Alex doesn't mention not seeing this, because she'd prefer to not see it either, but she knows that Simon isn't doing it to scare her and that's enough. She doesn't want it to be a huge thing, and whatever other parts of the fear in her this normally would light up, Alex pushes back against. This isn't Maddie or anything else. This is something that Simon can't help and Alex isn't going to hold it against him. She doesn't ask but looking at him, she's pretty sure that the headache that Simon is having has to do with stopping this as best as he can rather than trying to intentionally freak her out.

But his directly asking Alex means that she can't talk around what she wants to ask him. She can't pretend that this isn't a thing that bothers her, that she doesn't remember that time before her mom and dad. She can't not ask him about if she's been being watched just as much as Strand has and now, whatever she'd been protected for or whatever has already happened. Alex knows that Simon is from the future after Strand leaves again for months, and she knows that the show was still going when he's from but that doesn't mean that what she's worried about is wrong.

In some ways it only solidifies the fact that Alex can't just let the story go.

"The dream sharing thing, me as a kid..." Alex takes a deep breath and squares it off, holding it for four and the like as her fingers twist over one another and she wishes that she'd have the familiarity of her recorder but. "It really is what happened, wasn't it? All of it."