She couldn't do anything that would upset him. He. . .probably should have told her. He just isn't used to having anyone close to him.

Cue his lips threatening to twitch into a smile, yet, he kept it down. Instead, he leaned a tiny bit into her hand.

"Mmm. . .Missed you too. . ." He said, the gruff tone that had become a staple for him was gone, instead, it was soft and caring.

His cheeks gained a faint tint of red to them, not noticeable unless someone was looking. "Bet you missed me too." His arm gently wrapped around her, eyes now glowing a faint amber gold color.

𝕱𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑, 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐. . . 𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝖉𝖎𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖘𝖔 𝖋𝖆𝖗. . ? #-𝕾𝖊𝖉𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞

"Of course. . .I'll always come back to you okay. . ." He pulled her closer, allowing his other arm to join the other in wrapping around her waist.

Reels back, slowly looking at her. Eyes glowing an golden amber color for a brief moment. "The hell was that for, kid?"

"Could have just yelled for me or some shit." Not as hard as when Woody headbutted him, but damn did it catch him off guard. "Yeah, do that, it'll hurt us both a little less. What did you even need?"

Now that caught his attention, his brow arched upwards in curiosity as he placed his hands on his hips. "Oh yeah? What'd you make?" He asked, genuine curiosity in his voice.

With a roll of his eyes and a chuckle, he held a hand out, shaking his head in amusement. "If it's a frog, I'm chasing you with it." He said, his tone indicating he was joking.

ᅠ ┍━━━━╝✹╚━━━━┑ 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐍 °.•☆•.° ᅠ 𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘 ┕━━━━╗✹╔━━━━┙

He's wiping blood off of his knuckles, the wounds along his hands already slowly healing.