Prompt: "I have to tell you something."
Pairing: Cresswell
He was so close to her. His hug was so tight. They hadn't held each other like this for a while. She'd missed it. She just couldn't stop grinning into his shoulder as he rocked her back and forth in celebration. Thorne could finally see again!
She thought she'd be nervous for him to see her, thought maybe he'd be disappointed. But the look on his face when he'd first seen her had said it all. He thought she was beautiful. And even more than that, he loved her. She knew it—knew it by the way he was trembling as he held her, knew it by the way he was all nervous and clammy and so un-Thorne-like.
"Cress," he whispered. "Thank you for everything. I wouldn't have gotten through all this without you."
She pulled away from him, smiling, and he released her, choosing instead to cup her face. He lowered himself so that she was almost eye-level. "I—I have to tell you something," he said, his voice still low.
Cress put her arms around him again, and he relaxed ever so slightly. He was staring at her intently with his brilliant blue eyes, like he would never get enough of her. Their faces were so close now. She was getting nervous herself.
"Yes, Captain?" she asked.
"It's just, I..." He hesitated. "I…"
"You…?"
He dropped his hands from her and stuffed them in his pockets. "I just wanted to tell you that I like your hair this way. It's a good look."