He folded her into him, himself around her, to press a kiss to her hair. "Te amo," he murmured back.
(If it was sometimes hard for him to say in Basic, it wasn't because the emotion was uncertain or hard to admit. He just never thought it sounded right in his voice—coming from him. He'd trained himself too well to never plan on saying it. But it helped, when he did say it, that it wasn't about him. It was about her.)
And he'd always get there. "I love you."
Threading his fingers gently through her hair, he urged her ever so slightly out from hiding.
With eyes smiling: "I should update you before I stop caring about anything else in the world?"
Our goal to give these two some nicer experiences than they got to have in canonical life = CHECK
(If it was sometimes hard for him to say in Basic, it wasn't because the emotion was uncertain or hard to admit. He just never thought it sounded right in his voice—coming from him. He'd trained himself too well to never plan on saying it. But it helped, when he did say it, that it wasn't about him. It was about her.)
And he'd always get there. "I love you."
Threading his fingers gently through her hair, he urged her ever so slightly out from hiding.
With eyes smiling: "I should update you before I stop caring about anything else in the world?"