A/N:: One more for now~!

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Longest Road

"What do you mean yOU ALMOST DIED?!" I began smacking him against the shoulder with a fierce look before shaking him lightly.

Marco just told me everything that had happened, starting from when he was planning on us being friends, but it changed. He hadn't realized he was doing things like dates either until the nice restaurant one. Marco mentioned he had started to get deeper in this relationship that wasn't supposed to go that way, but there was something he couldn't deny. I was something he seemed to have never had and didn't mind when I wanted to take my time since he was still figuring everything out. It became more evident for him as the days passed and when he found out someone was a traitor in their midst, all Marco wanted to do was protect me. Having sex with me hadn't been planned, but everything had burst from him, wanting to truly love me before things started to stir up.

When he left with the necklace, the people after it had found him and literally tried to kill him! I was shocked hearing that part and he continued on that if they were able to unlock the research he would have healed quicker, which he didn't dwell on that part as he continued. I was still a bit stuck on him getting hurt so severely and then having to go off the grid for a long while as he had the necklace.

"I'm fine now, yoi…" He reassured me as I rest before him in a chair in this hotel room he bought just for us to talk in. He sat on the footstool with hands grasping at mine as I had been waving them around in panic.

"And what do you mean you could have healed with the research?" I asked with a searching look and he sighed out.

"The research that Roger was doing is a genetic mutation thing." The words left him as he began explaining and I rolled eyes with a breath.

"Well, I know that." I told him and this surprise was there before he tilted his head with a confused look.

"You know…?"

"Yeah…" The lame reply was there before I shook my head lightly. "I wish you could had said something so I could have told you the research wasn't in the necklace anymore."

"Wait…" He mentions with a light grip to my hands and leans a bit towards me. "You knew about the research, yoi?"

"Someone sent my father's journal to me when I turned eighteen that explained everything…" He shifted a bit closer as he drew me in and was looking to me seriously.

"Why isn't it in the necklace anymore?"

"I deleted it." Blue eyes searched me as I viewed him before tilting a bit, "because it wasn't the original one and I didn't want it going into the wrong hands." I told him seriously as he stared to me in confusion, eyebrows furrowing as he moved lips. It seemed he was trying to find words before he seemed to clear it up in his head.

"Then the original?"

"Safe." I smiled to him and this breath left him in relief before I tilted my head in curiosity. "Were you one of the ones he mentioned of unlocking that mutation?" A slow nod was there as he gripped to my hands and brought them up to his mouth with a smile.

"I have the phoenix, yoi." My eyes widened lightly in surprise before furrowing eyebrows in confusion.

"So, it locked your powers?"

"Everyone with a power had been locked out by the impressive energy Roger did right before he died." A nod left me in understanding before he moved a hand to cup one cheek and I had closed eyes to enjoy the feeling. "I'm sorry about everything I put you through… I wanted to so badly talk to you every day… And I just… couldn't, yoi… Not when it risked your life." I opened eyes to view up at him before it felt like everything broke down and I moved to wrap arms around his neck to hug onto him. The sensation of being able to do this after so long was a bit odd, but I still got the blossoming heat in me.

"Do you all want to protect the research? It can still be activated, but you just can't see it." I comment as I believed everything Marco had told me, there had been no lie there and he held me so tightly, as if I would disappear.

"Roger was a good friend of my Pops and we said we would do what we could to protect it." The words were there and I felt nervous on what I was going to say as my mouth was to his neck, but enough away to speak.

"Then make sure I don't die." The body stiffened and a noise left him in confusion as he rubbed a hand along my back and the other was threading through my hair.

"What, yoi?"

"I said to make sure I don't die… I am the research." I had pulled back at that with a look to him seriously and he stared in confusion before I grabbed his hand in mine. I used my other hand to move my shirt and lined his fingers along my chest, the bottom end of my sternum area. "It's just right behind my sternum… And was keeping me alive…" I explained and he pressed his palm completely to the spot with a look of bewilderment.

"Was keeping you alive?"

"My power is vaguely activated…" I explained and he had eyebrows raise before he shifted the foot stool away as he was to knees. A noise left me as he had my shirt pushed up and pressed his head to my chest. Hands moved along my sides and to my back as he grabbed to me while I breathed out with a hand finding his head to brush hair. "When I was born, my power tried to consume me, causing to damage my heart…" I explained and held onto him around his head as I leaned my head closer to his. "By now, it should be healed, is what my old man said… My power wouldn't be necessary any longer after reaching sixteen, but it took so long for it to heal my organ completely without needing it there to hold it together… I never really knew…" I comment as he soon moved to have his face to my neck and rubbed into it.

"What power, yoi?" The question had me hum lightly as I remembered what was in the journal and I rest my head to his.

"Fire." I told him and this soft nod was leaving him as he held onto me. "Do you want me to activate it? I can't individually do it, so whoever else had one before will get it back." A slight stiffening was there with a sigh as he pulled back to look up at me in contemplation. Then this thought accord to me as I rest arms on his shoulders with a hum. "Then again, it was mentioned how I could target one person to nullify if necessary."

"Really?" The questioning was there and I slightly nodded before pulling my head back and to the side with a yawn. "You need to get some rest…" Hands were pulling on me, causing a small protest as I was led to the bed and pushed to it to be on my back. A groan left me as he pulled at my shoes and I pulled out my phone to message my brother I would see him tomorrow and that I was at a friend's place.

After I was done with the message, my phone slipped and smacked onto my face, making me jolt in surprise and sighing out. Arms laid out in defeat, hearing Marco chuckling as he grabbed my hands to put them by my belt. I moved to sit up with a hand to rub at my face and noticed Marco pulling off his shirt. Along his collarbone was a scar and I felt a bit bad that it couldn't have been helped. I got my belt off and shirt next as I soon pulled at the sheets after shutting off my phone and putting it to the side. I just went with everything as I was tired and didn't want to fester over everything right now. I couldn't sleep in my work pants, so I took them off and climbed in the bed.

Marco joined shortly after getting the other lights off and clicked the lamp off once in the bed. Laying down, I noticed a hand touch along my head carefully and I grabbed his hand. I moved it to my face with eyes closed, inhaling in relief as I missed contact with the other. Everything sounded so farfetched, but I believed Marco was trying to keep me safe. That scar being part of the proof and the fact I could almost tell. I had a small fear he would leave again, but tried to swallow that down. I was the happiest with him and it started to blossom back as he moved a little closer. Once he stopped, I took the chance with moving and had an arm around his torso while I pressed my face to his chest with my head to his bicep. A slight hesitation was there before arms were around me with this breath as he relaxed.

"I love you," he whispered with his mouth to the top of my head and I felt my heart flutter as I gripped to him tighter.