[Kissing her is a mistake. But he does it anyway, his fingers curling to grip the fabric of her shirt. He wasn't trying to get pity, but he'll take it if she's giving it to him, if it means that they don't have to talk about how someone out there ruined them.
Lisbeth makes it sound like it's a permanent scar, but if there's one thing that Jesse's vowed, it's that none of this is permanent. He has no interest in revenge or holding onto the memory of that evil.
Redemption, however... He's coming around to that idea. The one thing he still has is the ability to make right. If he can give enough of himself to her, then she'll forget that there was ever someone who made her feel like she wasn't a human being.
She kisses him because she feels sorry for him and he turns it around on her, murmuring against her lips:]
Remember I loved you.
[He doesn't know if that'll be possible when he's gone, but his one wish is that it will be.]
[Lisbeth nearly sighs into the kiss like some hopeless romantic. It's just been so long since she had kissed him. A part of her hates how vulnerable she's become with him. She promised herself after Stockholm that she'd never let those stupid fantasies fill her head again. She is most parts logical, only ruled by emotion when it comes to anger. However, Jesse makes other emotions spring forward, those that have existed all this time, but whose growth was stunted by a really fucked up childhood and adolescence.
Even though her head is swimming, Jesse's use of the past tense isn't lost on her. It makes her pause and she opens her eyes. She feels like she's swallowed an ice cube and it's landed heavily at the bottom of her stomach.
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Lisbeth makes it sound like it's a permanent scar, but if there's one thing that Jesse's vowed, it's that none of this is permanent. He has no interest in revenge or holding onto the memory of that evil.
Redemption, however... He's coming around to that idea. The one thing he still has is the ability to make right. If he can give enough of himself to her, then she'll forget that there was ever someone who made her feel like she wasn't a human being.
She kisses him because she feels sorry for him and he turns it around on her, murmuring against her lips:]
Remember I loved you.
[He doesn't know if that'll be possible when he's gone, but his one wish is that it will be.]
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Even though her head is swimming, Jesse's use of the past tense isn't lost on her. It makes her pause and she opens her eyes. She feels like she's swallowed an ice cube and it's landed heavily at the bottom of her stomach.
Lisbeth doesn't know why he'd say that.]