A/N: Oh my gosh, you guys! Thanks for all the positive feedback! kasey123; I couldn't p.m. you my response, so here it is: I have something planned...Mwahhahahaha...X3. It has been SO long since an update, and I am So sorry! What can I say, depression is a killer...but I'm still here, so that's good, I guess. I've been dealing with problems lately and updating hasn't been on my top list of things to do. Sorry. I know that excuses are just that- excuses- but it's true, and I'm sorry. I hope you guys like this chapter, because it took SO long to write and it was hard, too. Enjoy, my preciouses.

Winona. He needed to have a talk with Winona, to confront her about what happened. To ask her why she did what she did.

George stepped up to Winona and told her, "I need to talk with you. Alone."

She gave him a puzzled glance but nodded. "Okay, sure."

Winona followed him away, and after they weren't without earshot of Sam, George spoke.

"It's about Jim."

She nodded calmly. I knew this would come.

"Why?"

That one simple question. Seemingly harmless, yet one of the most powerful, guilt-provoking words in the world.

"I...I couldn't stand how he looked. He was a living reminder of what I had lost that day," she answered softly but truthfully.

He placed his hand on her arm. "But rejecting him? Acting like he wasn't there, wasn't your son? That wasn't the way to go about it."

"I know that now," Winona replied, feeling the regret bubbling towards the surface again.

George saw that she truly was sorry and he wrapped his arms around her. "I forgive you," he murmured, the words hard to force out because of how she hurt his son, but knowing that she truly was sorry.

Winona hugged him tightly, her heart feeling about to burst with joy that her husband was with her again. "I missed you so, so much."

"And I you," he replied.

The two stood there quietly embracing each other as the sun slowly sank down in the sky, signaling the end of the day.

A/N: Ugh; I am NOT pleased with this chapter. Sorry it's so short, but this chapter was a pain to write. But now I can move on to other chapters, so hopefully...faster updates. X3; btw, check SpiderCatDude's story 'And You Healed My Broken Heart'. It's awesome!