QUOTE : You must never, never, never think of anything like that again!’ I spoke. ‘No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself!’ <br /><br />‘I'll never put you in danger again, so it's a moot point.’ <br /><br />‘Put me in danger! I thought we'd established that all the bad luck is my fault?’ I was getting angrier. ‘How dare you even think like that?’ The idea of Marcel ceasing to exist, even if I were dead, was impossibly painful. <br /><br />‘What would you do, if the situation were reversed?’ He asked. <br /><br />‘That's not the same thing.’ <br /><br />He didn't seem to understand the difference. He chuckled. <br /><br />‘What if something did happen to you?’ I blanched at the thought. ‘Would you want me to go off myself?’ <br /><br />A trace of pain touched his perfect features. <br /><br />‘I guess I see your point… a little,’ he admitted. ‘But what would I do without you?’ <br /><br />‘Whatever you were doing before I came along and complicated your existence.’ <br /><br />He sighed. ‘You make that sound so easy.’ <br /><br />‘It should be. I'm not that interesting.’ <br /><br />He was about to argue, but then he let it go. ‘Moot point,’ he reminded me. Abruptly, he pulled himself up into a more formal posture, shifting me to the side so that we were no longer touching. <br /><br />‘Mr. Anderson?’ I guessed.