It felt almost wrong to be this happy, she couldn't help thinking so as they kissed and confirmed their love. Like they were being cruel to those they had lost, to death or to hell. But on some level she knew none of them would begrudge either of them the happiness they hadn't had in their own world. She would always wish a little bit that he would have noticed her. That perhaps things might have been different if he had done. But then she wouldn't have noticed him would she? Eyes for only Marius back then. It was amusing to her that at this moment, she could hardly think of what she had ever really seen in him. He wasn't the man of her dreams as she had always believed, he was the man of someone elses dreams.
The man of hers was standing there, brave and clever and kind as he always had been. But finally both of them had come to this. Had seen through the rest and had found love here in this world that she was still trying to understand.
"Might be, but there are some traditions I like to keep in spite of how things have changed for the world. I'll be your wife so I'll have your name. And we'll face all this together, whatever that blasted seal decides to throw at us next." She paused slightly, thinking for a moment. "One thing though. I would very much like Rose to be there, and so do you mind if we wait until she can be. I would marry you today my love but I know we'll save her. I know it. And when we do I'd like her there with me when I say my vows to you"