[ He follows her gesture to the store, and he nods. ]
Yeah. Me too.
[ It's stupid, how he feels so fucking wrong-footed right now. He really thought, for a long while there, that if he ever saw Gamora again, they could pick everything back up again, right where they left off. He knows, now, that his expectations hadn't been fair to the Gamora that currently lives back home, that it was like taking years and years of history and superimposing it on someone's twin sister, in a weird way.
Back home, the Gamora he fell in love with and who had impossibly fallen in love with him was dead.
Yet here she is. Barely looking at him.
God, what a fucking mess.
He takes a breath, tries to lighten his voice a little. ]
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Yeah. Me too.
[ It's stupid, how he feels so fucking wrong-footed right now. He really thought, for a long while there, that if he ever saw Gamora again, they could pick everything back up again, right where they left off. He knows, now, that his expectations hadn't been fair to the Gamora that currently lives back home, that it was like taking years and years of history and superimposing it on someone's twin sister, in a weird way.
Back home, the Gamora he fell in love with and who had impossibly fallen in love with him was dead.
Yet here she is. Barely looking at him.
God, what a fucking mess.
He takes a breath, tries to lighten his voice a little. ]
I could keep you company. If you wanted.