[Jay's weedy but he's wiry, and he's capable of keeping Alex at bay through virtue of adrenaline alone.]

The only way it goes away is if no one brings it up. I got out. I was out. And then you show up, you go dredging it all back up, and it came back. None of this would have happened if it wasn't for you!

[There are words gummed up in his throat, behind his teeth. Words about the life he managed to build far from the rest, about the life that he had that was idyllic by simple virtue of being a life at all.]

[He blames you for Amy, by the way.]