Chapter 40
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For more than an hour Coulson sits by Melinda's side. Melinda not saying a word the entire time.
"Phil, I'm going to the Tower to see Skye." Clint says from the door and Coulson nods.
"Mel, how about we get up?" Coulson suggests once Clint has left. "And you try and get some sleep."
"I don't know if I can." Melinda admits.
"When is the last time you slept?" Coulson asks worriedly.
"Days, I'm not sure how many." Melinda answers.
"And nightmares?" Coulson asks worried
"On and off since you've been gone." Melinda answers.
"Oh Mel, you should have called." Coulson tells her hating that she has been going through whatever she is going through alone. "Mel you are the strongest person I know, it's okay to ask for help sometimes." Coulson tells Melinda as going by the fact that she avoiding looking at him when he suggested that she should have called he realised what she was thinking.
"I hurt her Phil, I didn't even realise that I did until it was too late, I didn't mean to and I hurt her." Melinda tells Coulson, "She said it doesn't matter but it does. Oh god Phil, I can't believe I did that." Melinda tells Coulson.
"Hey, she knows that you wouldn't hurt her on purpose. Clint's gone to the tower, I'll talk to her later, make sure everything's okay." Coulson tells her. "Now, come get some sleep. I'll stay with you." Coulson comments helping Melinda up but she still looks hesitant.
"Just half an hour Mel, try for half an hour." Coulson request.
"Okay." Melinda responds reluctantly and the pair head to their bedroom.
After breakfast Skye called the house and she spoke to Clint which led to his decision to head to the tower.
Once she got off the phone with her Uncle Skye went back to the room that Tony leant her and feeling the need to do something Skye decides to practice with her powers, wanting to do something productive.
Standing in the middle of the room, making sure that there is nothing around her Skye close her eyes and tries to get herself relaxed. Once she is in her state of relaxation Skye starts on the hard part, getting In touch with the excess Electrical Activity. It takes a while but she finally feels that energy. Once she feels it she opens her eyes.
"Okay, come on Skye." Skye says and once she focuses on the feeling of the energy and pushing it out on her, within a few minutes she sees a tiny but of blue-white light which she now knows to be electrically dancing around her the fingers of her right hand, "Okay, that's good." Skye comments, "Now let's increase that."
For several minutes she tries but she doesn't succeed at increasing it.
"Skye, what are you doing Kid?" Clint asks confuse walking in the room.
"Practicing." Skye responds.
"I see that." Clint responds.
"Damn it." Skye says annoyed when the light disappears.
"You've been trying to use you're powers." Clint states.
"Yeah."
"So what exactly can you do now?" Clint asks interested.
"I've pretty much got a hang of my knowing power, it's my electricity base power that I'm still having issues with." Skye explains.
"It really doesn't look like you're having trouble." Clint comments.
"That tiny bit of energy took me more than twenty minutes to push out." Skye explains, "And makes me feel like I just ran for like an hour." Skye explains.
"Oh." Clint comments not sure what else to say.
"How's Mom?" Skye asks worried.
"Your Dad's with her." Clint tells his niece.
"That's not an answer Uncle Clint." Skye tells her Uncle.
"I know." Clint tells her, "The truth is I don't know how she is." Clint admits.
"тетя Наташа said that Mom sometimes get in a bad place, what exactly does that mean?" Skye asks curious.
"It means that there are times where Mels doesn't sleep and has constant nightmares where the guilt over everything she has done gets too much for her, she basically shuts down." Clint explains, "Sometimes it lasts hours or sometimes it lasts days. There is almost nothing you can do to help, but there is a few things. During these times the Mels we know, the Mother you know, disappears for a while." Clint explains.
"Can Dad help her?" Skye asks worried.
"He has before." Clint answers, "But there has been times where he couldn't."
"Then what happen?" Skye asks interested. "How did she come back? So to speak." she asks interested.
"It varies." Clint answers, "Some time she snaps herself out of it, once she and Nat drunk to they passed out or Phil does something to snap her out of it, or other things" Clint explains, "Director Fury and Hill don't even know that this has ever happened. When she gets like this Nat, Phil and I make sure that one of us is always with her and we do what we can." Clint explains
"I knew she hadn't been sleeping, I should have called Dad." Skye comment feeling guilty, thinking that maybe if she called her father earlier she could have prevented all of this.
