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Tobias isn't brooding. He doesn't brood. He just... looks like he is.

He sits cross-legged on the ground in front of the small house they've been working to restore. It's a poor attempt at a meditative position, but it is an attempt. He tries to do that whole deep, calm breathing thing, but it doesn't come very easily. Which is ironic because he never really had trouble staying calm before. It used to be his default mode, and now he has to struggle to stay centered and...

He sighs.

This doesn't seem to be working.

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[theresnodoor]

"I yell at you a lot. And then I go kill things."

It's possible that she's joking, if only because the alternative would be strangling him for not realizing this sooner.

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He seems to consider that for a moment, then rolls his eyes at himself.

"Guess I've been pretty stupid, huh?"

[theresnodoor]

Rachel smiles and sighs and draws her hand back, but only to rest her chin in her palm and just look at him across the table. She'd been waiting for this for so long, to have him like this, permanently able to roll his eyes and smile and speak aloud. But she'd never actually thought what it would be like.

And he still manages to make her smile.

"Maybe. Or being stupid is just part of the teenage thing. I guess I haven't been any better."

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He smiles back at her. For just a second it's the dopey sort of smile that suggests his brain is turned off and he's just admiring the view.

Then Tobias shakes his head. "Well, I may be stupid, but I know one thing. Whatever I end up doing, I want to do it with you."

[theresnodoor]

The words are just as dopey.

Just like Rachel's smile.

Her feet are crossed at the ankle beneath the table, pivoting back and forth on her toes, and she's aware, vaguely, that she might be blushing. At least, that would explain the heat against her fingers where they're resting against her cheek.

She doesn't love Tobias because he's human or attractive. That's why they survived.

"Me too," she agrees quietly, smiling.