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It had been a week. One long ass week, full of reaping souls and avoiding specifically named people. Aka- Nash, Sabine and Kaylee. Although mostly the former.

The only one I wasn't deliberately avoiding was Kaylee, the truth was I just hadn't had time to go see her, between pizza and the hospital, it had been crazy…and not the good kinda crazy.

So when Kay called and invited me to hang out, I jumped at the chance. Not caring about what happened last week, or anything else. Just caring that I could finally see her again…I guess that should have been the first clue.

"Hey", I laughed cheerfully. Popping up randomly in the middle of her rug, grinning when her face instantly seized with joy when she saw me. "Hey you, long time no see", she smiled sliding of her bed and sitting opposite me on the rug.

"Sorry bout that, works been crazy", I apologised guiltily, feeling bad about it.

"Don't worry, and which work?", she smiled, gently taking one of my hands understandingly.

"The hospital", and felt kinda depressed, all the faces and souls of those I had taken flashing through my mind, pulling me down into a tiny pit of darkness…a pit I was starting to get used to.

I was so deep down in the pit, I barely noticed a pair of tiny arms wrap around me, not until that lovely voice started whispering sweetness into my ear.

Then for the first time, I began to try to pull my way out. Telling myself that I would not disappear or get dragged down, not whilst she was trying to stop me. I wouldn't allow her efforts to go to waste.

Wrapping my arms around her, I let the sound and feel of her chase away the dark. Until I felt bathed in sunlight, until I could feel it all but spilling out my ears.

When I pulled away, I just looked at her. Trying to find the words to properly thank her, "Don't, don't thank me, don't even think about it…just promise me something".

I nodded "anything", my voice sounded broken and desperate. "If you need to, if it gets too much. If you feel yourself slipping. Please come to me, anytime, anyplace. Promise you will come to me…let me help you". Instead of answering, I swept her into my arms nodding furiously, wishing the moisture in my eyes would disappear. Wishing I could stop the tears.

Then she pulled away, and began to wipe the tears away with her thumb, gently brushing them away. Staring into my eyes.

Then almost in slow motion, she hugged me again, only his time when she pulled away, she placed her lips over mine, sending a jolt through me, a jolt of pure sweetness, a jolt of pure Kaylee. I stopped thinking, only focusing on the way her lips moved against mine, the way her hair felt between my fingers and the way she cradled my face in her hands.

Then her bedroom door opened and all hell broke loose.