I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistence
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here Dare you to move-Switchfoot

Alex's Pov

The drive to DC seemed to take forever even if it was only 2 days it seemed like 100. I kept thinking about my babies they didn't need a crazy lady for a mother I can't see past my grief for Adam to realize how much I have. Deacon and Destiny deserved better that I could ever be. But where are all these feelings coming from just a week ago I was happy without a doubt about my parenting skills. I tried to call but nobody answered this didn't suprise me because I knew Randy wouldn't want to talk to me and I didn't want to talk to him, I didn't want him to hear how messed up I am now. Agatha has to be able to help me and if not I'm doomed to a life of pain and misery. I knocked on the door it took Agatha a few minutes to answer instead of the happy smiling woman I had grown accustomed to she looked confused and sad.

"You know you really need to find another way to solve your problems" she said as she let me in.

"I was doing so well but now it's all gone to hell" I said

"Yeah I know" she replied

"Agatha I need to know if I'm crazy or not" I told her

"No you are not crazy somebody is making it seem like you are because they want your husband" she said

"So the phone calls and the little boy were all a set up?" I asked

"Yes" she answered

"Then that means I'm not a danger to my children?" I asked

"Yes Deacon and Destiny are safe with you" she answered

"How..." but then I stopped myself I understood she saw this all along. She smiled at me for the first time that day. It was then I felt it the power she was talking about all along.

"You're dying aren't you?" I asked. She nodded.

"I got the news about a year ago you and Bryant (Dave's Father) are the only people who know you were always like a grand-daughter to me and it was a honor to show you your heritage"

I cried but I now understood why it had to happen.

"Do you want to see a picture of the twins?" I asked. She said yes and I took out one of the recent pictures of them that I had in my wallet.

"They are both really cute, Destiny is all her father but Deacon looks like you" she said

"Really I don't see it I think they both look like Randy" I said. She closed her eyes and I could hear her breathing getting slower.

"Agatha...Agatha...Agatha please don't go" I said kneeling beside her I knew it was going to happen I wasn't going to make it easy.

"Hmmm" she mumbled

I helped her upstairs into bed and I held her hand for a while. I knew she was gone but I stayed with her anyway I thought it was the right thing to do. Then I called Bryant and told him what happened. He thanked me for being with her when she went and then hung up. I left the house but sat on the front porch for a while I was so lost in thought. Thinking about Agatha and Adam and Dave, then about my babies and then Randy. I felt someone wrap their arms around my shoulders I knew it was Randy.

"Agatha's dead" I informed him.

He didn't say anything neither did I all that was needed to be said was through the embrace we shared. All was forgiven because life was too short to be mad.