Summary: When the opportunity arises, how certain are you that you'll take it?

After all this time, I do not know

RWBY

"Don't you want this?"

Laboured breathing rasped through the room. Furniture lay askew all around in their wake.

"More than anything."

Shaking hands ran through disheveled hair as he calmed himself. Composure. Composure was what he needed.

"So why not?"

Her question was venomous. Her tone was hurt. Her body was pressed against his against the wall as she spoke.

"It's too soon."

Blue came out of his mouth and into her ears and into her mind. Blue. Blue. How long had it been since he saw anything else but blue?

"This is what I feel."

Hearts burned as tears fell. Honesty and truth lingered on every word, and yet they could not breach what did not want to be breached.

"I can't trust that."

Whimpers became gasps which became cries which became sobs. He and she collapsed against the wall and to the ground as she continued to weep. He closed his eyes and sighed as he turned towards the ceiling.

"This is real."

She managed.

"Maybe it is."

A hand reached his face.

"I lo-"

A finger touched her lips.

"Don't say it."

Her pain.

"Why not?"

His anguish.

"Because then I'll say it too."

After all this time, I do not know Fin

- Narutochaos22