<span style="font-style: italic">"You are not a monster or a dark being. It is an illness and like all illness there are lapses of control. Just like a fever or seizure, you loose yourself. The good thing is that you are given warnings. As long I can provide you a safe place to enter we will be prepared. The main things is to keep you with food that you need. Tell me anything we need to do to help you best."</span>Alyxander smiled for once, for the first time since they had returned home. It made him feel well, to know that Kate did not think of him as a monster like others would. If they knew of his violence and blood-thirst, they would have him killed for fear of being attacked. But she stood by him, through good and bad, to keep him strong. And for that, he would do anything to repay her.<span style="font-style: italic">"Your safe in my arm. I will stay with you until you are able to sleep. I am truly sorry you tried to tell me how much this hurts. Now I know it does. If you can stand this once a year and we prepare for it. You and I will not fear should you loose control."</span>"I thank you, my dear sweet Kate, for all that you have done for me. I know not what I would have become without your constant company." He leaned in, for a moment hesitating to do ask he planned. But after a moment of pause, he gentle kissed her on the lips; a sweet, loving kiss. He would never be forceful with her, not for anything. When a second or so had passed by, Alyx pulled back, not wanting to make Kate uncomfortable or seem less of his manners. His blue eyes lit with a happy and pleasant look, searching her gaze for any kind of reaction to judge his own actions. Had he been too forward?