She’s lying on her stomach poking sticks upright in the grass. He sits down beside her, and he can see the tension in her shoulders.
“So,” he says casually, and he’s very proud of the way his voice doesn’t shake at all. “I hear the Aegean Peninsula is nice this time of year.”
Pre-series AU, adult. Pilots on the beach! <3
Once in a while, though, Lee allows himself the luxury of contemplation. When not distracted by her actual, dominating presence, he lets himself consider the possibility of a future. With her.
She would laugh at him, and for the most part, he laughs at himself, because the future stretches ahead of them, open and endless.
Teen, canon divergent. This is how I naively hoped their relationship might play out after the mini. *g*
