Ducktales: Journey To Agartha - Act 5

Chapter 16: Boyd's Therapy Session

Ellie entered the hot tub section of Miss Glamour's spa. It was dangerous, yes, but Ellie just wanted to dip her feet, liking the feeling of water and bubbles as ironic as that was. She'd be fine as long as she didn't fall in or get splashed.

Maybe she could ask Mark- No. Not after their fight.

Maybe she could ask Gyro if it was possible for her to be built waterproof?

...Not a good idea to ask him either. He hated her and vice versa.

She noticed Wyatt in one of the hot tubs. What she didn't know was that the water helped with the pain of his wounds. She walked over to him.

"I hope you do not mind if I join you."

It was a bit late for Wyatt to say no considering Ellie already sat down and put her feet in the water but whatever.

Wyatt smiled and waved at her. "Oh! Hi, Ellie! H-How are you?"

"Terrible." Someone was blunt. "How are you?"

"Oh... I-I'm sorry to hear that... b-but I'm doing okay thank you for asking. My stitches are healing well!" He showed her the stitches he had on his arm to prove it.

"That is... nice?" Ellie wasn't sure what response he wanted to that. "What about Gloria? Is she doing alright?"

"She's doing fine! Her stitches are healing well too. T-the nurses told us earlier that we'll be able to leave the medical room tomorrow w-which is good news."

"It is." Ellie considered Wyatt to be her only friend at the moment, while Gloria was still on the bench and her issues with Mark were growing, but she really had no idea how to continue a conversation with him. She ended up deciding on staying silent.

"So..." Wyatt cleared his throat. "You said that y-you were doing terrible... w-what happened? I-If you don't mind me asking, that is!"

It took Ellie a moment to respond. It was a lot and she had to gather her thoughts. "It is a long story really, but the route of it is, I keep pushing people away because I cannot control my emotions... and I believe Mark and I are separated permanently. Losing Kyle also does not help my emotional state at all."

Wyatt felt guilty for being a little happy to hear that Mark and Ellie broke up. He wasn't going to say anything to Ellie while they were dating but now that they weren't... "I-I'm really sorry to hear that, Ellie. Y-You know... w-we only j-just met but... I-If you want to talk to me about a-anything, you can!" He smiled again.

"That is much appreciated." She tried to smile back but it was pretty pathetic looking. "I doubt you will be able to relate, but have you ever pushed someone away because you are afraid you will not be good enough for them? I just... I do not know. My anger gets the best of me because I cannot control it very well so I end up just 'exploding' on people, for lack of a better term. But then I start to think it is better that way because they probably would just end up ditching me like my uncle. I am convinced no one likes me because of my aggression, but even if they did, it is hard for me to trust them in return."

Wyatt thought about it for a moment. "N-No I'm sorry... I-I can't say that I can relate to pushing people away b-because I-I haven't had that many friends to even begin with..." He paused "B-But I-I think you're wrong about that. About no one liking you. Because um... I-I like you... a-and you trust me, right?"

Ellie studied him pretty harshly, which honestly intimidated the shit out of Wyatt, but she finally nodded.

"Yes, I suppose I trust you." She looked away and sighed. "I should not have started a fight with Mark. We fought the other day over a similar subject, about how he does not care about me, when he clearly does." She paused. "I think. But he does not care for Kyle and that is what pushed me over the edge. Looking back on it... maybe I was just an idiot to get angry over that. Everyone else views Kyle as just some cockroach so I should not be angry at others when I am the only one who cared about him." There were a lot of things she wanted to talk about but she wasn't going to bombard Wyatt with too much information to handle. She needed to keep it simple. "I still think it is for the best that I ended things with Mark. Just because of who I am as a person. I guess it was not him, but me. And it hurts because I still love him. I just think I would end up making him miserable. Or worse, he would end up leaving me first."