[ when he kisses her, the room melts away. it's perfect and passionate and everything she desperately wanted but wouldn't ask for. she returns the kiss as fiercely as it's given, and for a brief moment everything is right in the world.

and then he says that.

alison's mood plummets. it's not that she didn't guess this would happen. tendo took off his ring, yancy's a fairly observant guy, and whatever he missed raleigh was sure to catch. she doesn't say it out loud, but alison is suddenly worried for yancy and his mental state. the guilt's been eating him up--not for what they did, but for the fact that this would hurt his best friend. knowing that tendo knows now is just bound to make that worse.

with a small sigh, alison leans into tendo and rests her head on his shoulder. ] Raleigh will make sure he doesn't do anything too stupid while he's freaked. [ even if raleigh doesn't know what's happening, that's what co-pilots do. ] But whatever comes next... that's up to you, babe. I don't know how to sort things out between the two of you.