[Yes, special. Oh, she'd had the occasional partner before, but it was...needs being dealt with, never...never something special. Never someone special. But Aerith's smile hits her like a blast wave, every time - and she knows that's something different.]
[And she's not going to run from it because life doesn't hand you that often. Master Skywalker always told her to believe in herself, believe that she had a better destiny than she herself believed. Stars, she hoped this was part of it.]
[But then Aerith has to go and say...that. And it feels like all the air has been knocked out of her. She wants to say 'why?' because Aerith...could be on a date with anyone she wanted. She had no doubts that Mr. Charmless had been one of many potential suitors. All of them better, part of her wants to say, than a former Imperial assassin who had been rescued, battered and broken, from a terrible fate. Who had limped her way into being a Jedi.]
[She felt unworthy. And like she didn't have butterflies in her stomach so much as a swarm of mynocks having a party. But there was only one possible answer to that.]
Oh, stars, you have no idea how much I'd like that.
I think that was going to be my line in a tag or two :P
[And she's not going to run from it because life doesn't hand you that often. Master Skywalker always told her to believe in herself, believe that she had a better destiny than she herself believed. Stars, she hoped this was part of it.]
[But then Aerith has to go and say...that. And it feels like all the air has been knocked out of her. She wants to say 'why?' because Aerith...could be on a date with anyone she wanted. She had no doubts that Mr. Charmless had been one of many potential suitors. All of them better, part of her wants to say, than a former Imperial assassin who had been rescued, battered and broken, from a terrible fate. Who had limped her way into being a Jedi.]
[She felt unworthy. And like she didn't have butterflies in her stomach so much as a swarm of mynocks having a party. But there was only one possible answer to that.]
Oh, stars, you have no idea how much I'd like that.