Before his nose even creases the way it does when he's worrying about something, Kate knows she scared him. He's being too careful, thinking too much. They both do that when they're trying to say just the right thing. Or not say the wrong thing, anyway.
He lifts her hand, kisses it, and she strokes the line of his jaw to tell him it's okay. Might be Lilo, might be love, might be both, but the quickest way to settle Kate down is for one of them to be upset. At his waist, her hand uncurls, releases his shirt and smoothes it down against the flat of his abs, soothing, reassuring, putting things back in place.
"We fit," she agrees, because that's just it. They do and they always have. "I never feel..." Never feels what? Inferior? Judged? Talking about feelings sucks. "We've both done things we're working off. It would be so easy for us to slide back into the old ways and patterns, but we dont. We make each other stronger..." Kate shrugs finally, looking painfully awkward, then gives up and goes back to being everyday Kate. She's who Neal fell in love with anyway. "And the sex is phenomenal."
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Date: 2013-10-16 04:38 am (UTC)He lifts her hand, kisses it, and she strokes the line of his jaw to tell him it's okay. Might be Lilo, might be love, might be both, but the quickest way to settle Kate down is for one of them to be upset. At his waist, her hand uncurls, releases his shirt and smoothes it down against the flat of his abs, soothing, reassuring, putting things back in place.
"We fit," she agrees, because that's just it. They do and they always have. "I never feel..." Never feels what? Inferior? Judged? Talking about feelings sucks. "We've both done things we're working off. It would be so easy for us to slide back into the old ways and patterns, but we dont. We make each other stronger..." Kate shrugs finally, looking painfully awkward, then gives up and goes back to being everyday Kate. She's who Neal fell in love with anyway. "And the sex is phenomenal."