It takes her two tries to make her hand not slip through his.
But she manages it, and then she's clutching it.
"We can't have a baby," she whispers after a minute, and when Kate looks up at him she looks younger than she has in years, looks like the girl who woke up from nightmares about dying and thought she would before she ever made love. Looks like she's lost, and the simplest reason for that is that she feels like she is.
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Date: 2007-08-26 07:09 am (UTC)But she manages it, and then she's clutching it.
"We can't have a baby," she whispers after a minute, and when Kate looks up at him she looks younger than she has in years, looks like the girl who woke up from nightmares about dying and thought she would before she ever made love. Looks like she's lost, and the simplest reason for that is that she feels like she is.
"We can't ever have one."