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[personal profile] hellsbel 2016-10-07 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[she hesitates; Bel doesn't press. she'll get closer if she wants to. (her partner hopes very much that she wants to.) and then she does, and Bel leans against her hair with a little sigh of contentment.

she's right. sitrep and analytics can go hang, along with hindsight, doubt, and regret. mercenary or no -- how long has it been? -- one learns to live fast in deep space, holding tight to the now before time can sweep it away, and now it feels so safe and sweet and timeless to be holding one another.

a low, smiling murmur]
...you too. [she is. warm and beautiful, this great-hearted woman whom Bel has admired since arriving on the Moira. it's less an impulse and more long-checked wish for Bel to turn and kiss the crown of her head.]