stephanie nashton does it all (forthem) wrote in rooms,
Re: eddie/steph - bathtime.
[If anyone ever told Stephanie that she and Eddie had it easy, she would probably sock them in the mouth. They never had it easy, even back in the day. What rogue and bat falling in love could ever have it easy? It was all about work, and maybe she had forgotten that in the last few months. No one else in this town understood how hard it was to really be in love the way she and Eddie were in a city like this. No one else would understand the heartbreak of not being able to fulfill their dreams of having a family of their own that was a piece of her and a piece of him. If anyone ever said it was easy to be married and in love like the Nashtons were? They'd be dead wrong.]
I kind of hope one day she'll want to find me. [It was a confession she hadn't told anyone, too scared to even admit it to herself. But then Eddie was falling to his knees, and she crumbled then and there. First rubbing his back soothingly, and then peppering his damp, dark hair with kisses, and finally leaning forward until she could hold him herself. Collapsing on top of him in a pathetic sort of slump as one hand rested on the small of his back and the other tried to wrap around his back a little awkwardly. There was a burst of tears as she held him and buried her face in between his shoulder-blades. Tears for loss and heartache.]