Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.