"So it was all..." I muttered to myself, wrapping my arms around my body, my head dropped. I removed my helmet and dropped it to the ground. "It was all..."

"It was all what?" A voice from behind me said and I spun around only to find his body pressed against mine, lips embraced passionately. After a long couple of moments he pulled back and smirked, "you didn't really think I meant it did you?"

"You...you..." I growled softly and began crying. "I hate you so much."

"No you don't." He sneered pulling me closer. "I only wanted to strike as much fear in your heart as you placed on me."

"What do you mean?" I sobbed wiping my face clear.

"What you were doing was suicidal. You would have died had I not been there."

"Yea? Well you actually tried killing me in front of Ghalt, you almost crushed my windpipe!" I snapped.

"And you pulled the trigger first." He said causing me to tense and silence. "I'm proud of you. You reacted to the situation at hand and did not let me down. Tonight, was a success." Then his smile turned into a smirk, "but I don't care about any of that, it's over. What I do care about is something else you said."

"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked blushing and trying to pull away from him. "I didn't say anything."

"You did, right before you pulled the trigger."

"I only said it to throw you off guard so you wouldn't pull the trigger!" I shouted and he released me letting me drop to the ground. I looked up at him, face red. "I-I mean...I..." I trailed off thinking. "Alright..." closing my eyes, I turned my head away.

"Say it again." He said glaring down at me. I remained silent. "Phoenix." He snapped causing me to wince. "Say. It. Again."

"I love you." I muttered glancing up at him. "I love you, I have for a while now, the moment we first fought Omnic together, when I put up the shield to protect you...and I stopped you before you left. I wanted to tell it to you right then and there, but I couldn't...but I..." I sighed. "I love you, Gabriel Reyes. I love you, Reaper. And for the rest of my life, no matter what happens after this, I want us to do it, together."

"Again." He purred moving closer to me. "Say it again. Over and over again." there was something eerily demonic in his tone as he pushed me to the ground. "I want to hear nothing else, just repeat it over and over." he growled biting my neck.

And I did, over and over and over again, until I could no longer speak, until I lay passed out, I repeated it for him as he consumed my body for his pleasure and my own.

When I woke up the next morning and rolled over to find him laying there with me, simply watching me I smiled. I didn't know where life would go after this point and I didn't care, as long as we did it together, nothing mattered