Heidi took a deep breath halfway through Nathan's speech, closing her eyes until the air had come and gone. No matter how much she wanted to hear those words, these constant reassurances that made her want to let her heart run laps in her chest, there was only a sluggish, hesitant little hop.
Nathan could jump off a building and fly off into the sunset, but she had to be more cautious with her leaps of faith.
"I know. And that's what makes it worse." She reached up, removing his hand from his face and placing it between them on the bed. Since having come to LA, she'd looked alot of things. Upset, exhausted, worried, and even terrified; but never defeated, until now. "I would have walked again, Nathan. Maybe our life wouldn't have been like it was--like I'd hoped, like I tried to convince us both--but we," She stopped, running a hand down her face and letting it linger over her mouth for a moment while she filled the crack threatening to reach her voice with the only thing she had at her disposal; sheer will. "I thought we were stronger than it."