”How cn’you be this pretty?” Kaylee asked, running a hand through River’s dripping wet hair.

”I’m in love.” River replied simply. ”It makes me glow, makes us both glow… brighter than anything.”

Kaylee smiled a little dreamily. ”That’s so not fair.” She told her, River’s words just melting her inside.

River smiled, getting up to her feet and taking one of Kaylee’s hands in hers and helping her up in the process also. River turned to her and their eyes met again. ”I sometimes think that maybe stars are the places where lovers go after they die, you know. So they can always be together. And so they can keep the worlds that spin around them warm, to give other people a lighted path, a way to join them. A choice, between warmth and love, or darkness and wondering alone. It doesn’t make sense really, to choose the other option, but I guess some people would…”

Kaylee didn’t really know what to say or do just then but to move in closer and kiss her, almost reverently. ”It’s a pretty thought.” Kaylee said after she’d finished thoroughly kissing her girlfriend and found herself wrapped in her arms (which she didn’t mind, even if it meant she got wet some). ”I kinda hope you’re right, too. It sounds kinda nice, living in a star, warm and at home, in love with someone… in love with you forever.”

”Some people think that forever can be found in a single moment in time.” River replied. ”Now, for instance…” She said, kissing Kaylee again and moving even closer to her.

Kaylee’s eyes fluttered shut, and somehow she felt River’s words start to live a little in her skin in some way. Almost like time just stopped… almost. She couldn’t hold on to the feeling of course, but she felt like she’d remember it forever. And maybe that was something of forever after all?

When the kiss ended, she rested her forehead against River’s and closed her eyes again, trying to steady her heart from beating so fast, her blood from singing so much in her body. She had no real thoughts in her, but she felt things very intensely right then.

”I’m going to miss this.” Kaylee finally spoke. ”Just having you to myself like this.” She spoke honestly as her thoughts began to come back to her.