Abby backs up, her gaze flickering toward the window to show him she's not above leaving through it if he's going to block her way; she won't let herself be cornered, in the same way that he won't take no for an answer. She regrets following him here.

"Because we have history." It seems insane to have to reduce it down into one word, and laughable to have picked the one she did. They had three days, and she had no idea that Ellie was hunting her down for two of them. Including Jackson, all of Abby's history with Ellie amounts to less than thirty desperate, violent minutes.

"And I know it won't happen again because she didn't kill me." Because oh, did she ever have the chance.