I know. Me too. [For wholly different things.] I'm so glad you're here. [She sniffs, blows on,] You're so good. I love you. You make me... so happy. [...This is what happiness looks like, okay. Before it gets a chance calm down and settle itself in. Like waterworks and Bruce pressed against her. She's many many things and at least one is happy.
If she's going to miss him ferociously, and she does, she'd rather do it while she can actually have him, warmer now and soft and damp and as safe as she can keep him. There are hot tears streaming from her eyes but between her anger and concern and what she knows of the things he's been through, she's just so grateful he's made it back to her.
She loves him as he was and as he is, but it's frustrating, how he usually won't show himself the same compassion he would show even a complete stranger. He's always been kindhearted but it's hard to make him take things for himself when he knows he can get by without them, because he has. Touch, companionship, even the space to cry - in spite of his words, those things include her. But just because he can survive without them doesn't mean he doesn't need them. She survived without him; she still needs him almost more than she can bear.]
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If she's going to miss him ferociously, and she does, she'd rather do it while she can actually have him, warmer now and soft and damp and as safe as she can keep him. There are hot tears streaming from her eyes but between her anger and concern and what she knows of the things he's been through, she's just so grateful he's made it back to her.
She loves him as he was and as he is, but it's frustrating, how he usually won't show himself the same compassion he would show even a complete stranger. He's always been kindhearted but it's hard to make him take things for himself when he knows he can get by without them, because he has. Touch, companionship, even the space to cry - in spite of his words, those things include her. But just because he can survive without them doesn't mean he doesn't need them. She survived without him; she still needs him almost more than she can bear.]