It was around 8 PM. Kim had left a couple of hours before. Taylor was settling in for the evening when the doorbell rang. Her mom was upstairs in the shower so Taylor went to answer the door.

"Coming!" She said as she wheeled her way to the front door.

She opened it to find Walsh standing on the porch.

"Hey." He said

"Hi." Taylor replied

"How you feeling?" He asked

"I'm doing alright." She smiled

Walsh was feeling kind of awkward standing on the front porch.

"So can I come in?" He asked

Taylor laughed. "Yeah come on in Billy."

"So did Kim come over today?" He asked

"Yeah, we had a good time." She replied

"Good. I'm glad to hear that. So do you feel up to another visitor?"

"Well kind of hard to say 'no' when you're standing in my living room." Taylor grinned

"I'm sorry, I just was worried." He replied

"You're fine." Taylor laughed. "Obviously you can't take a joke."

"Sorry." He smiled

"I can't take you apologizing all the time so stop." Taylor said

"Sor..." Walsh caught himself. "So what are you planning this evening?"

Taylor laughed slightly. "Well basically the same thing as every night. Watch TV and eventually go to sleep."

"Sounds like fun." He put his hands in his pockets. "What's on?"

"I was thinking about watching the Yankees game." Taylor said

"You hate baseball." Walsh noted

"Yeah well it's okay sometimes." Taylor replied

"Okay, okay. Who are they playing?" Walsh asked

"Red Sox." Taylor smiled

"Cool." Walsh looked around.

"There's drinks in the kitchen. No beer though, mom doesn't think I should drink. She's afraid I might go too fast and get charged with DWI in my chair." Taylor cracked

"We wouldn't want that then would we? You want a glass of water or something?" He laughed as he walked into the kitchen.

"There's Raspberry tea in there, can I get a glass of that please?" She smiled

"Anything you want. I think I'll try it myself." He smiled as he pulled two glasses from the cabinet.

Soon he returned to the living room with two glasses of the tea. He put them on the end table and sat on the couch next to Taylor. The game was already on so they started watching it. He cautiously took her hand.

"I'm glad to see you in such good spirits." He said softly

"No sense in being mad about it all the time." She replied as she leaned her head against his shoulder.

They sat there and watched the game. Eventually, he noticed that Taylor was starting to fall asleep.

"You should go to bed." Walsh told her

"I'm not being very good company." She responded

"It's okay." He said as he helped her into her bed. "I'll just head out."

"You don't have to leave." She said. "I can stay awake until the end of the game."

"Okay, there's still 2 innings yet." Walsh replied

Finally, it was the top of the 9th inning. Taylor looked over and noticed that Walsh had actually fallen asleep.

"And I was the one falling asleep." She laughed to herself as she turned of the light and went to sleep herself.

The next morning Beth came down the stairs and noticed that Walsh was sleeping on the couch. Taylor heard her mom come down and woke up.

"Morning." She said to her mother

"Billy fell asleep on the couch I see." Beth laughed

"Yeah, he was out before I was." Taylor replied

Slowly he stirred. His hair was flat on one side of his head.

"Good morning sunshine." Taylor laughed

"Would you like a cup of coffee or some breakfast or something?" Beth asked

Walsh looked over at Taylor. She just shrugged.

"Coffee please." He said as he stood up and helped Taylor into her wheelchair.

"Thanks." Taylor said as they went towards the kitchen.

"Anything for you." He smiled

They sat down at the table and were drinking their coffee when the headline of the newspaper caught Walsh's attention.

"FIRE THAT CAUSED WAREHOUSE FIRE RULED ARSON."

"What's that?" Taylor asked as Walsh tried to quickly turn the paper.

She stared at him.

"Billy, why won't you show me the paper?" She asked

He tried to think of a way to tell her.

"The warehouse fire." He said

"Which one?" Taylor asked

"The one you were hurt at." He added

"Yeah that was months ago, what about it?" Taylor asked

"It was arson." He said

"Let me see that." She said as she grabbed the paper from him.

Walsh and Beth watched as Taylor went through a range of emotions as she read the story. The first of which was anger, then finally subsiding in tears.

"Because he wanted to get back at his boss, he cost me my livelihood!" She slammed the paper down on the table and wheeled herself away from the table.

"Alex." Walsh said but she threw her hand up and went out the backdoor.

He stood and watched as the back door closed.

"I wish I could help." He said to Beth

"Give her time." Beth said

"I should probably go." He said sadly

"She'll be okay Billy. She's gotten this far." Beth replied

Walsh nodded. "Thank you for the coffee." He said as he walked out the front door.

Beth took the paper and balled it up.

"Damn it!" She cried aloud as she threw it in the trash and then sat at the table silently.