[ How best to say this? She's sure that there isn't any easy way to start this conversation, especially when she'd been mulling over it for the longest time.
Brushing her fingers over a particularly nasty one that narrowly skirts a nipple, Mako finally says, ]
I was wondering if I loved you. Someone told me that if I didn't, I should let you go.
[Raleigh tenses, more so than he already has, and he reaches to catch her her hand, make her fingers stop doing that because it's distracting. They haven't really talked about it, have they but he thought it was so obvious and she can't leave, that's not an option, he won't accept it so she must love him.]
[ Her hand stills in his, and she stops to look at him, bereft of her distraction. It's only when she looks into his eyes that she gains more of an awareness, an understanding, perhaps. She doesn't want to be without him; he's so much a part of her that she doesn't know what to do with it.
It should terrify her, but it doesn't.
She breathes. ] I don't know. But no, I'm not. [ The thought of sending him away makes her tighten her fingers on his. She leans closer, hesitant. ] I don't want to let you go.
[He's still not really appeased by that answer. Raleigh doesn't relax, telling him that she doesn't want to let him go-- that doesn't really solve what's really bothering him. Because he doesn't want her to stay because she feels obligated to.]
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Brushing her fingers over a particularly nasty one that narrowly skirts a nipple, Mako finally says, ]
I was wondering if I loved you. Someone told me that if I didn't, I should let you go.
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Do you? Are you going to?
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It should terrify her, but it doesn't.
She breathes. ] I don't know. But no, I'm not. [ The thought of sending him away makes her tighten her fingers on his. She leans closer, hesitant. ] I don't want to let you go.
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How do you not know if you love me or not?