Forgetting
Sometimes she forgot that he killed people for a living. He was carefree, flirtatious and always smiling, so sometimes, she forgot that he could kill her very, very easily.
Then he did something like this, and she remembered.
She remembered that his eyes could go cold, she remembered that he was immune to the tears and the blood, immune to the pain. He scared her when he was like this, with cold eyes and a hard voice and blood on his clothes, because he wasn't the man she knew and loved.
He went from Jenos Hazard, her Jenos, to Time Guardian VII, a pet of Chronos. He lost the joking look in his eye, the smirk that always seemed to curve his lips. He would lose the flirting words and the easy going manner. He became a stranger.
Then he would thrust her behind him and protect her, and when he was done, he would help her up. He would apologize and buy her a drink and smile and laugh, and soon after, she forgot that he killed people. She forgot that he had a dark side.
Rinslet curled up against his chest and looked at his face, watched his smile slightly in his sleep, and forgot.