Sure, she could be angry at their parents, at the King and Queen of Auradon. But what good would that do? It wouldn’t erase what they had already endured. The best thing to do now is to move on, start fresh. Embrace the new beginning that they’d reached out and taken for themselves..
Uma feels her cheeks burn at his praise. She refuses to take all the credit for herself. She’s just one young woman. At the end of the day, without her crew, her friends, that’s all she is. And she says as much to him. “I couldn’t have done it without you and Gil, Harry.” The thought that he could kiss her if she asked him to thrills her, but she isn’t certain she can muster up the courage to ask him to do something so intimate.
So when he laughs obnoxiously loud, she laughs, too, grateful for the mood shift. “Hey, I don’t take offence, because Cook made all of that. I just brought it out.” She points out with a giggle, looking seriously over his familiar features. “Harry…would you really have kissed me if I hadn’t held my hand up to stop you?” She whispers.
“we were mostly just followin’ yer lead, captain. but we did good, didn’t we?” his smile lingers for a couple seconds, before he sobers up. with the mood change, he shifts his body so that he’s sitting again, making the situation slightly less intimate. now that there’s no one else here, there’s no need for harry to keep up the act. this is the harry only uma gets to see.
THIS is the most exciting new territory they’ve yet to tread on. as if it’s a secret that harry has feelings for uma. as if it’s a secret that hes so hopelessly devoted. that he’d do anything for her. but it was different back in the isle. dangerous to let this be more than a joke between allies — not even friends. but they could be friends now... they could be anything they wanted to, like she’d said.
harry’s caught somewhere between excitement and blind terror. it’s not what he feels that scares him, but the possiblity that maybe after all, she doesn’t feel the same. and if she does, what then? what are they supposed to do? it’s not like they’ve had good examples of what a couple is. it’s not like harry knows — really, truly understands — what love is. he just knows that whatever it is, it surely can’t be as strong as what he feels for uma. “aye. if ye wanted me to, i would’ve.” he shrugs, attempting to sound nonchalant. “allow me to remind ye, captain, of the many, many attempts there’s been in the past. i’ve been quite transparent. it’s up to you now, really.”
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