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He gives her a hug and inhales the scent of her hair,

"Mm, love ye."

She then remembered to start counting in her head again so she hummed a little as she nuzzled into his chest.

"Love you too," She replied with a hint of melody to it.

When she starts humming, he laughs and tickles her.

"Ack! Hey I'm counting here!" She replied with mock gruffness before she poked and tried to tickle him back.

"Need to aid ye in concentratin'."

He says as he keeps tickling.

"I think I need to worry about other distractions besides tickling," She remarked in between laughs, and tried to focus on counting.

"Then ye'll na mind, brilliant."

His hand finds its way under her dress again for serious tickling.

"I didn't mean that!" She flailed at him, and parried his hands.

He grins smugly at her as he finds her other spots and kisses her tenderly too.

"Will, just hold up for a moment." She finally gets out, and gently went to push herself back from him.

He stops and moves his hands up to rest on the bed,

"Aye?"

Kate breathed in and out slowly. Counting.

"Just give me a moment here."

"Oh aye, will be good, love."

Then he kisses her cheek and her ear before snuggling her in his arms.

"Please do, almost panicked there." She continued to breathe, and focused on calming down.

"Na like ye to panic, should I be givin' ye a back rub 'nstead?"

She nodded. "Sorry, didn't feel like I was in control. Triggered something." Mind resembled a bit of a minefield still.

So he pulls her even closer and strokes her hair and back,

"Oh my Kate."

She slowly calmed down against him.

"Old trauma underneath new, Will. You know how it is."

"Aye, oh aye, me love. I'll run ye a warm bath an ye can just soak."

He stands up and kisses her forehead, not aware of the worry and frown lines on his forehead.

She was aware, and she flopped back against the pillow.

"Damn." There were a few good hits to said pillow too.

"Will, don't blame yourself. Please. Just have to be careful at times."

The water is running and Will might be throwing the bath salts in a little harder than he needs to,

"Just wish to make ye laugh is all."

Kate sighed, "I know... I... "

She took another deep breath, and starting singing numbers to help center and focus. Even though part of her wanted to go out back and give some hits to the bag.

Finally he comes back out and hugs her,

"Lay on yer front, love. I'll take care o'yer back."

He's not sure how to explain why it hurts, as if she doesn't trust him anymore to know those lines but they've changed.

Kate moved on her back, and there were soft sniffling sounds. She hated this, it was just like before when she couldn't feel safe at all.

"Shh, I'm 'ere, Kate, just 'ave to find our way through the dark forest."

Gently he starts massaging her back as he sings a quiet song of love and home.