"I want you to be happy."
The words stunned him in part for the simple reason he was currently laid up in her castle from a bad set of injuries. He had arrived with his crew in time to get the attention he needed as they had been attacked out on the waters. Being the stubborn man that he was, Arrow had kept every person on his ship alive and well despite taking direct hits himself. He never wavered in his compassion for his people until he awoke in Corona.
Samuel knew the ship would be fine with the crew tending to the rest of the missions needed to be filled while he healed. It only angered him that he had been so focused to not think beyond his crew for himself. The heat of battle made him remember many men counted on him to survive but they had sons and daughters of their own. Kids, wives, lovers, all of them had people who need them to come home and he didn't even think of his own life.
Marina made him focus on himself as he sat with the blankets over his battered lower body. His chest had been partly wrapped in clean bandages as well from gun wounds. Reaching for her hand, he clasped it in his own and squeezed it gently.
"I am just to be alive and to have woken up to see your beautiful face."
