“Olivia?” She hesitated in the doorway, hand on the light switch, and looked back over one shoulder. “Hmm?” “Marry me.” The smile she flashed was as brilliant as a shooting star. “Absolutely.”
I was going to allude to a big dramatic romantic proposal later down the line, but then I thought: they already KNOW. And it would be such an obvious thing to them at this point, what's the use in drawing it out?
I AM VERY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. LIKE, I WAS LITERALLY READING THIS WITH MY CHIN LEANING ON MY HEAD AND WHEN I READ "MARRY ME" I SAT UP STRAIGHT AND MY HAND KINDA FELL TO MY DESK LIKE "WHAT WHAT WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW."
And I absolutely get it and agree. Because not only do they know it but... neither of them are big and showy. Like, if Charlie ever proposes to Robbie ('cause in my head Robbie's like "nope, not running the risk of you turning me down; I'm cool with whatever arrangement you like but if you wanna marry me you gotta propose" and also 'cause Charlie would never let a dude steal her thunder) it would probably be something big and dramatic but Ben and Olivia... their relationship is big in that it's an important part of their lives, but their relationship is also kinda seamless. Like they got together and fit so well that it's been perfect from the start, so why would they ever need all that pomp and circumstance to "prove" it? (Kinda like in that crazy domestic fic I wrote when it was like "oh yeah obvs.")
She hesitated in the doorway, hand on the light switch, and looked back over one shoulder. “Hmm?”
“Marry me.”
The smile she flashed was as brilliant as a shooting star. “Absolutely.”
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I was going to allude to a big dramatic romantic proposal later down the line, but then I thought: they already KNOW. And it would be such an obvious thing to them at this point, what's the use in drawing it out?
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And I absolutely get it and agree. Because not only do they know it but... neither of them are big and showy. Like, if Charlie ever proposes to Robbie ('cause in my head Robbie's like "nope, not running the risk of you turning me down; I'm cool with whatever arrangement you like but if you wanna marry me you gotta propose" and also 'cause Charlie would never let a dude steal her thunder) it would probably be something big and dramatic but Ben and Olivia... their relationship is big in that it's an important part of their lives, but their relationship is also kinda seamless. Like they got together and fit so well that it's been perfect from the start, so why would they ever need all that pomp and circumstance to "prove" it? (Kinda like in that crazy domestic fic I wrote when it was like "oh yeah obvs.")
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