Love is too small a word.

His face softened, and he crossed back to her side. He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. “I love you,” he said, his voice low and fervent. “I love you with everything I am, everything I’ve been, and everything I hope to be.”

“Colin…”

“I love you with my past, and I love you for my future.” He bent forward and kissed her, once, softly, on the lips. “I love you for the children we’ll have and for the years we’ll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles.”

#after the kiss

If your me was anything like I was, then getting on the Gambit with you was her choice. And in my world, that trip it set off a whole series of events that neither you or I could’ve ever dreamed of. You became a hero, a husband, a father. And I’m flying through time happier than I’ve ever been. And none of that would’ve ever happened if I didn’t get on that boat with you. It was destiny.

“What if it just gets worse? What if it’s ‘agony’ now, and then … then it’s just ‘hell’ later on?”