Author Notes: Written for my one year anniversary on LJ and for a friend whose birthday I missed. This is the first time I've written using this point of view so I hope it comes across okay. Thanks to janna_hawkins for the beta
"Better with two," she says.
As she heads to the wardrobe, her words wash over you. They are like the first warm touches of spring sent to thaw a frozen heart. She's been with you mere hours but already she's crept under your armour, rekindling feelings you thought lost long ago.
Happiness, hope and healing come to mind but there is another emotion straining to break free; one you dare not give a name to because you fear to lose her as you have lost all else.
She reappears dressed in scarlet and black and you tell her she is beautiful but the question remains: how long will she stay?