[Yeah, this is big. He's seen her upset a fair number of times and he's always listened, but this is different because it's present, now, it didn't happen a few years ago. It makes it worse to talk about by default.]
[And he's not sure where, exactly, he stands with her. It wouldn't normally stop him from going about things his normally perhaps-too-blunt way but he finds himself thinking a little more carefully about Heather in particular just because they got off to such a rocky start.]
[Dale Cooper isn't usually uncertain about things, but he finds that he is here. It says a lot, really, but it's not about him. In the end he just sighs softly and sort of lets her be, for now.]
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[And he's not sure where, exactly, he stands with her. It wouldn't normally stop him from going about things his normally perhaps-too-blunt way but he finds himself thinking a little more carefully about Heather in particular just because they got off to such a rocky start.]
[Dale Cooper isn't usually uncertain about things, but he finds that he is here. It says a lot, really, but it's not about him. In the end he just sighs softly and sort of lets her be, for now.]
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But man she must get a hug later.]We never do.