YES, MORE BAKERSFIELD STUFF. Originally I had this under a cut for ~spoilers,~ but oh, who am I kidding?
“I’m more than alright!” she laughs. “I’m… magnificent.”
She feels like she’s just drunk an entire bottle of champagne. She feels like she
is a bottle of champagne-bubbly and golden and incongruously elegant.
…
He loves her the same way he kisses her: not as if she’s something to be conquered,
but as if she’s the answer to a question he can’t stop asking.