Claudia would protest his actions, but his words stopped her. It was really over. Tomorrow, she'd go back to the twenty-first century, to a world she'd spent the past few months trying not to think about.

"So...this is it, then? Our last night until we meet again in the future?" she asked, noticing his removal of their clothing and smiling just a little. He would have others in his life in that time, but that wasn't important to her. What she had with him was.