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It's not much later, in Isabella's room, that she asks:

"So... is Alex really a dom?"

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msmage

"More than half of your entire life so far you spent as a child, and trying to predict what your life will be based on the few years of adolescence you've had so far is... tunnel vision. The reason I have to think you'd be able to find somebody is that most people do, regardless of how awful their life is when they're teenagers, especially when said awfulness has a name and a treatment."

From:

alicornucopia

"I don't know why you don't believe me about how the whole depression idea is circular anyway."

From:

msmage

"Circular?"

From:

alicornucopia

"I think I was sad all the time because I was lonely and now I have a - different problem but it's not that one. And you think I was lonely because I was sad, but if they're both causing each other you can't just fix it like it's a medical thing."

From:

msmage

"Oh. No, I think you're just wrong about that. You're not the first depressed person to think something like that, why do you think your case would be different?"

From:

alicornucopia

Jackson glares at her.

From:

msmage

"Look, Jackson, the world isn't a nice enough place that solutions to problems just pop out when you need them. I haven't taken over it yet. I'm not sure what you want me to say, and I really don't understand your reluctance. In the very worst-case scenario, you two break up and therapy doesn't work and you find someone else, which like you yourself said was just a matter of actually going to town. And, again, the worst-case scenario won't happen because therapy and pills and psionics will help."

From:

alicornucopia

"You don't understand because you don't listen."

From:

msmage

"There's a difference between not listening and listening but disagreeing with you. What things have you said that I haven't listened to, as opposed to listened to and argued with?"