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She wasn’t entirely sure when she started loving him, but she could pinpoint the exact moment when she realized it.
Orbiting the Earth in damaged gliders, they were sure of their deaths. But instead of listening to her him when they would die, he interrupted her.
“Look up.”
She had and the beauty of what she saw stole her breath.
Generic campfire talk of how she had come to be in the Air Force had long since revealed to her team that she’d once held dreams of being an astronaut, not an astrophysicist. Of going into space instead of circumventing it with wormholes.
In that moment he had recognized how close this was to her dream and made her look at it.
For all his gruff outer shell, she had realized quickly that her CO had an eye for beauty, especially in the stars and planets.
And then, when he thought they were about to die, his first instinct was to share that beauty with her.
That was when she realized she loved him.
It would take a bit longer to realize that she was in love with him, but this moment would forever be burned in her mind as the turning point.