"I'm sorry" she choked, tears streaming down her now bright red cheeks "I'm so sorry, it wasn't supposed to mean anything..."

He turned away, leaving her to weep in his shadow.

"Listen to me! Please," she cried, a disgraceful heap on the floor, clutching at her hair and clawing at herself "It wasn't mean't to be like that, I swear, I love you; I always have."

She looked him in the eye as he turned around to look blankly down at her "You know that I love you. But I don't think that you have ever loved me in return. Have you?"

He didn't reply, just continued to watch her distraught face, the pain that flitted inside her eyes.

"Have you, Hibernius?"