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Arden watched Lysander carefully from the pillow, he watched the wall above her head intently.  He'd been grumpy ever since he carried her back to the bedroom and laid her on the bed.
   "Can we at least talk about this?"
   "About what?"
   "Us."  Lysander sighed, heavily.
   "There is no 'us' we simply occupy the same space for this period of time."
   "I'm not an idiot, please don't treat me like one."
   "Okay, so there is somthing but it would never work.  It's incredibly wrong, you must realize that at least."  Arden sat up quickly and as a result swayed backward forcing Lysander to kneel bedside the bed to catch her.
   "If it's forty percent wrong than it's sixty percent right."
   "I'd say it's more like ninety-five percent wrong."
   "So you agree that it's right!  Five percent is not none!" Arden cried triumphant.
   "You don't even know me!" Lysander said, groaning at her logic.
   "I know you're willing to protect me, that's something alright.  And you wanna know a secret?"
   "What?" Lysander sighed, humoring her in her clearly delerious state.  Arden edged forward until their lips met, Lysander remained completely still.  She pulled back and whispered,
   "I wanna protect you back."
   "You think that I'm worth dying for? That death is so glorious?  It's not I've seen it."  Arden sucked in a shocked breath,
   "You've killed?" she questioned.
   "No, but I saw my mother kill my father.  He begged for death for months before she could go through with it.  You think you could do that? Kill me?"
   "I thought you were immortal," Arden breathed, horrified.
   "I said I didn't age, I did not say that I couldn't die."  Arden paused, weighing her answer.
   "If it was what you truly wanted, I could do it."  Lysander pulled back slowly and stood.  Turning away, he said,
   "It's time for you to go."
   "No, I don' t want to," Arden objected.
   "I want you to."  Arden was silenced, trapped by her own words,
   "Truly?" she had to ask, not really wanting the answer.  After a moment Lysnader nodded.  Arden blinked, refusing to let tears escape, and nodded as well.