*to Logic* you're flawed...

don't you dare try and blame this whole misunderstanding on me, i seem to recall some highly irrational tears at the beginning of all this...

yeah, and i remember you saying something like "i knew it, i knew it, you should have expected it", and now look, we feel like a goober for freaking out...

you are the one who doubted, you're the one that played those scenes over and over, walking around here with that goofy smile of yours, remembering everything, and then you were the one who overreacted...

..because you're still making me doubt! with your "now, can we trust this, how do we know he's not just trying to placate us..false sense of security.." and all that other bullshit...

would the two of you please stop bickering, jeez, it's no wonder we constantly feel like we're on the verge of a breakdown...*to Logic* you need to get it out of your head that relationships are some sort of experiment and admit that you have very little to do with them, right now we need you to get us up in the morning and go to work, that's about it, stop trying to dissect everything...*to Emotion* and you, you need to calm down, stop thinking that just because nothing may hurt worse than his death doesn't mean you're impervious to pain, and you need to admit that we are likeable and people care about us, stop thinking you're that hideous freak you convinced yourself you were...

*starting to cry* why should i think otherwise, what was wrong with me, what does it say that the only relationship we've ever been in was with a blind guy we met online...oh, god...*sobs*...

*softly* what does it say that you doubt everything he told you, that you're beautiful and smart...

...and sexy...

...and putting yourself down and insisting you'll never be happy again, how does that honor his memory?...

...because you know he was telling the truth, not the truth as the world would know it, but the truth as he knew it...remember asking "how come you're so beautiful", what did he say?...

he said "because you're looking at me"...

we can't expect every relationship to follow the same pattern, remember the variables, if we were to think of it as an experiment, which we're not, but if we were, the variables are all different, there are no tech manuals...maybe we were in love so long we forgot what the actual process of falling in love was like...and maybe now is the time to see how someone else sees us...

i'm scared, what if we're really not ready for this and we screw it up, what if...

stop, it won't do to worry yourself over the "what if's"...

we can't know the future until we get there...

you gotta remember, he understands what we've gone through and the kind of pain it left us with...i think he knows to be patient with us...

i for one would hate to see the opportunity missed...

me too...

*deep breath*..okay...i'll be okay..just keep reminding me...*looks out the window*..i would like to see this work out...i feel like we should apologize...*sigh* it was just, i was starting to feel so much better and i was scared that it was going away again...

i know...it's a terrible thing being alone, feeling alone...i'd hoped to, well not spare you from it, but for lack of a better word...

in a way we'd hoped to spare you from it...

*smiles* my job is to be the reminder that nothing is permanent, not even death...

...except love...

of course...that goes without saying...

now, at the risk of sounding cliched, can't we all just get along?

i'm horny...

*giggles* so what else is new?....

*throws a pillow at HP*

i think Emotion needs to calm down a bit more before we let you back near the window...

i'm gonna pout...

*smiles*

c'mon guys, seriously, let's just kick back and enjoy the ride, okay?...