“Please… please don’t speak like that.” Ernie said with a soft voice. He couldn’t imagine not having Ellie beside him, they’d been through a lot together, they’d won and they’d lost a great deal side by side, and to not have her there, just the thought of it, it hurt him. “You sell yourself too short you know.” He said gently, cupping her cheek.
He wasn’t expecting her to kiss him, but he also wasn’t expecting the way his body reacted to it. The instant sensation of it, and how his body instinctively pressed back to the kiss, just a fraction harder. He blinked just a little at her. “What was uh… that for?”