#18 in TeenFic [prev titled "The Way We Almost Were" ••• "They'll get away. Monsters always do." "They don't always get away," she whispered into his skin, sealing the vow with another soft kiss, "but until you learn to believe that, I'll fight them for you." ••• In which Nick Fraser, the boy who'd grown up seeing monsters, believes he will spend the rest of his life running away from them... but then meets Bree Salvare, the girl with laughing brown eyes who makes him want to pause, take a deep breath, and stay instead. ••• ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©LITERALIGHT