Re: marvel: eddie/muerte
[She tried to smile again, but it was a drastic failure of an expression.] I have moments. But it's still... [She trailed off, not knowing how to finish that thought. She tried another one.] The days when I feel like I don't want to be me any more... They come a lot. And there's different things I could do. But you... [She shook her head.] You make me want a life. And I think that's where I could be happy.
[She wrapped her arms around him when he guided her close again, close enough that he could maybe feel the way her heart double-beat hard at what might be an escape for him (though maybe a painful one for her).] I can see it, sometimes. [She was still quiet, her arms holding as steady as she could, though that currently included a little tremble in her limbs.] I can feel what it would be like to push you away. The things I could do, could say. It would turn things enough that you wouldn't even want to be friends. [She shook her head again, and when he let her go, she felt like she'd been set adrift. That couldn't be good. With a broken little whisper:] Nothing's going to be easy anymore. It's past the point of easy.