She could practically hear his other self warning her against the very thing the man in front of her was suggesting. It didn't take much to buy into the possibility that he was using her. He was a pirate and a vampire, determined to get what he wanted no matter what the cost to anyone else. There were plenty of things about him that she struggled with, well-aware of how cruel and selfish he could be. His first instinct was always self-preservation, which was exactly why he'd chosen to leave her instead of facing his feelings. And yet Tinkerbell was guilty of the same thing; of calling it less than it was so that it didn't feel like more than she should have. It had never been a relationship to her, those were dangerously uncharted territory; forbidden and unfamiliar, and unwanted because of all he'd put her through. Caring for him was hard on her heart, yet she couldn't help but think that she found it more easy than he would have expected. Fairies were supposed to care for people, it was possible that was part of it - but that still said nothing for the way she felt about Killian, which was unlike anything that she had experienced before.
He probably couldn't see her side of it, either. Tink knew how his brain tended to work when he had something to worry about. He'd think on how it would change his life and his quest for revenge, consider how he might feel when the day came that they were separated, though she wasn't sure that he was even capable of understanding how conflicted she was when it came to him. She found him difficult to let go of, but he could be at her side one moment and leave her bed empty the next. The other pirate had come to her with accusations, and while she still thought he was wrong about them, she did think he was right in saying that she fought too hard for something that she kept insisting didn't matter to her. He defaulted to giving her up for his cause, while she had been willing to wait and see, and hopefully prove the pirate wrong. Killian didn't hope, though, she knew that quite well.
"I never asked for more than what we already had." Yes, she wanted his honesty. She wanted him to be with her and only her, but that had been his choice before she had called him on it. He made no secret of wanting her now, and she might have intentionally teased him with how she wanted him, but Tink still owned it when he needed to hear the words. She was only afraid now that it was real; scared of what would happen with everything out in the open, and even in that, he hadn't given her much of a choice. Even when her head was spinning with all that could go wrong, she still instinctively responded to the touch of his hand, leaning into the cool brush of his thumb across her cheek. She didn't know how to turn him away, or, if he was finally going to give her a say in something she was already invested in, why she would punish both of them by giving up one of the only things in the City that was worth fighting for.
"I can give you a chance - one." One more, technically. Wasn't this the third one, after all? Surely him running out twice had to count for something. She was a fool to even consider it, but three days of misery meant that she needed him as much as he needed her. He'd given her reason to believe that he could be better than the version of himself that he liked to sell her now, and it wasn't enough, but it was a start. "One more time, Killian, and if you make me regret it, I swear, I'm finished." She said it like she meant it, and for the most part, she did. She couldn't imagine turning her back on him completely, but there were limits. If he let her down again, she'd cut him out of her life as best she could and try to move on. It was merely too soon for her to give up now, particularly when he was finally willing to make the effort that she might have wanted for longer than she'd been aware of. "I want it to be different, too," she whispered, eyes locked on his as if she expected a negative response to the confession. He never wanted what he had; it was possible that just knowing she was as vulnerable to him as she was would drive Killian away for good.