In a gesture that was purely Tommy, he leaned forward, resting his elbows on the edge of the sink as he let her wash the paint from his hands, and in another gesture that was unfamiliar, but not malicious, he tipped his head to rest it against her arm as she did.

"You are wrong. Catherine...oh, he would want to kill her a great deal more if she were not a woman." he mused. "And if she were not rooted so deeply in your mind..."

He trailed off, lifting his head from her arm and watching as she gently cleaned his hands, wiping the suds away from his wedding band. It was a long moment before he answered.

"He did not choose you. He had no choice. Avatars love easily, if he did not love you it would be another. You are a killer, Selene. You are a monster...yet once you were human, and in six hundred years you have made many choices. The one you made, the one that made you his, was the choice to keep your human heart. Dead things cannot smile, evil things cannot love. You do this and more, not because it is your nature as it is with humans. You do this because you choose to. Everything you feel, you have fought for, and that is why he is here. He loves you for many reasons...but the choice? It was never his. It was yours the first time you resisted the call of Darkness."