When Liz didn't bridle or bark or cry, Kitty relaxed a little. "You don't sound stupid." She could give her that much, at least. "You're missing the subtle point that it's a shitty thing to do to another person to put that much of your happiness onto them. But if you know you don't need Peter or Max or any other person to be happy, and you believe it, then you'll learn it in time."

Mostly because there would inevitably be a fight where someone just got sick of something stupid, like covers-hogging or slurping and suddenly the relationship felt like it was crumbling for good.

She stretched out her legs and flexed her feet at the ankles, thinking about what she did want to say. What was honest. "It's never wrong to love someone with your whole heart. Don't think I'm saying that. And it's always okay to fight for what and who you love." She'd fight like hell to get Lara back or any of the people she'd lost.

"I'm not telling you to give up on this being forever just because you're still young and we're stuck in a human proton trap--" Had she even seen Ghostbusters? "I'm telling you not to make yourself and Peter crazy over what we don't know will ever happen. Learn, plan, think, be smart, but try to live for the way you feel when you're with him, not the way you might feel if you ever lose him."