He stops his struggling at the word, resignedly settling in to let her do this. She won't hurt him, she knows he won't hurt her. If there's one thing that might come out of this, Alex may find a way to be less afraid of these horrors stalking her knowing that at least one of them has her back. Even like this he's still looking after her. The downside was the guilt, this wasn't hers to carry but of course she was going to do it anyway. With or without her Simon had already been involved in this. In the end she may have saved him from losing himself entirely.

Not that he could tell her as much anymore.

He wished he could say something to those two little words that carried so much weight. But he was stuck with only yes and no and however he could work that into making sense in a conversation. Having curled in on himself with her refusing to let him go Simon had drawn his arm away from the floor... but he still had his claws. So he clicked two together in that still familiar manner: No.

There wasn't any turning back. At least, he didn't think so.