Seriously, you can call it affection, or fondness, or weakness, or anything else, but it's still love. It might be keeping you strong, it might be what you think is holding you back, it might very well be the only thing that's keeping you from strangling this knucklehead who won't admit she needs your help, but it's still love.

I plan on tossing up a chapter as they are finished. There's no story arc connecting these; they're more just character studies.