It was too late, once the dam broke there was no stopping it. It was always worse when someone else witnessed it. But this was Robin, this was... He might as well be a married man. It was best to think of him like that. Yet it didn't loosen her fingers in his shirt, as she clung to him desperately. Afraid that if she let go she'd drown in her own sorrow.
She barely registered his soothing words. All that clicked with her was the spreading ache in her chest. It wasn't just his loss, it was everything. Everything piled on top of her within the past nine months. She had not cried this hard since she'd lost her Dad. Sure she shed a tear here and there. With everything that happened around Jericho, how could you not? Yet it was a situation that you couldn't just break down and let loose of the floodgates. She cried over the loss of all the people that didn't make it home, for the people lost after she'd left. The loss of Jake, Pike's distance, and Robin. And finally she wept for herself. The fact that she'd never get past being the little sister, or the friend.