As soon as they were done eating dinner, Modo gathered up the dishes and all but ran from the room. Conveniently leaving Rain alone in the room with the open bottle of her favorite wine which Modo had forgotten to grab on his way out of the room.

She stared at it for a second then leaned forward and grabbed the bottle up off of the table and lifted it up to her lips and took a long drink. She figured that it would take Modo ten to fifteen minutes to do the dishes and put the rest of the food up. Which meant that she had ten to fifteen minutes to down as much wine as she could so that she could get nice and buzzed.

Ten minutes later she held the bottle up in front of her face and bit back the urge to giggle uncontrolably. She had drank about a third of the wine in the bottle, leaving less than a quarter left, and she could already feel the effects the alchohol was having on her system. Her thoughts were muddled, her skin felt overly warm and she had the insane urge to curl up against something soft and rub herself against it until she passed out.

She hiccuped and leaned forward and set the bottle down in the same exact spot it had been in before and had just sat back when Modo walked back into the room. "Okay. Dishes are washed and the left overs are in the fridge. What do you need me to do now? Do you want to listen to some music? Watch TV?"

Rain made a humming sound and looked at him. "Music. Something soft and slow." She said in a husky tone.

Modo smiled at her and bowed at the waist and walked across the room to her sterio and shifted through her CD's until he found some Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, and a few jazz CD's and put on Phil Collins and turned the volume low and then walked back over to the couch and sat down next to her and slipped an arm around her slender shoulders and pulled her back against his side so that she was in a semi reclining position as One more Night started playing.

Rain snuggled up against him and played with his the fingers on his flesh hand before saying, "I love this song. It's so sweet yet at the same time so sad."

"It is?" Modo asked stupidly, he hadn't really been paying attention to the lyrics of the song. He'd been focusing on the nervous fluttering feeling in the pit of his stomach caused by Rain playing with his fingers.

"Yes. Haven't you ever listened to the lyrics?"

Modo got quiet and listened for a moment.

I've been sitting here so long

Wasting time, just staring at the phone

And I was wondering if I should call you

Then I thought maybe your not alone.

Please give me one more night, give me one more night

Oh one more night, cos I can't wait forever-

"Your right-" Modo said after a moment or so of silence. "It is very sweet."

"And sad." Rain repeated. Modo's lips curved up in a small smile.

"Yes. It's sad too-" He admitted before asking, "What is the song about?" As if he didn't already know. Rain tipped her head back and looked at him for a moment, her turquoise eyes studying him in the dim light before she answered.

"Unrequited love. Nothing in the world is both as bitter sweet and sad as unrequited love." She sounded like she knew a thing or two about unreuited love and Modo couldn't help but wonder what sort of bastard would throw away a chance at being with her. And as soon as that thought crossed his mind, he ruthlessly pushed it aside, deeming it stupid to think such things.

Besides, someone elses loss was his gain. Still...he couldn't help feeling a mite curious about the person who had seemingly broken her heart.

Which was why he asked her about him. Rain looked away and played with his fingers a little more and Modo got the impression that she didn't want to talk about her unrequited love and decided it was probably for the best that she didn't answer his question.

"I'm sorry I asked Rain, you don't have to tell me."

"I wasn't going too since I don't like talking about it..." Rain said before shrugging his arm away and shifting so that she was sitting a little way's away from him. Modo watched her slow cautious movements for a moment and felt a painful ache in the center of his chest and was about to beg her not to be upset with him for being curious when she turned herself to face him and practically crawled into his lap.

He stiffened and went totally still and said nothing as she settled herself in his lap and leaned against him and said, "Modo, have you ever wanted to do something but were afraid that the person you like might dislike you for it?"

Modo blinked and mulled over her words before slowly nodding his head. "That's good. Cause there is something I've been wanting to do with you for a while now, and I'm kind of shy about it-"

"W-What is it?" Modo rasped in a slightly strained tone of voice as he gripped the arm of the chair in his mechanical hand and tried to control his breathing as Rain straddled his hips and put her small hands against his chest and leaned in and very softly, and gently pressed her lips against his own.

Modo's one eye widened a bit in shock and surprise as his heart slammed against his ribs in excitment and he found himself groaning as he lifted his arms and wrapped them around her and pulled her closer to him so that he could enjoy the slight contact a little longer as she licked along his bottom lip. He parted his lips for her and made a funny sound in the back of his throat as she deepened the kiss before abruptly breaking the kiss and burying her face against his throat and gave a shakey sounding laugh.

"Wh-What's wrong?" Modo asked in a breathless tone as he rubbed her back. He wasn't altogether sure what had gotten into his girl, but he wasn't going to complain about the display of affection. Not when he longed for it so damn much.

"I want more... God help me, Modo but I want so much more than just a kiss." Modo's hands stilled against her back for a moment as his mind registered what she was saying. His heart leapt up into his throat and he took a shuddering breath as he tangled his fingers in her silken hair and made her look at him then said seriously,

"I want that too but I'm not sure if you understand what asking for more with me would mean for you."

"Then tell me."

Modo studied her face for a moment then said very softly, "Would you be mine? Mine and mine alone? My woman, my friend, my lover, and my mate-" Rain got a stunned look on her pretty face and after a second or so opened her mouth to say something but was quickly silenced when Modo put his finger tips against her lips and cut her off.

"Don't say anything unless you can answer me honestly, Rain. This isn't something that one enters into on the spur of the moment. I need you to think carefully about the full ramifications of what I'm saying. Because if you say yes and mean it, there will be no going back. No escaping me. I will protect and keep you until the day you die. And if the day comes where you're taken from me- I'll follow you, where ever you are." He said in a fierce tone as he cupped her right cheek in his hand.

Rain stared at him for a second before nodding her head in understanding then said softly. "I can do that." And nearly jumped out of her skin when a loud growl filled the air a second before one of Modo's arms wrapped around her and pulled her tightly against him while his other arm slipped under her bottom and he stood up.

She had given her permission without hesitation or deceit. He had heard the conviction in her voice, felt the truth in her words and now-

Now she was his.

He couldn't have been happier. Or more over joyed.

It felt like he had waited forever just to hear those sweet, torturous words. And while it wasn't exactly the same as a declaration of love, he had the rest of his life to make her love him if she didn't already. "Modo? What are you doing?" Rain asked him in a curious tone, tearing him from his thoughts.

"I'm taking you to bed."

"Oh... Do you know where my room is?"

"No." Modo growled in irritation as he looked down the hall way at the four closed doors, wondering which one was hers and if he would have to impovise. He didn't want too. Rain was a good girl and deserved to have her man make love to her in her bed, not against a wall or something.

Rain giggled and pointed to the first door and he looked down at her for a second with an embarrassed look on his face before quickly clearing his throat and making his way over to the door and kicking it open and stepped inside and looked around for a second before locating the bed.