http://favorite-three.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] favorite-three.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] if_inconvenient 2011-07-03 12:28 am (UTC)

Hearing the unevenness in his voice, Bella stops herself in her mental tracks to perform her mood-zapping routine. It takes longer and is less effective than usual, because the fact is that her annoyance is extremely valid and she cannot pretend even temporarily that it isn't. Giving in to it, however, will most emphatically not improve the situation or increase the likelihood of her getting the information she wants, so she walks herself through the routine once, then again.

When she has herself in something resembling a calmer frame of mind, she points out (keeping her own tone of voice as mild as possible),

"You told me you were a clone and I have yet to call the psych ward."

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