"This isn't your fault Kid. Trust me on that." Clint tells his niece.
"I wish there was something I could do to help her." Skye tells her Uncle hating that she feels so unless.
"I'll call your Dad in few hours and see how things are going, you might be able to do something then, but right now you can't." Clint tells her.
"I hate this." Skye says frustrated.
"So do I." Clint admits then notices that Skye is fiddling with her fingers, clearly trying not to say something but at the same time looking like she really wants to.
"Skye, what is it?" Clint asks interested.
"Nothing." Skye responds too quickly for Clint's liking.
"Talk to me Kid." Clint requests, "Please." He adds.
"You were in foster homes right?" Skye asks her Uncle as he has mentioned it a couple of time
"Yeah, a couple." Clint answers surprised that she would bring it up now. "I ran away before I could go to too many." He tells her.
"I did that a few times, always went back though." Skye admits, "I was in six foster homes all together, never stayed more than two months a single one." She tells her Uncle not looking at him as she speaks, "The place I stayed the longest was when I was thirteen, the Carmichaels." Skye explains and as soon as she says the name Clint guesses that it wasn't a good experience, "They had two grown kids of their own, took in foster kids because they could, because they had the space, because they missed being parents, on paper they were the perfect foster parents." She explains.
"I'm guessing in reality they weren't." Clint comments.
"No, not so much." Skye admits and walks over and sits on the floor in front of the bed.
"What happened?" Clint asks worried walking over and sitting next to his niece guessing that she must have a reason why she is bringing it up now when she hardly ever brings up her past.
"What were the foster homes you in like?" Skye asks interested.
"The first one was good." Clint admits, "They were good people, they looked after us. Were foster parents for all the right reasons." Clint admits remembering back feeling like maybe if he shares a bit about his past then maybe Skye will explains some more, "Right people wrong time, I just lost my parents and I felt like they were trying to replace them, they sent us back after a few weeks." Clint explains.
From what her Uncle has told her Skye knows that the 'we' refers to Clint and his brother but she also knows that it is an off limits topic. "What about the second?"
"The complete opposite." Clint answers, "It was because of them we ran." He explains simply. "What happened with the Carmichaels?" he asks.
"There was three other girls with me at the time, Jessica, Lisa and Emma." Skye tells him, "As soon as the social worker dropped me of Jessica, the oldest, took me aside and told me a few things, she said to stay out of Mrs Carmichael way and to use the money they gave us once a week to buy our own food and hide it. " Skye explains and Clint guesses that that is the reason that Skye still hides food in her bunk.
"Mr Carmichael was a good guy." Skye admits, "He cared about us but he was also really, really busy and was hardly ever around." Skye explains. "I think in the entire two months that I was there he was only home for a total of maybe a week all together." She answers thinking back.
"What happened?" Clint gently pushes once Skye hasn't said anything for a few minutes.
"Mrs Carmichael had some problem, a lot, but because on paper she was the perfect foster Mom and no one spoke up against her no one realises." Skye explains wondering how things would have been different if someone had, "She often forgot that she had children around which is why Jessica told me to buy food. One night once we we're all pretty sure that she was asleep Emma went downstairs and started to make food for us all, she was only fifteen, a few weeks younger than Jessica." Skye explains, "Mrs Carmichael thought she was an intruder so she picked up a knife and stabbed her." Skye explains.
Not sure what he can say to that and pretty sure that Skye isn't finished talking yet Clint doesn't say anything he just reaches out and puts his arm around his niece.
"When we heard the screams Jessica told Lisa and I to get into the closet and stay there. She called the police and went down there. She wanted to try and help Emma, they were really close, this wasn't the first home they had been in together. We didn't hear anything for a few minutes so we went down there, we couldn't stay hidden any longer." Skye explains wishing that they did. "In the kitchen we found both Jessica and Emma dead, Mrs Carmichael had cut Jessica's throat before she could scream." Skye explains thinking about the sight that still haunts her nightmares to this day, "Mrs Carmichael was sitting in the corner, saying over and over, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, she still had the knife in her hand." Skye says with a shiver and Clint tightens her arm around her.
"You don't have to continue." Clint tells her and he starts to have some idea why she is telling him this.
