★ but I'm going to be okay as long as you're beside me along the way

[complexguy]

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[dharmalady]

"We could really just...go," she says in awe as they begin to walk to the hotel they're staying in.

"I'm having a moment."

[complexguy]

He reaches down to take her hand, lacing their fingers together. "What if we get to our room and just take a minute?"

[dharmalady]

Juliet nods and holds onto his hand tightly.

"That'd be good, I think," she says, feeling just a little overwhelmed.

[complexguy]

After walking with her for a moment, he moves his arm to wrap it around her waist, holding on to her securely and protectively. "We don't gotta do anything you don't want to."

They're here to do a job and they don't have to do anything else if it's too much for her.

[dharmalady]

"I want to," she promises, looking up at him, though she's also trying to take in everything around her.

"It's a little bit of an overload right now." All she's known for three years is one place, always seeing the same people, always eating the same foods and doing the same things.

[complexguy]

"I get that. You were trapped in that hellhole for years, didn't get to see or do anything else. Now you've got all the freedom in the world," he smiles softly, kissing her temple.

[dharmalady]

"If I really did want to leave," she begins seriously. "If that happened, you would really be okay with it? You would go with me, anywhere?"

[complexguy]

"Damn right I would," he breathes out firmly, not even missing a beat. "Go anywhere with you, Juliet."

[dharmalady]

Juliet looks up at him, then just nods, reassured.

"I needed to hear you say it."

She doesn't want to leave, but having a choice when all of hers were taken away, is sometimes something she needs to be reminded of.

"I want to do any of the things you had planned, all of them. I haven't been in the real world in three years."

And now they're in the past, but at least they can do normal fucking things for once.