The faint click of six's shoes echoed as he walked through the blinding white room. 'Hmmm I seem to be walking' he thought as he let his body lead the way through nothingness. Trying to turn his head to see assess the situation he found out he couldn't, it just stared at a fixed point in the distance. 'wha-?' he thought, panic starting to trigger off alarms in his head, this wasn't right. He tried to move his fingers and arms to just to find out they too were not in his command. His mind was racing and almost missed the fact that his body had stopped walking. Looking up his heart skipped a beat like it always did when he saw holiday. She was standing in front of him but fear shone in her eyes. 'Holiday, what's wrong?!' he tried to talk to her but no words came out. A hand, his hand, suddenly gripped her by the neck and slammed her against the wall. Six heard the thud as her head connected with the wall and looked into her eyes. Oh god her eyes. Pure fear ran through them, fear that he was going to kill her. It tore him up inside knowing that he was the one doing it. The grip on her neck tightened and he heard what appeared to be his own laugh filling the room. She clawed at his hand trying to breathe. 'HOLIDAY! NO!' six screamed, helpless as he saw her eyes roll back about out black out. His body released her and she dropped to the floor on her knees gasping for air. 'i-is it over?' he thought, hoping. He felt the katanas become unsheathed from his sleeves before he saw them. Holiday looked up at him screaming as she saw the katanas swing towards her neck. 'NOOOOOOOO...'

"...NOOOOOO" he woke up screaming in the middle of his room gasping for air. He looked down at his hands and the surroundings, no sign of the brightly lit room or of holiday. 'She's fine' he breathed reassuring himself 'she's fine, she's ok'. He ran his hands through his short hair, trying to control his breathing. He swung his legs over the side of the bed slumping over and cupping his face with his hands. 'Dammit, I fell asleep again' he grumbled 'great, and crying'. He felt the wet liquid stain his cheeks. He went to the bathroom to wash away the nightmare, splashing cold water on his face and neck. He glanced up at his reflection in the mirror looking like hell. 'I need to get out of this room' he thought getting his clothes on 'wouldn't hurt doing a perimeter check again'.

Hands in his pockets and head down he walked through the identical hallways slowly, listening for anything suspicious. Already knowing the entire layout he let his feet guide him and his mind wonder. That wretched screaming of hers and her fear filled eyes was still there in his head. Every time he blinked, it was there. The only time he did feel is better was when he was watching her, making sure that she didn't have to go through that again. He couldn't get close to her though. Even though it ripped his heart apart every time, she smiled or laughed, he couldn't do it. People got hurt when he let them too close to him.

Six suddenly heard a loud crash which seemed to be coming from a corridor where Holidays lab was situated. 'HOLIDAY' his head screamed as he ran for her lab. He skidded to a halt just outside the room. The door was open and draped in darkness. He cautiously walked in, waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness. A scattered pile of paper work came into view, 'must have been what caused the noise' he thought. Noticing some movement in the corner he glanced at a figure on the floor next to a desk.

"Holiday what happened?" he ran over and sat her upright "are you o-"

Her hand flew up under her desk to press a hidden button. The whole room went into lock down in a couple of seconds, huge pieces of metal covering the doorways and windows. Somewhere in the corner of the room a faint glow came from a backup light, illuminating them.

"this lock down was only intended to keep any harmful chemicals or experiments that have gone awry inside the room, I didn't think I'd have to use to get you to talk to me six" she said pulling herself into a standing position "and don't even think you can run away, the metal is far too thick for your katanas, and we will only be able to get out once I put in a code that only I know"

Six stood up facing her, his face blank. His mind raced assessing the situation and different possibilities this could go.

"Now six" she said stubbornly, folding her arms across her chest "why are you avoiding me? Why have you not been sleeping? What's wrong six?" her voice softening at the end

Six averted his eyes from hers, moving his head a fraction to the left.

"Nothing"

She sighed knowing he was lying to her "six. Please tell me, I'm trying to help"

"I SAID ITS NOTHING!" he shouted and slammed his fist on the table, regretting it immediately.

He watched as holiday winced at his raised voice. 'Dammit, I shouldn't have lost my cool' he thought.

He sighed defeated. "Sorry holiday, it's just -just that I can't tell you"

"Well if you can't tell me, why don't you show me?" she reached up hesitantly to remove his sunglasses.

He paused for a moment before gritting his teeth and nodding his head.

