defenderofdesmoines: (annie - you make me happy)
Annie Hargreeves ([personal profile] defenderofdesmoines) wrote 2022-05-31 02:42 pm (UTC)

The ring nearly did her in.

Not the size or the diamonds -- like, it was beautiful and perfect and maybe honestly kind of deadly between how big it was and how sharp it looked. But just the fact that it was gold and white and a star was just....

It felt like being seen, just like when he'd had that action figure made for her, well before every toy manufacturer in her own universe was pouring gold plastic into injection molds.

"Of course I will, Diego," Annie murmured, swallowing hard and blinking away tears that were already making it hard to talk in spite of how hard she was smiling. And maybe she actually needed to say the word? "Yes."

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