[She pulls back, but only enough to bring their lips together. She needs to be kissing him right now—deeply and full of affection. Almost any other gift she wouldn't have known what to do with. It's not a gesture she expects or translates into caring necessarily. But a dress he custom made just for her and a slinky he got—she doesn't even realize he made it—because of a shared interest and conversational topic? Those show her how generous and caring he is. They also bring up all the feelings she's been having for him that she's been trying to keep at a low, controlled burn. She's not ready to feel all of it. She's not ready to be vulnerable and open enough with someone for them to crush her again. She's not ready to lose him the way she just lost Logan to the whims of the Atroma or the way she lost Reid with new memories of a life he still has left to live.]
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