To Tame Your Wild Wild Heart:
Sam slowly raised just his eyes from the clothes that he was folding to try to sneak a peek at the woman who was sitting on the opposite side of the bed. Toni had her bent knees pressed to her chest with her arms wrapped around her shins and her right cheek pressed hard into her thighs so that she could what Sam pack. Thankfully her faraway gaze seemed to be fixated on the bag that he was packing so she hadn't busted him on checking up on her once again. He wanted to ask her if she really was alright with him and Dean leaving to help with this hunt, but he knew better than to question her about it since she had already given her, albeit unenthusiastic, go ahead while also asserting that Sam didn't have to ask her for permission to do his job.
Sam kept his eyes on Toni for so long that his hands had completely stopped moving. A few moments after Sam had abandoned his packing, Toni's eyes rolled up to check on what had captured Sam's attention so completely. The moment that her eyes met his, Toni sighed and hugged her arms even more tightly against her chest.
"Seriously Sam, I'm fine with you guys going," Toni said as she sat up straight and turned to face Sam with her legs now crossed. "It's all part and parcel of the hunting life, right? I knew that coming into this relationship, so who would I be to bitch about it now? So please stop worrying about me and finish packing, okay? Dean's just going to get antsy and that's going to make for a really uncomfortable car ride for you and neither of us wants you to have to endure that."
Toni's joke nearly fell on deaf ears, but Sam did manage to give her a tight smile to acknowledge it. He then returned to his task of packing with a deep frown etched on his face. She knew that her joke wasn't overly witty or funny, heck she knew it rated nothing more than a disbelieving groan, but she hadn't expected Sam to react so negatively which was worse than if he hadn't reacted to it at all. While she watched his scowling face Toni couldn't help but question if she had read this situation the wrong way. Was she supposed to have kicked up a fuss and demanded that he stay here with her because she didn't feel they had spent enough time together? (That would have been easy for her to do because she really did wish that they could have had more time together.) As his girlfriend was she supposed to demand that he ask for her input before he made any decisions that were either life or work related? Was that what Sam had wanted her to do, but instead he just got the same old unconventional, aloof Toni? Had her not being 'the girl' finally annoyed him?
No, Toni told herself with a shake of her head. That wasn't them, nor had that ever been how their relationship had ever worked, and last she checked their relationship was working. Sam was with her because of who she was and that was not the stereotypical girl who was clingy and demanding beyond wanting open, honest discourse between them and she was with Sam for all of the same reasons. They knew each other's flaws, but they chose to focus not on the attributes they might want to change in the other person. Instead they relied on the strengths that their partner possessed to help them get through the rough patches of their lives. That was what had always helped them stay in synch, so why was she now staring at her boyfriend's unhappy face without the smallest hint of a clue as to what she could say to him to make things between them better before he left?
Slowly and carefully Toni uncrossed her legs and then got down on all fours to crawl across the mattress to kneel in front of Sam. Sam made sure to keep his eye on his hands that hadn't dared to pause while neatly folding his clothes and placing them into his bag. Toni knew that it was a fine line that they both walked to keep their relationship in near perfect balance and she was aware that she could easily scare Sam into submission, but that wasn't the type of partnership that she wanted. Plus she hadn't been anything but supportive and accommodating about helping him do his laundry so that he and Dean could get packed up and back on the road as soon as possible so why was he looking like a puppy that was cowering in the corner after being kicked?
"Sam?" She whispered as she raised her hand to tuck his hair behind his left ear so she could see his face better. Sam flinched, albeit ever so slightly, but Toni would not be deterred. She had to make sure that their balance was restored before he left or she knew that they could pretty much kiss this relationship goodbye. If he left now on bad terms then she foresaw them drifting further and further apart in the not too distant future until they were reliving the last few months that they had spent at Stanford together.
"Sam? No bull… I'm totally okay with you guys leaving to work a job. And hey… We actually got a full three days here together this time, which is an improvement from the last time you were here." She raised her left hand to his face to force him to look up from his bag and into her face. "Your expertise is needed to figure this case out so that no one else dies, so I would never think of stopping you just because I want you as close to me as possible."
