Jim fidgets with his drink too, needing to do something with his hands. This isn't something he likes to talk about, not with anybody. But circumstances being what they are...
"There isn't a magic, easy fix for something like this. She can't say or do anything to erase what she did, how she treated me, and I can't either. We've both gotta live with knowing what happened and how we acted. Doesn't mean we have to constantly dredge up the past, not when we're both trying not to. I didn't really get the chance to know her, before. She didn't try to get to know me. But it's better late than never... it's like what I said before, about when to keep trying," he adds, raising his eyes to meet Hunter's, calling back to their conversation in the Nexus a few days ago. "I don't know how this is going to turn out, whether we're going to be able to bury the hatchet for good, but if I'd slammed that door shut, I don't know that it ever would've been open again for either of us."
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"There isn't a magic, easy fix for something like this. She can't say or do anything to erase what she did, how she treated me, and I can't either. We've both gotta live with knowing what happened and how we acted. Doesn't mean we have to constantly dredge up the past, not when we're both trying not to. I didn't really get the chance to know her, before. She didn't try to get to know me. But it's better late than never... it's like what I said before, about when to keep trying," he adds, raising his eyes to meet Hunter's, calling back to their conversation in the Nexus a few days ago. "I don't know how this is going to turn out, whether we're going to be able to bury the hatchet for good, but if I'd slammed that door shut, I don't know that it ever would've been open again for either of us."