"Yeah I do." Skye admits as she has never told someone what happened, "When she realised that we were standing there I thought we were going to be next, but Mrs Carmichael slit her wrist instead, saying I'm sorry as she bleed out." Skye explains, "The police arrived minutes later but it was too late, for all of them." Skye explains, "They talked to Lisa and I but every time I tried to tell them what happened I had a panic attack, I couldn't do it." She explains, "Lisa talked to the police and Mr Carmichael and his kids, she told the story so many times, but I never could." Skye explains, "We were roomed together after that, guess they wanted to put the two most messed up girls together." She tells Clint with a un emotional laugh, "That was until she overdosed a few months later. She left a note, for me." Skye informs him, "I get it now, why you stayed quite, and I wish I did. I'm sorry." Skye recites from memory, "When I walked into that bathroom and I saw Mom, all I could think of was Mrs Carmichael, they both had the same look in their eye, the look of a guilt that you can't live with." Skye explains, "I need to help her Uncle Clint, because I know what comes after that look and I can't let Mom do that to herself. There has to be something I can do to help her." Skye asks her voice displaying the emotion that she has tried to keep hidden.
"For Twenty years I've know your mother, and I've seen her at her lowest, when she was in the worse place she could be." Clint admits to his Niece, "And there has only been one time when I've been worried that he would seriously hurt herself and that's when Nat and I told her your Dad was dead." Clint explains, "I don't know what guilt she is living with, no one does, but I do know one thing. If there is one person on this planet who can help her then its Phil Coulson." Clint explains, "I know that doesn't help the useless feeling you've got or the feeling of helpless in the pit of your stomach, but it's all I can tell you can tell you Kid, the best person is helping her." Clint tells his niece, "For what it's worth I'm sorry about what happened." Clint tells his niece pretty sure that an apology won't mean anything.
"I really hate this." Skye repeats.
"I know." Clint comments, "Come on." He says standing up and pulling her up.
"Where are we going?" Skye asks confused as she follows him out of the room.
"That's a surprise." Clint comments then noticing a figure at the end of the hallway "STARK." He yells.
"What Barton?" Tony asks.
"In that fancy car collection of yours do you have any motorbikes?" Clint asks interested.
"Yeah, why?"
"Can I borrow one?" Clint asks politely
"You're going to take one whether I say yes or not aren't you?" Tony asks interested having a feeling that he is.
"Yeah." Clint answers without hesitation.
"Take whichever you want, the keys are downstairs." Tony tells him.
"Thanks, come on Kid." Clint tells Skye and he starts running down the corridor.
"Any idea what you're insane Uncle is up to She-Coulson?" Tony asks curious as Skye follows.
"Nope." Sky answers as she starts to run.
"And yet she still follows him." Tony comments with a small smile.
Back at the house both Coulson and Melinda are laying in the bed, Melinda is asleep having actually managed to fall asleep and Coulson is awake.
Coulson is holding Melinda close to him as she sleeps, hoping that when she wakes she will be a bit more like herself so that maybe he can get through to her.
"What's going on Uncle Clint?" Skye asks confused. "I don't think now is a good time for a motorbike ride." She tells her Uncle.
"There is nothing that can help get rid of that feeling of helplessness in pit of your stomach, but in my experience speeding around the city on a motorbike helps you forget for a bit, mainly because you're trying not to get arrested, you in?" Clint asks his niece curious picking up a helmet and handing It to his niece.
"I don't know." Skye says hesitantly, "Maybe we should go back to the house, see how Mom's doing." Skye says to her uncle.
"If that's what you really want then we can." Clint tells his niece, "But there's still nothing we can do, if we wait a couple of hours then maybe we can do something to help." Clint tells Skye.
"Okay, a couple of hours." Skye says taking the helmet of Clint, "But if we get arrested you're dealing with Dad." She tells him.
"Deal." Clint says grabbing his own helmet.
Over an hour after she fell asleep Coulson feels Melinda starting to sir.
"HI." Coulson says to Melinda when she turns around to face him.
"Hi." Melinda responds, "What..?" She begins to ask then she remembers, "Oh god, Skye?" She asks worried.
"At Stark Tower with Clint, Stark, Steve, Banner and Pepper." Coulson tells her glad that the sleep has seemed to do her some good.
"Is she okay?" Melinda asks worried.
