[For a long moment, Alex is just quiet. She's deep in thought but there's a ghost of the smile when he kisses her cheek. Alex mulls over what they'd known about the children who see the shadows, the ones who were old enough to talk about them anyway. Sebastian hadn't been scared. Simon... was Simon about it. Of course he was Simon about it. But it goes with what Richard was saying about how they never harmed him or the people that he loved.
Charlie had seen them too, it went without saying, and Alex knows it. Alex had joined a weird little band and she doesn't remember any of it. She doesn't remember having a childhood friend who was a demon, and she doesn't remember her mother or the life that Alex had led with her before the Child Protective services had gotten involved. She doesn't know why it changed when the Reagans took her in (it might have changed before all that, of course, but Alex doesn't know and instead she just latches onto her parents as a savior as Alex always did.) but she knows that when she felt loved, she didn't need the shadows.
The Torres family had been fighting and a shambles, Simon's parents had fed them to him. Just like Maddie Franks had done to Robbie, and something had happened to Katie Yi. The Strands were of course the Strands, and Charlie had lost her mother.
When Alex speaks, it's soft and what they had talked about after the files on Hausdorff had been found and Richard didn't dismiss them any more.]
Watchers. Pilori. They don't need to hurt us because that's not their job.
[She sounds miserable. She sounds certain.]
It's before someone opens the door for us, like they did with Simon and Robbie. Only no one did. Not for me, not for you, not for Charlie and and not for Cheryl. So, they're still waiting.
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Charlie had seen them too, it went without saying, and Alex knows it. Alex had joined a weird little band and she doesn't remember any of it. She doesn't remember having a childhood friend who was a demon, and she doesn't remember her mother or the life that Alex had led with her before the Child Protective services had gotten involved. She doesn't know why it changed when the Reagans took her in (it might have changed before all that, of course, but Alex doesn't know and instead she just latches onto her parents as a savior as Alex always did.) but she knows that when she felt loved, she didn't need the shadows.
The Torres family had been fighting and a shambles, Simon's parents had fed them to him. Just like Maddie Franks had done to Robbie, and something had happened to Katie Yi. The Strands were of course the Strands, and Charlie had lost her mother.
When Alex speaks, it's soft and what they had talked about after the files on Hausdorff had been found and Richard didn't dismiss them any more.]
Watchers. Pilori. They don't need to hurt us because that's not their job.
[She sounds miserable. She sounds certain.]
It's before someone opens the door for us, like they did with Simon and Robbie. Only no one did. Not for me, not for you, not for Charlie and and not for Cheryl. So, they're still waiting.