Nearly a millennium of life, and he'd never felt like this. He'd never really said those words, not since Susan's grandmother, but she was long gone. And compared to what he felt now, that was nothing.
He never wanted to let go, now his feelings were out, he feared that if he let her go, the universe would rip her away again. Time would do that one day, but he would take the forever she gives him. Take it, cherish it, and never forget it. She was all he needed. All he wanted.