ignorance is fault
to look at her mistakes in the eye, to sit in front of the woman whose husband she got killed
spoilers for 4x06 The Other Woman
psych_30: #1 transference – Juliet

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Their sessions consist of staring at each other in complete silence now, even though Juliet knows that her hate for Harper is almost tangible. She hates sitting here, she hates it so much and she’s resorted to counting down from one thousand in her head, just like she did as a child, when she did something bad and her dad sent her to her room to think about what she’d done.

This is not so different, only it’s Ben who sent her here to look at her mistakes in the eye, to sit in front of the woman whose husband she got killed, the woman who has every right to hate her now.

When she hits 400 she looks at Harper and her hate for the woman threatens to burn her inside. Juliet knew, from the beginning, that Ben’s feelings ran deeper than a simple crush and if she’s being honest with herself, a part of her knew that, like a spoiled child whose favourite toy gets taken away, his reaction was not going to be good. She never thought Goodwin would end up dead. Harper though, she knew, and that’s why she hates her, because knowing means there’s something that can be done, knowing means having the power to fight back and if she’d known, if she’d known she would have…

Juliet hates Harper for knowing, but she hates herself more for not listening when she tried to tell her.


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