She Runs Away – Duncan Sheik



He could have punched the wall.

Why?

Why did he suddenly feel the need to tell her? To actually admit he loved her, without any sort of demeaning qualifier like "atta girl?"

He knew he'd scare her, and sure enough – that's what he did. For not two seconds after he said that, she had stood up and wandered into her bedroom.

She was running away. Well, they were at her apartment, so she was running where she could.

He sighed and stood up, making his way for the door, when she returned to the living room, a crumpled paper note in her hand. He stopped, waiting, but she didn't look at him. Instead she awkwardly outstretched her arm and shoved the note in her direction.

He took it from her, slowly opened it, and what was written there shocked him.

"I wrote that when Hodgins and I were kidnapped by the Gravedigger."

She wasn't running away.