Hey guys! a couple people asked me to update so I will :)
I will go ahead and finish out the story, although creatively I am not quite sure where to go from here.
Here goes nothing!
Gwen looked at me, her eyes suddenly much wider and more alert than I had ever seen them. Her delicate fingers shook as she took in what I had just said. "Really?" she asked hesitantly. "After everything we have been through, the entire living hell of a situation, you want to marry me?" Tears started to form in her eyes.
"Of course I do, Gwen. I knew that I loved you from the moment I first laid eyes on you. You are so amazing and talented, and you push me to be the man I should have always been. You are so strong, even when everything that could go wrong did, you stayed around. I love you, Gwen, and you make me the happiest man in the world." As I finished telling her just how much she meant to me, she began to smile.
"Well, Duncan," she said. "I love you too. Nothing would make me happier."
"Is that a yes?" I asked hesitantly.
"Of course it is, dumbass," she said, chuckling. I slipped the ring onto her finger and smiled. The rose gold band with an elegant and beautiful diamond looked perfect against her pale skin.
I smiled and laid down on the bed, gesturing for her to lay with me. She nodded and cuddled up next to me, and before we knew it we both fell into the deepest and most comforted sleep either of us had experienced in a long, long time.