[It's okay, Ironhide. Because right now, Heather's at almost as much of a loss as you are.]
[Killing Claudia hadn't worked. Now she doesn't know what to do.]
[She nods, forgetting for a moment that she's not on video.]
[Always more to it.]
When I say I forgot, I really mean it. Literally forgot. For years.
Dunno how it works for ... you guys, but when humans go through something really bad... sometimes they just blur it all out. To keep themselves safe, you know. The memories just... go away, into some place in the back of their head where they don't have to think about 'em, and sometimes it's so deep that they just...
Well.
I didn't remember.
I'd just pushed it all away so that I could pretend none of it ever happened, and I guess I was real good at pretending...
[There was also the fact that she'd LITERALLY been in a new body, but well, it's the same principal.]
[voice]
[Killing Claudia hadn't worked. Now she doesn't know what to do.]
[She nods, forgetting for a moment that she's not on video.]
[Always more to it.]
When I say I forgot, I really mean it. Literally forgot. For years.
Dunno how it works for ... you guys, but when humans go through something really bad... sometimes they just blur it all out. To keep themselves safe, you know. The memories just... go away, into some place in the back of their head where they don't have to think about 'em, and sometimes it's so deep that they just...
Well.
I didn't remember.
I'd just pushed it all away so that I could pretend none of it ever happened, and I guess I was real good at pretending...
[There was also the fact that she'd LITERALLY been in a new body, but well, it's the same principal.]
... And... and then she found me.