Goodbye mom - 1

She shook her head, tears finally spilling over. "No, I don't want that. I fell in love with you, all of you, including your magic. But I need more than half a man, Jaegar. I need someone who's present, who can share a life with me, not just visit between crises."

The truth of her words hit him like a physical blow. He had asked so much of her - to accept his world, to keep his secrets, to wait faithfully for his return.

But what had he given her in return?

A life of anxiety and loneliness, punctuated by brief moments of wonder and passion.

"I don't want to lose you," Diana said softly, moving closer to him. "But I can't keep living like this either. Something has to change."

Jaegar looked at her, really looked at her, seeing both the woman he had fallen in love with and the stranger she had become in his absence.

The woman who had been brave enough to enter his world, and who had suffered for it.