"I don't want to hear anything other than the truth, and if that's the truth, then it is what it is." he sighed. "I wasn't trying to play the hero or to scare you, but it's not a dream. I'm right here."
Travis smiled against TJ's lips. "You don't need an excuse to stay in bed with me." It might have even been a lot more pleasurable without the bullet hole, but he wasn't going to complain. He was alive and so was TJ. "As long as you feel okay, because I know that what you can do instinctively isn't always what you can do on purpose, but whatever you can do is appreciated."
The onset of the new mood was also freaky, because it was when he could tell that it wasn't natural, but eventually the weirdness subsided, leaving just the effects of TJ's power. Maybe there was detachment for TJ, but calm meant a different thing to Travis. It meant shedding some of the emotional baggage that he carried around since childhood. It meant accepting that TJ had become too important in his life without that sense of panic and fear. "I love you so much. When I saw that gun... I want to spend the rest of my life with you." He would have liked to move and touch his lover, but he contended himself with rubbing circles on TJ's arm." He bend his left arm and raised his hand. He rubbed the wedding band with his thumb. "I'm ... I'm okay with this now, with us, with no expiration dates. I love you."