A/N: Okay all, this is the last chapter, I hope you've all enjoyed :)

They've always looked at each other in turns—switching off staring while the other looks away. The few times they've truly locked eyes, she was overwhelmed, too much reflected back at her. They sit next to each other, together again after what seems like lifetimes, the weight of their past mixes with the present. So much has gone between, so many things said and done…and she finds that she suddenly can't meet his eyes—burning blue with confusion, adoration, and hope. Desire at war with disbelief. The naked want in his eyes is too much for her, so she focuses on the spot she's come to love. Professes her gratitude to the knot of his tie. Punctuates the important words by meeting his eyes.

It's all too much, he's too much—he's everything. The dislike and anger that used to fuel her are distant memories, she moves now with excitement…hope…love—with the desire to be close, close, closer. Her fingers that have been so eager, for so long, have finally found purchase on the grey fabric at this throat. Part of her fears that if she releases his tie he'll disappear—something or someone else will come between them and she will lose this last chance.

For so long she's denied him, denied herself, pushed away any attraction, focused on her anger and resentment, and then she couldn't hate him any more, and now she loves him. All the things she used to find repellent, she now loves the best. She loves his awkwardness, his formal manner and his ridiculous phrasing. Loves his stubbornness and his anger and his passion. She loves his suspenders and his newsie hats, his hipster glasses, and his absurd bow ties.

She thinks that the first thing she loved about him were those ties. The first part of him she'd come to appreciate, the first piece of him she'd allowed herself to see, to admire, to desire. Those ties bewitched her. And now she has him, bow ties, stubbornness, and all. She wants to tangle her fingers so thoroughly in his tie that she'll never be parted from him.