[ She must be imagining things. She really must be imagining things, because out of all the states in all of America, out of all the times there could possibly me, opportunities slipped past when they narrowly miss each other -- it had to be here.
It had to be now.
Two years pass, and Raleigh looks older, sadder, and she's tense when she sees him again. She remembers thinking, so often, of what it would be like to meet him once more, thought of it, dreamed of it, but not even her most powerful yearning could have brought her to this moment. He's still as handsome, still cuts such an unmistakable figure, the emotions she'd long buried rising to the fore because this is Raleigh, this is the first and last man she would ever come to love.
Eleanor quietens down in her arms, gurgling incoherent half words and entire oblivious to the gravity of the situation when she attempts to grab a lock of her mother's hair.
Mako's hold tightens on her, just a little. She's frozen in place, at a complete loss for words -- what do you say in such situations? ]
:3 but
It had to be now.
Two years pass, and Raleigh looks older, sadder, and she's tense when she sees him again. She remembers thinking, so often, of what it would be like to meet him once more, thought of it, dreamed of it, but not even her most powerful yearning could have brought her to this moment. He's still as handsome, still cuts such an unmistakable figure, the emotions she'd long buried rising to the fore because this is Raleigh, this is the first and last man she would ever come to love.
Eleanor quietens down in her arms, gurgling incoherent half words and entire oblivious to the gravity of the situation when she attempts to grab a lock of her mother's hair.
Mako's hold tightens on her, just a little. She's frozen in place, at a complete loss for words -- what do you say in such situations? ]
...Raleigh.