The thought of sending the twins a gift basket made her wonder if they were in there now. If so then they would be one of the ones witnessing the scene Alix and Trish were causing. They might be hindering their business. Trish couldn't find it in herself to care though. Alix was here now, with her, and that was all that mattered. It was all she could think about. Nothing else mattered. A riot could break out and she wouldn't notice. She was just that focused on the man with her now. How could she not be? How could anyone ever expect her to notice anything or anyone else?
His words about what happened when she'd left only confirmed her fears and she clutched at him. He was here though. He'd made it through that. The fact that he'd had to be part of it at all was still a painful thought. She knew that he would have been doing what he could to keep things running correctly, but she was also just as certain that things were forced on them all that none of them wanted to be involved in. She didn't want to think about the types of things he might have been witness to. It had to have been terrible. She hoped that the Ministry was better now and not nearly as defunct as it had been all those years ago. She really didn't get how it could have gotten so horridly corrupt in the first place.
"I thought that if I stayed I would have been dealt with," she'd certainly heard enough that she would be as well as the rest of the muggleborns working there. They were evidently to be the first. "Where I went just seemed so untouched by the war that seemed to be raging in England and the surrounding areas. It was surreal. Nearly perfect. I thought so many times about contacting you. Trying to get you to come." It had been a painful decision each time she hadn't. "But I was afraid. Afraid they'd intercept it and you'd get in trouble." She hadn't even thought about the fact they might come for her. The fact that Alix was still there, still part of the Ministry. It made her shudder.
By Merlin if her thoughts didn't shut down and then quickly zero in when his lips covered her own. All thoughts of her feeble explanations flew from her mind as they reconnecting in such an intimate way again. It felt like they hadn't been split for a little over five years when they kissed. It was like they were simply picking it back up after a bit of time away and that everything was like it had been back when they'd been together and happy. And by God she was kissing him back and pouring her own feelings into it, all the love and affection she had for him.
"God, Alix, I still love you," she said when the kiss was broken. It was the absolute truth and she wanted him to know. It was probably too soon to be saying something like this, but she wanted him to know that this was still how she felt even after all these years. She was certain she would love Alix until the day she died even if he didn't feel the same way back. He had to feel something for her though to share a kiss like that.