She tried to collect her thoughts, make sense of anything. Her smile faded more with each step he took toward her now. The terrible weight in his eyes as she opened her mouth twice through words that wouldn't form past the prickle in her eyes. The silence stretching between them.

Against the sensation of the ground and her stomach leaving her entirely, she finished with the obvious. With what his memory must have brought back to him. A statement that was still more question, almost a desperate want to be wrong, pain slowly spider-webbing cracks through her chest.

"And you love her."