A/N: I know it's been like a month and a half since I've updated this story but my muse got on a kick with some other stories... But here is another update... This chapter is short but the next chapter is already planned out and mostly wrote out so if I can get at least 8 reviews for this chapter I'll post the next chapter tomorrow or Sunday...
Disclaimer: I don't own CM...
Prompt: Life Goes On – LeAnn Rimes
After getting a hotel room under an assumed name that even David Rossi didn't know she had Erin collapsed onto the bed in tears. She couldn't believe that today was the twenty year anniversary of not only her losing her house but of her losing her baby. She couldn't stop the tears from falling down her face so she just let them them. She turned over onto her side and curled up into the fetal position and sobbed her heart out. She was tired of trying to keep the tears at bay and plus she knew that if she kept fighting them that when she finally lost the battle with her tears that it would just be ten times worse. It always was every single year.
When she was finally cried out she sat up on the bed and thought about what her life had become. She had married a guy six years after the fiasco with Dave but she never was truly in love with the man. She didn't trust any man with her heart because of what Dave did to her. As her thoughts turned to Dave she scowled and got up off the bed and stripped out of her clothes and headed to the shower.
As she let the hot water run over her she couldn't help but think that even when someone was broken even after twenty years that life goes on without stopping. She felt the tears prick her eyes again and once more she cried but this time her tears blended in with the water from the shower. She knew that she was going to have to face Dave come tomorrow and she didn't think she was going to be able to handle it because he had ripped open every single scab that had healed over the wounds he inflicted on her twenty years ago.
After drying off and putting on the sweats and shirt she bought at Walmart she climbed into the bed and covered up. As she laid on her side she decided that she would call in tomorrow. She hasn't taken a vacation or a sick day in years so she knew that the Director wouldn't mind her not going in. She needed time to get her head on straight so that when Dave cornered her she'd be able to fight back like she has for the last twenty years. She had to make sure that she wouldn't break down in front of him because she never wanted him to know that he still had the power to hurt her after all these years.