theonewhocounted: (Happy)
Molly Hooper ([personal profile] theonewhocounted) wrote2017-01-23 11:18 am
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The Bright Spot Meme


(Was there every a more suitable meme for dear Molly?)

punchmeitssubtext: (Better than I was.)

[personal profile] punchmeitssubtext 2017-03-22 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He shifts towards her on the mattress, as if drawn closer by her smile. Which he is, in a way--in general, as well as at this specific moment.

And though going through all his memories of her would take far too much time and distract him from the far more important (and enjoyable) moment he's living right now, there is something that bubbles to the forefront of his mind and up onto his tongue.

"When I got shot. I sort of... had this hallucination. And I saw you at the start of it, before anyone else I know. You told me which way to fall so I wouldn't bleed out."
punchmeitssubtext: (Sincerely.)

[personal profile] punchmeitssubtext 2017-03-22 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"I told you. You count."

It's so much easier to say than I love you was, even if they've meant more or less the same thing for at least a year before now. But it still means letting his guard down, and he can't help but be at least a little self-conscious of that, even in an afterglow this heady. So he punctuates that statement by leaning down to kiss her lips, warm and slow.