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"Open your eyes Cath. I don't know how you can remain totally oblivious after all these years."
"Totally oblivious to what exactly?" Replies an agitated Catherine.
"To this"
He nervously leans in and claims her lips with his, letting every emotion he's held for so long release into the kiss. Her lips move in sync with his without her even realizing what's happening, she tries to pull back but something keeps her right there with him.
"I can't do this."
"W..h.what but, but you kissed me back."
"I know and I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want this...it's just not right."
"I don't understand."
"I made a mistake, a mistake that you'll never be able to forgive me for...I can't even forgive myself so I'd never expect you to"
Catherine allows her tears to fall freely down her white cheeks and stands up to leave the room, she ignores the concerned hand clutching at her arm and runs through the lab, out through the glass doors and into the pouring rain. Everything she's ever wanted is back inside that room but her impatience and lust several years before had ruined all of her chances of happiness with him. She closes her eyes and accepts that this is the path she's chosen in life and that's the way it should be...the way it was always going to be.