...she didn't expect him to reach out to her like that. Her hand flinches, but mostly out of surprise - though she doesn't pull it away, even when her blue eyes drop to look at his hand over hers.

How.. was she supposed to respond to that..? The fact that he was the only person who could touch her without feeling the pain - that he still reached out to her no matter how sharp she was to him. What was he doing?

"Alphen.." Why was he so ... why did she have to meet him when she knew at the end of their mission she couldn't even.. ah.. she couldn't even say she wished she hadn't met him. She glanced away, torn between telling him why he shouldn't get so close to her, and pulling away.

Her fingers twitch under his hand, and she started to pull it away- only to turn her hand slightly in order to hold his hand in turn - though she was stubbornly looking towards the wall. He could probably tell she was blushing pretty badly just from this- her blush was practically -glowing-, though there was a bit of a quiver in her voice. "..why are you always... like this.." Doesn't he know how hard it was for her to keep ..certain secrets?