Sam still wouldn't voluntarily make eye contact with her so Toni straightened up to place a feather light, reassuring kiss on his lips. When Sam didn't reciprocate in anyway, she reluctantly dropped her hands from his face as she sat back on her feet. She started to reach back up to touch his cheek, but paused mid-air when he tilted his chin towards his chest and stuttered in a shaky breath.
"Sam? What is it? What aren't you telling me about this job that has you so spooked?" She asked wrapping her arms around his neck and rubbing her cheek against his. "Please Sam? I can't let you leave until I know."
Her arms tightened slightly as he laughed self-consciously. Toni almost released her hold on Sam, but she decided to stay as she was when she felt Sam's arms wrap around her torso. Holding each other seemed like a good start for opening up and telling each other the brutal truth, so Toni pushed Sam's bag with her knee until it fell to the floor and left nothing in their way to keep them from pressing their bodies together.
Toni ran her fingers through Sam's hair and she turned her face to kiss any part of his head that she could reach. "Sam… Sammy… Sam… Please… Please talk to me… Please?"
After issuing another quiet sigh, Sam squeezed Toni uncomfortably tight for a second before releasing her completely. Contrary to her true nature, Toni wanted to cling to him, but she forced herself to let him go and sit back on her feet again so that she could look him in the face while he struggled to decide what he was going to say to answer her plea.
Sam nodded slightly in gratitude of her letting him have some space. When he to pace in front of her, Toni slumped back on the bed again with her hands in her lap. "So…" He finally said without looking up from the imaginary path he was tracing on her carpet. "So… It isn't the job itself that's weirding me out, it's… Umm… It's more the person who called and has us dropping everything to run to his side and help him."
This time it was Toni's turn to frown and scowl in response to Sam's words. She carefully unfolded her right and then her left leg so that she was sitting with her legs hanging over the edge of the mattress with her hands clasped and placed politely inn her lap. She opened her mouth to speak but she couldn't slow own her thoughts enough to choose on single question to ask so she opted to remain silent. Better mute than to sound angry or accusatory, which is what she feared that she would sound like if she started rattling off every question that had formed in her head in the last minute.
Toni's continued silence caused Sam to abandon his pacing so that he could better examine her reaction. He had expected her to jump down his throat with a hundred and one questions about who they were helping and why this person made him so nervous, but right now he was just met with a quiet Toni who was sitting at the edge of her bed with a patient look on her face while she waited for him to continue, but without her questions to answer Sam wasn't really sure what to say. Well that wasn't the full truth; it was more like he didn't know where to start so that he could tell her everything.
The two of them ended up just staring at each other while they squirmed in their spots and waited for the other to speak. Sam's cheeks started to redden and he broke their eye contact first under the weight of his embarrassment. Toni's cheeks burned slightly under her own blush when she realized that Sam was expecting her to make the next move to keep the discourse going between the two of them right now.
Toni took in a deep breath and let it out slowly before she cautiously asked, "So who is this…? Umm… Hunter, right?" Sam nodded to let Toni know she was on the right track. She felt some of the tension release from her shoulders because Sam feeling weary about helping a civilian seemed worse than if he was worried about helping another hunter. "Okay… Good… So why is working with this hunter putting you on edge? I mean if he's that big of a dick then maybe…" She let herself trail off there and just shrugged instead of completing her thought.
Sam huffed out a breath and took a couple of steps forward so that he was standing directly in front of Toni. She kept her eyes on his feet causing Sam to gently grasp her chin to tug on it and force her face up to look him in the eye as he said, "It's not that… Well not that exactly…" He let go of her face and when she didn't try to turn it away Sam resumed his pacing while he continued his explanation. "I mean I haven't really spent all that much time with him in order to make that judgment call… But then again I guess he doesn't really seem like that bad of a guy…"
Although she didn't think that she was capable of it, Toni scowled even harder in confusion. She opened her mouth to ask 'if he isn't that bad a guy then what with the frowny face', but she quickly closed it without uttering a single sound. Sam knew that his comment wouldn't make sense to Toni and he couldn't help but smile at the look on her face at that moment.
