[ Mako thinks he could, too -- but there are always the hidden odds, the probability of hidden unpleasantness that her husband doesn't tell her. They make a perfect, complementing pair, don't they? They can never be anymore different, and yet.
Her skin warms under his touch, and it's moments like these where she's tempted to wing it with him, to leave with him and throw it all aside, consequences and all.
She wonders if she regrets it, having unprotected sex with him all those nights ago -- but decides that it's too complicated to answer. ]
[ And in a weird, wonderful little way that is everything associated with Raleigh, it is. Mako is surprised and moved by how passionately he wants this -- and in a world where things came far too easily for the elite, he humbles her.
She shifts to catch him smiling, already sensing his pleasure. Kissing the curve of his mouth, she murmurs. ]
[Sometime later, Raleigh will really marvel about how this has come together. How it's seemingly impossible for them to be together, to raise this child like it deserves to be. Away from her crazy husband and all of the bullshit that comes with his money and business.]
[ Mako looks over at him, openly curious. With him, she allows herself to hope, to yearn, to want -- with him, she allows herself to believe that there could be a happily ever after out there for them. ]
Alaska. [He hasn't been back there in years but if they want something that's as far from her husband as they can get and still be in the country, that's it.]
[ It's one of the few times where she learns about him, and Mako shakes her head -- she'd never had opportunity to venture to Alaska, but she's aware (roughly), of what it's like. ]
No, I haven't. [ She muses. ] Tell me more about it.
[It's cold and barren if you go more than hour outside the major cities and maybe that's just perfect for them. Her husband would never think to look there, and it's quiet there and simple and nothing at all like this lifestyle that has her so trapped.]
It's cold a lot, yeah and sometimes there's days when the sun doesn't come up at all. But you can see all the stars every night. And we could curl up by the fire every night.
[ Because it sounds incredible, it sounds wonderful and Mako can imagine the sight of it that it presents and it would be perfect. She could spend her whole life with him and not regret a thing. She brushes her knuckles over his cheek, watching the way he talks about his home, and she leans forward to kiss him. ]
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Her skin warms under his touch, and it's moments like these where she's tempted to wing it with him, to leave with him and throw it all aside, consequences and all.
She wonders if she regrets it, having unprotected sex with him all those nights ago -- but decides that it's too complicated to answer. ]
Let's do it three months from now.
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They can't change the past but they can make the future better, right? For themselves and their baby. That's all that really matters.]
I'll start saving.
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[ And in a weird, wonderful little way that is everything associated with Raleigh, it is. Mako is surprised and moved by how passionately he wants this -- and in a world where things came far too easily for the elite, he humbles her.
She shifts to catch him smiling, already sensing his pleasure. Kissing the curve of his mouth, she murmurs. ]
Let's go where nobody can find us.
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I know of a good place for that.
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Really? Where?
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Have you ever been? I grew up there.
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No, I haven't. [ She muses. ] Tell me more about it.
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It's cold a lot, yeah and sometimes there's days when the sun doesn't come up at all. But you can see all the stars every night. And we could curl up by the fire every night.
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[ Because it sounds incredible, it sounds wonderful and Mako can imagine the sight of it that it presents and it would be perfect. She could spend her whole life with him and not regret a thing. She brushes her knuckles over his cheek, watching the way he talks about his home, and she leans forward to kiss him. ]
...I love you.