[He's not the same guy, no, but he still loves her. He's only ever loved her. The fact that he's realized that he's been gone for five years hurts. It's why he tried so hard to get back to Midgar. Her letters.... He only ever got that last one, the one telling him goodbye.
He smiles through the pain as he watches her try to mimic him, but that comment about her being a pretty decoration has him setting the crate down so that he can pull her in a hug. It takes him a while before he can let her go. He doesn't really want to, and, yeah, they probably need to talk, but going without touching her again was never going to work for him.]
Y-yeah, let's get this moved. [He picks the crate of flour up and just starts walking, trying really hard not to think about what he just did.]
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He smiles through the pain as he watches her try to mimic him, but that comment about her being a pretty decoration has him setting the crate down so that he can pull her in a hug. It takes him a while before he can let her go. He doesn't really want to, and, yeah, they probably need to talk, but going without touching her again was never going to work for him.]
Y-yeah, let's get this moved. [He picks the crate of flour up and just starts walking, trying really hard not to think about what he just did.]