Sarah
"Mmmm." I typically don't like to cuddle. I know, I know, most women love that but, often enough it's a suffocating form of possession. HOWEVER...with Harm... it's...
..Lovely... Wanted... Needed. Yeah, as much as I hate to admit it - I need him.
"I love you, Sarah." He says against my ear, Harm's breath careses my skin as he does and I feel my body go stiff. He hadn't said the words, not once despite a few months of dating. I knew he loved me, could feel it in my bones that he did and I trust him, so much. I just never expected to hear the words, not from him... and I was fine with it... or so I thought.
Sarah. I could count with one hand the times he's called me that, more often that not it was to introduce me to someone but usually began with my rank and ended with my last name. Those times didn't count. But, whenever he's said my name it made me shiver. And now... no, I wasn't prepared for it and I think I needed to be. Before I could stop them, tears sting my eyes and fall down my cheeks to the pillow beneath my head. They fall unchecked and I must have involunarilty whimpered because I feel him shift behind me. "You never call me that."
"No I don't." He says and in the darkness of the room, I still feel his eyes on me. "You've always been Mac to me."
"Then why say it now?"
He sighs. "Because I wanted the words to mean something more...you know...more."
For two lawyers we really are ridiculously terrible at speaking to on another. "You can call me Mac and still mean it."
"Okay." His voice takes a deep tone and I could feel his body grow heavier as he drifts to sleep. "I love you, Mac."
"You really love me?"
Harm pulls me closer. "With all my heart."
God, more tears. I'm practically sobbing as Harm is more alter and turning me so that my face is against his chest. His hands caress up and down my back and I blush when I realize I hadn't told him the words. So I remedy that: "I love you too, Harm...With all my heart."
