[ she starts crying again when he gets to the part about him getting what she's going through, even if it's in a different way, about him wanting to hear about whatever is going on in her head - and how he's never going to leave. ever.

naomi turns her face into his neck and holds on for a good long while, because there's relief and there's terror but she at least has this. she has raleigh, and he is the rock she can hold on to.

when she pulls back, she wipes furiously at her cheeks. ] I can't remember a thing about those three weeks. [ she exhales, hoping that the waterworks have finally stopped, but her eyes well up and it starts all over again. ] And I know something is wrong, even if the doctors said that I was okay. [ she looks to him then, because he'd been there, hadn't left her alone, had actually skirted the promise she'd asked of him in the ambulance and made sure that the doctors checked yancy at the same time as they checked her. ]

But I don't remember anything, Rals. And now I'm sleep-walking and waking up places I shouldn't be and it scares the shit out of me.