IV.
Before meeting her, he didn't believe people like her existed.
When he and his team were planning this, deciding how and when to get her near him, he knew for a fact she would be dark. Everyone was. He could see that in her, in that sweet nervous way she smiled – she had to have some dark secret, some reason to drag him into hell. He braced himself for that before he said a word to her.
It never came.
Instead, that sweet smile hid...a sweeter look of confusion. It hid her banter and beliefs and everything everyone would show to the world, and he knew it was completely genuine with her. That was what dragged him into hell.
He hates her a little for it. For daring to let him near her, for being stupid enough not to see him, to see what he needs from her.
"I'm no fool," she's said it more than once, so he doesn't understand how she can live in this darkness and not see it.
He hates her for lying. For promising the darkness she just couldn't give.
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