Her expression ventured on worried as the last note faded from her voice, studying him carefully as she attempted to decipher the look she couldn't quite read on his face. Before long she found her own heart beginning to race in her chest, the familiar feeling of heat rising in her cheeks following.
What she hadn't expected was for him to get down on one knee, the item that he had retrieved from Cerberus--a small jewelery box--reappearing. And still, it didn't sink in that this was actually happening...until he began to sing again, and then there was the ring.
It was frustrating, not to be able to blurt out all of the things that came rushing to her mind. She wanted to ask if he was sure, make certain that this was what he wanted. "I love you" came to mind a thousand times over. And yet, when she opened her mouth, none of it came.
"I don't give a damn for the thunders of fathers, Come hell or high water whatever they do. I could not live in a world without you. In whatever time we have, for as long as we are living We can face whatever comes, if we face it now as one I could make on my own..."
She was laughing and crying at the same time by now, nodding her answer and offering her hand, voice breaking as she tried to form her final notes. The result wasn't the purest sound she had mustered in her life, though tender, and filled with more emotion than any song she had ever sung before. The question he had posed--whether or not she wanted to spend her life with him--required no thought at all on her part. There was nothing she would have loved more in the world than the honor of taking his name.
"Let me know that I don't have to. No one really wants to be alone, In whatever we time have."