A/N: So this is the last chapter. I would like to thank everyone for reading my very first multi-chapter fic. It has been great fun posting this. I would particularity like to thank Hannah for her reviews for every chapter, they make my day that little bit brighter. Enjoy the final chapter and thank you all once again.
10. Light
It hurt that Kate had to ask him how he was going but he understands, he does. It doesn't make it hurt less. Still, she had stuck up for him even though he had spent the weekend lost in a delusional state (he had imagined kissing her in detail, not that she knew that but it still left a niggling feeling of guilt in the pit of his stomach).
"Thank you for uh, not giving up on me even when I was at my worst."
"You gave me a scare you know."
He didn't know what was worse; that she saw him like that or that he had scared her. He knew that seeing him like that made his condition real for Kate, instead of some far away clinical diagnosis that she never had to deal with personally. Especially not from someone close to her. So it made perfect sense if she didn't want to work with him.
He gave her an easy way out, instead of having to go through pain of her letting him down kindly. He didn't know if he could survive the look in her eyes if she did that, the mix between pity, sorrow and betrayal. He almost certain it would finish him off completely. So he offered her the chance to finish things cleanly and with minimal pain.
Instead she surprises him. Again. Offering him a deal that he tell her when his symptoms come back and he gets to keep working with her. He grasps the olive branch with both hands and promises her that he will tell her the moment his delusions start up again.
(He hates to think what would have happened if she had agreed it was best he didn't work with her anymore. Losing two of his three best friends in one week would probably send him back to the hospital sooner rather than later.
That and he can't help replaying the kiss over and over in his head).