Sarah is a lot of things, but she isn't impatient.
She can be careful, perhaps too careful. Before Jeremy, she would remain in inaction so she wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of doing anything at all. It was Jeremy who taught her to be braver. It was Jeremy who taught her she doesn't have to simply accept the statistics if she refuses to; that she can fight them. She can fight.
She doesn't forget that, not even now, with an ocean in between them. The sight of his tears bring forth her own, as she wasn't being good at keeping them at bay to begin with. Her face crumples, because he does sound so sorry and so aching that it tears at something inside of her. She wants to run to his arms and never let go. A part of her knows it can't be that easy this time.
"Don't be sorry. Jeremy." Her voice breaks when she says his name. "However you feel about that choice now, it was yours to make and no one else's; all you did was take it before someone else could take it from you again. It was always going to be yours. I'm not angry for that. You fought for your decision and I know I'll need to fight for mine. I just ... I never thought in a million years we'd end up here."
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She can be careful, perhaps too careful. Before Jeremy, she would remain in inaction so she wouldn't have to deal with the consequences of doing anything at all. It was Jeremy who taught her to be braver. It was Jeremy who taught her she doesn't have to simply accept the statistics if she refuses to; that she can fight them. She can fight.
She doesn't forget that, not even now, with an ocean in between them. The sight of his tears bring forth her own, as she wasn't being good at keeping them at bay to begin with. Her face crumples, because he does sound so sorry and so aching that it tears at something inside of her. She wants to run to his arms and never let go. A part of her knows it can't be that easy this time.
"Don't be sorry. Jeremy." Her voice breaks when she says his name. "However you feel about that choice now, it was yours to make and no one else's; all you did was take it before someone else could take it from you again. It was always going to be yours. I'm not angry for that. You fought for your decision and I know I'll need to fight for mine. I just ... I never thought in a million years we'd end up here."
Never.