[The look on Gai's face shifts from uncertainty to surprise when Elizabeth takes his hand and plants it right on her breast. It's such a strange thing to do that he almost wants to laugh, yet at the same time, he'd been the one who had said that very thing to her, about how she fit his hands perfectly. And it was true; just a slight movement of his hand and he's cupping her in his palm and it feels so right, like she really was made to fit him.

Not just physically, but emotionally and mentally as well. She understood all of the parts of him he'd never shown anyone else, she knew when to back off and not ask questions, and she knew when he needed her. Maybe he is broken. But Elizabeth filled in all of those holes and made him feel more complete than he ever had in his life.]

I've already defied the universe once. What's one more time compared to that, or even a dozen more times? It's not like the world could do anything worse to me than it already has.

[He presses a kiss to her shoulder.]

I would tear the very fabric of the universe itself if it meant I could stay with you.