[Well, considering Enjolras's approach was to run away from things, aren't they a pair just now? How stupid of them both really, wasn't it? Never again, he decides, while he hugs Combeferre back, as tightly as he had been before.]

Well. not force then, coerce? It is still the wrong word but I ought still to have listened to you more. ...Can I say that I will do it again in the future? At least attempt to listen and to hear you out even if I do not agree? I feel as though I owe you that much. Losing you now? No. I could never.