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NOTES: Set after the end of a rather obscure trilogy. One of my few het fics! I really think this couple is adorable. And they're canon, too! Sorry this is so short.

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I'm not sure I ever really understood him. Which is really funny, actually, because I kind of always assumed that it was he who never understood me. And he didn't. Not at first anyway. I know that.

But I completely underestimated him.

When all of us were thinking small, when all of us were content with what we had, happy because we had gotten away from a potential desire, he wasn't satisfied. He knew our destiny. I think he was the only one who really understood it. Perhaps he still is.

He's our leader now. No one would have it any other way of course. He took a group of people on the brink of an apocalypse to a safe haven. Never mind that how he did it was completely insane; that's the only way it ever could have been managed anyway. And then from what we thought of as a safe haven, he reclaimed for us the stars. Something we never even dreamed of.

I married him. Really, could I have done anything else? I'm anything but a traditionalist, ever since I learned to read. But he understands that now, and I don't think he'd have it any other way.

Of all the others, he may be the only one to fully grasp what we have lost, even though our journey to reclaiming it is already well underway. And I believe that he is fully committed to making sure that we get it all back.