[It was always going to be a painful and complicated -- tearing your heart out and showing someone else what was inside it always is, especially when they already knew it as intimately as Fitz knew hers.

She's lived in moments like this, where it's just him and her and it always ends. This one stretches on into infinity, and it isn't passing. This is terrifying but it's familiar.]

Fitz...

["I'm scared too. Don't judge me wrongly. Don't leave me."]