"You are my strength and hope as well..." Reaching up, she gently cupped his cheek in her hand. Moving closer, she kissed the other soft and sweet. "You are so amazing, Alec... sometimes I want to just shake the world for not realizing it. But if I'm enough... please know that I have so much faith in you. So much pride." Adoration and love. The amount of feelings for the young man sometimes blew her mind.

Blinking at the shiver, she held on to him tighter. "Are you cold?" The whisper was so soft, she wasn't sure if she'd said it out loud.

And considering the reply to her hidden truth, she felt like she couldn't breathe. "Alec..." His name came on an exhale before she suddenly moved to wrap her arms completely about his neck and hug him. "Forever with you... I want that." Whether as a lover or just closer than just friends. As long as it was with him.

"You're the only one I want to know me..." Turning her head to lean into his touch, she breathed in slowly. "Something happened when I was a child. I don't... I don't remember. My mother killed herself. I... I really think it was because of me... why else would my father try to kill me?" She frowned and furrowed her brow in mental anguish. "I don't know how it happened... but the house burned down... he died yet I survived. I don't remember how or why... just that the Silent Brothers found me..."