Blue gripped Omega's hands back, just as hard, the strength of their fingers turning her knuckles white. The words drug through his clenched teeth tore at her heart, pulling silently hitched sobs out of her own throat. When he dropped his head to her lap, she pulled one hand free to sink it into his hair, holding him with fingers clenched in the thick strands. That hand slid to his cheek when he looked back up at her, and the blaze behind those eyes nearly burned her, so palpable was it.

She stared back at him, immobile in the focus of that intensity. "...you won't lose me," she finally managed to whisper, cupping his cheek with her fingers curving around the strong line of his jaw. "I'm yours. Forever and always." It was the truth. "I don't know what I would do, if you weren't here." Blue bit her lower lip. "And I want you with me. No matter where we are, wherever we go, I want you."

Lowering her forehead to his, she inched forward a little, taking one of his hands in hers and very slowly and deliberately pressing his palm to her abdomen, sliding his fingers beneath hers under the waistband of her shorts, where a shiny new scar ran vertically beneath her navel. She chewed on her lip some more. "...this is what...what he did to me," she whispered raggedly. "It hurt so much...and I couldn't stop them...couldn't stop him."

Her talons tightened against Omega's skin, but she was careful not to pierce flesh. "I wanted to kill them all," she grated in a rough voice. "--but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything. I'd have died there, if you hadn't come for me." She tensed involuntarily, but kept his hand pressed to her flesh, her breath coming a little faster.