A/N this is just the calm before the storm. Heheheh...
He woke up some time later to find her side of the bed cold and empty. He got up and walked to the connecting door to find her sitting on her bed wrapped in a blanket. She didn't look up when he sat down next to her, instead, keeping her gaze focused on the ground. "Are you going to share that blanket or no, it's cold in here." She unwrapped part of it and extended it out to him, and he wrapped himself in it, pulling closer to her.
"What's wrong?" He asked her, watching a small tear track it's way down her face and gently wiping it away.
"Tell me the truth Garret, why don't you want me?" This was a very good reason why. He pushed that thought away from his mind, that was not going to help the situation at all.
"I don' want you." He told her truthfully.
"Then why do you keep avoiding this." He held her close.
"I'm here, right?" His words were soft and gentle, "I don't want to-" He trailed off, unsure of quite what he wanted to say.
"Be just another ex boyfriend." She finished. "You think I'm going to screw this up just like I've screwed everything else up." He tried to pull her close, but she turned away. He was beginning to seriously regret what he had said.
"You haven't screwed everything else up." Right about now he was starting to hat Woody the boy had had a big hand in doing this to her, completely shattering her.
"Yes I have." She argued, "I'm in Dallas, halfways across the country, running away just like I away do, giving up on someone that I love and now I have another chance to screw things up, do the same thing over again." He kissed the top of her head, and pulled her close.
"You're not going to do the same thing over again." He said, his lips finding hers.
"But how do you know, how do you know that I'm not going to screw this up as well?"
"Do you want this?" He asked her. "Do you want us, together." She nodded. "Do you want just to forget about Woody?" He could see the uncertainty in her eyes, but he needed to know. He didn't want to let his heart get too involved, it was better to end it now, while they could still back out as friends, and there wouldn't be too much of an issue.
"I do, but I want to love him, I do love him but-" She trailed off, and strangely he knew what she meant. He kissed her soundly.
"You don't have to forget him, just over on." She leaned him to kiss him back.
"You don't mind?" She asked, and he shook his head.
"I've waited for ten yeas, I can wait as long as it takes, even if this never happens." She smiled faintly at him.
"Thank you." She said kissing him again. "Now we have ten minutes left before Room Service ends for the night and I'm starved." She said, reaching across him to grab a menu and he grinned, things were looking alright again.