[ I don't know how to start, and I know she knows that, but screw it. I can't keep doing this. I can't live like this, and I know she doesn't want to keep going like this either. ]

Yeah, that's where we start. Somehow, we'll figure that out. I'm glad to be home with you, but now I just want everything else to fall into place, starting how to live.

[ Not normally, because I don't think either of us will ever really be normal, but we'll make our own kind of normal. Not-normal. Yeah.

It feels right, being like this: being able to touch her and hold her and ease her to sleep with his touches. Maybe what makes it easy is the fact that he loves her and that he's happy to be with her, all things considered. Even the demons in his mind that try to rattle him and leave him shaken don't take away from the fact that he's glad to be with her.

If he never figures out his abilities, if he never truly gets used to being home, at least he has what he's found with her, as long as she wants to continue giving it.

After some time passes, he feels her begin to stir and his attentions shift back to her. Well, they never really left, but now they're on her in earnest. ]

Hi, Jesse. [ He smiles the smile he reserves only for her, and he nods. ] Yeah, except... [ Words trail off as a mild doubt settles in. Maybe she doesn't want to, or maybe she wants to do what he has in mind on her own. Maybe he shouldn't even suggest it. ]