AN: This short part was supposed to be at the end of my last chapter. So here it is now. I will be posting the next full part soon. Just need to edit it.

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For the love of two women

part 14

Myka sat cross legged in the middle of her bed clutching a pillow to her middle as she watched Emily sitting in her reading chair staring out the window into the inky blackness of early morning. A quick glance at the clock confirmed it to be shortly before four in the morning. She had held Emily as she cried and once the tears stopped Myka began talking. First about what she knew knew of Christina. Then Helena herself. Her long intertwined history with the mystical facility that was the warehouse. Both 12 and 13.

How does one explain a hundred year prison sentence? How to explain madness? Betrayal? How to explain devastating loss? Self sacrifice? Holograms? But she had held nothing back. Explaining Helena's long and difficult life's journey up to the point that her memories had been placed on the Janus coin the second time. And Emily returned to her manufactured life in Cheyenne.

Emily said nothing as Myka spoke. At some point withdrawing and moving to sit in the reading chair by the window listening intently to everything being said. Eventually Myka had trailed off. Out of things to say. So Myka waited. Waited for the other woman to make some kind of move or sound. To start asking the million questions she must have. Finally dark eyes returned to focus on her and Myka caught her breath at the heartbreak she saw.

"Well... once again I say if I didn't know you better I would say you were insane." Laughing harshly, Emily continued, "Or I'm insane for believing you."

Myka let out a small sigh of relief. She wasn't sure what she would have done had the other woman refused to believe her. Had simply shut her out and walked away deciding it was all too impossible to accept. "Its all true. All of it." Hesitantly she added, "Your memories are stored...you can... if you want, access them." The thought of Emily speaking to a holographic Helena made Myka cringe inside as her loyalty to the real woman before her and the stored memories of the another battled inside her.

Emily sat staring at Myka for a few more minutes. So many thoughts running through her head that she wasn't even sure what to think about first. She felt numb. The story of her own life had felt foreign. Just as foreign as the fake life she had apparently been given. No parents dead in a car crash. She wasn't even American. Or from this century apparently. She was a mother. And her child was long dead. She had tried to destroy the world. And saved it. Each individual detailed seemed to scream for some reaction. Tears or yelling or relief. But jumbled all together they left her feeling numb.

Finally breaking their stare down Emily stood up a little wobbly from the chair she had been sitting in for so long. In a flash Myka was by her side, but she pulled her arm away ignoring the hurt expression on the other woman's face. "I think... I'd like to go home now."

"Emily... please..." Myka stood helplessly watching the other woman pull cloths out of her small overnight bag. "Its four in the morning and you probably shouldn't be driving right now..."

Emily barely heard Myka's words as she began to strip off her pajama pants. All she could think was to get away. To return to what felt normal. Her apartment. Her things. Her cat. Those were all real. She needed those things around her desperately.

"Emily!" Myka caught Emily's arm before she could finish undressing. "I don't think you should drive right now. Sleep here. I'll go to another room if you like, but please don't go like this... I'm afraid for you."

"I need to go home Myka." Emily's voice was small and confused.

Seeing the desperate look in her love's eyes broke Myka's heart. In that moment she realized that Emily wasn't running because she was mad at Myka. She was running because she was confused and overwhelmed. And how could she blame her for wanting to be in familiar surroundings? Another thing she could kick herself for. She had handled this entire situation so wrong. "I know you do Em, but you are in no condition to drive anywhere right now. And honestly neither am I or I would take you home myself."

Standing in just her sleep shirt, jeans dangling from one hand, Emily looked at Myka with pleading eyes. "I don't know what to do."

Taking the jeans carefully from Emily's hand, Myka tossed them toward the overnight bag. "Lay down Emily. Just lay down here with me."

"I don't..." Brain befuddled with too much information Emily let herself be directed back to Myka's bed and under the covers.

"I do. Just rest." Myka quickly turned off the bedside lamp and eased in beside the other woman pulling her close. "I know its all crazy in your head right now. And in the morning... well in the morning you can do whatever you want, but right now just lay here with me. Rest."

Emily lay limply against Myka's side with her head resting on the other woman's shoulder. She could feel the steady heart beat beneath her cheek and fingers running gently through her hair. Before she could even try to begin sorting things out sleep over came her.

Myka felt the body in her arms go limp far quicker than she had expected. Pulling Emily tighter against her body she tried to shut out thoughts of what the morning might bring. Before she knew it she too had fallen asleep. Both their overwhelmed minds and hearts mercifully shutting down.