“Me too.” Colleen said, she glanced away from him upset but sad. She didn’t want it to be like this but Colleen had a track record of not having some great lovers. What she didn’t want was to find him on the other end of her katana one day. Maybe he would really disappear and maybe, someday, they’d be alright. 

“What do you want?” She asked after a moment of a silence. What was it that would make him change? Colleen wasn’t even sure if people could change so why would Ky want to change for her? “Aren’t I just another human you think you own?” The words, as harsh as they were, weren’t meant to make him upset but rather to point out that they weren’t going to work even from the beginning of all of this. She wasn’t his equal, as much as she teased him she wasn’t actually sure if he ever saw her as an equal. “It’s not like it’ll matter, Ky.” She added quietly, glancing away from him. 

_{it was true, it wouldn’t matter. no matter what ky did, it wouldn’t really matter, and while he would have enjoyed to stay here… it wasn’t possible. no, it never would be possible. maybe if he had control – real control -, but that wouldn’t ever happen. ky was sure of that… still, didn’t mean he couldn’t at least try for her.}

_{“you’re not… just someone i own.” he thought buying things for her would work. even to buy her was a feet he rarely did for anyone, but still… it wasn’t that simple. he thought the both of them knew that. “you’re more than that. ” a pause, “i’ll do anything to prove it to you. i swear it.”}