Trish could probably spend all day simply gazing at Alix. She felt like she could simply sit quietly and gaze and just be so giddily happy she wouldn't know what to do with herself. She didn't know what to do with herself now for that matter. She just wanted to stand here with him and block traffic and just be with him because they were together again. For now at least things were right. The world made sense. She didn't want it to all come crashing down. She was certain it would when the explanations started. Nothing could excuse what she'd done. How she had to have hurt him. How she hadn't been in contact with him. There was a word for the type of woman she was and it wasn't a pleasant one.
"You... You looked for me?" The thought sent her heart soaring and plummeting all in one go. The fact he cared enough to look did nothing but make her feelings for him flare all the higher. But the same fact made her betrayal hurt that much more. How had he felt? She couldn't imagine it had been good or easy on him. They'd both been too wrapped up in each other for it to have been easy. That just firmed her resolve that she had to tell him. He was good and kind and sweet and utterly deserving of the truth from her, to know where she'd gone and why. Even if what she feared his reaction might be would hurt.
The bags in her hand were forgotten and her grip on them loosened and they crashed to the ground. The robes hit first, cushioning the fall of her ink and miscellaneous items and it all stayed in the bag this time. She didn't even notice. Instead she stepped the last step closer and wrapped her now free arm around his waist and pulled herself close to him in a hug, breathing his scent in deeply like she'd wanted to when she'd realized who he was. Merlin she'd missed this. The feel of him, the smell of him, his presence. "I wanted to... You have to..." She couldn't seem to choke the words out.
"A lawyer?" She should probably move away, but she couldn't bring herself to. She held on tighter instead. "You always did have a way with words. Quite convincing." A better way with words then she was having now. Her eyes closed again and she just soaked in his presence, the very essence that was Alix. She knew that the hard explanations were going to start now and she was putting it off for as long as she could. "I bet you win all your cases." She was certain that he'd always succeed at anything he did.
"Australia. I just...," she took a deep breath, stealing herself. "Things were getting so bad here. I heard things. Things that set me on edge. And people were giving me these looks and I just knew I had to go and go quick. I had to cut ties and just disappear." And it had been so hard and so easy at the same time. Leaving had been the hardest, but it had been surprisingly easy to pick the place and set up a new identity for herself. "I had wanted... to take you with me. But there were so many corrupt Aurors and things came to a head so fast..." And she was ashamed of the fact that she'd allowed her fear to drive her away, away from him.