[he doesn't move away from her this time, but that means she can feel the way he breathes in sharply at her answer. opens his eyes behind his hands, but doesn't move them away from his face yet.
he had assumed, all this time, that it'd been on purpose. that someone had out for nora allen — or maybe even his dad, determined to frame him — so badly that they were willing to kill. he didn't get why anyone would, but it made sense; and he's seen a lot of cases by now, even if not as many as joe, and he knows that people can have insanely convoluted rationale for committing crimes like these.
but he'd never, not once, seriously entertained the idea that it might have been accident. that someone might've wanted to kill him and his mom had just been in the crossfire, or that someone might've had a reason that had nothing to do with any of the allens at all.]
That doesn't make sense. [he's grasping and knows it.] We were kids. We'd only been friends, what, a year? And the particle accelerator hadn't even been built yet; you weren't the Flash yet.
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he had assumed, all this time, that it'd been on purpose. that someone had out for nora allen — or maybe even his dad, determined to frame him — so badly that they were willing to kill. he didn't get why anyone would, but it made sense; and he's seen a lot of cases by now, even if not as many as joe, and he knows that people can have insanely convoluted rationale for committing crimes like these.
but he'd never, not once, seriously entertained the idea that it might have been accident. that someone might've wanted to kill him and his mom had just been in the crossfire, or that someone might've had a reason that had nothing to do with any of the allens at all.]
That doesn't make sense. [he's grasping and knows it.] We were kids. We'd only been friends, what, a year? And the particle accelerator hadn't even been built yet; you weren't the Flash yet.