"I don't think so..This is as much my battle now it is yours, and I'm not going to stand back to let you go down one on one with her. Although I see what you're trying to say, I won't let you fight her one on one and watch you go down like you did in your past lives, it ain't happening. If she's going to go down we're going to work as a team to do it, none of this nonsense of having worry of the other one dying. While we're fighting we show no emotion to each other, only make it seem like a temporary partnership, no weakness will be shown that way.."
She looked at him, "I know, but if you were to die or be in danger. I don't know if I'd be able to take it." She said looking down, "I know I've told myself over and over again, but I couldn't take it I just couldn't." She closed her eyes holding back tears, Painter was all she had all she loved and if he was gone how would she make it.
She swollowed trying to hold her tears from falling, somehow she felt Darci knew she and Painter were more than a team. Whether it was because of the wound or not, but she only knew that if she and him fought together against her Darci wasn't going to play fair. She'd use their relationship against them as a weakness. And somehow in her past there was a couple who reminded her of Darci's prying on weaknesses.