"It's just," he tried again with a great deal of hesitation. "Well… The last and only time I worked with him was… Umm… Was on that job… In Delaware."
Toni's head shot up and she met Sam's worried gaze as she blurted out a soft yet astonished, "Delaware? You don't…? That doesn't…? She won't…?"
Sam sat down beside Toni and took one of her hands between both of his as he answered, "No, I'm pretty sure that she won't… I mean… When Dean talked to him, it sounded like he was alone… And I… Uhh… I don't think he's kept in contact with her, but I… Umm… I just wanted you to know that he was the one we were heading off to meet."
Toni kept her eyes on her hand that was engulfed in both of Sam's larger mitts. For a brief moment she silently marveled at how tiny she felt compared to her boyfriend and forgot about what they had been discussing. No one in her life had ever felt this physically imposing without them having had to emotionally stunt her first. Even though her brothers, Alex and Will, were both close to being a decade older than her, neither of them had ever tried to use their size to intimidate her or to force her to do whatever they wanted, well at least not in earnest. Whenever Alex tried to force Toni to do anything it was usually completely in jest because he wanted to help to raise a sister that would defend herself against any douchebag that would try to harm a woman to get their way. But it wasn't truly like she felt that Sam was trying to do that right now either. She knew that Sam was more than capable of using his height and muscular physique to his advantage at any time, but she was more than grateful that she had never found herself on the receiving end of that display. That was why it felt so weird that she had noticed how physically imposing Sam was right now.
After shaking her head hard a couple of time, Toni finally said, "okay I get that, but why are you acting so weird about leaving?"
After exhaling long and soft, Sam squeezed Toni's hand and replied (more to himself than to her), "Because I'm an idiot."
Toni pulled Sam closer so that she could hug him properly as she countered against his chest, "No you aren't an idiot, you're just overly cautious."
Sam tried to push out of Toni's embrace, but she just wrapped her arms even tighter around him in response to his movements. He then finally forced himself to relax, however minutely it actually was, in her arms. After a moment he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend's back and then he kissed the top of her head and just let his lips remain lightly pressed to the hair at the crown of her head while he savored the last moments together that they would have since they hadn't discussed when they would meet up again.
Toni could feel Sam's lips placing reverent kissed to her head while she started to say in a strained tone that she had hoped would sound playful, "Sammy, Sammy, Sammy… Just because he was associated to a job involving your number one psycho fan doesn't mean that every job you work with him will involve her… Don't punish him for her being completely bat shit crazy, okay?"
Sam placed a long, strong kiss to the crown of her head before he moved his lips to the skin of her forehead to place a few feather-light kisses across it. "Okay… But I just need you to know that it was Garth who we were swooping in to rescue on this job despite how we might feel about him."
"Despite?" Toni questioned with a playful edge to her voice as she pushed back against Sam's chest. "So now you just put people into the 'villain' category because of the questionable company they may or may not be keeping? Come on Winchester, you know that we need a much better reason than that to distrust someone sight unseen, now don't we soldier?"
Sam's lips pulled back into a genuine smile for the first time since the two of them had returned to Toni's room with the basketful of his clean laundry causing Toni's heart to swell. He was finally talking with her about what was on his mind and she was now feeling like when he left that it would just be like it had been when the two of them had parted ways for any other hunt. They would have their balance restored and neither of them would try to find any stupid reasons to avoid each or to make excuses for why it took them so long to get back to each other when they missed a call or tried to ignore a text. No, now things were going to be set straight and Toni couldn't have been happier.
"Yeah I guess you're right," Sam finally answered. "Maybe I should at least wait until I've shared a meal or two with him before I pass my final judgment."
"At least," Toni laughed out softly before she kissed Sam again and crawled over his legs to straddle his lap. She wrapped her arms and legs around his neck and waist respectively and then she broke their kiss by sitting up straight on his thighs. She made sure to give him a reassuring smile to keep him from even entertaining the thought of becoming worried about her or what she was now thinking. Sam allowed himself to remain relaxed as he tried his best to mirror Toni's facial expression while he waited for her to speak again even though inside he still felt uncertain that Toni was feeling as easy going as she was projecting herself to be.
