She was a little surprised when he gathered her up, then she realized he was crying. She shifted in his arms so she could hold on, too, even more surprised to feel tears on her own cheeks. It was hard not to feel like they were completely alone, like children in a storm. No one else understood why they did what they did, what they meant to each other.

"Needed you since the night we met. Let them take you away once. Promise it won't happen again." She might drive him away with her crazy, the way she did, but that was something else.