"Save the world for you and I," she murmurs, leaning her face in to brush their noses together. "Until then... I'll try to bring you happiness in what ways I can."
"You've excelled at anything I could hope to ask for," he says, tilting his head ever so slightly into her touch. "Your forgiveness alone is worth the world."
"I forgive you for everything," she says. She won't forget, but she's come to understand why they are where they are now. In time, she hopes the pain will fade, too.
"I'm happy just to spend time with you," she says. And she is. In bed like this, or sitting at the dining table together, she tries to cherish each moment.
"As long as we wake up like this, too. This..." This is where I'm most safe, she nearly says, but that's no longer true. She traces a line down his neck and the tail of his scar there.
"I won't slip away in the night," he promises, and he breathes out, long, slow, relaxed. "I may not be able to overcome my shame as often as I'd like, but even when it bests me, this is the only place I want to be."
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Even if briefly.
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"I forgive you for everything," she says. She won't forget, but she's come to understand why they are where they are now. In time, she hopes the pain will fade, too.
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“Thank you,” he says. “Truly. And if there’s any more I can do, to be better to you…”
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"This is the only place I wish to be."
More true.
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Even when he broke her heart, she loved him. It's never faded, not for a moment.
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"I love you, too," he says, and he kisses her, long and tender and sweet.
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"... one day we'll be wed," she says, just above a whisper.
Just not now.
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“One day,” he agrees. “When it’s right and fair.”
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