The Reasons Not To grew chapter by chapter, pages that fell between them as they got further from where they'd been. It'd been right once, the right time, Steve felt sure of it and like all things in life that were good and that he wanted it had slipped away. Now all that remained were things so hard to talk about and pain so ingrained that Steve really didn't think there was any coming back from it.
Yet there they were, breathing the same air, creating layers of trust, security and teamwork like they were right back at the start.
Steve sighed as he looked up at the roof, something he was already used to staring at for hours on end. "I don't know, I don't know why we're here, or how. I know some people are better off, but others certainly wouldn't be. Maybe this is where we can gather a second strike, I really just - can't figure it out." Steve said with a gentle little smile.