Oh my god... So good.

If only. If this, or some approximation of this, doesn't happen in the show, I might just switch off, come here and read this over and over (interspersed with Never Such Innocence Again).

Lovely, thank you for sharing this.

So sweet and lovely and charmingly written (as are all of your stories). It is just the way I hope the scene goes on the show and if they don't give it to us, I will definitely be coming back to this. Thank you for sharing your lovely vision!

I REALLY HOPE THIS HAPPENS, so beautifully written, i could see it happening right in front of me. It's just beautiful :P thank you, you've made me night!

How perfectly adorable! I do hope this conversation happens like that, right down to Mary's desperate "Please. Please."

TSG

Oh, this was PERFECT. Exactly what I needed after that episode and the preview.

I can really see it happening like this. I was wondering why they were dancing, and your explanation just makes so much sense. And then, given that piece of dialogue in the preview, yes, I think they both get caught up in the moment, in being in each other's arms, in the notion that this could be the last time for years and years and years (as Granny said, marriage is a long business for people like them).

Your dialogue is just so spot-on, really. Nothing either of them say in this feels out-of-character. You've gotten all that underlying warmth, affection, respect...and in the beginning that distance, that wall they're still putting up between one another for the sake of both of their feelings, for the sake of propriety, and then he glimpses the vulnerability (the line about how he'd mistaken - in the hospital - the quiver in her chin for pity and how he'd been wrong was my absolute favorite) and he has to know, he has to push, and the line about how he realized that he needed to take the last step, in this case he really had to be the man and go for it because Mary at the heart is alot more uncertain that she might seem (was reminded of her words to Sir Richard about why she would ever admit to loving someone who preferred another woman over her), was just perfect.

Love how you tied this all together with their conversation about being "happy enough" and how enough wasn't enough for both of them and neither could settle.

This is lovely. Thank you so much for sharing.

AHHHHH... :D

I was so hoping someone would write a fanfic for that scene... I mean how could that not inspire someone? So grateful it was you.

Lets hope their dance scene is as perfect as the one you have written. 3

If the dance scene doesn't happen like this in at least the bare essentials, I will be furious. BEAUTIFUL. I love the way you shift between easy warmth and hesitant caution...it's very them. Mary's reaction to Matthew pressing was so delightfully over-controlled but so in-character. SO EXCITED FOR THIS SCENE, thanks for wetting my appetite.

I was so HOPING that someone would write about that teaser! I'd actually begun composing a little story in my own mind but have yet to metaphorically put pen to paper. Loved it!

I'm assuming you took the title from the Carla Bruni song. It's one of my favorites :)

Siiiiiiiiigh. I really hope it plays out somewhat like this. (Though from the new preview, it looks like they might kiss while still dancing. Squee!)

Can this be what happens please? LOVED IT :D Just what I needed to tide me over till the next episode (eep!)