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[Izabel is the third person to try and negotiate terms like this with Bruno, but his impulse is the same. He still feels the words that's not necessary and I'm fine on the tip of his tongue, ready to leave the moment he allows for it. He almost does if only because she's the third person and he can likely be more honest in saying that it's not necessary. But he bites down that impulse for a moment. Just long enough to try and consider it because...]

[It's what Abbacchio would want, isn't it?]

[Bruno draws a slow breath in and out.]

If it would make you feel better.

[sunsetsitter]

[She closes her eyes, for a moment touching her lips against Sticky Fingers's shoulder in lieu of Bruno's. It wasn't fully giving in, but it was closer than what she'd been able to get the last time she wanted to pry feelings out of him.]

I can't make you happy the way he does. I wouldn't want to try.

[He was too special, and too special to Bruno.]

But he would want you to be okay, too, and that's...kinda why we can't be right now, huh?

[risorto]

[Abbacchio's blood is on Bruno's hands more than anyone else's. Yes, it's true that Diavolo is ultimately the one that should be held responsible for Abbacchio's death since he's the one who took his life. But Abbacchio died for Bruno and Bruno's cause. That puts his death on Bruno's shoulders and it's not something that Bruno can ever truly repay regardless of whether Abbacchio is here or not.]

[But it would be so much better if he was here.]

I'm okay, stellina. [As much as he can be. As much as he needs to be. That's what he really means.] And you will be, too.