Prompt #03: What are your thoughts on love? [open]
To me, love is a well cared for gun and something to shoot it at, preferably something not human. Or do you mean the kind of love between human beings? Have it your way then.

As I've said before, the part of me that lives as Ted Forrester is engaged. My fiancée has two children from a previous marriage, and I care for both of them like they were my own flesh and blood. I know Donna loves me, and some part of me really does care for her, but in my profession I can't afford to love her back. If an irate client or someone from my past discovers that I'm close to these people, they'll be put in considerable danger.

I already came close to losing Peter and Becca once, nearly got myself killed getting them back. Would I do it again? Put myself in the line of fire to save them? Absolutely, but I don't want that to happen. Being so attached to these people has changed me; made me realize that I miss the part of me that's dead, that somewhere I'm still human that needs other humans.

And I wouldn't trade that feeling for the world.