I Can't Imagine

Meg sat on the bed with her father and Maggie sorting through all of their mom's things. She couldn't help but cry at all the things that she wouldn't be able to do with her. She was about to say something when Maggie beat her to it.

"There's so many things we'll never do, if only we could have talked about it." Then she turned towards their father.

"Why didn't you tell us dad? You must of known she wasn't going to get better."

Meg felt an extreme pang of guilt course through her. She should have told Maggie, but her father had made her promise not to say anything.

"She was a fighter Maggie" their father began. "Telling you two would mean that she had given up on the fact."

"I can't help it, but sometimes…I'm really angry." Maggie sobbed.

Meg put an arm around her sister and hugged her.

"Maybe we were wrong not to tell you. I'm sorry girls. We did what we thought was best."

"I miss her" Maggie sobbed.

"I miss her too" Keith said as he drew both his daughters in for a hug.

"She's in our heart though Maggie" Meg finally spoke up. "We all will never forget her."

Maggie nodded.

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After they were finished, Meg ran to her room and gathered some things and put them in a bag. She would spend the next couple of days with Adam and Zac. She threw on some clothes quickly, hugged her sister and father and headed out just as David was walking up the driveway with his things.

"How is he David?" she asked.

David looked at her sadly. "He's worse, he won't move from his chair and he looks really distraught."

Meg squeezed David's shoulder and ran down the hill as fast as her feet could carry her. Zac intercepted her in the middle of the field, and they ran all the way to Adam's house.

When she reached the house, Meg hurried inside and dumped her bags next to the kitchen table. She then walked calmly into the living room and gasped at what she saw.

Adam was sitting on his chair crying holding a picture of what looked like his old wife and his daughter. She walked softly towards the chair and knelt besides him.

"Adam?" Meg whispered.

He looked over at her and he had as much pain in his eyes as she felt yesterday. Meg took his hand.

"Talk to me"

"David told me that my daughter loved me and that he came because she wanted me to know that and then he gave me this old photo."

Meg took the photo gently from his hands and looked at it. It looked to be Adam as a younger man, with his daughter, wife and Samson.

"I admit, I did my daughter wrong by sending her away. The situtation could have been handled better."

Meg squeezed his hand and remembered what her father had said earlier that morning.

"Adam you did what you thought was best for her at the time. She must have seen that as she got older."

Adam was now aware of the girl kneeling before him. She loved him and for the first time in a while, he felt alive and not alone anymore.

He pulled her up into his arms and kissed her with a fiery passion.

"You're my angel" he said gently as he caressed her cheek.

Meg leaned her head on his shoulder. "You know a couple of weeks ago, I never imagined that we would ever be this close, but we are and it's turned out to be the best thing that has ever happened in my life. I now can't imagine what it would be like without you. I love you Adam and I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

Adam kissed her again softly, grabbed a blanket laying on the floor next to the chair and wrapped both of them up in it. Meg nestled her head into the crook of his next as he rubbed soft cirlcles on her arm, they fell asleep like that.