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Cat ate in silence for a few minutes, just enjoying the taste of the food and the feeling of safety. Something was nagging at her, though, and now that food was no longer her first priority, it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. "So..." she began carefully, "What happened in the Exhibit..." She didn't take it any further than that, and she kept her eyes on her plate, both things stemming from a conscious effort to give him time to gather his thoughts on the subject. It seemed like it would be fairly obvious what she was talking about.

She finally looked at him, her green eyes intent and her expression serious. "I didn't know that could happen," she told him frankly, "Which makes sense, since Xion implied that you'd made a concerted effort to keep me in the dark about it. That's kind of a problem, seeing as he can apparently sick you on me anytime he wants." She set her fork down, balancing it on the edge of her plate. "Why didn't you tell me?"

She regarded him in silence for a moment, her eyes unreadable. He was talking about... that... thing. In the alley, with Logan and the two versions of her Spider. She'd wondered what it was... and that had been right after Reaper had left with Rapture, who was apparently that scientist from the Exhibit. He must have figured it out and lost it. "...I'm your friend," she said carefully, "If you want to be mine, you need to keep me apprised of situations that could potentially effect my safety." She paused. He hadn't attacked her at all until Xion had pointed him at her like a gun. Was that normal? Whatever. "I need to be able to protect myself if this is going to work. Okay?"

She nodded, then breathed out slowly, trying to decide how to phrase her question. "I..." She shook her head quickly, then started again, less hesitantly. "You weren't paying attention to me at all, so I was just helping out whenever that... guy... knocked you into a wall, or something. Giving you time to get back on your feet." She paused, trying to remember exactly what had happened. "Then... Well... I pissed off the lady in charge--" Here she grinned briefly at the memory. "--And she told Xion to have you focus on me." She met his eyes. "And you did. Completely. ...Does that happen a lot?"

She blinked. "You did?" She frowned. "Oh. I guess that makes sense. You'd probably be pretty open to suggestion in a state like that." A shudder ran through her body, despite her efforts to suppress it. "I don't think I've ever been that frightened in my life."

Cat smiled a very little bit. "I know that you don't. You didn't. When it came down to it, you stopped." She had the sudden, mad urge to lean across the table and touch the side of his face. He just looked so sad, so... vulnerable. And if he was being honest, just the fact that he had stopped was... Heart hammering in her chest, she made a point of busying herself with her side salad instead.

"Thank you, again," she said suddenly, reflexively. Her eyes stayed on her plate. "For getting me out of there so quickly. I'm not sure what they would have..." She wouldn't let herself think about that. "Thank you.

Cat remembered what little Rapture had actually been able to say, and her eyes turned flinty. "I hope your mother takes her time," she said in a low, hard voice. "They deserve it."