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"I hate being without you, 'Chelle."
Time froze.
The emotions that flooded her face - pain, regret, love, relief, anger - were the same things nearly choking Tony as he savored being this close to her for the first time in so long. There was nothing like the feeling she gave him; only with her was he absolutely content. During their months apart, he sometimes thought he'd go deaf from the relentless commotion of his thoughts. He was plagued by drunken conversations he couldn't quite remember, but couldn't quite forget - so Michelle's voice ran constantly through his head, repeating things she may or may not have said. Jen was constantly frustrated by the way he always seemed to be somewhere else, an accusation Tony knew he deserved. Even now, everything in him longed tell Michelle how much he needed her, how he would rather die than go another day alone after seeing her again, but he couldn't find the words - and he was sure she could read his eyes just as well as he read hers.
I miss the sound of your voice
I miss the rush of your skin
I miss the still of the silence
You breathe out, I breathe in
I miss the sound of your voice
the loudest thing in my head
And I ache to remember
all the violent, sweet, perfect
words that you said
"Tony...I never wanted us to be this way." Euphoric shock swept over him, mixed with a near disbelief she could really mean anything by that statement. After months of the darkest despair he'd ever faced - worse than the day Nina was exposed, worse even than prison - Tony felt hope again. It was irrational, he knew, to think they could just kiss and make up; but somehow he would find a way to redeem himself to her. Even if it took their whole lives, he would show her that in spite of the mistakes he'd made and the horrible things he'd said, he loved her more than life itself. Tony didn't know what the first step was, how they'd ever start to rebuild what they'd had, but for now it was enough just to hear her say she needed him.
If I could walk on the water,
if I could tell you what's next
I'd make you believe,
make you forget
'Cause everything works, yeah
everything works
in your arms
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