His hands are in the water. The water is scalding hot. He doesn't care. He doesn't feel it. He only feels the avalanche crashing down on him along with those words.

At any other time, he would have lashed back out, but he had meant it even if he didn't say the words out loud (he would take all her anger, he would take whatever she lashed out at him with, he would take it all). This hurts worse than the aneurysm. This is the same words the mirror!Elena gives him daily, and he always looks. He always flips it around to read them each time until he gets so upset he tears it to bits. He breaks the mirrors in his room into glass shards but it reforms again. He looks again every single time like he's seeking it out (and he is).

She says the words. He freezes so suddenly, abruptly, staring at his burning hands as his eyes burn. He turns off the water. He doesn't look at her.

"Let me know if you want me to uncompel your boyfriend."

It's the last thing he says before he leaves.