She nodded slowly as she listened. An instant was all it took for her to be taken. One minute, she was besting a Death Eater, had him tied up and was ready to turn him in -- the next second, she was snatched away and not seen again for three months. An instant could change one's whole life. It certainly had changed hers, and Gideon's.
Her eyes lowered to their hands. She hadn't flinched when he touched her, but she trusted Gideon. After he finished speaking, she looked back up at him. Her dark eyes were a bit misty, but she was doing well holding back the tears. "I wished I was dead," she said, then exhaled the rest of the breath she'd been holding. "I've never said that out loud." She took another shaky breath, and blinked back the tears. "It got to a point where everyday, I just prayed he would kill me. I was there so long, my whole life revolved around the chair I sat in all day, and the mattress I had to share with him." Emmeline subconsciously squeezed his hand. "I just feel like I'm here by mistake, that I'm not supposed to even be alive. So I'm out of place. The world moved on without me in it for three months. How am I supposed to fit back into the life I had before?"