It took you years of healing to be able to even function after the war. And yet no amount of therapy could stop the yearning you felt for Gilbert. He was your Major, the one who cared for you during all those restless nights. So when you heard he was on a distant island you did everything you could to get to him. But standing in front of you is a bitter, broken, man. Who was too engrossed in his own self hatred to let it show how deeply he loved you

You shouldn't be here. You shouldn't have been looking for me at all.