Gokudera treads water as he tries to recover from the physical shock of Phoenix's reaction, but becomes worried as Phoenix stays on the bottom. He dives down and swims towards her.
"What happened? What's she doing?"
Phoenix feels the water pressure change as Gokudera swims closer and holds up her hand, telling him to stop. A few minutes pass and Phoenix pushes herself off the bottom, and Gokudera follows her. Phoenix looks at her boyfriend with worry written across her face.
"Are you okay? I'm sorry…I didn't mean…"
Gokudera shakes his head and interrupts her.
"I'm fine. It just…caught me off-guard. It's really fine, don't worry."
"I could have killed you Hayato." Looks down. "If I hadn't taken off pressure when I did you would have died…"
Gokudera think it for a few seconds.
"Well…you didn't. That's gotta count for something, right?"
"I guess…I just wish I could get past that part of my life. Just forget everything I learned and move on." She swims closer to him and leans against Gokudera's chest. "Maybe then I could be normal….Be worthy having you"
Gokudera swims them back to the wall and holds Phoenix to him, stroking her hair.
"It'll come in handy one day though. With our lifestyle you'll always have to know how to protect yourself."
Phoenix smiles slightly.
"Isn't that what you're for?"
Gokudera smiles softly as the girl resting against him.
"Yeah but I can't be by your side twenty four seven…especially if I go on missions."
"Well then…I guess I will just have to go on those missions with you. As I told Reaper, I don't like being apart from you Hayato. It feels wrong."
Gokudera frowns slightly.
"If the missions are too dangerous then no, I won't let you. I know you're a strong fighter Aydan, but I don't want to put you on the front lines."
"I'm an assassin Hayato; I've never been a front lines kinda girl. Besides staying home and waiting for you to get back would be just as dangerous for me. Worry is bad for people Hayato."
"I never said to stay home just…" The silver-haired teen sighs. "It depends on the mission. I wouldn't want to see you die right before my eyes. I'd feel better if I knew you were safe somewhere else."
"I would be safe. I'd be with you, that's the safest place in the world for me to be." The red-haired girl nuzzles into Gokudera's shoulder. "And besides, how would you stop me?"
Gokudera smirks.
"I'm sure I can ask Aneki to cook you some 'good' food."
"I am not eating anything you give me then." Aydan wraps her arms tightly around her lover. "Hayato, I want to be by your side in a fight. I want to know that you are safe."
The worry in Phoenix's voice makes Gokudera frown and he wraps his arms around her, almost as if he is already trying to protect her.
"Fine. But only so I can keep an eye on you. But if it gets too dangerous I won't let you stay. I honestly won't."
"What? You're going to send me home in the middle of a fight?" Phoenix pulls away from Gokudera. "Hayato, if it's the middle of a fight there is no way in hell that I would just leave you."
"Gokudera looks into Phoenix's crystal like blue eyes.
"I know you wouldn't want to, but you would have to. I don't want you to get hurt. I lost someone I loved once; I don't want it to happen again."
"Hayato I'm not going to leave you in the middle of a fight and I won't just sit at home and worry that I've lost you. How do you think I would feel if everyone else came back and told me that you were gone? I would spend the rest of whatever time I have left thinking that if I was there I could have saved you. I would drive myself insane thinking about what ifs."
Gokudera thinks about this for a second before kissing Phoenix.
"You always manage to change my mind about these things. I hate it."
He presses his lips deeply into Phoenix's and she responds in kind.
"I would say I'm sorry but I'm not." The girl pulls back slightly and smiles at Gokudera. "Does this mean that you would let me stay?"
Gokudera sighs.
"Yeah, that's exactly what it means, unfortunately."
"You'll see it's for the best." Phoenix kisses Gokudera quickly and the Italian teen holds his Irish lover to him. "Even if you didn't die then our place would either be very clean or completely destroyed when you got back."
"Jesus Christ. You're such a worry wart Aydan."
The younger teen laughs and Phoenix grins.
"Only about you."