AN:Well, I promised I'd have it done before Monday, and I did! Barely. See you at the bottom
Chapter 3: Run
And you're so damn difficult
You'd lose a heart in your hand
And I can believe you make me work for it
No one understands
Why I don't run
As fast as I can
Run - Christina Perri
Tory POV
Total. Silence. Brain not responding. He didn't just say that. Yes he did. Think! Say something! Anything! Well...not anything. But something!
"You're delusional." Okay... How did that manage to sound flirty? It definitely sounded flirty.
"Am I?" Oh. My. God. He's actually amused. "Let's look at it this way. You're the pack leader right?"
"Yes..." Tory replied warily.
"So you don't want someone completely submissive, but you also don't want someone who questions you at every turn , or undermines your authority.
"And as for your human side, you want someone smart enough to banter with and carry on an intelligent conversation - which I doubt he can -"
"I'll listen to your amateur psychoanalysis, but start insulting my boyfriend and I'm leaving." Tory warned.
"Sorry."
"Are you really?"
"Not even sort of."
"That's what I figured."
"Anyway, you also want a partner, someone who won't judge you, and will take control of the situation if you can't. So someone who won't blindly follow you, but will trust you, is smart enough to keep up with a genius such as yourself, and has seen and done enough questionable things to understand when you have to make a controversial or morally questionable decision. Now, can you honestly say that that doesn't sound like someone like me?"
"I..." Damn him and his impressive ability to read people. "Someone like you. Not you. Like you. Not you, obviously."
"Obviously. Now if you don't mind, places to go, people to see, you know how it is. I trust you can see yourself out, as you had no problem with showing yourself in."
"I think I'll manage without you." And with her words lingering behind her, she sauntered out, Coop on her heels.
AN: Hey, just so you know, I realize that these chapters are beyond short, that's just how this story happens to flow for me. Hope you don't mind.