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"God, what a day!" Tori exlaimed.

"You haven't done anything," Charles chuckled from the counter. "You just came out of your room, what have you been doing all day? It's noon."

"I've been watching anime, Charles! The romance kind!"

"Ooh," he smiled, "did you feelings get hurt?"

"No my heart is swelling with love!" Tori yelled into a pillow. She was all over the couch, still in her pajamas. Charles was in casual clothing - ripped jeans and a T shirt - compared to his everyday suit outfit for work.

"I don't know why I get like this for fictional character's." Tori grumbled.

"Maybe it's because you want that for yourself?" Charles suggested. Tori went silent, her breathing muffled and broken from the pillow.

"Charles?" She said, her voice behind a wall, "Do you ever feel like this?"

"Feel like what?"

"Like your heart - like it's going too fast... like it only gets excited for one person, and you'd do anything to feel that way."

Charles walked from the counter and sat on the far edge of the couch where Tori laid her head on his lap. Her head relaxed under his hand.

"I do. Whenever I see Aaron, my heart goes wild."

Aaron. He loved his name. He loved saying it. Charles loved the man, he loved his voice, his hair, his eyes, his scars.

There is never a moment where Aaron isn't living inside his heart, and there isn't a second counted when Charles isn't complete with everything he does with his heart.

It was a strange bond they had.

They met each other on a normal business day, Aaron told Charles to piss off and so he did. Then he came back.

It was just a moment, where everything clicked. Aaron had finally noticed him, noticed how amazing and capable Charles was. And how mistaken he was.

"So you Love Aaron." Tori said, "Big deal, we ready know. Oh, are you ever going to marry him?"

Charles turned bright red, and looked away. The thought of marrying Aaron had crossed his mind once before, but he didn't want to move too fast. Not when everything was already going great.

"I don't know about marriage..." Charles said.

"But if you love him so much, then..."

"Tori, not every love has to be legalized." Tori tilted her head in confusion, and Charles sighed. "There are all kinds of love. Love between friends, love between family - I love you so much, but I'm not going to marry you!"

Tori stiffled a laugh.

"And just because I love Aaron so much, doesn't mean I have to marry him. I don't need to have a license for how much I love him. He knows."

Charles looked down at Tori, who was smiling wholesomely at him. It was contagious.

"Well it's nice to know not everything has to be romantic love." Tori said, walking back to her room.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"To watch anime. And try not to fall in love this time."

Charles laughed and Tori shut her door.

"The day Tori falls in love, will be the day I die. And the day I die, will be when she holds a gun." Charles mumbled.

"What was that?"

Aaron came up behind him, holding two cups if coffee from a nearby shop.

"I don't want Tori to grow up and get a boyfriend." Charles said, looking like a puppy.

"Charlie, the day she gets a boyfriend will be the day that you die. And you'll die when Tori holds a gun, so don't worry." Aaron said, and kissed the top of Charles' head. He gave him one cup.

"That's what I said," Charles sipped some coffee, "see, you get it."

"I do?"

The two of them but into a laughing fit, sound of bliss.

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