Re: eddie/steph.
How can you know that? [Eddie asks, but there's not any force behind his question. He rumbles at her touch and the kiss makes him melt under her like butter. She's warm and the way she touches him feels like she's taking him for her own. Eddie remembers all of that. The sort of thing he never thought he'd feel again. It distracts him for a moment and then he shakes his head.] You can't know that. [A thought pops in his head that she's saying these things because he wants to hear it, because he's here even though he doesn't have to be. Eddie could have let her suffer on her own and never take the blame for it. She doesn't love him even if she feels like she should.] Things are just nice now. You're infatuated. When I get mean again or things get hard, you won't be so sure.