I used to think about it sometimes, you know? When he was a baby. How it could have been if you'd been able to be there with us. I know... I know that having a baby doesn't always solve everything... but I keep thinking we could have been happy for a little while. As a little family. Like Yellowtail and Vidalia and their kids.
[Because that's the thing, isn't it? As much as Rose had loved the idea of Steven, having him had been, on a very real level, a kind of suicide for her. And Greg... he'd made his peace about that. Rose was so very old, for all that she was as young as he'd been in some ways, so very old and tired and sad underneath it all, and if she'd wanted to die in order to make someone like Steven... she had the right to decide the way she wanted to die.
But as much as he loved his son, as much as he adored Steven and wouldn't give him up for all the world... there was a part of him that did wish he'd been enough for Rose to want to stay. That any of them had been.
He shakes his head, looking up at Rose.]
He reminds me of you, sometimes. His love, his enthusiasm, the way he's always trying to encourage people and help them be better. He's worked wonders with the Diamonds.
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I used to think about it sometimes, you know? When he was a baby. How it could have been if you'd been able to be there with us. I know... I know that having a baby doesn't always solve everything... but I keep thinking we could have been happy for a little while. As a little family. Like Yellowtail and Vidalia and their kids.
[Because that's the thing, isn't it? As much as Rose had loved the idea of Steven, having him had been, on a very real level, a kind of suicide for her. And Greg... he'd made his peace about that. Rose was so very old, for all that she was as young as he'd been in some ways, so very old and tired and sad underneath it all, and if she'd wanted to die in order to make someone like Steven... she had the right to decide the way she wanted to die.
But as much as he loved his son, as much as he adored Steven and wouldn't give him up for all the world... there was a part of him that did wish he'd been enough for Rose to want to stay. That any of them had been.
He shakes his head, looking up at Rose.]
He reminds me of you, sometimes. His love, his enthusiasm, the way he's always trying to encourage people and help them be better. He's worked wonders with the Diamonds.