> Rachel
> I felt as though he'd slapped me with his words, "how can you even ask me
> that?" I asked standing up. "There's nothing I wouldn't do to keep Kat
safe,
> you know that but right now I'm not sure that this is the place for that
to
> happen. I'm going to get changed, and then we can get home...and perhaps
> back to normality for a while. If you think we need protection fine, but
not
> here."
>
Derek got up and followed her.  "You can't leave right now," he said his
becoming very authoritative.  "It is impossible for me to leave at the
moment.  Nick and Julia are still out and Alex is resting."  It hadn't
escaped him that Nick and Julia had left the house and he was not leaving
without knowing that there was someone capable of looking after things.
Alex was certainly in no shape to do it.

Derek

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