A/N: This is extended from another story I wrote. Totally depressing and made up.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Cam knew he wouldn't change. Losing his wife hurt him bad, leaving him alone with the child. She stayed for that beautiful little girl but his commitment problems ate away at her, deep inside. She loved him, no doubt about it, and she wanted a life with him and his daughter. She wanted to drop Michelle off at school, she wanted to come home from a long day of being around the dead to a family, a husband and daughter, maybe even another kid. But she knew it wasn't meant to be.
She loved Michelle like her own. She had one thought about taking Michelle with her, but the girl needed her father. Michelle was the only thing he would always love and will never, Cam was sure, betray or leave.
It was a rainy Thursday. Cam had packed and said her goodbyes. She returned the ring and finally ended the relationship that was doomed from the start. She had left the hardest part, the most heart breaking decision she's ever made and had to go through with. She breathed and knocked.
Cam had to be strong. She left the salt shaker on the table in front of Michelle and left the room, tears running down her face. She made it to the door without looking back, even when Michelle followed her, tugging on her clothes and arms in confusion. She paused, hand on the doorknob, and broke. She left the house sobbing while Michelle walked behind her, tears mixing with the rain. Michelle begged her to stay, crying for her mommy to not leave her. She promised to be better, to be good. Cam turned and knelt on the ground. She whispered to her child, her baby, that she loved her with everything she had and nothing was her fault. Cam told her that she had to leave because she needed to. She hugged the sobbing child, climbed in to the car and drove off, barely able to see through the rain and tears. Michelle ran after the car until she got tired. Cam drove out of sight, hating herself for putting the 4 year old through pain and heartbreak. Michelle screamed and begged for her mother to come back. Her father, the man Cam loved, followed Michelle and tried to calm her down and take the girl inside, out of the pouring rain.
Cam drove to a service station. She was a mess, make up running down her face, hair and clothes dripping with water and red, puffy eyes. She sat in the car, head on the steering wheel, and sobbed. The pain of leaving was heart-wrenching and killing her inside. She breathed heavy and thought horrible things about herself. She regretted everything and missed them both like crazy already. Someone knocked on the window, startling her and she drove off.
Cam pulled up at an old friend's house and knocked, hysterical and soaking wet. He wasn't home, so she sunk to the floor and leaned against the door, wishing she could go back. Cam heard her name after what felt like an eternity. She looked at him, dressed in army fatigues, concerned that his friend was sobbing on his doorstep.
'I left her.'
A/N: I cried while writing this.