Francesca stared blankly at the wall without saying anything until Jonas rested his hand on her back.
"I didn't mean to upset you, but you needed to hear it. I won't let you slip back into being hostile and making people feel like they can't approach you. You are only hurting yourself right now, but it's going to start hurting Saga and I can't allow that to happen."
"That isn't true," Francesca raised her hand when she saw Jonas was about to interrupt her, "it isn't true that I haven't hurt anybody else. I said something to my brother because I was frustrated at him and… I don't even know why I was trying to upset him. I made a point of telling him his feelings are invalid because he doesn't have a child of his own, even though he considers Robin his son and he was only asking me to l
