The warmth of Dyson's body seeped into her bones as they stood before the closed front door of his loft. His hand enveloping her tiny fist on the door handle. Dyson's forehead dropped gently to touch the back of Kenzi's head. They stood together as still as stone, as if any movement or sound would break the fragile spell they were under.

A near complete silence wrapped itself around them like a sheet of glass. Kenzi was aware of her breathing, the slight hush of her breath as she breathed in and out. And she could feel her heart pounding, although she wasn't entirely sure if it was her heartbeat or Dyson's that she could feel as he was standing so close to her it felt as if they were sharing the same body. It was far more intimate than when they had swapped bodies and that had been fairly intimate in Kenzi's opinion.

Kenzi became aware that Dyson was squeezing her hand in a rhythm that closely followed the beating of the heart she could feel, almost like he was testing her resistance to letting go. His hand eventually drew hers away from the door handle and then he slowly turned her around to face him. Dyson's bright blue eyes met hers but she couldn't hold his gaze so she looked down to see him still holding her hand.

"Dyson, let me go..." she whispered, not knowing if he could actually hear her or not.

Dyson slowly shook his head. "Not a chance Kenz...I'm never letting you go again. I love you." he whispered back. Kenzi sighed and closed her eyes. He couldn't possibly be serious, could he?

"I mean it Kenz," Dyson continued almost like he'd read her mind "I have loved you since...well since you took on the Norne and got it back for me."

"But you loved Bo." Kenzi responded, lifting her head to focus on him.

"No...well yes I did," Kenzi's face and heart fell a little at this statement "but not like you think. I wanted to protect Bo, look after her. It wasn't a love of equal partners, a passionate, romantic love like I have for you. It was a possessive...hollow love."

"Well that didn't stop you from knocking boots...or a few other body parts with Bo, did it?"

Dyson smiled guiltily "No it didn't and it should have. But I didn't have the clearest of minds until after you got that essential part of me back. And then" he looked carefully into her eyes "it was all about you Kenz."

Kenzi stared at his face seeing the truth of his words in his eyes. Dyson could lie with his mouth but his eyes always betrayed him. Kenzi had learnt that about him, knew it when others around him did not. She raised her hand and landed a punch right in his stomach that caught him completely off guard. "And you waited until now to tell me?"

Dyson rolled up to an upright position once more. "I didn't...tell you...because I...didn't know...how you...felt," he huffed out "but your...vision...in the trial...told me."

"My vision! My vision?"

Dyson breathed slowly, evenly, trying to even himself out so he could respond with enough voice so she would hear him. "You saw your worst fear. It wasn't Bo on that altar, it wasn't Vex or Trick. It was me! Your fear was losing me!"

Kenzi knew she couldn't keep the truth from him any longer. "Of course I love you, you ugly mutt! Why do you think I stayed and faced the trials? If I didn't love you I would have run, left, vamoosed, skedaddled. But I stayed because I knew I had to, to be accepted and be part of your world. And now, holy shitballs, it's my world too." The reality of that came crashing in again.

"It is our world now nighean bhreagha! But if you had run, I'd have gone with you. I would've lived completely in the human world with you if I'd had to because you are my world Kenz. Where ever you are, that's where I want to be. With you, always." Dyson's words pulled Kenzi back from the brink of panic again.

Kenzi looked at Dyson, her eyes shining. Dyson wasn't sure if it was from unshed tears, love or both. "D-man you have said more about how you feel in the last 10 minutes than you have ever said in the entire time I've known you."

Dyson laughed "Well, there was a time I couldn't have said any of this." His mind went to the time when Kenzi had been mourning the loss of Hale and how could he tell her he loved her then? It would have been wrong in so many ways. He was glad he'd said nothing then because it had led to this, this moment. "But I can now and I want to tell you every day, I love you."

Kenzi took a deep breath, she knew it had taken a lot for him to speak. "I love you too Wolf man." Kenzi reached up to his shoulders and stood on her tiptoes to be able to press her lips against his.

As Dyson pulled her up against him, he deepened the kiss, his tongue invading her mouth, a low growl of satisfaction rumbled from his chest. One arm wrapped around her waist, holding her to him as the other snaked up into her hair, grasping a fistful of the silken tresses. His pulled gently tipping her head back further, opening her neck to his lips. His warm lips traveled down the soft flesh of her neck as she wrapped her legs around his waist.

Dyson started to inch his way back towards the bed that was still rumpled from their activities the night before. He had every intention of showing her exactly what she meant to him...slowly, lovingly, passionately, in the bed, on the floor, against the wall or in the shower. He was prepared to torture her with his tongue, fingers and cock for hours, or at least until she screamed his name over and over again with breathless release.