[Stars, he's putting so much out there now that she's asked him to that she wants to take it back, to physically put her hands over his mouth so he'll stop. It's terrifying that he's willing to do this, terrifying that she's asked him to, and all because all she wants is some sort of a connection to anyone who will reach back to her and not betray her in some way later.

Or die.

And now he is, and she knows that a part of her has already let Arthur in as easily as she let Poe slip in past her defenses. The worst part is she's glad.]

Don't apologize. [She says this firmly, but there's a warmth in her tone that hasn't ever been there before.] You don't have to apologize for missing the people you've lost. I've- I never had anyone my whole life and when I finally did, I lost them too. No one should expect us to apologize for not letting them go.