Niles' head turns and Gabe feels something flare up in side him. Something he doesn't quite know, even for him, this tiny bit of power slipping and cracking. Like a mirror, broken.

A musicbox.

"Showing you how much the world doesn't matter when you have me here." His voice is soft, velvet, like when he's murmuring horrible thing in Alyssa's ear, or the words he said to Heather a month later. His arms wrap around the other, comforting, hands rubbing Niles' arms. "Trying to prove everything I do is for you."