Worlds Over, Time to Die. Nothing Left but our Souls Inside.

Yesterday after I finished up writing, I went up to the room that Danielle, Ciel, and I were using for the night. She was sitting on the bed feeding him. She looked exhausted, I’m sure I did just as much as she did. Everyone does. We had been walking for days only taking short breaks. We need to be more careful of that from now on. The closer and closer we get to our destination the more we think we can just power through and not rest. It’s going to kill us if we keep going.
Danielle looked over to me with a faint smile. Ciel will be going on 7 months in two weeks. I can’t believe how big he’s gotten. It’s getting harder and harder for us to take care of him. He needs so much and we are with so little. I walked over and sat on the bed with them. I started playing with Ciel trying to make him laugh. I also hated that a child so small, so innocent has to grow up in a world like this. How can we as parents give him everything that we had and more? That’s what I want for my child but I don’t know if he’ll ever get it. It’s kind of depressing. “Stop worrying about him. He’s going to be all right.” Danielle told him. I looked at her and back down at the child sitting in her lap. “How can you be so sure?” She smiled and not just one of her fake smiles that I’ve been noticing a lot lately but a real genuine smile. “Because he has an amazing daddy that’s going to make sure that he will be.” I was still skeptical about it but seeing her confident about it made me feel better.
I leaned in and kissed her. “I love you, you know that right.” She smiled again “Of course I do. I love you too.” I ran my hand down her arm. “I think it’s time for Ciel to go down for a nap.” I picked him up and carried him over to his playpen which doubled as his crib. I kissed him and laid him down. Returning to the bed I kissed Danielle deeply. “I want you to know that no matter what happens to us I will always love you, through thick and thin.” She looked at me with concern. “Why are you telling me this?” I smiled at her. “I don’t know, just because I want you to know. I feel like we’ve been a little disconnected lately but I want to fix that because I care about you so much.” I grazed my hand down her back. “I care about you too Vic and I’m sorry that I have been so distant lately. I wish I could stop or at least give you an explanation for it but I can’t.” I shook my head at her. “Don’t worry about it baby, you don’t need to explain. I understand. Things are crazy right now, but I’m here for you.” She took my hand. “Thank you.” She whispered. “Don’t mention it.” I smiled at her.
That was last night. I would go into more detail about the night’s event but that’s a little too personal. I want to keep this somewhat PG. Currently I’m sitting with my fiancé in the abandon gardens. Yep, that’s right, she said yes. To be honest it isn’t as beautiful as it was when we had visit almost two years ago, but it has almost a new kind of beauty to it. The buildings still stand and the little fountain is not working but its here. The flowers are starting to wither and the birds are no longer around. I can’t quite put it into words but it’s peaceful in an eerie kind of way.
This morning when Danielle woke up, I told her that I had a surprise for her. She was unsure about leaving Ciel behind but I reassured her that he would be okay with my mom and everyone. “Where are we going?” She asked me repeatedly. “Just relax darling, I told you it was a surprise. You got to wait.” I told her. When we got closer I asked her if she recognized where we were going. She told me that she did but she still didn’t know where we were going. When we pulled up to the place and she smiled at me. “What are we doing here?” She asked. “Well there are a few reasons.” I told her. “The first reason is simply because I know how much you liked it here and I thought it’d be nice to try and do something…normal for once.” Her smile brightened. “What is the other reason?” I returned her smile. “That answer you’re going to have to wait for.” She looked at me curiously. I wondered if she was catching on yet. “Come on. Let’s go.” I told her.
The entrance was locked so I solved the issue by shooting the lock on the door. Danielle jumped. “I’m sorry; it was the only way to get it.” She nodded in understanding. The sounds of guns have scared her ever since the night our son was born. I don’t blame her it still bothers me a little as well. Man if Mike were alive right now he’d be so happy for me. Others might disagree because of the events that led up to his untimely death but he was my brother and I know that he would not be the way he was if the world hadn’t gone to hell. He’s happy for me I know he is.
When we got inside, we walked around a bit and discussed how weird the place looked since it has been unoccupied for over a year. We started talking about that tour I was on when we came here and things that happened during it, eventually we started talking about everything, just reminiscing on all the memories we have together. When I thought the moment was right I stopped walking, I turned to her and took her hands. I couldn’t stop smiling, hell I’m still smiling now as I write this. “Danielle, remember last night when I was telling you how much I loved you and you asked me why I was telling you that.” She nodded. She was searching my eyes looking for where I was going with this. “I was saying all that because I meant it and I want you to know how serious I am about being with you. We have been through so much in the last year and a half and I couldn’t have imagined going through it without you. You’re my rock, you’re my whole world and I want to be with you my whole life no matter whether were only alive for the next 3 weeks or the next 30 years. I want to spend whatever time I have left, with you.” I started to pull out the ring as I got down on my knee. She had tears streaming down her face. “Danielle Victoria Perry I love you so much and I know that we won’t be able to have an actual wedding but that doesn’t matter to me.” We both laughed a little because it was true. “I want you to be my wife, so I brought you here to ask you to be my wife.” She collapsed into my arms crying. “Yes, a thousand times yes.” She said through tears. “I love you Vic.” I smiled knowing that I finally felt complete. “I love you too.”
We have been through so much since the world ended but none of it matters anymore. All that matters is that we’re together and we’re alive and back at the house we have our whole family with us. It feels like we’re all going to be alright, especially when we get to D.C I just have a really good feeling about it. Danielle wanted to stay and watch the sunset together before we started back to the group so I’m going to stop writing and enjoy it with her. Who knows when we’ll be able to get alone time together again.

Notes

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