They loaded what little there was of need to them into the truck and climbed back into the front seats. For a long moment he sat and stared at the houses around them.

"What's up?" she asked.

He shrugged. "Just thinking. Not the way we thought our lives would be when were kids, is it?"

She sighed. "No."

He turned to gaze out the window. "Do you think they survived?"

She didn't need to ask who 'they' were.

She already knew.

They knew each other too well these days.

Two years ago they could never have worked so well, so seamlessly, together, but these days it was second nature.

"I don't know."

They both wanted them to, of course, their hearts missed them like crazy, even when they wouldn't say it, but…

She started the car.