"Two weeks would probably be a record or something." He joked back, chuckling softly. Oh, sure, he'd had his flings and some of them even went on for a month or two before he got bored, but long-term anything just wasn't really Kol's style. "Maybe that should be my new goal." he smirked.
Kol smiled a bit when she looked at him again. There it was. The hope was still here. She hadn't detected his doubt. Or she chose to ignore it. Either way, she wasn't letting go of it and that was the important part. "He does, I believe he truly does in his own way, on some level. But I think maybe...he doesn't realize the things he does can hurt us the way they do, and more than that, he's sort of forgotten that sometimes thing really are as simple as they seem." Things like the love and loyalty between siblings. There wasn't always a need for stratagies and upperhands and endgames.