[It’s a victory and a death. Aubrey tries not to take it to heart, because he’s drunk; but it’s impossible not to, because when they’re like this, she can feel the words in his chest. When they’re like this, it’s all she wants, too.]
[They don’t have to want anything but each other. They couldn’t go back if they tried, if they wanted to. It’s an easy fantasy. God, she wants to believe it again.]
Eren…
[Let’s go home, she wants to say. But the world was cruel when last she asked that of him, and somehow she doesn’t feel steady either; so Aubrey lets that trail away, holds Eren tighter, and thinks of the barracks.
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[He… doesn’t?
[It’s a victory and a death. Aubrey tries not to take it to heart, because he’s drunk; but it’s impossible not to, because when they’re like this, she can feel the words in his chest. When they’re like this, it’s all she wants, too.]
[They don’t have to want anything but each other. They couldn’t go back if they tried, if they wanted to. It’s an easy fantasy. God, she wants to believe it again.]
Eren…
[Let’s go home, she wants to say. But the world was cruel when last she asked that of him, and somehow she doesn’t feel steady either; so Aubrey lets that trail away, holds Eren tighter, and thinks of the barracks.
[That’s the home they have, now.]