Pairing: Julia Cabot/Josh Guthrie
A drabble-and-a-half, one hundred and fifty words inspired by the events in Uncanny X-Men 437 onwards, the story arc She Lies with Angels. Josh and Julia just crawled inside my head and won't leave, bless them!
For Becki, because she's put up with me being smitten all week!



Suddenly Not Hopeless Any More

It's all been so sudden. The sight of him after so long, the discovery that he remembers too, and still feels the same as I do. All those feelings and emotions, never forgotten, came flooding back in a disorienting rush as soon as he began to sing; no longer hopeless and a hundred times stronger now that I am old enough to know how to name them all. It's as though everything else in my life has slipped away and I'm left with the only thing that is important. My world has broadened and narrowed all at once to contain just one person and all I'll ever need. I'm so in love I can't breathe, can't think; the only thing I know is that here is the part of me I never knew was missing until now, and I will never willingly be parted from him again, whatever the cost.