Maar. Sorry for no updates, I've been lurking more than reviewing lately and I know that's bad, but I just got back and I will review again. Here's some not-smut un-fluff sort of icky blurrgh.

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Theme Twenty-Nine: The Way I Am

She accepted him. That's why he left. Those few months they shared together where they grew, where she held him while he slept to calm his nightmares, where he grabbed her by the waist and spun her around in the kitchen until she was so disoriented she stabbed him with the butter knife, where they were happy. Why do I deserve this? He thought. What gives me the right to be happy?

And her. Before, they were able to hide beneath their facades as soldiers, him able to hide behind his mask and her behind hers. But when the masks came down, she couldn't be seen as a soldier anymore. She was a woman, and someone he could seriously end up falling in love with. And he simply didn't deserve it.

So he left, thinking giving up and leaving behind all that meant to him would make him strong. Thinking that all his problems would disappear, that things would be better off when he left. Of course in the back of his mind he knew, he was just being a coward; she made sure to tell him so when he came back. The only way to silence her was to press his lips to hers, and revisit the days they shared together, where he grew.

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Man do I hate this. :D