Had she expected an apology? In a way, yes. She knew Peter, she knew the guilt he'd be feeling. But that didn't really register. Perhaps it was because there had been no contact since it had happened. Between Marguerite mostly staying off the boards... well, okay, she had tried to get information initially but her phone kept getting confiscated, and then her first few days out of the hospital she had poked around some before decided to focus on just regaining her own footing, so to have it come out in such a way, knowing it made sense yet weeks of not communicating because of everything...
This was something Marguerite hated. Awkward silences, struggling to find words. It tied back to her youth. Being expected to mind her place, not to speak unless spoken to. It reminded her of being looked down upon, what could you say to someone in another station than yourself. Which had always ended up with the redhead getting into trouble because she didn't stick to finding polite words, acceptable topics. She said what was on her mind. Acted on her instincts.
But that was the problem. Her instincts said run, the body wanting to over ride the mind, which understood the complexities. Understood that the vampire and Peter were two entities who shared a body. There was the concern, a trickle of uncertainty, that the vampire simply made him voice what he truly thought, it was something that Marguerite worked to ignore though. Doubting her friendships would just end up with more hurt. Had Peter been himself, then it would be something else entirely. Still, it led to an internal debate as her instincts and nature fought one another.
"In some ways, I am. In others, I will be."
Because how did one going into things they themselves couldn't exactly make sense of. Having been close to death and so soon after seeing Armand in the alternate world, it made her all the more desperate to see her brother. She worried about Percy and how he was handling it, knowing that he hovered and worried and not knowing how to help him. There was no simple answer in this.
"Have you been coming out much to get fresh air? Or is this a step in the process?"
It was the only thing she could think of to ask. Beyond the question that never made sense about why he walked into a trap that was an obvious one when there were so many who could have gone with him as backup, things Jerry couldn't have anticipated or planned for regardless.