Horatio pulled walked over to her and pulled her into a tight hug. He whispered, "I love you. At one point, I loved your mother at one point too. Nothing will ever stop me from loving me. It is not your fault, what happened between your mother and I, that was never your fault. It never will be." Harmony nodded and found the tears were streaming down her face even though she fought to keep them in.
Horatio then started walking into the living room with Harmony. Horatio then opened a trunk in the corner of the room and pulled out a few photo albums. Harmony and Horatio then sat on the couch.
Horatio started to show Harmony photo albums that he had. Many of the photos were of Harmony and Horatio. These were Harmony's favorites; they were Horatio's as well although he never spoke the words aloud. Horatio told Harmony about the time he took her to the petting zoo. Horatio laughed at the memory, the laugh lines deepening on his face with his smile, and said to Harmony, "I took you to that zoo against your mother's will. She thought the animals were to dirty and would get you sick. I disagreed; you had been begging me to take you the entire two weeks I had been there. So, I decided that the last day I could see you. I practically had to drag you out screaming when the zoo was closing. You loved the goats for some reason. You loved them eating out of your hands. It made you giggle ecstatically."
Horatio pointed to a picture on the next page. "There is you and I with the goat." Harmony smiled at the picture. It was a little two-year-old version of Harmony, giggling as the goat ate out of her hand. Horatio was kneeling on the ground next to her with his arm around her waist. Horatio was looking at her, smiling. Meanwhile, Harmony was smiling at the goat. Harmony wished she could remember this.
Harmony noticed that Horatio was wearing what was clearly a very expensive suit but he didn't seem to mind kneeling in the dirt next to her. His eyes were filled with love
Horatio then said, "One of the employees took this picture of us. She was an older lady; I think we reminded her of her own family." Harmony leaned against Horatio, wondering what it would have been like to have him in her life. All of her life, not just when she was a young child and certainly not just now, when she had to seek him out.