Toni gripped his head in both of her hands and then ran her thumbs gently ran her thumbs gently back and forth over his eyebrows. Her touch had the desired effect because the deepest crinkle in Sam's forehead softened considerably. His eyes finally closed when she placed a soft, chaste kiss on his lips so she moved her mouth beside his left ear to quietly say, "You know… Even though your brother keeps accusing you of being a gigantic nerd, you can be pretty fucking dumb sometimes Winchester."
Sam wasn't expecting his girlfriend to say something like that so he almost dropped Toni to the floor when he sat back in surprise. Just as soon as he almost dropped Toni, Sam regained his faculties and hugged his arms around her waist once again. She actually giggled like a school girl at the look on Sam's face of chagrin which helped him to take his near faux pas in stride.
"Seriously Sam you are way overthinking this and you're making this harder than it has to be," she said while petting the length of his face once again. "No if you were trying to delay your meticulous packing because you wanted to show me how much you'll miss me… Well then your being this stupid is definitely more than excusable."
Sam huffed out a laugh as Toni stood up off his lap to retrieve his bag from the floor. Toni still had a warm smile on her face as she replaced a couple articles of clothing that had fallen out of his duffle bag when she kicked it to the floor. Sam continued to silently watch her as she placed his bag on the bed and resumed folding the remnants of his clean laundry. She knew that Sam could be very particular about how his bags were packed, so she just piled his now folded clothes on the bed beside his bag prompting Sam to quietly blurt out, "God I love you Toni."
Toni stopped mid-motion and dropped the shirt she had been folding on the floor. Sam watched her almost apprehensively as she stalked towards him and stepped in between his legs. His eyes remained open in confusion when she kissed him but he finally released the breath that he had been holding when she said, "You bet your ass you do. Now come on Boyfriend, we've got to get you packed and on the road or you're going to have one cranky brother on your hands and no amount of 'I love you's will help to remedy that."
"Toni…? Angel? Are you alright?" The Colonel's concerned voice broke through his daughter's reverie. He gently squeezed the back of her neck and asked, "Have you been able to make heads or tails out of that strange writing Sam sent you? Or is not finding anything the answer to the question 'why do you look so serious'?"
Toni relaxed and snuggled a bit into her father's grasp as she shook her head answering, "No sir… On both counts." The Colonel gave his daughter's neck another gentle squeeze before he hurriedly found a seat at the kitchen table so that he could see her face while they talked. The weary hunter gave her dad a sad smile and reached across the table to take his hand in hers as she elaborated on her answer. "I was… I was just thinking about the last time Sam and Dean were here… Sam was worried about working the job with Garth but then everything worked out just fine in the end, so… So I was starting to allow myself to hope with everything like Cas healing him and all that that meant they… We were on a upward, positive trend, but…"
"But what Angel?" He prompted as he gently shook her hand against the tabletop.
Toni slowly pulled her hand back and then pointed to the books strewn all over their kitchen table with the pen she had in her hand saying, "But then they had another run-in with Dick Roman… And then they stole that stupid rock from the king Leviathan that house that dumb ancient looking tablet with idiotic characters from no known language on the planet… Or at least from what I can tell it isn't… And that's with me checking into dead languages too. I… I don't know, but it's just starting to feel…"
Without finishing that thought, Toni just shoot her head and turned it down to make it look like she was reading from the open book that lay between her elbows. In reality she was actually just staring at the pages with her eyes unnaturally wide while she willed away the tears that were trying to form. She was constantly trying her damnedest not to let the frustration get the best of her, but lately it was getting harder and harder to suppress.
The strained silence spoke volumes to the Colonel so he soundlessly moved his chair closer to his daughter's side. Much to his surprise and her chagrin, Toni jumped slightly when her dad wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Toni hated that her father surprised her like that, however she didn't hesitate to mold herself against his side when he hugged her tightly and kiss the top of her head.
"But it's starting to feel like the opposition is mounting an even stronger front and you feel like you've lost some of the ground you had gained?" He asked just over a whisper against Toni's hair.
