Really, it was a good thing they were outside, and not some place like the kitchen, with glass and crockery that could be smashing into a million pieces as Alex's efforts to keep her expressions calm and her fists by her side resulted in more movement among the trees, branches creaking against the pressure she was pushing against them, as much as she tried not to.
Hal's touch on her arm did momentarily calm her. Like muscle memory or something, some ingrained reaction that he could just calm her down. But then there was the fact that he was the one upsetting her, and that made her wrench her arm away angrily, causing a small rock to fly up from the ground and hurtle several feet through the air before it smacked against a tree.
Okay, so maybe calming down would be a good thing.
Alex stepped back a moment, taking some deep breaths and trying to pull whatever energy it was that ghosts were made of back into herself.
"Say what you want, I still think you deserve good stuff, and I think Katherine and Mitchell are your best chances at getting that. You need help too, Hal. So don't do the pulling away thing, because that is exactly what got you into trouble before. If Lucifer's going to poke at you, I need to know you're around people who can handle that. Please." Even if that someone was the gorgeousness of Katherine.
She laughed, a harsh sound that caught in her throat. "Shit, why do I feel like I'm getting fucking dumped here when we're not even in some sort of relationship? This is so extremely beyond fucked up."