Gabe's quiet “I'm sorry” falls in between them and then he's alone. Anger rushes through him and it's agony, like being on fire and he – he can't breathe anymore, clutches and rolls, moans turning into growls. He lets go, feels the last strands of his sanity give way and then it's dark, numb and nothing beyond.

hanging on to every word here...major sense of things getting worse before they'll get btr...they will get btr..right?