[But the worst already happened, Shaw thinks, the words tumbling over in her brain before getting stuck in her throat.]
Givens once asked me if I worried I'd regret doing the whole wedding thing.
[She says, pressing her hand over Root's to keep it in place.]
He figured that... if you did disappear before you graduated, having gotten hitched would just make it suck more. He thought it'd be smarter to hold off until your position was more secure. But when you died - the worst part wasn't that you died. The worst part was that you died right after finding me. The thing that made it suck the most was that we didn't get any time.
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Givens once asked me if I worried I'd regret doing the whole wedding thing.
[She says, pressing her hand over Root's to keep it in place.]
He figured that... if you did disappear before you graduated, having gotten hitched would just make it suck more. He thought it'd be smarter to hold off until your position was more secure. But when you died - the worst part wasn't that you died. The worst part was that you died right after finding me. The thing that made it suck the most was that we didn't get any time.