Us Against All Odds (En)

The box

I knew you loved me and would do anything for me. [...] Because I already knew how rare such love is. You have to be very lucky to have that kind of relationship.

Nicholas Sparks

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It had been eight months since the attack. Maya had started to return to work two weeks earlier, lightly, with simple tasks, although she sometimes went on interventions with her teams. She had a personal trainer to get her back in shape. Fortunately, she was still a captain and the fact that she had broken her leg had not made her lose her physical work.

Between the two women, everything was going well. They still hadn't said the seven letters, the three little words they wanted to exchange, without knowing that the other one felt the same way. Yet they couldn't force themselves to do so, Carina was afraid that Maya wouldn't feel the same way; although she could see that the blonde was totally into her. And for her part, the captain couldn't think about the fact that the Italian could be really in love with her, really in love with her, after losing someone. She was still a little afraid of being a rebound.

- "babe..."

- "yes Bambina?"

- "In a few days, it's Valentine's Day..."

- "indeed"

- "we... Spend the evening together?"

- "I only have you as my girlfriend and I hope you do too..."

- "of course!"

- "so yes, and I hope to spend a night... As romantic as it is hot"

- "I don't see how it could be otherwise, with you as my companion"

Carina was in the kitchen preparing lunch, she was in her underwear, with just a silk bathrobe over her body.

-"You are so... Perfect," Maya said, staring at her.

- "and all yours" said the Italian woman approaching the blonde.

The obstetrician had then slipped her hands over the captain's shoulders and coached her to get up from her chair. The firefighter had placed her hands on the gynecologist's sides on her skin directly.

The music they were listening to, had switched to the next song, Give Love a Try, by Nick Jonas.

'You, you're like driving on a Sunday
You, you're like taking off on Monday
You, you're like a dream, a dream come true
I was just a face you never notice
Now I'm just trying to be honest
With myself, with you, with the world

You might think that I'm a fool
For falling over you
So tell me what can I do to prove to you
That it's not so hard to do?
Give love a try, one more time
'Cause you know that I'm on your side
Give love a try, one more time

How did it play out like a movie
Now every time you speak it moves me
And I can't get your smile off my mind
And your eyes, when I saw 'em for the first time
Knew that I was gonna love you for a long time
With a love so real, so right

Well, you might think that I'm a fool
For falling over you
So tell me what I can do to prove to you
That it's not so hard to do?
Give love a try, one more time
'Cause you know that I'm on your side
Give love a try, one more time
One more time'

They had danced to the song and the Italian had started to caress the face of the blonde with her fingertips, from her eyebrow to her chin, before coming to kiss her.