Gingerly she removed his glasses to reveal six's scrunched up eyes. She softly stroked his cheek with her hand reassuringly, allowing him to open his eyes when he was ready.

Holiday sucked in a breath as he opened his brown eyes. 'Who ever said the eyes are the windows to your soul was bang on right with six' she thought. After years and years of learning to read six's minute movements, or millisecond pauses when talking to judge how he was, looking into his eyes was like reading a book, no wonder he kept them hidden around his enemies. She could see everything he was thinking about, the pain he held, his sleepless nights, the worry he had for her, for everyone else, the weight of the world he felt, the fear of him losing her, of he losing himself, of his guilt. She understood.

"Six, you did the right thing. I needed you to fix my leg, it wasn't you who broke it" she barely whispered. She pulled him into a hug resting her head on his chest, his head resting in the crook of her neck, breathing her in.

"Six please understand what you did was the right thing. All you've ever done for me was the right thing. And please don't ignore me. It might be selfish, but I need you with me to get through this. I might have the cast on but I still have physical therapy to go through, and your, kind of, my rock"

She was so close to saying it, but since six showed her, she felt that words would have less of a meaning; she would show him how she felt.

Slowly she leaned in to kiss him. Electricity was sent through her body as their lips met. All the years of waiting, sorrow, fights, teasing, troubles, love that had been pent up was poured into the kiss. She put her arms around his neck pulling him into a deeper kiss, six pulling her in closer by the waist. It felt so natural yet amazing, as if they were always meant to be together. They kissed passionately only breaking apart to breath.

Holiday felt giddy with joy and love, the taste of him still on his tongue.

"I'm not dreaming am I?" six said, giving her a small smile. His mind was eased of all his worries, the only thought was of her and a question of why he didn't kiss her sooner.

"I can promise you your not dreaming, but promise me you won't disappear" she looked up into his eyes

"I'll be with you every step of the way"

She smiled warmly, relieved and glad with the events that had just happened.

"I hate to break this up, but it is extremely late, and it looks like you haven't been getting enough sleep, so doctors orders, bed" she reached down and punched in .- -. . -. - / ... .. -..- (hint its Morse code) into the keyboard. Smoothly the metal slid back into their original positions, the windows showing them that it was still late at night.

After that six was there with her whenever he could be. He helped her get through the physical training until she was in better shape than ever.

He had also been working on showing more of his emotions to her, taking his sunglasses off whenever it was just them two alone. Six did however go back to the stoic front if there were ever people around, but holiday was fine with it, she understood and accepted why he needed to. Yet he always found a way to stand close to her or brush up against her when they were looking through files to reassure her, which gave her a warm glow inside.

One day when they had a particularly big load of paper work to file, which drove them both insane, especially six. Holiday got up out of her chair to straighten her legs after sitting there for hours on end. Leaning back wards with her arms out she stretching her aching back, moaning in protest. A muffled grumble came from six's side of the desk.

"Did you say something six?" holiday asked leaning on the chair

"I said, could you not do that, its distracting" he rubbed his weary eyes, his sunglasses now on the table as the room was deserted because of it being so early.

A smirk played on holidays lips "so if I just happened to do it again..."

Her hair on the back of her neck stood up as she felt him behind her, 'god he's quick' was the last coherent thought she put together as he growled into her ear.

"Don't tease holiday" he said in a husky voice, running his hand down the length of her body. Holidays grip on the chair in front of her tightened "or I might just tease you back".

She drew in a shuddery breath as she felt him disappear. She opened her eyes to six who now had his sunglasses back on and was working his way through the files and an employee enter the room, ready to start the day.

'Shit' she thought, trying to get her bearings back, and failing.

A few days had passes since she had gone through physical therapy and things were getting back to the norm. Holiday was testing some unknown nanite samples as six walked in. Still looking through her microscope she called over "you need anything six?"

"Well -er- no, -er- yes, I –er-" he stuttered nervously

Looking up from the microscope, "you ok six?"

'Come on six, get it together' he thought determined. "Yes I -er-, I'm fine. But, I was wondering since we kind of just got together we didn't have a first date, but now your leg is better" he gulped "would you like to go on a date with me?"

Holidays heart swelled up with love "of course I'll go out with you, but how? Seeing as we're not allowed out"

Six visibly relaxed at the news "don't worry about that, I have it all planned out. Just be ready by 7:00"

"7:00 it is then" she smiled happily but found herself very curious about what he was going to do which plagued her thoughts for the rest of the day.