"From what I know, yeah." Coulson answers.
"You haven't talked to her?" Melinda asks surprised.
"Not yet." Coulson responds, "But I'm going to." He tells her. "Do you want to talk about what happened?" He asks.
"I haven't been sleeping." Melinda tells him.
"You said that, why?" Coulson asks.
"The usual." Melinda tells him, "I thought I could handle it, guess not." She realises.
"You should have called, I would been here in hours if I knew." Coulson tells Melinda.
"I shouldn't have had to." Melinda comments, "I shouldn't need you by my side to sleep without nightmares. I should have been strong enough to handle this alone." Melinda admits.
"Mel, even the strongest people need help sometimes, you shouldn't be ashamed of that." Coulson tells her.
"How long can you stay?" Melinda asks curious avoiding responding to his previous point.
"Until we get a mission." Coulson responds and Melinda nods.
"Talk to me Mel, tell me what you've been dreaming about. I want to help, I don't like seeing you hurting this much." Coulson tells Melinda, as when he saw her so broken he felt his own heart break.
For several minutes Melinda is quite and Coulson is positive that she isn't going to tell him anything but she surprises both of them by telling him about the nightmares that have haunted her dreams for over a week.
A couple of hours after leaving Stark Tower Skye and Clint arrive back the house, both of them surprised that they didn't get arrested because of several of the things Clint did while driving.
"Are you planning on giving this bike back to Stark at some point?" Skye asks her Uncle curious as they get off the bike.
"Yeah, I probably should." Clint comments.
"You going to warn him about all the tickets that he is probably going to get?" Skye asks interested.
"Nah that will be my gift to him." Clint comments.
"I doubt he will see it that way." Skye comments as the pair head inside.
"Yeah, well. He'll deal with it." Clint comments and Skye rolls her eyes, "I'm going to go check upstairs." Skye tells her Uncle.
When Skye gets upstairs she sees the door to her parents' room is open and when she looks in she sees them both asleep next to each other. Being careful not to wake them Skye carefully closes the door and heads back downstairs.
"They are asleep." Skye tells Clint.
"That's good." Clint comments.
"Yeah, I think so too." Skye tells Clint.
"So what do you want to do while they are eating Kid?" Clint asks curious.
"Eat." Skye comments heading to the kitchen.
"You could be more specific for all I know you want to eat people." Clint comments with a grin.
"Cannibal joke really?" Skye ask more amused at his lame attempt for a joke than the joke itself.
"You were asking for it." Clint comments.
"That was just lame." Skye tells him.
"Well as you favourite Uncle you just have to put up with me." Clint tells Skye with a grin.
"Who says you're my favourite Uncle?" Skye teasingly asks, "Uncle Tony does have some pretty cool toys after all." She comments.
"Take that back." Clint tells Skye.
"What are you going to do if I don't?" Skye asks realising that she is asking for trouble.
"This." Clint says and before Skye can react Clint is tickling her.
"Okay, you win." Skye says through hysterical laughter a couple of minutes later.
"Say it." Clint tells her.
"You're my favourite Uncle." Skye says and Clint stops tickling her.
"You actually asked for that." Clint reminds his niece.
"I know." Skye responds. "I regret it." She comments. "So food." Skye says going to the fridge and having a look.
"I vote for Pizza." Clint comments looking over Skye's shoulder and seeing that everything in the fridge needs to be cooked.
"I second that vote." Skye says as she closes the fridge. "You order, I'm going to get changed." Skye says heading upstairs.
Two hours later Skye and Clint are sitting on the living room floor with five different pizza boxes around them, all of them having many pieces missing but none of them empty.
"You know we should go put the left overs in the fridge for later." Clint comments.
"That requires getting up." Skye reminds him.
"Right, and getting up is evil?" Clint asks confused.
"That's what we decided three pieces of pizza ago." Skye reminds her Uncle.
"Right, we did." Clint comments and before either of them can say anymore Clint's phone rings, "What Ward?" Clint asks after checking the caller ID.
"Hey, be nice." Skye says hitting her Uncle.
"Give us an hour." Clint responds before hanging up the phone.
"What is it?" Skye asks worried.
"We've got a mission." Clint responds.
"Which means you and Dad have to go." Skye realise.
"Yeah, we do." Clint answers, "I better go tell him." Clint says getting up and heading upstairs.
