Let Me Save You, Hold This Rope

So after I posted that last post, I got a surprise.

I was sitting on my laptop, messing around on the internet as usual when I saw Skye come into my room. I took off my headphones and set my laptop next to me on the bed.

"Um..." I was confused, usually he didn't approach me. "Sit down I guess?" I gestured to the foot of the bed. He sat down and I swung myself into a position that more resembled sitting that the awkward way I lay with my laptop. "I guess this is about the post...?" I trailed off. For once I felt that I was the perpetually nervous one.

"Yeah," he nodded. "Thanks for telling me. And I'm sorry that I doubted that you knew what It was like..." he trailed off, unsure of his words.

"You... you're welcome...?" The phrase came out more as a question that I had intended. Where was all the blushing, the stuttering? This was the confident-cooking-Skye not the talking-to-a-female-Skye. "And it's not like I really said anything before that would tip you off. It's not something that I share with most people..." I trailed off. But I figured I had to let it out before that damn Black Dog came back around. He scared Alaska.

Skye cracked a small smile. "Yeah, I know how hard that can be. Especially when you have to go through it alone." I nodded and laughed lightly as Skye moved slightly, finding a more comfortable way to sit on my rather uncomfortable bed.

"You don't have to tell me twice," I laughed.

"I want you to know that your not alone anymore though. That I'm here, that I'll help you in anyway I can," Skye said, an almost earnest look crossing his face. 

I looked at him, keeping my emotions hidden. It's been such a long time since anyone had said that to me, hell I almost felt like crying. I didn't of course. Instead I half-tackled the poor kid with one of my Death Trap Hugs of Gratitude. "Just thank you," I smiled into his shoulder. He patted me a bit awkwardly on the back.

"You should be this confident more often, it suits you," I smirked as I pulled back.

His face flushed up again. "N-no I don't t-think I could d-d-do that! I m-mean..." 

I laughed. "All in good time Skye, all in good time."

"I-I'm gonna g-go start d-dinner now!" I smiled as he skittered out of the room.

"And he's back."