[Even at a school like his they were taught the facts of life. Shit happens could have been his motto at one point, still is with regard to the cases he can't get off his operating table in one piece. It has to be, you can't hang on to hope too hard because sooner or later it's always going to drop you.
Except with one thing. The one thing he's never been able to let go of, no matter how hard he fell or how much it kicked him while he was down. Love is supposed to be the greatest of the virtues, and no matter how flawed or hopeless it's seemed, he's always operated with the dogged determination that it's the one to which he can aspire. He's got wedding pictures in his wallet he could show her, they feel like proof that in that moment they were perfect.
If they're not now, it's his fault. He'll try harder.
Lifting his head, he studies her face in profile for a long moment. Presses his lips chastely against the rise of her cheek.]
Allison?
[Two days, and this time he can feel there won't be another.]
[once fate put us in the same room, when you knew not of me nor I of you]
Except with one thing. The one thing he's never been able to let go of, no matter how hard he fell or how much it kicked him while he was down. Love is supposed to be the greatest of the virtues, and no matter how flawed or hopeless it's seemed, he's always operated with the dogged determination that it's the one to which he can aspire. He's got wedding pictures in his wallet he could show her, they feel like proof that in that moment they were perfect.
If they're not now, it's his fault. He'll try harder.
Lifting his head, he studies her face in profile for a long moment. Presses his lips chastely against the rise of her cheek.]
Allison?
[Two days, and this time he can feel there won't be another.]