[ there's worry and fear and guilt, most of all, and bobbi absorbs those sentiments, notices them and analyses them and sets them aside. files them away, of course. at the same time, there's warmth and determination and following on the heels of both, seeping into the warmth and carried by the determination, there's love, at turns fierce and quiet.
he's done terrible things. he's told her as much and his guilt reaffirms the truth of it. fitz has always carried too much on his shoulders, but what he's told her goes beyond a sense of responsibility for failures that aren't his, not really. ]
I do.
[ there's nothing light about those words, and the truth of them rings through the bond she's initiated, too, though the extent of it is something bobbi holds back. (if he crossed the line, she would stop him. no matter how much she cares, no matter how it would break her heart βshe swore an oath to be the shield, to protect those that cannot protect themselves and her loyalty to that trumps her loyalty to anything or anyone else.) ]
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he's done terrible things. he's told her as much and his guilt reaffirms the truth of it. fitz has always carried too much on his shoulders, but what he's told her goes beyond a sense of responsibility for failures that aren't his, not really. ]
I do.
[ there's nothing light about those words, and the truth of them rings through the bond she's initiated, too, though the extent of it is something bobbi holds back. (if he crossed the line, she would stop him. no matter how much she cares, no matter how it would break her heart βshe swore an oath to be the shield, to protect those that cannot protect themselves and her loyalty to that trumps her loyalty to anything or anyone else.) ]