Because if you look past all the bluster and the bashfulness, if you look past the arrogance and the modesty, they're equal partners.
She knows why it works between them, even if no one else can figure it out.
It's because, while he is forceful and outgoing, he likes to pretend to be the Big Bad, likes to growl and pose and play the big man. But all he really wants is someone to need him.
He's not good with the details, not comfortable with the big decisions. In the quiet times, when no one's around, he'd crawl on his knees for her if she wanted him to. The tiger becomes a kitten for her love.
She doesn't want the spotlight, doesn't want to be the one everyone's looking at. She wants to sit in the corner and do what she's good at: being the smart one behind the scenes. She can figure out every detail if you can give her just a few minutes.
But she doesn't want to be left behind. She wants to have a say, even if its said with a whisper. And when they're alone, the shyness falls away, replaced by a woman who knows what she wants - and how to get it. He makes her fearless, when they're alone.
That's why they work - why they fit.
Because if you look past all the bluster and the bashfulness, if you look past the arrogance and the modesty, they're equal partners.
Oh, its not obvious if you're not looking. Or even if you are.
But they don't care how close you look. They'll be as they are - because that's who they are - when they're together.
The End
