The ring really was beautiful. She wasn't exactly surprised by that fact because she had been the one who told him exactly what she wanted and Fujiko has impeccable taste.

Still, there was something about the way it looked on her finger, about the way it looked when he was putting it on her that made her heart flutter.

She was probably smiling like an idiot, she knew, as she stared down at her hand but she can't bring herself to care.

Fujiko looked up though, at his question. Her smile softened.

Forever was something she was never able to promise him...no, not just him. Ever since the war, she hadn't been afraid of promising anyone that. Times were cruel then and she had experience enough broken promises that she couldn't trust herself to promise something like that. Then as the years passed it became a promise she couldn't possibly keep and the act of making it would be nothing but a lie.

Funny how it was here, after dying, when she finally felt safe to make this promise again.

"I promise." The words were quiet, but sure as she moved her hand to lace their fingers together. "This time, it will be forever."

After all, the usual vows were 'Till death do us part' and they're already past that and they were still here together. There was nothing else that could pull them apart now.