"I want you, Richard." Alex leans up on her elbows to kiss him again, her eyes peering deeply into his. With a low whisper, that's just for them in the small space of this room, in the small space of this bed, she just whispers it again. "I want this. I love you, Richard. I've loved you for such a long time."

And she's sorry that it'd taken this long and literally it being almost the end of the world for them to actually get anywhere closer to this than her being tucked underneath his arm while they watched a movie and he told her about Star Trek.