In which words of significance are spoken...

[lesefton]

After a short hiatus for which I blame my employment, another log.

It is Sefton's birthday, and Penny claims the evening for herself, and a picnic in his quarters. Admissions are made, and words of significance are spoken.

Comments

[anonymous]

I love that she ambushes him.

I love the stories they recall about one another as children. Each one is so clever and reveals so much about who they were as they traveled along the path towards who they are.

I love that when Sefton says 'I love you', Penny immediately thinks something horrible is about to happen.

I love that Sef, in reply, is rather shocked by that.

I love that her sincerity melts him.

I love each time they kiss, they must both, briefly, recover.

I love that, in the end, it's Penny who cannot say it back, for all that Penny is meant to be the rash one.

Beautiful scene.

[roatelgari]

Me.

[pennifred]

Penny doesn't have the best track record, when it comes to the L-word, does she?

Poor, poor Sefton. He lets her in, just a little, and she explodes all over him. And she wonders why he still hides things from her...

[mastervain]

Reins. *guffaw*

I think what I actually get the biggest charge out of is how old Sefton makes himself out, at thirty-three, and how young he is, and how much he seems to enjoy his youth, and yet, he is so aged by how he enjoys it.

Live hard-- like they say.

I think this tells us as much (maybe more) about Penny as it does Sefton. As Roa noted, that she's the one who can't reply those words. More importantly (to my mind) the fact that she assumes they mean bad things, at first. She's hardly a pessimist. She's just aware of the axe overhead. Superaware. Always an eye upon it, in her heart.