It pleased her when he agreed to try to spend more time at home. She'd been expecting him to put up more of a defense, to tell her that he was doing his duty and she should respect that. Instead, he laid beside her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. It was a familiar presence, for certain, and one that had been terribly missed. How long had it been since she was able indulge in his warmth? It was tearing her up inside that she still had such secrets of her own that she could not breathe a word of, but she was trying very hard to keep that guilt from surfacing. Instead she just wanted to pretend that there weren't intruders in their home, they weren't constantly living day by day in the hopes that one day things would be better, that their son wasn't having such struggles.
"Of course I'm right," she said, pulling a smile to her lips as she turned more towards him. A delicate hand traced up the front of his chest to rest in the center of it. "I'll thank you to always remember that." Well, at least they weren't fighting anymore tonight. She could not guarantee that it would remain this way beyond the night, but, she would recall this moment when things turned dark again.