[ It's incredible. She got her hopes up and it still doesn't compare to the reality of Carson opening the door and immediately pulling her in for a hug.
Elizabeth could cry. Thinking about the unfair reality of it back in Atlantis, thinking about sending off his coffin, having to say goodbye. The gaping hole left in his wake, something that can't be bridged or patched over, only navigated around. They all feel it. They all carry it.
Instead she wraps her arms around the most solid, impossible piece of home she's yet to see in this place and manages a laugh, breathless and disbelieving. ]
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Elizabeth could cry. Thinking about the unfair reality of it back in Atlantis, thinking about sending off his coffin, having to say goodbye. The gaping hole left in his wake, something that can't be bridged or patched over, only navigated around. They all feel it. They all carry it.
Instead she wraps her arms around the most solid, impossible piece of home she's yet to see in this place and manages a laugh, breathless and disbelieving. ]
So are you!