( No need for those thoughts at all, not when they're so comfortable stood together like this, with the familiar brush of his fingers against her cheek, against the corner of her mouth. Certainly not when her mind is drifting to how nice it would be to have this for more than a couple of days at a time.
She does all sorts of things, and she loves what she does when she helps rebuild places, but it's a tiring life and she feels blessedly normal in these moments of freedom from it. And the world is slowly beginning to be pulled back together, to something that's been lost for all too long...
Kate doesn't know. He draws her in like a magnet draws in metals, but what would she even do if she settled down? She's been on the move since before the darkness swallowed their world whole. How do you settle into a life you left behind almost as soon as you were classified as an "adult"?
Not that those thoughts get much of a chance to stay at the forefront of her mind, because- )
What?
( She almost thinks she's misheard him, drifted off and made up sentences that fill in the words she wasn't paying attention to. )
what kind of rudeness is this g o s h
She does all sorts of things, and she loves what she does when she helps rebuild places, but it's a tiring life and she feels blessedly normal in these moments of freedom from it. And the world is slowly beginning to be pulled back together, to something that's been lost for all too long...
Kate doesn't know. He draws her in like a magnet draws in metals, but what would she even do if she settled down? She's been on the move since before the darkness swallowed their world whole. How do you settle into a life you left behind almost as soon as you were classified as an "adult"?
Not that those thoughts get much of a chance to stay at the forefront of her mind, because- )
What?
( She almost thinks she's misheard him, drifted off and made up sentences that fill in the words she wasn't paying attention to. )
... Is that even possible?
( It would be a miracle. )