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Jamie looked out at the Earth below her. The view never ceased to take her breath away. It was amazing to her how Earth could look both so small and so large at the same time.
The whole world may be out there, but my whole world is here… on this rock… with me. None of this has any meaning without her.
Jamie sensed rather than heard Dani approach behind her. She turned around and smiled when her eyes landed on her wife.
“The view is beautiful from here,” Dani said, smiling, eyes fixed on Jamie.
“Hey, you,” Jamie replied. “What’cha doing up here? I thought school lasted another hour?”
“Do you want me to come back in an hour?” Dani asked teasingly.
“No,” Jamie said slowly, grinning. “Didn’t say I was complaining. I’m always happy to see the most beautiful person in the world.”
“You mean on the moon?” Dani quipped. “Because the world is over there.” She nodded in the direction of the Earth, smirking.
Jamie closed the small distance between them and wrapped her arms around Dani’s waist, pulling her closer. She glanced up at the dome around them, shielding them from the sun’s radiation and pumping oxygen into the moon base.
“You,” Jamie began, giving Dani a quick kiss on the lips, “are actually the prettiest girl in the whole galaxy.” She punctuated her point by leaning in for a deeper kiss.
Dani smiled and giggled as Jamie pushed off the ground, letting the low gravity suspend them in the air before gently setting them back down, lips still locked.
“You still sweep me off my feet,” Dani said, resting her forehead against Jamie’s.
Jamie lightly swatted at her arm. “That was bad, Dani, even for you. Have you been hanging out in the cafeteria with Owen again?”
“You loved it, don’t even pretend like you didn’t.”
“Hmm… maybe. Let’s do it again.”
Dani laced her hands behind Jamie’s neck as Jamie took them up into the air once again, kissing Dani deeply. When they landed, Dani pulled her into a tight hug, nuzzling into Jamie’s neck.
“I’m really going to miss this,” Dani whispered.
“Me too,” Jamie said, her lips ghosting Dani’s ear. “These four months here have flown by. But it will be good to have our feet on solid ground again.”
“It’s always nice to go home, isn’t it?” Dani agreed.
“Home is wherever I’m with you, Dani.”
Dani pulled back to look Jamie in the eyes, finding only love and sincerity in them.
“I love you, Jamie.”
“I love you more, Poppins.”
“Mmm, not possible,” Dani retorted.
Jamie smiled and took Dani’s hand in her own. “Come on, I want to show you something.”
They headed back into the moon base, which was bustling with activity, a stark contrast to the calm they had enjoyed alone on the moon’s surface. Everyone greeted them as they walked by. Jamie and Dani were universally loved. Dani taught the children on the base, allowing families to stay together while parents were on mission. And Jamie was the gardener on the station, growing all the food that Owen then prepared in the kitchen. Every role on the station was important, and people rotated through in four-month cycles. Jamie and Dani were set to return to Earth the next morning.
Jamie led Dani through the serpentine hallways, finally reaching her greenhouse. This was Dani’s favorite spot on the moon, because it was just so Jamie. Dani looked around the greenhouse, committing every detail to memory until they would get to return again. Jamie’s mission was to create and sustain the ecosystem that provided food for all the inhabitants, yet she still found time to grow flowers. She doesn’t want us just to survive up here, she wants us to live, Dani observed, her heart swelling with love for her wife. She tends to everything here with care and devotion, making everything grow. She brings life wherever she goes. That’s what she does for me, too. She tends to me with the same devotion. I’m the luckiest girl in the universe.
Jamie cleared her throat, snapping Dani’s attention back to her.
“Sorry,” Dani stammered, “I was just— I was just admiring you. Uh, I mean, your work. Both, actually.” Dani blushed.
Jamie smiled softly. “Then you’ll really like what I’m about to show you. Come on.” She took Dani by the hand and gently led her to the back of the greenhouse. She stopped and turned to face Dani, blocking Dani’s view of what was behind her. Jamie took both of Dani’s hands in her own and continued, “So, uh, they said this couldn’t be grown here. I mean, hell, it can barely be grown on Earth, but you know me… never one to back down from a challenge. So, uh, yeah, I wanted to grow this for you...here.”
Jamie moved so Dani could see what was behind her. Dani gasped.
“Jamie! Is that— is that a moonflower?!”
“It is, yeah,” Jamie responded proudly.
“You grew a moonflower on the freakin’ moon?!”
“I did, yeah. For you.”
“They’re really rare, you know,” Dani said, in awe.
“Mmm, I’ve heard that. And so are you.”
Dani took Jamie by the shoulders and pulled her in for a kiss, her lips communicating what words were incapable of. She poured all of her love and affection into the kiss. They were both breathless when they pulled apart.
Jamie was smirking. “I’d say all my effort was worth it then, for that kiss.”
And Dani kissed her again.
The next night, Dani and Jamie laid on a blanket in the grass, shoulder to shoulder, hands clasped together, staring up at the moon they had been on just the day before.
“The view is beautiful from here, too, isn’t it?” Dani whispered.
But Jamie wasn’t looking at the moon. Her gaze was fixed on Dani. “Yeah, the view is beautiful from here, too.”
And they both smiled, their hearts full. Home.
