It was simultaneously easy and impossible for Elizabeth to forget the fact Sawyer wasn’t like her. She didn’t mean to push aside the things she found harder to cope with, but she had told herself countless times that he wasn’t like the others.
He wasn’t, in many ways. But he still wasn’t human, and he never would be.
“You wanted tonight to be about you trying to give me something more human. You planned this whole perfect human night for us.”
“I hate having to say stuff that hurts you, but I can’t lie to you about this. I will never put Laura’s safety, or the safety of anyone else for that matter, above yours.”
“You can’t help it.”
He was prepared to argue with her again, but she sounded sympathetic.
“Yeah. Just like you can’t help wanting to save her.”
“We won’t survive if I don’t
