"You know this is a game we can play all day." She told him gently, there were so many things they didn't know, so many questions and what ifs, and they could sit there obsessing over them for hours and hours and still not have covered them all, but they didn't do that, because it wouldn't do them any good to constantly obsess over the worst thing that might happen. "All we can do is understand that we don't have all the answers, but if we start thinking what if this and what if that about everything it's just as bad as thinking we have it all figured out."
She understood it of course, the way it stuck with him, there were things like that for her too, she didn't hang on to every fight, every moment that she'd lived through, it would be too much, but there were certain things that stuck with her, and this was going to be one of those things for John. "It happens that way sometimes." She reminded him, "The things we do, whether we do them on purpose or not." Because she knew that John never would have chosen to fight that thing if he'd had a choice, "Sometimes they're the sort of thing that lingers, right here." She lifted a hand to tap her fingers against his forehead gently. "They force you to think about them and relive them again and again, even when it's the last thing you want to do."
She didn't like the idea of him being frustrated with himself over it - some things were out of his control and this was one of them.
"Oh you haven't heard?" She teased, "I've already threatened anyone who might try to put moves on you behind my back with grievous bodily harm." She smirked at him just a little, pressing a kiss to his jaw lightly seeking a moment of levity.
And a change of subject, well she could handle that. "It's not that bad," She decided of her own hand, holding it up for him to see. She'd have the scars with her from now on, but her hand still worked and unlike Nyx she seemed to have fared better with the attack. So she supposed she'd gotten off easy. "It could have been a lot worse." It was just her hand after all, not something more vital.