He looked up at her and shook his head a reluctant grin spreading across his lips.  "There is nothing I can do is there?" He asked shaking his hair back out of his eyes which were now the glistening green of leaves that had just been rained on.  He sighed and pulled her into his lap kissing her nose gently.  "If we make it through this I may just have to stay with you forever." He said this with a playful smile but he was only half teasing.  She had just started to put life back together and now she was willing to stand beside him through an almost certain death sentence just so they would not have to be apart.  there was nothing more that a man could ask for and he knew it.