They sit down on the couch across from each other, slightly awkward now that it's just the two of them, and with the prospect of talking in mind. Amelia's sitting crosslegged, facing him, Owen's facing her as well and sitting on the couch sideways.
"So" Amelia says nervously, "I'm not exactly good at his whole talking thing. Where should we start?".
Owen grins. "Neither am I, but I'll give it a try". Then he sighs. "Look, we both said some things, hurtful things, before everything… happened, but more out of fear than anything else. I'm not saying we won't have to deal with it, but maybe it's just easier to forget about that for now".
Amelia knows he's talking about the time she called them a mistake, and he called them a plane crash. She understands what he's saying and she agrees with his reasoning. They'll deal with potential problems when they run into them.
She grins at him. "Can we just forget about my little breakdown too? Because that'd be great". She joking, well at least partly, but his expression is completely serious as he scoots closer.
"Amelia," He says, and his eyes are piercing hers, "I wouldn't even if I could. That night is prove of how strong you are. How long had you been standing there? And yet you hadn't take the drugs yet, and you told me, which tells me that you never really wanted to take them. Amelia" he says her name again and grabs her hands, "you letting me in means more to me than I could ever say".
There's something she needs to tell him if they're gonna start being totally honest with each other, and she knows she won't if she doesn't do it now. She takes a shaky breath and looks down. "It hurt me a lot when you left. I needed you and you weren't there. But that's not... I mean I don't blame you, what I'm trying to say is, I was scared to death that I'd lose you too. And Owen" She says, and she looks him intently in the eye, "I can't lose you too".
The anguish in her voice cuts him like knives and he vows to himself that he'll never make her sound like that again if he can help it. "I promise you I won't leave you again, not willingly. I'm in this one hundred percent. No more running".
She smiles at him shily, and there are tears in her eyes. "Good. Because seeing you run from me hurts like hell. And I want to make this work too". She hesitates, but then continues, "You're gonna have to be patient though, because I have a lot of stuff hidden underneath the surface and…" He interrupts her before she can say more. "So do I, but we'll push through, together, it's what we do after all.".
They're grinning at each other now, and he can tell she recognises the comment from when he used it almost a year ago. Then they simultaneously lean in to kiss each other, saying everything they haven't said out loud yet with that kiss.