[ Even if he thinks she doesn't hear it, she does. It's not the hardest thing to focus on besides the fact that, beneath all that weird, cold fluid is the warm beating sound of his heart, and Cassie presses into that for a long, long moment, unable to catch her breath. Relief is a strange thing when it makes her feel so helpless, and that's exactly what she'd been with Nick in that tube and the universe around them falling apart. The future is hard to face when you don't know it, but knowing it and realizing there's nothing you can do-- she bites at her lip in an effort to stop most of the sounds sitting in her throat, unable to bring herself to look at his face just yet.
She's never liked crying. Still doesn't, and her fingers flex against his back, loosen before pushing in to clutch at him. ]
I didn't think you were ever going to wake up.
[ It's a quiet admission, something soft and choked with her tears as she squeezes her eyes shut as tight as she can. Just real, all real. Not a thought pushed into her head, not some place where Division can get them. She breathes out, slow and careful and isn't crying now so much as trying not to shake. Nick is cold, she can feel it through her clothes and the thermals she's got on underneath her t-shirt and skirt, and maybe she's just going to stay there to help with that. She isn't going to move, doesn't want to, and if he thinks he's going to be less than an arm's length away after this... He is so, so wrong. ]
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She's never liked crying. Still doesn't, and her fingers flex against his back, loosen before pushing in to clutch at him. ]
I didn't think you were ever going to wake up.
[ It's a quiet admission, something soft and choked with her tears as she squeezes her eyes shut as tight as she can. Just real, all real. Not a thought pushed into her head, not some place where Division can get them. She breathes out, slow and careful and isn't crying now so much as trying not to shake. Nick is cold, she can feel it through her clothes and the thermals she's got on underneath her t-shirt and skirt, and maybe she's just going to stay there to help with that. She isn't going to move, doesn't want to, and if he thinks he's going to be less than an arm's length away after this... He is so, so wrong. ]