[FIN] Hard to Handle

[Blood_Goddess]

Moving her hands away so she could lean over in a light hug. Somehow that didn't seem like enough, but she was willing to do that for him, something so simple.
"That's not selfish,"  

[Suudonym]

He leaned his head lightly at her shoulder, faintly puzzled by her words. It felt selfish, imposing on her after she'd offered shelter from the rain and then seeking solace from her when she was surely tired herself. It should have been expected, though; implications that he was a bother were always readily rejected, after all. "Sorry."  

[Blood_Goddess]

"You don't have any reason to be sorry." Rosie spoke, still quietly as she tightened her arms a little. "I know I can't do much... not after everything that's happened, but I'll always go out of my way, even if its just to help chase one more monster from your nightmares."  

[Suudonym]

He raised his hands to the back of her shoulders, overwhelmed, for once in a way that could be described as positive. "Just saying that is more than enough," he said, the words more breathed than spoken. "Thank you."  

[Blood_Goddess]

It would boggle anyone's mind with how many terrible things have happened in the last few months, what happened to their dear friend Sera was certainly another fragility on that list, a fresh gaping wound torn open on an already aching scar.
She let out a soft breath, pulling him closer when she felt the hands on her shoulders.
Like hell she wasn't going to keep trying to dress that wound.
Pulling back from the hug, she let her hands slide up, touching his jaw line lightly, before they fell onto his shoulders, watching him through the darkness.
"Always, Luke."  

[Suudonym]

Her gesture pulled his eyes to hers, her simple response filling him with a deep and thorough ache that reaffirmed feelings he had tried and failed to convey once before. It was a feeling that nearly glassed his eyes with tears - though not from the despair he had come to know so well. Nearly holding his breath in resistance of it, he nodded once.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Her chest hurt again, and she found it hard to look at him becasue of the weight of his expression, but she did her best to smile gently through it with encouragement.
Leaning forward the blond bumped her forehead lightly against Luke's before lifting herself up onto her knees as she leaned up, only to tilt forward again and touch her lips softly to his forehead for a second.

She was catching herself holding her breath in her lungs as she turned toward her bed, leaning away from Luke to reach out and take a hold of the top blanket on her bed, pulling it down and tossing it over her shoulders.
Still she couldn't breath.  

[Suudonym]

Somehow he simultaneously couldn't think and couldn't stop thinking. It was a simple expression of affection - affection? it didn't seem that the intention could be too easily misconstrued - but it calmed so much and stirred so much more. Unsure of how to respond outwardly, he abandoned the effort altogether, leaning to lie down again with an appreciation for the nighttime darkness obscuring his face.  

[Blood_Goddess]

A part of her could not believe that she had just done that, Though she had no regret, how could words express the comfort and the support better then that? Like he had done for her already.
she followed Luke's lead, lowering herself down as well to curl up under the blanket she had just pulled to the floor with them, rolling over into her side to face him, pulling her blanket up over her face just under her eyes.
"Are you going to try and sleep?" she asked, unsure if he would be able to or not... or even wanted to  

[Suudonym]

Efforts towards returning her gaze were short-lived and futile, and he gave a small nod in response, "Yeah. Sorry for waking you up."  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Mm" she hummed lightly, shaking her head. "If you need anything, please wake me up." she urged him "I don't mind."
Though she was already feeling the tug of sleep weighing down on her.
Shifting again in the tangle she had worked herself into with the blanket, Rosie managed to work a hand out from under the blanket, searching for his hand.
"Okay?"  

[Suudonym]

With some hesitation - but significantly more gratitude - he moved his hand to meet hers, curling his fingers lightly. "Okay."  

[Blood_Goddess]

when her fingers found his hand, she closed them around it, lifting it up a little and swaying it back and forth.
"Good." She said, with a gentle smile, curling herself up on the floor, her eyes low, before she let them close, not letting go on his hand.  

[Suudonym]

He watched her for a while, fascinated and enchanted by the girl in front of him, until vision blurred by tiredness bade his eyes to close.