Percy had implied that Steph was a bandage with so much contempt and disregard before. But Vax had spent a long time rattling those words around inside his head, and he'd come to think of them differently. Letting himself love Stephanie... And that's what this was, though he hadn't yet been able to voice those words, not in that way. That might soothe old hurts a bit, by giving his heart new strength. That might do something to make him a better person, yes. The women in his life that had shown him everything right and good and wonderful (his mother and Vex first of all) had always done that for him, as had his friends in their own ways. Even Percival.
There was nothing fleeting or dirty about helping someone to be their best self.
But that would be far too much to say just now.
"She's a person," Vax said instead. "A person who matters enough for me to want to share them with my family on our happiest of holidays."
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Re: Vax: OTA
Date: 2017-12-06 06:58 pm (UTC)There was nothing fleeting or dirty about helping someone to be their best self.
But that would be far too much to say just now.
"She's a person," Vax said instead. "A person who matters enough for me to want to share them with my family on our happiest of holidays."