reaching over, she intercepts the hand he'd tuck against his face. and instead she holds it -- curling her fingers into his palm and forgetting (for a moment) that she's got whiskey to drink. the moment feels so pivotal, so familiar, that she might as well be able to smell the mud and the rain on the air. she knows his face when he runs up against what's impossible. it cracks her heart to see it now.
but peggy has grown so much since that day. her faith in him hasn't wavered, but she's learned how to express it differently. she can take hold of him, his hand, and mean it without any promise of anything else. without any dreadful pit-of-the-stomach angst over missed opportunities. ]
Some outcomes shouldn't be fixed. [ she tells him -- frowning a little while she does. ] Imagine all the havoc I'd wreak if I remembered this place after I went home. Someone far cleverer about this sort of thing than I am once told me that time wants to happen.
[ she swallows hard. ]
There was an event torn from his memories. All of us were caught in our worst recollections, on a loop, unable to change them no matter what we did. No matter what we said. It's a rather painful lesson to learn.
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reaching over, she intercepts the hand he'd tuck against his face. and instead she holds it -- curling her fingers into his palm and forgetting (for a moment) that she's got whiskey to drink. the moment feels so pivotal, so familiar, that she might as well be able to smell the mud and the rain on the air. she knows his face when he runs up against what's impossible. it cracks her heart to see it now.
but peggy has grown so much since that day. her faith in him hasn't wavered, but she's learned how to express it differently. she can take hold of him, his hand, and mean it without any promise of anything else. without any dreadful pit-of-the-stomach angst over missed opportunities. ]
Some outcomes shouldn't be fixed. [ she tells him -- frowning a little while she does. ] Imagine all the havoc I'd wreak if I remembered this place after I went home. Someone far cleverer about this sort of thing than I am once told me that time wants to happen.
[ she swallows hard. ]
There was an event torn from his memories. All of us were caught in our worst recollections, on a loop, unable to change them no matter what we did. No matter what we said. It's a rather painful lesson to learn.