It was how she felt when he disappeared to see Charlie. The seeing Charlie thing after everything that had happened, after he had proof and whatever the conversation was between himself and his ex... No. Wife... Never bothered her. It was the disappearing on her without telling her that she minded. The frame of time when she didn't know if he was alive or dead or wasting away in some prison that Thomas Warren had designed for him. The not knowing if he was ever coming back. That had bothered her each time he'd done it, like before she had stalked his office out in Chicago before season two started, and she hated to admit it, but maybe Rey had something when it came to strapping him down.

She never would have denied his going to Charlie; she would have encouraged it if he'd given her the choice for it.

But Alex also wasn't going to apologize for her six months living a life here. She couldn't, after the first month when she'd thought she was losing her mind, Alex had known that she couldn't keep fighting everything around her. So, she lived her life with the plan that eventually they'll fix the portal and she'll go back to the very spot where she was taken from and everything would be fine. She'd also lived her life with the assumption that he'd never want her back, not like she wanted him, and she wasn't going to apologize for that either.

"You know," she chided gently before she picked up her coffee and took a large sip of it. "Riverview Quarantine isn't really that big. You're going to need to deal with neighbors eventually, especially if you're teaching. Might be better to try and get used to it. Especially with things like going out exploring and the flooding that's been happening."