It is a surprise, but less because she thinks he should know he's a pleasant person to be around and more because it seems like it's made him uncomfortable.
She knows the both of them take getting used to, there's not much pleasant about either of them on the surface, but at his core Tommy is a good man. Still, if he's uncomfortable she won't find it hard to change the subject for him.
"That is very true." She agrees gravely, smoothing her hand along his cheek. "And your ego is not the size of a mountain at all."
"A very reasonably sized hill," he agrees, shifting to kiss the palm of her hand and smiling against her skin. God, it's good to have her back-- it's so good to see her healthy and happy, the way he knows her.
It comes out abruptly, sudden enough that she surprises herself with how easy it is to say, but before now the only time she'd ever said it to him had been when she was sick, half asleep, with a body that looked like it was closer to dying than making it through the next few weeks.
Saying it now, it feels different. Filled with promise instead of trying to escape something terrible, something that lets them look toward that future they had so easily started to plan out. It's better, this time, and she smiles at him in a way she doesn't for anyone else.
This time, he grins just as wide, but he hasn't just come out of a two-week coma, she isn't shivering up against him. He puts his hands on her cheeks and smooths his thumbs over her cheekbones, and rests their foreheads together.
"I love you too. I never thought I'd meet a woman like you-- I had to come all the way here to do it." And he's honestly amazed by that, that it happened to him.
She feels a certain amount of pride, honestly, for being the woman that was able to help Tommy move on from his past. She knows he's happier now, she and everyone else on the Barge can see it, and she doesn't mind the idea that she was a part of why that is. He was able to put his faith in her, to trust that she wouldn't hurt him like he had been before, and learning to be the sort of person who could do that hasn't been easy.
It's taken months, and now it's fallen into place so perfectly it's like they really were just waiting to come here to find each other.
"I think that's why, even when things have been terrible here, I haven't been able to say I hate being here." She admits, and even the gesture of bumping her nose against his is so foreign a concept that when she does it now, it feels silly and a little dumb and something she has to do anyway because she just likes him that much. "For everything that has gone wrong, it gave me the chance to meet you. It's all been worth it."
"You have awful taste, but I won't talk you out of it," he jokes weakly, leaning in to press their lips together again. He wraps an arm around her shoulder and pulls her into a half-hug, just resting together as he lets himself bask in this feeling, this happiness.
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She knows the both of them take getting used to, there's not much pleasant about either of them on the surface, but at his core Tommy is a good man. Still, if he's uncomfortable she won't find it hard to change the subject for him.
"That is very true." She agrees gravely, smoothing her hand along his cheek. "And your ego is not the size of a mountain at all."
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It comes out abruptly, sudden enough that she surprises herself with how easy it is to say, but before now the only time she'd ever said it to him had been when she was sick, half asleep, with a body that looked like it was closer to dying than making it through the next few weeks.
Saying it now, it feels different. Filled with promise instead of trying to escape something terrible, something that lets them look toward that future they had so easily started to plan out. It's better, this time, and she smiles at him in a way she doesn't for anyone else.
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"I love you too. I never thought I'd meet a woman like you-- I had to come all the way here to do it." And he's honestly amazed by that, that it happened to him.
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It's taken months, and now it's fallen into place so perfectly it's like they really were just waiting to come here to find each other.
"I think that's why, even when things have been terrible here, I haven't been able to say I hate being here." She admits, and even the gesture of bumping her nose against his is so foreign a concept that when she does it now, it feels silly and a little dumb and something she has to do anyway because she just likes him that much. "For everything that has gone wrong, it gave me the chance to meet you. It's all been worth it."
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