"I don't think it's quite the same - " Beckett begins to argue, because of course he does, it's what he does. He picks things apart, and this is -
The kiss stops him, leaves him mildly stunned. Blinking owlishly in the murk of the house, washed over by a hundred memories - the Embrace itself, and the touch of mortal skin and lips after, the few times that he and Lucita had breached through cold undeath to true tenderness, the touch of Serena the White freeing him from madness, and the final brushes of those he, himself, had freed as he went recording histories, saving lost voices; Anatole's last kiss, and then Angel's. And this. As though to say, something still continues, there is still something for you to do.
He thinks he's going to cry. It is a sudden and very embarrassing realization. He is definitely going to cry.
He pulls away with a faint hitch in his breath, sniffling back the first tears. But though he turns from Enoch the gesture is obvious for what it is, a last-ditch endearing attempt to preserve old dignity. The tears are not tears of pain; they are the exact opposite.
action;
The kiss stops him, leaves him mildly stunned. Blinking owlishly in the murk of the house, washed over by a hundred memories - the Embrace itself, and the touch of mortal skin and lips after, the few times that he and Lucita had breached through cold undeath to true tenderness, the touch of Serena the White freeing him from madness, and the final brushes of those he, himself, had freed as he went recording histories, saving lost voices; Anatole's last kiss, and then Angel's. And this. As though to say, something still continues, there is still something for you to do.
He thinks he's going to cry. It is a sudden and very embarrassing realization. He is definitely going to cry.
He pulls away with a faint hitch in his breath, sniffling back the first tears. But though he turns from Enoch the gesture is obvious for what it is, a last-ditch endearing attempt to preserve old dignity. The tears are not tears of pain; they are the exact opposite.