[ This is far more what she'd expected when she'd first found him here, before the too-sudden realization they were out of time still as well as place. There wasn't a spot along the sliding timeline since that day in the forest where he wasn't her Jack, but he hadn't finished this chapter, made all the choices she'd come from, finished the path that had for far too long been written for and demanded of him.
But now he was.
The scent of salt, the faint of moisture against her lips, mingles with the faint shake of his body, and Sabine's heart—metaphorical or not, details be damned because it's Jack's, and it—aches. For the triumph, and the tragedy, and the trauma, and all the time between that day and this one, and if all of them are important, none are as important as this;
The solidness of Jack within the space of her arms.
The kiss breaks, and Sabine wraps her arms around him, hugging him close. Burying her face into his shoulder and the side of his neck. ]
It's okay. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere.
[ And she knows as she says it against his shoulder there's an endlessly vast much she'd do to keep that true, and that now his world is safe, there are exactly zero things left in the universe she has to carry any priority for that aren't him. ]
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But now he was.
The scent of salt, the faint of moisture against her lips, mingles with the faint shake of his body, and Sabine's heart—metaphorical or not, details be damned because it's Jack's, and it—aches. For the triumph, and the tragedy, and the trauma, and all the time between that day and this one, and if all of them are important, none are as important as this;
The solidness of Jack within the space of her arms.
The kiss breaks, and Sabine wraps her arms around him, hugging him close. Burying her face into his shoulder and the side of his neck. ]
It's okay. I'm here.
I'm not going anywhere.
[ And she knows as she says it against his shoulder there's an endlessly vast much she'd do to keep that true, and that now his world is safe, there are exactly zero things left in the universe she has to carry any priority for that aren't him. ]