I recently-earlier today-got a review asking for more romance between Sophie and Fitz. While I am 100% Team Foster-Keefe, I also think Sophie and Fitz would be really cute-read my bio. So here's a little Sophie and Fitz moment.
ELEVEN
"MOM! DAD! AMY!" SOPHIE YELLED as she saw them across the street. She ran through the traffic and threw her arms around them. "I missed you so much!"
To her embarrassment, she started to cry. "I didn't think I'd ever see you again! I really missed you! I promise I'll never run off again!"
She kept expecting them to embrace her back, but they were as rigid as stone.
"What's the matter?" she asked, pulling back.
"Who are you?" Amy asked, wrinkling her nose at Sophie the same way she used to wrinkle her nose at broccoli.
"What do you mean who am I? It's me, Sophie." Amy and her parents just looked more confused. "Sophie? Your daughter? Your sister? Your little soybean?"
Her mom came up and took her hand. "Honey, I think you're confused. Natalie here is our only daughter." Then they all turned and walked away, leaving Sophie alone in the crowd.
Sophie shot awake, gasping for breath. She clutched her chest and let out a strangled sob as the familiar heartbreak wracked her body, and tears blinded her. Of all the mistakes she'd made in her life, drugging her family and erasing their lives was the one she regretted the most. Now, it was like the first 12 years of her life never happened. No one remembered them but her. Her human family had new names, a new house, a new pet, new lives. And she was all alone.
"Sophie," Fitz whispered next to her. "Are you okay?"
It was just a dream. She had to pull herself together. "I'm fine," she whispered, wiping her eyes with her long sleeve. "It was just a bad dream."
"Do you want to talk about it? Sometimes that helps," Fitz offered.
Talking about her dream? Did she really want to burden Fitz with the fact that he'd ruined her life?
Fitz took her silence as a no. "Never mind," he said understandingly. "Sometimes they're too painful to discuss."
"No," Sophie said, wiping her runny nose. "It's just, it would be nice to have somebody to talk to." The last part became progressively quieter until the last words were barely audible.
Fitz scooted his sleeping bag closer to hers, and grabbed her cold hand in his warm ones. "You can trust me," he said.
He told her that time and time again. And she hated that he felt the need to remind her. "I know," she sighed. He waited patiently for her to start. "It always begins the same way," she started. She told him about her dream, and how alone she felt. How it made her feel so dirty to have made them start their lives over, and how abandoned she felt knowing they didn't remember her—didn't miss her. How she kept having to remind herself it was better this way, since only she had to feel the pain. But it hurt so much to see them living their lives without her.
"Sophie, I'm so sorry," Fitz said, his voice raw with emotion. "If there was any other way—"
"But that's the point," Sophie interrupted. "There was no other way. I had to do it. But that doesn't make me feel any better inside."
"Oh, Sophie," Fitz whispered, pulling her into an embrace. "You're not alone. You have Grady and Edaline, my mom and dad, me and Biana and Keefe, and even Dex—in his own way. We all love you. I know that the hole from your human family is going to be hard to heal, and it may never heal completely, but we're going to try as hard as we can to keep you. No matter what. Okay?"
Sophie hugged him tighter and let herself cry on his shoulder. She fell asleep in his arms feeling much better than when she'd woken up.
By the way, I don't actually know if she'll end up with Keefe. He's a hard character to make romantic at times. So all you Sophie and Fitz shippers, have hope! :)
