Okay, but Tony still having that strip of photos of Rumiko and using it as a bookmark, and sometimes it makes him really sad to look at it, but he still can’t ever bring himself to throw it away, and he’s kind of holding onto it because he can’t bear the thought of maybe forgetting her. And sometimes looking at it makes him smile when he remembers her, too.
(And writing down notes about her to himself just in case he erases his brain again and he goes back even further than that and forgets that time too this time because he is NOT going to forget her, too, not least because he can’t let himself forget what happened to her because of him, and he needs to make sure of it.)














