
Emilia did not move her hands away from her face, so her voice was muffled. "I'm not doing nothing, I'm leaving him. I took the children away, and they'll stay away. I've been to a lawyer, I have the papers, I have another appointment after work!" She just had not gone to the police. Arwen thought she should go to the police. Desi had wanted her to go to the hospital. Nysa... Emilia did not know what Nysa had really wanted her to do, because Nysa's thoughts were the hardest to read even accidentally. But Arwen's were plain and clear and... Emilia had no idea how to respond. She never argued with her sisters. "That's not enough for you? You want me to do more? He could accuse me right back, Arwen, I made a lamp hit him and a freaking table knocked him out!! If he didn't have to get stitches because of that, then I'm shocked. What if I put a restraining order on him and then he goes and puts one on me? What do I do then?"