HAPPY ENDING – Mika
She was lost.
She thought that he'd loved her. He'd waited all that time. His stubbornness had finally paid off, but it now seemed that he'd thrown it all away.
She knew that he was suffering. He was blaming himself for the death of a ten-year-old boy that had almost been a son to him. She wanted to help, desperately. But everything she did seemed to do nothing for him.
When he'd walked into that courtroom in Montana, her heart stopped. If he was there for her then, at her darkest hour, in her time of need, he would be there always. She'd be there for him always. They'd be together always.
Their relationship had survived ten times the normal bumps that other couples did. Theirs had endured bombings, near-death experiences, among other things. She thought they'd made it through the worst of it. But this death was the tipping point.
This certainly wasn't the happy ending she was expecting.
But she wouldn't leave him like this. This wouldn't be how they ended.