And go figure, Anatoly actually did show up. Unless it was some conspiracy of Helena getting Svetlana to push him to it. But no, he did seem the type to genuinely care about people, at least from what she had seen in the four and a half months she'd been here. But at least he wasn't just trying to dive into the conversation at hand. The bar wasn't that full, at least not yet, but she really had no desire to delve into what was upsetting her right now. Well, she'd like to be able to just drink and get her walls back up and then go back to focusing on business as usual because she had to, but somehow she could tell that Anatoly wasn't going to let her do that. So the fact that he wasn't just jumping into what she had said on the boards was a good thing. She so wasn't drunk enough to do that yet.
"Gin and tonic."
The response was given as she stared at her glass, swirling the liquid within it as she stared at it. Helena had done the same thing that weekend, staring in her glass as if it would solve all of the issues in her head. The pain of losing Helena, of having her back but know that if they got sent back, she'd be dead and the Warehouse destroyed. After all, even if Artie had a way to bring it back, it would involve an artifact and those always had unknown side effects. The side effect could be terrible for everyone. One of them could die. After all, they had thought Artie had died but because of the Phoenix medallion had managed to survive, but at the cost of another life.
Even so, something Anatoly had said irked her. She wasn't exactly drunk and open but she was raw in her own way because of conversations that weekend, posts that day and that damn show being on and her stumbling across the one scene she couldn't handle. Okay, there was a lot of things she wouldn't want to relive that could show up in that show since she joined the Warehouse, but that particular one or any involving Sam and Denver? Well, those were the ones that would destroy her. So the comment he had made about his situation being similar with Svetlana in regards to being from the same point but not talking about it and how it held them back.
"Unless either you or Svetlana died before showing up and that was when you both came from, I highly doubt that you can claim you two have been in the same situation."
WIth that, she took a sip of her drink, still not bothering to look up and just staring at the bar and her glass.