How long. For a moment she wanted to tick off the exact amount of years, months, days and possibly all the way down to the second if she could be so minuscule with the details. Because she'd felt every single second that passed since that moment his watch stopped and she never saw his face again. But all that came out as he lips parted was quiet and simple. "Over ninety years."
Another war to end all wars and a domino effect of wars and battles as the years drew out between them. Learning a world that wanted to suppress her for being a woman and learning that she would not be accepted for who and what she truly was. Lifting her hands, she softly swept her fingers over his cheeks as her brows drew together and furrowed in that feeling of loss. For every life lesson she had to learn without him when she'd for such a brief moment believed with all her heart that Steve would be the one to help her figure it out.
She tried a smile again, fighting through the thick and suffocating desire to just cry. And maybe it was that effort that forced a few tears to finally slip past full lashes and trail down her cheeks. "Is it alright?" It's selfish and she knew that. Wanting someone to be with her for that long couldn't be called anything but selfish.
But as she looked at him right then and her lips parted to force a shaking breath, Diana can't help but want it to be alright that she couldn't give up that chance to have more time with him. "Will you stay with me now?" Her voice trailed off, the unspoken words of the other option hanging between them. Or choose to put things as they were...
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Another war to end all wars and a domino effect of wars and battles as the years drew out between them. Learning a world that wanted to suppress her for being a woman and learning that she would not be accepted for who and what she truly was. Lifting her hands, she softly swept her fingers over his cheeks as her brows drew together and furrowed in that feeling of loss. For every life lesson she had to learn without him when she'd for such a brief moment believed with all her heart that Steve would be the one to help her figure it out.
She tried a smile again, fighting through the thick and suffocating desire to just cry. And maybe it was that effort that forced a few tears to finally slip past full lashes and trail down her cheeks. "Is it alright?" It's selfish and she knew that. Wanting someone to be with her for that long couldn't be called anything but selfish.
But as she looked at him right then and her lips parted to force a shaking breath, Diana can't help but want it to be alright that she couldn't give up that chance to have more time with him. "Will you stay with me now?" Her voice trailed off, the unspoken words of the other option hanging between them. Or choose to put things as they were...