Prompt 17 – I Wish I'd Never Met You

Daisy stepped out of the shower and slipped the hotel bath robe around her. It was soft and warm. She opened the door and saw Robbie with only his boxers on laying on the bed reading something on her computer.

"What you reading?"

"Just more stuff about GhostRider. About me."

She moved to the chair and started combing through her wet hair. "Yeah. Anything new?"

"Not really. But considering I'm now international news it's more spread out. Most people are writing I'm a rouge inhuman. There's one guy who wrote an opinion piece about how I'm doing the job everyone dreams of doing, by taking out the scum of the earth, those who deserve it, and can hide behind power or money."

"He's not wrong."

Robbie glanced over at her and smiled. "There's another that calls GhostRider a glorified sociopath who relishes the attention."

Daisy sighed. "Well I know that one's not at all true. She got up and sat down on the edge of the bed. "And how are you not cold Robbie?"

He gave her a once over, noting the thick robe wrapped around her. "How are you not hot babe?"

"I am hot. Hot for you. Hmmmm...I know a better way to stay warm." Her suggestive voice grew deeper as she started to take off the robe.

"We probably should get dressed and get out of here. We've already been here for two days. Coulson will send out a rescue party soon."

"Nah. That'd be more like Melinda. Luckily, I texted her before I took my shower. Told her I needed another day of rest and alone time."

"She didn't buy that did she." He sat up and looked at Daisy.

"Of course not. She knows I'm with you. She just pretended not to."

"But Coulson doesn't know. He'll be very annoyed with me when he finds out."

"Nah Melinda will talk to him. She's glad I'm happy. You know after Lincoln, I never...I... well you know. She knew how much I loved him." She leaned over and kissed him. "I'm just glad I found you."

"Well your life would be much less dangerous had you not. Sometimes I think all I'm doing is hurting you. I wish I'd never met you."

The hurt look in her eyes, made him quickly add, "Because of GhostRider. Because I can't give you what you deserve. Stealing away in a hotel room for a couple days every couple of months is not exactly a stellar relationship builder."

"I'm not complaining. I'd rather be with you this way then not at all."

"You deserve so much more Daisy. I'd like to give you more."

"I know you would. I'll take whatever I can get Robbie. I love you."

"That hope that I see in your eyes. Daisy it's not gonna happen. And it sucks for you that I can't give you all of me. Cause I want to so badly. You gave me back that part of me I let die. It kills me that the part that is Robbie loves you so much and wants to have a normal life with you and I can't. So yeah, it'd be better if I'd never met you. Better for you. And me. Cause if I'd never met you – this pain, this fear of losing you, knowing I can never give you what you want – I wouldn't have to go thru that. And I wouldn't have to put you through it either."

"Well too bad. Roberto Reyes. You don't get to choose the people who care about you. And I care very much." She leaned into him and kissed him again. "It's not exactly like I lead a normal life either. I'm an agent of a spy agency that recently just came back into the public eye, an inhuman with earthquake powers and I have probably more enemies than you do. I'd say we fit each other nicely. A match made in heaven."

"Heaven?"

She smirked. "Okay Hell. A match made in Hell. Happy?"

He smirked right back. "I love you so much."

"Good. Now kiss me and ravish my body, before one of us has to leave to fight the bad guys."

"Yes ma'am."