Helena jumped to her feet. "I don't. need. or. want. your help!" She enunciated each of the words harshly. "Get that in your head Abbott. Not everyone needs your help. Not everyone needs you to make it better with an easy word and... and ... You can't make everything better with a ..." Helena turned her face away. "Merlin Abbott, what I'd give for it to be all ... all better now with that stupid, Miss Mary Sunshine smile." Tears began leaking from her eyes and immediately her hands raised up and she dashed the tears away with the back of them. "It's no fair." She whispered, her eyes becoming redder and redder by the second, stinging and becoming puffy.