It was hard to sit there and just let Nate answer. She knew he had to answer. Silently she prayed he would see the sense of working with the doctor. Surely he wanted things back the way they were? She never thought he would actually try to hurt her. He had always been to reserved and almost shy.<br/><br/>This war thing had changed him, warped his mind, made him scared and aggressive. She knew it was instinct for survival. It was not like him to let his feelings show. He seemed unwilling to talk at the moment and she felt compelled to say something.<br/><br/>"I work, at Walmart. Long hours, very little for pay. We are barely getting by." she did not want to say that Nate had trouble finding a job. It would sound like she was accusing him of being lazy. He was far from that. He did yard work, sometimes he fiddled with the guns, which always scared her. He would tell her he was just cleaning them...for her to not worry.<br/><br/>Most of the time he spent watching tv and drinking. Putting in applications was something he only did sporatically. He never got any calls for interviews. Jobs were scarce.