Stone Circle Now I am as devoted to you as I can be without crossing the line

Honestly, Laurel wasn't expecting a whole lot of anything from Xan. If she had learned anything in her life it was that everyone always left and that nobody stuck to their words. Nobody ever changed, no matter how hard they wanted to. Indra was the only one that she had had in her life who was worth anything, and she had been ripped from Laurel's side far too early. She had nothing now and she didn't care about anything. She didn't even care about her own children, so why would she care about Xan's weak peace offerings?

But maybe the fact that she had nothing to live for was what made it so easy to decide to accept his offers and to decide that she could use someone like him. She was not sure if she needed or wanted him in any way for love. She had loved him once, but since then everything had started to unravel and she had started to wonder if she really knew what love even was.

But it was undeniable that there was something in the devotion those words carried that turned on a part of her she thought she had long buried. The part that had once shouted at him that she loved him and the part that had been angry at him for a long time for abandoning her and their children.

Now none of them were left, all gone, some left and some dead. She didn't even remember where Piper had gone. She didn't even remember when Piper had gone.

Laurel's face twitched in anticipation as she tried to consider what he was saying.

She knew she shoudn't second guess these kind of things, these kind of peace offerings, but still she could not help but say --

Why?

-- Because that was the thought that plagued her the most.

She was a broken thing, she had no one left. If anyone to latch onto for such a broken wretch such as himself, then why pick another like him? Why not pick someone that had anything to offer?