( it is like him to ask, isn't it? it makes her smile even though her heart would have thought she'd forgotten how. it's sad and bittersweet but it is still there — it's true, he makes her happy, he always has. she's not sure she's brave enough to believe that he always will, if only because she's already lost him once. )
Yes. Of course you can. I want you to. ( in fact, even with the pain between them, Diana would be a fool to refuse him. Steve would never know how many times she'd wished they could have had a chance at something that extinguished so suddenly. given the opportunity to be with him again, even with her fears and misgivings, no part of her wants to refuse him. Diana simply wants him to know the woman he loved is not the battle-scarred, life-hardened product of time that stands before him now. she's afraid as he is that it will make things different between them, yet if someone's feelings might change...
there is no chance they will be hers, after holding him in her heart for a century. Steve should get the chance to decide for himself if he loves her still, after the mistakes she's made, after falling so far away from the girl he'd found so inspiring. she hopes he will. she prays that her steps back towards believing might be enough. that is for him to decide, in the end. not her. )
We have more time. I don't want to waste it any more now than I did then. ( a few weeks for him, a little more, perhaps. more than a lifetime for her, yet she's still certain. if anything, she's more certain. she knows now what she stands to lose, she's already lost it and mourned it. it makes her all the more determined to hold on to what they could have now. )
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Yes. Of course you can. I want you to. ( in fact, even with the pain between them, Diana would be a fool to refuse him. Steve would never know how many times she'd wished they could have had a chance at something that extinguished so suddenly. given the opportunity to be with him again, even with her fears and misgivings, no part of her wants to refuse him. Diana simply wants him to know the woman he loved is not the battle-scarred, life-hardened product of time that stands before him now. she's afraid as he is that it will make things different between them, yet if someone's feelings might change...
there is no chance they will be hers, after holding him in her heart for a century. Steve should get the chance to decide for himself if he loves her still, after the mistakes she's made, after falling so far away from the girl he'd found so inspiring. she hopes he will. she prays that her steps back towards believing might be enough. that is for him to decide, in the end. not her. )
We have more time. I don't want to waste it any more now than I did then. ( a few weeks for him, a little more, perhaps. more than a lifetime for her, yet she's still certain. if anything, she's more certain. she knows now what she stands to lose, she's already lost it and mourned it. it makes her all the more determined to hold on to what they could have now. )