A/N: Thank you to Efyraa.x, FanFictionFiend, and Truish for their invaluable reviews and putting this on alerts. You keep me writing, and I appreciate every review! As a side note, the soundtrack, the only thing I played for this chapter was "Haunted" by Taylor Swift, but it was the acoustic version. The mood matches it, so if you want, play it while you read.

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Wufei didn't know how to approach Macy after that comment. Was he really becoming what he hated, a bleeding heart, or did he just care? Even Wufei himself wasn't sure.

On the flipside, Macy kept her distance. Whenever Wufei caught a glimpse of her, she was with Sally, though she was silent.

Then came the day when he finally caught her alone.

"Wufei, knock it the hell off." Macy looked for a way out as he pinned her to a tree. "This isn't funny!"

"I am not a bleeding heart." Wufei muttered, solemn as ever. Then, he changed the subject. "You can't hide from everyone, Macy."

"I'm not hiding." Macy glared at him. "Don't pity me because I'm screwed up, ok? You are just as screwed up as me, and you know it!"

Wufei swallowed, stung, but didn't let her go. "Don't be so scared of your imperfections." The words didn't sound like his, but they felt appropriate for the scene unfolding in front of him. "Everyone has them."

"That's not what I'm scared of." Macy had lowered her voice, her tone barely above a whisper. "I'm not scared of anything that's wrong with me, I've known for years exactly how messed up I am, I'm afraid of messing up something that's so real."

Wufei blinked and he felt his eyes go wide. That was exactly the same reason he had pushed so many people away after Meiran had died, he was afraid of messing up something that was real. Something that was really there. If he didn't let anyone in then he couldn't screw anything up.

And here he was, pinning an abuse survivor to a tree, probably messing up the one real thing in his life.

Macy was taking long, quivering breaths, and she was shaking like a leaf in the wind. "Stop giving me that look, bleeding heart." She mumbled, and she closed her eyes tightly.

"I don't want to argue." Wufei slipped his arms around her and pulled her against him.

"Don't hug me!" Macy screamed, but she didn't squirm. Instead, despite her mutterings of how she was going to get him for this, she relaxed against him.

"Don't be so scared." Wufei set his chin lightly on top of her head. "I wouldn't let any harm come to you." He meant it too, more than he had meant anything else in his life.

"I hate men..." Macy said, and for a second Wufei worried she was regressing until she added, "I hate all men but you..."

Wufei blinked in surprise. He didn't know what to say to that.

"I don't want to mess anything else up..." Macy leaned against him, her right cheek against his chest. "I hate that I screw everything up..."

"We got this far." Wufei interjected. "We got this far, and we haven't killed each other, so why don't we just keep going?"

The blonde girl looked up at Wufei in surprise. His plan sounded simple enough, so why couldn't she just say yes? She wasn't signing her life away, she wasn't marrying him, and she wasn't promising anything.

It still wasn't that simple, at least, not to her.

"I don't know." Macy swallowed hard. "I just don't know right now."

Still, Wufei didn't let her go.


A/N: I felt that was a good place to end the chapter. I want to do another chapter tonight, but it's supposed to storm, again, so I don't know if I can write, edit and post another chapter tonight. We'll see. Anyway, I would love it if you dropped me a review, and thank you so much for reading!