Britomart nodded and smirked.<span style="color: #ff0000">"go right ahead."</span>she grunted quietly when she hit the ground but it took more then that to knock the wind out of her but she didn't fight back. she looked up at him and listened and though she kept her expression blank Jim would see a different story in her eyes and she continued to let him speak his mind and do as he wanted. she grunted when he punched her and after a moment she looked at the ring on her finger and then up at Jim.<span style="color: #ff0000">"are you sure Jim? truly and honestly sure that i am what you want? I'm sterile, I'm broken, i cannot change no matter how hard i try... and... and i don't think i have every loved anything or anyone as much as you love me."</span>she reached up to cup his cheek staring into his eyes.<span style="color: #ff0000">"i can see your love and i know that i have never felt love so strongly in my whole life... i love you but... but my love is... is..."</span>she grimaced and was obviously trying harder then she ever had before to express her feelings.<span style="color: #ff0000">"my feelings are so much more... restrained? no, that isn't the right word... i..."</span><span style="color: #330066">"your love is without need."</span>Whisperia was standing in the doorway looking down at them with her head cocked to the side.<span style="color: #ff0000">"huh?"</span><span style="color: #330066">"you want us, you love us, but you will never let yourself need us... you haven't let yourself need anyone since your brother died and you only needed him because that relationship formed before the Scourge invasion."</span>Britomart bit her lip and looked at Jim and then away.<span style="color: #330066">"he knows it, i know it... but that is the difference, we need you and you won't let yourself need us and i don't know that you can ever let yourself need anyone. long ago i decided that your love and your desire was good enough for me, that you didn't have to need me to make me happy and that is what your asking Jim if he can live without."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>