Kindness and cruelty

*If she hadn't lived the misery of their separation for far too long, it might almost be funny. Funny that she had to travel several lightyears through space to find the thing that made her feel alive, and whole, and it had been the thing she'd found in her own backyard. It had also been the thing she'd nearly irreparably broken. Being with him now was different though. They'd both grown, both changed, and their experiences made them better. They had been so young the first time around. She'd been foolish and full of ideas about what she'd wanted without any realistic expectations to go along with it.*

(Yeah, I'm not sorry even a tiny little bit. <.< And I am slowly but surely working on icons! :D )