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She grinned. "Tell me more."
"You're mean." *** He smiled softly, watching her with a cocked head.
He took a shaky breath. "Let me go back out there.. Please. I can't stay this pointless."
She glanced at him. "Why not?"
She rolled her eyes. "I didn't take any." *** "I'm Val, and I'm a jerk!"
He looked a bit hurt, his head shaking. "Can't you just let me help you? Can't I just do that one thing? You're the only important thing in my...
"Just because it turned out well, doesn't mean the future is good. It can be well compared to worse situations, but good is good."
She laughed. " It's not!" *** "Okay. I'm buying my own drink."
"I didn't die, damnit!" His voice was sharp and raised, unlike how he ever spoke to her. "You have to see that! If I hadn't have been hit, you...
"No. Not always."
"Psh. No." *** He laughed. "Quit!"
"I wouldn't have been fine! I wasn't fine when you were gone for six months! It was my actions that caused this! Not yours. I just want to be...
"Hmm. I'm going to wish for everything to turn out well for us, and I'm going to wish for a good future."
"Well I did. Cause of you. I defied odds." *** He couldn't help but laugh. "Stop that."
"That is my job," he agreed sharply, "but it also consists of protecting. Had I not done what I did, you probably would have died! What then?...
She watched the sky. "I want to see two, but I can't tell you."
"I got sick after that because of you." *** "Val.."
"It's what I signed up for," he shot back fiercely. "I pay for any consequences. The entire point of my job is to protect you and everyone else...
She put her arms around him, gazing peacefully up at the sky.
"No.. that wasn't a mistake." *** "I can get my own!"
