"Now. Today. I wish to marry you, Jim."
"Because I desire you for my own, and in turn I desire to be yours. Because I have felt complete with you, and I have never done so anywhere else. Three years ago, I fled from you because I feared the depth of this feeling. Since then I have been lost, have searched for meaning down to my very core, and I have found it, here, at your side, where I should have been all along. I wish to remain there, tied to you with Human words and Vulcan bonds, both, throughout our lifetimes. And I desire it today because I am apparently not so patient as I had believed myself to be."
Kirk watches him, silently, for a long moment. Then he slides toward him and envelopes him in his arms, holding him tight against his body, and kisses him, in his own way, softly on the mouth.
"Most people would’ve just left it at ‘because I love you,’ you know," he says, not trusting his voice above a whisper.