[Spam]

[Tilting his cheek into her hand, he runs his own up her back and down again. She's not planning on going anywhere, and that alone means everything. He doesn't see that sadness in her anymore, doesn't feel like she's a distant ghost anymore. Like he was when he first arrived.

Selina had nailed him with that.

A smile pulls the corner of his mouth upward, and he reaches up to run a hand through her hair, pushing the hair from her face. He'd told Mathis she would make a terrible shield, and she still does - but now he doesn't mind being her shield.]

Good. Because I don't think I could stand it again.

[He leans in then to kiss her, and when he pulls back, it's with a smile pulling his mouth up.]