"There are some amazing schools here in New York," Liz reassured him, knowing that it had to be hard for him to face the fact that he'd dropped out of school. It was obvious he wasn't ready to be done with it, but he was going to need some time to find his way again. "For what it's worth, I'm going to be here right beside you and support you every step of the way. It's been a long time since the days that we were really close and leaned on each other. But I don't believe for a minute that it means we can't be close and lean on each other again. I'll be honest... the longer I've been here, the more I've learned just how hard life really is, and how important it is to surround yourself with people who love you as you are and don't expect or want you to change."
She waited, patiently giving her brother the time to gather his thoughts. This was a lot of information to take in, and she could only imagine how he was feeling to have to share it in the first place. It had been shoved down their throats for so long... how the Bible was the only right and true thing ever, and how they had to live their lives in such a way as to follow it as closely as they humanly could. And then Jason was going on, and Liz was caught entirely off guard by the information he gave her. "You... You've been married?" she asked softly, almost as if she thought she'd heard him wrong. "You got married and split up with your husband, and you did all of that out in Minnesota alone? Did you have good friends, at least? People you could count on when everything felt horrible?" She wanted to hug him tight and never let go, because this was quite frankly awful to hear. "Isaac? The kid you used to bring home? That lived in the City?" And then there was more and more information coming from Jason... more of the truth of the lies he'd been living. And then, hearing that he'd been expecting a baby and lost it, Liz just couldn't hold back anymore. Her arms tightened around her baby brother, and she held on for dear life. "Jason, hon, I'm so sorry," she murmured, shaking her head. "I'm so sorry that happened to you. All of it, really." She held onto him and reassured him, "This doesn't change anything about how I feel about you. I want you to know that. We'll be a couple of dirty rotten sinners together."
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She waited, patiently giving her brother the time to gather his thoughts. This was a lot of information to take in, and she could only imagine how he was feeling to have to share it in the first place. It had been shoved down their throats for so long... how the Bible was the only right and true thing ever, and how they had to live their lives in such a way as to follow it as closely as they humanly could. And then Jason was going on, and Liz was caught entirely off guard by the information he gave her. "You... You've been married?" she asked softly, almost as if she thought she'd heard him wrong. "You got married and split up with your husband, and you did all of that out in Minnesota alone? Did you have good friends, at least? People you could count on when everything felt horrible?" She wanted to hug him tight and never let go, because this was quite frankly awful to hear. "Isaac? The kid you used to bring home? That lived in the City?" And then there was more and more information coming from Jason... more of the truth of the lies he'd been living. And then, hearing that he'd been expecting a baby and lost it, Liz just couldn't hold back anymore. Her arms tightened around her baby brother, and she held on for dear life. "Jason, hon, I'm so sorry," she murmured, shaking her head. "I'm so sorry that happened to you. All of it, really." She held onto him and reassured him, "This doesn't change anything about how I feel about you. I want you to know that. We'll be a couple of dirty rotten sinners together."