This is going to require rereading. Multiple rereadings. This is exactly how I would see such an encounter progressing! Ryan needs to learn when to keep his mouth shut... *veg*
So many things to highlight here, from Ryan's realisation that distracting himself with pain was actually making it worse... Helen's glee at his embarrassment... Ryan cursing out Stephen and Ditzy for taking their time finding him, when he shouldn't have gone after her alone in the first place...
But what I love most is that parting shot of Helen's. Because I'm 95% sure that Ryan has got it wrong. Completely wrong. And that Helen is extending that same ambiguous warning to him that she had with the Mitchell's when they bought the hotel.
Methinks ex-wifey is living somewhere she shouldn't be... And may be dinner if not careful. And that Helen's reasons for having discovered this were entirely not altruistic, but that - like with Claudia in the proto vultures ep and the Mitchell's in your universe - Helen can't help but warn if someone is in danger. Even if it is the ex-wife and child of her ex-lover's lover... and that is soooooo twisted!
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This is going to require rereading. Multiple rereadings. This is exactly how I would see such an encounter progressing! Ryan needs to learn when to keep his mouth shut... *veg*
So many things to highlight here, from Ryan's realisation that distracting himself with pain was actually making it worse... Helen's glee at his embarrassment... Ryan cursing out Stephen and Ditzy for taking their time finding him, when he shouldn't have gone after her alone in the first place...
But what I love most is that parting shot of Helen's. Because I'm 95% sure that Ryan has got it wrong. Completely wrong. And that Helen is extending that same ambiguous warning to him that she had with the Mitchell's when they bought the hotel.
Methinks ex-wifey is living somewhere she shouldn't be... And may be dinner if not careful. And that Helen's reasons for having discovered this were entirely not altruistic, but that - like with Claudia in the proto vultures ep and the Mitchell's in your universe - Helen can't help but warn if someone is in danger. Even if it is the ex-wife and child of her ex-lover's lover... and that is soooooo twisted!
*happy sigh*