"The old bat." He said with a brow raised and smile that could pass for charming. Considering the subject matter they'd been discussing, he couldn't summon a broad one for the moment. "Surely, you're not talking about yourself."

Zero took a breath and shrugged. He had spent enough years telling himself that everyone lost someone that he more or less believed it. Bringing himself to talk about it still hurt even now, yet, not talking about it made his loved one's seem even more gone than they were.

"The love of my life." He said, which was the only phrase he'd been able to come up with that did his feelings justice. "... and our girl."