"I can waken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life."

Ric exhaled a shuddering breath and his knees went the tiniest bit weak. "Okay.... That's what we'll do, then." He didn't want to be hiding, either. He was just, still, a little wary and reluctant and torn, but at the same time there was nothing but honesty in his desire to not be hiding. He knew it would just be a cycle, even for himself, between acting and feeling ashamed. HE might have been willing to do that to himself, but to Damon? Not a chance in hell.