“Because you show me that its still there. That you may be a monster--I’m a monster--we’re kind of all monsters. Just to differing degrees and I kinda doubt I’ll ever get to the degree the rest of you have, but you never really know.” It was more she hoped she wouldn’t, but Caroline could see it happening under certain circumstances. Maybe. “You show me day in and day out that I can have hope in you by how you treat me, how you listen to me, how you at least try and compromise with me.”
Something she’d seen time and again that he did not do with other people. Even his own siblings. “I don’t really want to change you. I know you thought that and maybe there was a time that I thought that, but I do want to bring out those parts of you that you try to hide away. Or like only let shine through your paintings or with me now. You feel pain, you love, you get angry, jealous, happy...and so you’ve got humanity to you in all that darkness you’ve surrounded yourself with. I know you like to say that I’m your light, but I see the light in you as well.”
She shrugged, not sure if her thoughts really made that much sense. “Plus I’m sure we both know by now that I’m drawn to your dark. Sometimes at least.”