A glance

How do you show someone you love them?

He looked at me, his green eyes sparkling with unvoiced laughter. "You are crazy." I can hear the smile on his lips without even looking. I laugh and his shoulders slump as if a weight is lifted from them. "I may be, but I'm your crazy." A smile plays across my lips, inviting him to share in my amusement. He bites, his white teeth flashing in a winning grin. I lean into him, his body enclosing mine, protecting me from the dangers of the world. For that one, stolen moment I feel safe. For that one moment there was no impending doom. I wasn't the fabled savior of legend. He wasn't the one that was supposed to bring about my death. For that stolen second, we were just Kate and Ben. We were perfect. "I never want to leave. I want the world to stay like this forever." His breath tickles my cheek and I turn to face him. I'm shocked to see tears overflowing from his eyes, where laughter had resided not seconds before. I feel a pain in my chest, mirroring his own. I try to think of something, of anything to ease his pain, to make him smile once more. "Then it will. After all, we are the stuff of legend." I give him a shaky smile, which he returns with a watery one of his own. "Whatever happens, we'll get through it. Together." I take his hand in mine, grasping it firmly, trying to push away his sadness and fear through sheer willpower. He grabs my hand back, and with that single touch I feel my heart lift. And I feel something I hadn't felt in a long, long, time. I feel hopeful. "Come on crazy girl, lets go save us a world." He stand up, his arm outstretched. I was scared to take his hand, to go back to the real world, but I looked into his flawless eyes and felt safe once more. "You got it." I stand up and together we walk back into reality. Girl of legend, and her supposed murdered, linked hand in hand.