"You may want to turn around." said Bruce.
Helena stood with her back to him. She turned slowly, but kept her eyes on her hands, the floor.
"I couldn't get anyone else to help me. Terry wouldn't do it, Mai wouldn't do it, Maven wouldn't do it, so…I had to come myself." she finally said.
"They wouldn't do what?" he asked.
"Say I was sorry." she finished.
That did take him by surprise.
"I'm very sorry for everything. I guess you would have preferred a very different daughter."
"One like Valerie?" he asked.
"Valerie?"
"You dedicated the award you won for her to me. Along with at least four others."
"You were watching. I always did…but I never thought you would actually watch. You just…never came. And I'm very sorry because I always thought it was because you…"
"No, I did care."
She nodded.
"I know."