Oh sure, tell me you've been lying to my face right after you said you weren't lying this time. Yes, that just makes me have so much confidence, Marco said, sarcasm finally creeping in. This whole thing was insane. He half wanted to laugh, in a dark kind of twisted way. She wanted to wake up, but they weren't dreaming.

And you blamed me first, you're just as paranoid as I am but you just pretend that you're all nice and open when really you never tell anyone anything--you leave everything alone and then you get mad at me for not telling you...--

Then Sakura was taking control again, he was whining when he'd never given any order to his body to do that, and Marco stopping ranting as the fear flooded back. No! Stop it, just...stop it. Marco said, trying to cling onto whatever control he had and knowing that he couldn't keep all of it. Please, he said, hating the fact that he had to ask, hating having to beg just to be able to keep control of his own. Please, just don't.