He looked at her and something in him snapped. Had she meant...? He wanted to crawl on the floor and beg for forgiveness. Love was very serious to Niles, and he hadn't known of anyone that really loved him since Julia aside from Sarah but that was something entirely different. This was... Or it could've been, had he not fucked it up. Story of his life. "It doesn't have to be awful forever," he echoed, still not sure as of what to say.