She's out of one boot and then the other, but for now she leaves her stockings. They don't get in the way enough for her to feel like they'll lessen any of this and what she finds more important is the way he seems to tense up as he starts to follow her lead.

Does he feel the same way she does? Self-conscious because of their differences but still willing to try, wanting to be enough for each other? Good enough to touch, worthy of being together after their lifetime of pain and separation?

She's still leaning over thanks to getting rid of the boots and it means she's at the right angle to just lean in and kiss him again, her hands following his to help him with the buttons of his coat, to slip under it and ease it down off his shoulders. She's still kissing him when she slips her hands under the hem of his shirt and skims that up his body and only pulls away for the time it takes to get it over his head.

"You look cute."