She knows from the stubborn pout of his lip that he has something to say. "Spit it out, rebel boy!" Untwining her arms from around his neck to settle the stiff set of his shoulders, she holds his gaze, scrutinising and beckoning him to speak. "We haven't got much time, you know."
For once, he is silent. Cornelia rolls her eyes before she makes her way toward the second portal to Meridian. A grip on her wrist, and she knows she has him exactly where she wants him.
"I want to...be with you. Or however it is you do courtship Earth!"
His smile is heartbreakingly sincere and she could be selfish enough to take this moment and keep it for herself, wants to feel the touch of his hand and take the agitation plain on his face and never let it go. Hers, hers, hers.
"Cornelia?"
Hovering above him, he pulls her back down to the earth with his kiss and she could be anywhere in the infinite dimensions for how fast her head is spinning. But she is with him and they are about to end it all and they are just beginning, and she is where she is meant to be.
"I thought you'd never ask."
