It is completely true, and hey, I can give flattery. Sometimes. When it's true and I feel like it.
[And he's loopy, but no, he believes everything that he is saying. Even in his flattery.
However, he can. Somehow. It's not always going to be something he can do, no matter how much he's prodded, but he promised John when he'd shut everyone out before and he promised himself when Lena and he-- they started mending their relationship again, something he thought was impossible- He promised himself that he would always try to let his family in.
To not lock his door.
As long as it was within him to try, as he could get the energy to try and even some times when he couldn't.]
That is absolutely the ideal world, bu we don't live in that world.
And if we were all locked up in the basement, you'd miss the sunshine along with everything else that goes on up here.
[But he's smiling a little since he knows that she knows that.
Sonny could be relatively okay locked up like that with all of them, but he basically does that as is. However, he would miss actually running the business and miss reaching contacts and having meetings and having people come to him for help or with help.
Other than that though, he doesn't get out much and would be comfortable with it but he knows her and how she likes to travel, how they all like to get outside, smell the roses.
Take a moment to breathe it in.
It wouldn't work, but there are times when he'd like to do that too. In an ideal world.]
This does constitute life and death here.
And many other things are on the line so it's an important secret to keep.
[The most important. >>]
Okay, I like that for a change. I like that it's the opposite of a worst conclusion because in tis city, it' sthe worst ones that tend to be true.
[SERIOUSLY ;_; rjkel;arj;la CANNOT
Sonny looks up at er as she takes a deep breath followed by that smile. He knows it's big before she's even said it, and he'd half thought she was talking about something that would end up being silly
Or nothing quite so big as whatever it is. And he does know the moment that she takes the ring out from where it's been hidden. Sonny stares, and it hits him.
He is immediately filled with happiness, beyond what should be possible on a night like this after everything that has happened and everything that has been lost and how the stakes have increased.]
That... explains a whole fuckin' lot.
[Sonny had noticed a change in them. Something that went beyond words, he understands now and he tugs her from the arm rest, pushes himself to his feet, and wraps his arms around her hugging her tight.
He's so happy that his eyes are actually burning with tears. He's so fucking happy for her, because he knows she never thought it was a possibility for herself. They talked about this before, about a dream she had where he was walking her down the aisle.
And neither of them thought it would ever become reality, her walking down that aisle.]
Congratulations. [He can't even joke for a moment, because it fills him and it fills him whole.
And what a terrible cost it was to buy her more time, to buy this future, but it was worth it.
It was worth it knowing what waits her, what she always has deserved but never thought she could have. And he's still hugging her tightly.] I'm so happy for you. [He's so happy. Period. This deep kind of happiness that reaches beyond all the rest.
She's his daughter, and she's getting married to someone who will love and protect and cherish her and love her like she deserves.]
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It is completely true, and hey, I can give flattery. Sometimes. When it's true and I feel like it.
[And he's loopy, but no, he believes everything that he is saying. Even in his flattery.
However, he can. Somehow. It's not always going to be something he can do, no matter how much he's prodded, but he promised John when he'd shut everyone out before and he promised himself when Lena and he-- they started mending their relationship again, something he thought was impossible- He promised himself that he would always try to let his family in.
To not lock his door.
As long as it was within him to try, as he could get the energy to try and even some times when he couldn't.]
That is absolutely the ideal world, bu we don't live in that world.
And if we were all locked up in the basement, you'd miss the sunshine along with everything else that goes on up here.
[But he's smiling a little since he knows that she knows that.
Sonny could be relatively okay locked up like that with all of them, but he basically does that as is. However, he would miss actually running the business and miss reaching contacts and having meetings and having people come to him for help or with help.
Other than that though, he doesn't get out much and would be comfortable with it but he knows her and how she likes to travel, how they all like to get outside, smell the roses.
Take a moment to breathe it in.
It wouldn't work, but there are times when he'd like to do that too. In an ideal world.]
This does constitute life and death here.
And many other things are on the line so it's an important secret to keep.
[The most important. >>]
Okay, I like that for a change. I like that it's the opposite of a worst conclusion because in tis city, it' sthe worst ones that tend to be true.
[
SERIOUSLY ;_; rjkel;arj;la CANNOTSonny looks up at er as she takes a deep breath followed by that smile. He knows it's big before she's even said it, and he'd half thought she was talking about something that would end up being silly
Or nothing quite so big as whatever it is. And he does know the moment that she takes the ring out from where it's been hidden. Sonny stares, and it hits him.
He is immediately filled with happiness, beyond what should be possible on a night like this after everything that has happened and everything that has been lost and how the stakes have increased.]
That... explains a whole fuckin' lot.
[Sonny had noticed a change in them. Something that went beyond words, he understands now and he tugs her from the arm rest, pushes himself to his feet, and wraps his arms around her hugging her tight.
He's so happy that his eyes are actually burning with tears. He's so fucking happy for her, because he knows she never thought it was a possibility for herself. They talked about this before, about a dream she had where he was walking her down the aisle.
And neither of them thought it would ever become reality, her walking down that aisle.]
Congratulations. [He can't even joke for a moment, because it fills him and it fills him whole.
And what a terrible cost it was to buy her more time, to buy this future, but it was worth it.
It was worth it knowing what waits her, what she always has deserved but never thought she could have. And he's still hugging her tightly.] I'm so happy for you. [He's so happy. Period. This deep kind of happiness that reaches beyond all the rest.
She's his daughter, and she's getting married to someone who will love and protect and cherish her and love her like she deserves.]