'It's not good enough.' Severus' voice was firm. 'There cannot be a part of you I cannot face and you should not be condemned to transform in solitude for the rest of your life.' Severus could have hit himself. He was turning into a bloody Gryffindor, but he needed to overcome this if they were going to be together. 'I won't promise you anything before I have been able to stay during your transformation. If I cannot stomach all of you it is not fair - neither to me, nor to you - to have,' Severus paused, since he knew he was stepping into a new era in his life if things went as they were supposed to, 'a relationship. I take it, when you say you want it all, you are not satisfied just to meet occasionally?'
He leaned against the wall again, raising his chin defiantly. 'I will not fear that I have teased you too much, or too long or at the wrong time,' he said, and touched the mark Remus had given him. It tingled, sending pleasant shivers through his body. 'You have no idea how much I want to balance on the edge, do you?' he purred. 'How much I enjoy making the beast look out at me, knowing it is caught inside you, imprisoned.' Severus pulled his shirt more open, almost enough to reveal a nipple. 'Wouldn't it be nice,' he purred, 'if you never had to think about the beast, and just let it to what you both want?'