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He nodded slowly and only once so as not to move her from where her head
laid at the globe that sat on her nightstand, gently teasing her "What,
don't recognize your old man's handiwork? Of course I've been here. Where
else would I be?"
He wanted to tell her all the times he had been there and wished he could
have jumped in to help but unable to - how grateful he was that now, with
Julia in the position she was in, could do it for him. He understood
Rachel's need to fight with the Legacy, even understood her doubts at times
during that fight. He would have done the same in her place. It almost
destroyed him when he had found out about the demon that had.....
He closed his eyes and held her close.
"I love you, Rachel Corrigan. You know that, right?"
Rachel
I felt the tears stream down my cheeks as I nodded, all those times I had
started to talk to him as if he were there, or caught his scent as I crossed
a room. He had been there. I'd tried so hard to move on, to make things as
normal as possible for Kat's sake, but the space he had filled in my life
was always there as was his place in my heart. I tried to brush away my
tears, looking up at him with an embarressed smile, "you see what you do to
me?" I asked him with a weak laugh, "you always did know how to turn me to
mush with a few words." I took a deep breath as a thought suddenly hit me. I
frowned looking up into his eyes, "is it my fault you're here?" I asked him,
"have I kept you here because I couldn't let go? I so wanted you be be a
peace...you and Connor."
