I liked the honesty in this. How it's not a magic fix and it's not overnight. I really loved this exchange:
“I understand. Somedays I feel......” She blinked twice before squeezing her eyes shut. When they opened he saw more on her face than she had ever let him see before, it humbled him that she would allow him this. “But I have to believe that I will be ready some day. Do you understand? I have to. If I lose that hope---”
“I understand.” Or at least, he remembered understanding. Remembered telling himself that he could wait for her, that one day they’d get their happily ever after.
I loved seeing Natasha open up like that, and it was a really beautiful and painful thing over which they can now bond. And I'm glad they're not giving up on each other. Or on them. Maybe one day.
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“I understand. Somedays I feel......” She blinked twice before squeezing her eyes shut. When they opened he saw more on her face than she had ever let him see before, it humbled him that she would allow him this. “But I have to believe that I will be ready some day. Do you understand? I have to. If I lose that hope---”
“I understand.” Or at least, he remembered understanding. Remembered telling himself that he could wait for her, that one day they’d get their happily ever after.
I loved seeing Natasha open up like that, and it was a really beautiful and painful thing over which they can now bond. And I'm glad they're not giving up on each other. Or on them. Maybe one day.