"And now I've found you."

"I was excited to have been the one to begin my recovery therapy first, not because I wanted you to suffer more, but because I knew my conviction would help me to help you better. I was, however, frightened when they took me away to a assisted living facility far awa from you. It was a lovely place in the mountains and pines, but all its trappings and beauty was dull and uninteresting without knowing I could ever try to share it with you."

"It took me two years to find you again. One was spent slowly easing my way back into my professional life, and another working up the courage to speak to you. After all, we had only known each other behind plaster masks and waves of pain and suffering. Would we be the people we dreamed we were? Would we be able to even get along? Do you ever think of me?"

"And now you stand before me. On the pier in the sunset, your blue fur appearing so soft. Your blue locks looking just like they did years ago. Your lithe body holding itself so certain and majestically against the chaos of our universe. And God how I missed seeing those antlers.

"Of course your left wrist is in a cast; I remember a nurse saying you had weak bones. But seeing your eyes turn to me, your mouth opening in surprise at seeing what I hoped was a familiar tail, made everything I planned to say melt away in my mind."

"As I start to speak, I'm frightened. I'm at your mercy. Please, please want to know me."

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This is a piece I've been putting off for too long. Willow here belongs to  oneconfusedkid

This is a "what if we let our characters recover" sequel to https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49251045/, with my Rudoji is also up and walking out of his body cast. Hope Willow doesn't mind Rudd's taste in femme clothing XD