A few minutes later Clint returns downstairs and walks over to Skye who has managed to stand up, "Your Dad will be down in a minute." Clint tells his niece, "You're Moms doing better, you should tell her what you told me." Clint suggests.
"No, I'm never telling anyone that." Skye tells her Uncle.
"You should, it could help you to actually talk about it." Clint says as he gives Skye a hug, not pushing her anymore. "Look after yourself kid."
"See you Uncle Clint." Skye says just as Coulson walks down stairs.
"I'll wait in the car." Clint tells Coulson.
"We haven't even said hello yet." Skye tells her father
"I know." Coulson says and the father and daughter hug. "Are you okay?" Coulson asks worried as they do.
"I'm good." Skye assures her father, "I know Mom didn't mean to hurt me. I know she never would. I'm okay I just wish she would stop blaming herself." Skye tells her father.
"She won't." Coulson tells his daughter, "But she's a lot better than she was before, what she needed was sleep and to talk." Coulson tells his daughter, "Call me if you notice her not getting much sleep again." Coulson tells his daughter, "I'm sorry that you had to see that." He tells her.
"It's not your fault, and it's not hers either, we all have things that are hard to live with sometimes." Skye comments.
"Skye?" Coulson ask worried.
"I'm okay, promise." Skye tells her father, "And I'm sorry I didn't tell you about me and Ward." Skye comments changing the subject.
"It's okay, I get it." Coulson assures his daughter. "I'll try and get back here again in a few days but don't hesitate to call." Coulson requests.
"I won't." Skye assure her Dad.
"I've got to go." Coulson comments as they hear the beep of Lola's horn, "I love you Baby Girl."
"Love you too Dad." Skye responds and after giving Skye a kiss on her head he leaves.
Once her father walks out of the front door Skye heads upstairs and to her parents' room. "Can I come in?" Skye asks curious seeing her Mom sitting up in bed.
"Yeah." Melinda respond and Skye walks over to her father's side of the bed and sits down next to her.
"I'm so sorry Skye for what I did." Melinda tells her daughter.
"it's okay Mom, I promise you I'm okay." Skye assure her mother for what feels like the hundredth time for Skye, "I know you didn't mean to hurt me." She tells her. "How are you?" Skye asks concerned.
"Better." Melinda answers, "Your Dad and I talked, that helped and so did the sleep I got." Melinda comments.
"I'm glad." Skye tells her Mother, "I was worried."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you." Melinda tells her daughter.
"You don't need to apologise to me for that." Skye tells her. "I love you Mom and next time this happens, let me help if I can." Skye tells her mother.
"I'll try." Melinda responds and the pair drift into silence.
For a while Skye and Melinda remain sitting next to each other in silence until Skye heads back downstairs to clean up the Pizza and goes to bed herself. She has been asleep for several hours when she wakes up screaming, "JESSICA, EMMA NO."
"Skye." Melinda says racing into Skye room to see her sitting up in bed looking terrified. "Can I come closer?" Melinda asks standing at the end of Skye's bed not wanting a repeat of when Skye tried to wake her the night before.
Skye nods and Melinda walks over and sits down on the side of her daughters bed, as soon as she does Skye hugs her and starts to cry.
"I've got you." Melinda promises her daughter.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Melinda asks twenty minutes later when Skye stops crying.
"No, not really." Skye answers.
"Okay then you don't have to." Melinda tells her daughter.
"But I think I have to." Skye says to her mother's surprised as she remembers Clint's words from earlier. "But can you not say anything until I'm done?" Skye request, "I don't think I'll get through it otherwise."
"Of course." Melinda responds knowing how hard it is for Skye to admit things.
"Thank you." Skye respond and she prepares herself to tell a story for the second time in a day that she has never told before, "When I was thirteen I was at the foster home I spent the most time at, The Carmichael's, I was there with three other girls, Jessica, Emma and Lisa. Mr Carmichael was great but never home, Mrs Carmichael wasn't. She had some problems and often forgot that she had taken in children. One night Emma went down to cook dinner and Mrs Carmichael stabbed her because she thought she was an intruder. Jessica told me and Lisa to hide and she went downstairs and Mrs Carmichael slit her throat." Skye explains and she pauses to collect herself before she continues, Melinda remaining quiet even though she would like to comment, "Lisa and I stayed hidden for a little while then we went downstairs, we wanted to see if there was anything we could do. We found Jessica and Emma both dead and Mrs Carmichael sitting in the corner of the kitchen muttering I'm sorry, over and over, when she saw Lisa and I and she realised what she really done she cut her wrists." Skye explains, "When the police came they asked us what happened and I had my first panic attack when I tried to tell them, before today I could never tell anyone what happened before today, I would have a panic attack every time I tried." Skye explains to her mother.
