Terrence reached up and touched his face, feeling for the first time in many years the skin that lay beneath the tangle he used to have. It felt like reliving a past memory of getting his car when he was sixteen, or receiving his apprentice guns.<br/>He knew now that he still had a face, and like a little piece of humanity had been replaced. Only such a gesture could be made in this day and age. Where before he would keep himself clean-shaven, now it was like experiencing it for the first time.<br/><br/>"Thank you." Was all he could say, in a quiet and almost shrewd voice. He couldn't begin to tell her how much it meant to him, but he knew gestures succeeded where words did not.<br/><br/>He sat up fully, put his face close to hers. Sliding a hand behind her neck, he pulled her towards him and placed their lips together. It was the first kiss between them without that damnable and uncomfortable beard.