Swallowing thickly, she pressed her lips together before venturing forward. When I have let someone this close, they have died. It was only two, but two were enough to give her a complex. Especially since the first was most likely her fault. And she couldn't help but think that if she had gone looking for Daryl sooner, that he might have lived.
Being with a mutant, is dangerous. Maryanne was pretty sure that none of her one night stands had died. Or the ones back home hadn't. She took one of his hands, and carefully placed his fingers against her throat. So he could feel her speak, at the same time as reading her lips. "The decimation is a good bit into your future. It makes anyone who is a seen as a mutant sympathizer into a target." There were too many words she didn't know the signs to. And she figured it would show the level of trust she put into him, by placing his hand on such vulnerable spot.