[It's a great weight off her chest to say it all, lay out each detail to someone here. So it can stop feeling like she's hiding it like some lying sack.
When he finally speaks. She lets out a strangled noise that nearly sounds like a cry of pain but it is in fact laughter, the surprise of his response hitting her and relief filling her insides. It builds into a more clear sound, quiet as she can manage until eventually she has to put her hands over her mouth to quiet it, so it's a sputtering and muffled cackle. She sounds hysterical.
She knows this means he's still wanting to have her around. He is right, it's not his place to forgive her. That's Buffy or Angel or any of the others she's wronged. But that he knows it and still wants her to be there. It means more than she can really say.]
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When he finally speaks. She lets out a strangled noise that nearly sounds like a cry of pain but it is in fact laughter, the surprise of his response hitting her and relief filling her insides. It builds into a more clear sound, quiet as she can manage until eventually she has to put her hands over her mouth to quiet it, so it's a sputtering and muffled cackle. She sounds hysterical.
She knows this means he's still wanting to have her around. He is right, it's not his place to forgive her. That's Buffy or Angel or any of the others she's wronged. But that he knows it and still wants her to be there. It means more than she can really say.]