anything with wayne/anna 👀👀👀
this got kinda long and i think i've fallen in love with Anna a little bit, but anyway, here's Anna and Wayne after the war:
- Anna tries, she really really does, but when she's been raising the twins on her own for nearly three whole years and juggling a job too, and Wayne suddenly wants everything to be different she can only take so much of it
- they argue, they argue a lot. Anna starts yelling and Wayne goes almost silent, and that's when they know things aren't going to get better on their own anytime soon
- Anna's not perfect, she knows this and maybe kicking Wayne out when they were both at their wits end wasn't the best idea, especially when Emily wakes up crying because she's worried daddy's gone for good again and Grady starts to worry too, that's what nearly breaks her
- jump to after the contest and the broadcast of Welcome Home, Anna cries when she hears it. she cries because of all she should have done, she should have been there for Wayne, not to have tried to push him back into the box he left in. the war had changed them both, she knew that now.
- when Wayne and the band come home again Anna is waiting for them at the station, Emily and Grady on each side. she has a single stalk of purple a hyacinth in little glass vase, it's from the plant they were gifted when they got married, it's an apology and an understanding
- for the first time in months Wayne hugs Anna, they're both crying
- things don't go back to normal, instead they find a new sort of normal. Wayne still lives with Nick, they need each other too much, but he visits Anna and the kids nearly every day. Nick spends more time at the Wright household than he ever thought he would. Anna watches her family grow and change, and for the first time in almost four years she's happy with what she has, even if Nick has started teaching her daughter that world's loudest instrument
