"What does that mean, that I've never been alone. Discounting you? I don't understand. There were those times when you... I mean he left. When he was chasing Coralee's ghosts around the world. When you definitely weren't around me. And Simon..." Alex feels a little like her legs aren't going to carry her and she just reaches out for him automatically for support.

"Simon set me up, didn't he? He really did set me up." That hurt, because honestly, she'd trusted Simon. She'd felt that he was probably the one person who wasn't lying to her as cryptic as he tended to be. She had thought that he was protecting her by telling her all of this and right now Alex doesn't really feel protected at all. How could she.

"No, I don't want to sleep. I want to go to my apartment and get my things. Especially if..." Alex can't bring herself to say it, but the thought works it's way through her mind. Especially since everything inside of her is telling her that she's not coming back here. Maybe ever.