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You once told me you could stand many things._ My voice was raspy from all the emotions battering against those well-honed inner defenses.__o can I. I can stand whatever Apollyon dishes out, can take the bigotry from others over what I am, the freaky ghost juju from Marie, all thecraziness my mother can throw at me, and even the pain of my uncle dying. But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losingyou. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones___ere my words broke and tears spilled down my cheeks___ wouldn__want to.__e__ been near the side of the bed when I started talking, but was in my arms before the first tear fell. Very softly, his lips brushed over those wetstreaks, coming back pink from the drops still shimmering on them.__o matter what happens, you will never lose me,_ he whispered. __ am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.