"I reminded you of Mrs Carmichael today didn't I?" Melinda asks her daughter.
"Yeah." Skye admits.
"I sorry for bringing up bad memories for you." Melinda tells her daughter.
"You didn't know." Skye tells her mother. "But I was so scared about what you were going to do to yourself." Skye tells her mother, "Everywhere I go people die, and today Uncle Clint and тетя Наташа just kept telling me that there was nothing I could do to help you, I felt useless." Skye tells her mother.
"What happened to Jessica, Emma and Lisa wasn't your fault." Melinda tells her daughter, "You know that don't you?"
"Yeah I know." Skye admits but she can't help but feel like it is sometimes.
"What happened today wasn't your fault either." Melinda tells her daughter.
"I knew you weren't sleeping, if I called Dad sooner then maybe he could have helped you." Skye tells her mother.
"Phil wouldn't have been able to help until after what you saw happened." Melinda tells her daughter with certainty.
"How do you know?" Skye asks curious.
"Because I know myself." Melinda tells her daughter, "Ever since I died I've been thinking about everything I have done, I needed it to all get too much so that I could get the guilt under control again, get it back to what I live with every day." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Bahrain." Skye realises. "It's been what fifteen? Sixteen years since Bahrain?" Skye asks her mother.
"Yeah." Melinda answers
"Whatever happened must have been bad, I get that, I do, but you shouldn't keep feeling guilty for that, I'm sure you made up for what you did a long time ago." Skye tells her mother.
"You don't know what I did." Melinda responds.
"Then tell me." Skye tells her mother, "I mean if you can, I would totally understand if you don't, but I want to understand I want to be able to help you." Skye explains to her mother.
"I've never told anyone what happened." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Before today I never told anyone what happened with the Carmichaels, it wasn't easy and I don't know if it will help in the long run but now you and Uncle Clint understand me a bit more, that's all I want Mom, to understand you." Skye tells her mother.
For more than fifteen minutes Melinda is quite trying to decide what to do, "Okay, I'll tell you." Melinda tells her daughter, "No interruptions." Melinda requests and Skye nods. After pausing a minute to collect herself Melinda tells her daughter the story of what made her who she is today, the story she has never told another person.
Melinda spends half an hour telling her daughter the story of what happen in both Bahrain and Istanbul. Once she is finished Skye asks a couple of questions but because she realises that it is still really hard for her mother to talk about she stops quickly. After assuring Melinda that she would be okay and that she was going to go back to sleep Melinda left her daughters room.
For over an hour Skye attempts to get to sleep but every time she closes her eyes she remembers another part of her past so instead she gets up and walks over to her parents' room.
"Skye what is it?" Melinda asks worried when she realises that her daughter is standing in the door way.
"I know I'm way too old for this but would you mind if I slept in here with you tonight?" Skye asks her mother hesitantly.
"Not at all, come on." Melinda tells her daughter and Skye walks across the room and climbs into bed next to her mother.
"Night Mom." Skye responds.
"Goodnight May." Melinda responds before she realises what she said.
"You called me May." Skye responds, the emotion in her voice being hard to read.
"You don't mind do you?" Melinda asks her daughter worried.
"Why would I? It's my name." Skye reminds her mother, it being a surprise to be called by her birth name for the first time but at the same time it also feeling right in a way.
"Yeah, it is." Melinda responds with a small smile, "Try and get some sleep."
"I don't mind you know." Skye says several minutes later, "If you want to call me May." Skye tells her mother not sure if she wants everyone to call her that but knowing she wouldn't mind if her parents choose to.
"We can talk in the morning, get some sleep." Melinda tells her daughter.
"Love you Mom."
"Love you too." Melinda responds and both mother and daughter close their eyes, both hoping that the nightmares stay away
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