[People die. He's used to dealing with the reality that yes, people die. And maybe it would break him a little, hearing that it'd come for Lucy (just as it still would, maybe, if it were Annie, Annie, Annie)--but maybe it'd be okay, in the end. After all, he's dead, and it's okay. There are some moments when he's happier dead than he was when he was alive.

Not that much of that matters, because he's busy wrapping her up close right now, and too focused on her face to listen for a heartbeat that might not be there.]

Can it wait until I've had about another five kisses first? I understand if it can't, but I'm just saying, they're pretty good kisses.