Why does she rush away?

[Julia99]

Why does Julia rush away when Barnabas tries to say thank you, express that he does have *some* feelings for her?  "We're just wasting time" she says and rushes off. . .someone explain this pathology?  I think **if** he ever tried to kiss her, she'd actually break into a run. . .

[Raineypark]

I'll guess that she runs away precisely because she knows he's NOT going to kiss her.  What woman wants to hear that a man she loves thinks of her as a "dear friend"?  

Julia wants Barnabas to toss her on a stretcher and make her shriek.....not squeeze her elbow and tell her what a brilliant mind she has!!

Running away saves her from hearing how he "really" feels about her....thus preserving the fragile hope that it might not be so.

Rainey

[Birdie]

Could not have said it better.  I was thinking in just those lines.  She has basically put her feelings on the line.  He doesn't feel the same way but has to at least tell her that he cares for her as a "friend".  I like the fact that he realized two things. One that he does appreciate Julia more than he thought.  Second that he really is a " bit older " than Vicki and she might respond to a younger man.  I had thought he was in denial that he is not as young as the SYT's he goes for.

Birdie

[Cassandra]

Running away saves her from hearing how he "really" feels about her....thus preserving the fragile hope that it might not be so.

Rainey

I agree with you there! Also,  Since it's just been recently that Barnabas has been treating her with more kindness & compassion, I feel that poor Julia is probably  finding it hard to really accept what he's saying as sincere.

[ROBINV]

Cassandra said:

I feel that poor Julia is probably  finding it hard to really accept what he's saying as sincere.

I agree.  Remember all the sweet words Barnabas said to Julia prior to Vicki's trip to 1795, how he made her blush like a schoolgirl because he was trying to get something out of her (i.e, telling her that Woodard wasn't first in her class, SHE was)?  Then after Sarah rejected him, he told her, viciously, that he meant none of it.  

I'd be extremely wary hearing anything kind at all from a man who has used my love for him against me in the past.  While what Barnabas said were words of appreciation, they weren't the words she longed to hear, and if she didn't believe him sincere, that he was "appreciating" her because of the experiment, then I'd take off, too, before I burst into tears and allowed my emotions to betray me.

Love, Robin

[jennifer]

She cares for him but doesn't trust him.Can't blame her
He was trying tp kill her just recently!

jennifer

[Dawn]

J99 wrote:Why does Julia rush away when Barnabas tries to say thank you, express that he does have *some* feelings for her?  

That's it...some feelings, just not the right kind.     At this point, I think she's emotionally raw.  She just can't deal with an altered consciousness on an unstable vampire.  Dawn