though the battlefield would be calling a wonder woman fanfic relationship: dianaxsteve status: wip chapter 1/? word count: 2566 tags: Fix-It, Reincarnation
It’s year ninety-eight that really does her in. She’s on the streets of Metropolis, all sharp lines and angles, looking more like a permanent fixture of the city, a sweeping skyscraper, when she thinks she sees Steve walking down the street.
It’s not the first time this has happened, in the first year, in the first year it was unbearable, she saw him in every uniform that passed her, in every hat tilted too far down with a sharp jaw hidden underneath, in any american accent she heard in Europe. It was consuming, to the point where she never stopped moving, from train to boat to plane, anywhere that she wasn’t touching the ground, anything so she wouldn’t think she heard him. It was too much for her heart to take, and in those moments she would hold the watch up to her ear, listen to it’s ticking and count down the moments until she came back to herself.
But for the first time she thinks that this is it, that he is here, and maybe he is the one made of clay. Maybe the gods are still out there and they heard how much she still wanted this, even after all of these years, and that her wish finally came true.
She tells herself no, not now, not when she’s ready to defend the world again. That she doesn’t need him, but she finds herself wavering on how much she wants this to be real, even after she had told herself all those years ago that it's impossible. How much she wants this, to hear his voice shout “Diana!” as she steps onto the battlefield.
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