Teresa could love him. He pulls her pigtails and reads her mind and smiles that smile, and she could. A sparkle catches on nimble fingers, and a gold band reminds her: she can't.
Not him, whose heart belongs to a dead woman and child, whose soul is the plaything of a serial killer.
Some day. But their tale has no happy ending, only the dead.
If he weren't so broken; but that means no (dead) wife, and that means the SCU, alone, with less closed cases.
She'll take what she can; the tricks, the capers, the smiles, the laughs.
Maybe.
I claim no ownership.
A set of thoughts concerning characters. Jumps back and forth between episodes and seasons.