She nodded against his shoulder and wrapped her arms around his waist so that she could pull herself even tighter against his body. "Yeah… Something like that… But hearing the latest about Bobby, it… I mean it was bad when they told me that he had… That we had lost him, but now… Well it felt worse than a punch to the gut when Sam was telling me that…" She sniffled back a sob and continued with an even tone, "We created the perfect pyre, they salted his… We followed the ceremony to the letter to make sure that he went out with a proper hunter's funeral… It shouldn't even be possible for him to have become a vengeful spirit, right? I mean that's not fair. We followed the rules so his spirit should be free and be resting in peace, right?"
"Oh Antonia… My Angel… All of that is most definitely the truth, but Sweetheart…? I think we both know all too well that life just isn't always fair and…" He paused there when he felt his daughter shudder and let out an almost inaudible sob. I took him a couple of uncomfortable swallows before he could find his voice again. "But that doesn't me that we don't keep fighting against our enemies with all our might." He continued in a hushed voice. "It also means that we sometimes have to re-group to re-evaluate our strategy to find the best front for us to attack to weaken our enemy's forces."
"I don't know if I can," Toni whispered against her dad's chest. "I don't know if I'm strong enough to do it anymore."
For a few moments Tom let his daughter cry softly against his chest while he just held her tightly against his torso. Since she was clinging so tightly to his shirt, Toni's fathers couldn't push his daughter back far enough, heck he couldn't move her at all, to look her in the eye when he wanted to impart his next words of wisdom. As a compromise he moved his mouth beside her ear so that he could be sure that she would hear him when he whispered, "That's why I pray and thank God every day that He hasn't left you to fight this battle alone. We're all here to support you Toni."
"DAD!" Toni called out breathlessly once she made it through the open door of the townhouse. She had been out on her daily run when she received news that had caused her to sprint home at an uncomfortable pace in order to get there as quickly as possible. The end result was that she was breathless, had sweat dripping off of her chin and her leg muscles quaked so vigorously that they almost gave out on her while she walked towards the den. At the doorway of the TV room she clung to the door's frame as she panted out, "Dad… I… I ran… Into… Yvette… You… You needed… To… To… See me?"
"Oh goodness Angel, I didn't mean to scare you," Tom replied as he quickly turned off the TV and nearly threw the remote onto their coffee table.
Toni tried to give her dad an easy smile, but she was still breathing too heavily to pull such a move off. In her continued efforts to appear nonchalant, even though her sprinting home until she was nearly about to pass out from exhaustion, Toni moved to sit beside her father to her usual place on the couch. Unfortunately the strain she had put on her muscles decided to catch up with her all at once right at that moment causing her knees to buckle. Before she could fall because of her noodle-like legs, Toni found herself being caught in dad's strong arms.
"Antonia Wayne," he good-naturedly chastised her as he helped Toni to her original destination of the couch. "What am I going to do with you my little Angel?" Toni shrugged and ground the heels of her hands into her thighs as she tried to work out some of the knots that were currently forming in her quad muscles. Her father couldn't stop himself from kissing the top of Toni's head before he sat down beside her on the couch. "I take it from your red, sweaty face and hyperventilating breaths that Yvette told you a little bit more than the simple message of the fact that Sam called, huh?"
Still running her hands up and down her thighs, Toni nodded but didn't say anything aloud. Her dad's eyebrows started to turn down in confusion when he saw the barest hint of tears in her eyes while she pointedly stared at her feet.
"Sweetheart… What did Yvette say to you that has you so upset?" Her father implored while stilling her hands to hug her tightly.
Toni shook her head and quickly wiped away an involuntary tear that had fallen from her eye. Before she attempted to speak, she slipped out of her father's embrace so that she could sit up straight and face her dad properly when she spoke. "It isn't so much what she said as it was the look on her face when I tried to call her out on the fact that she was withholding information from me. But then again, I think you more than anyone know how she is about giving anyone too much information about a premonition that she has only experienced once."
"They're usually so vague that can easily be misinterpreted, so she doesn't like to give away too many details in case she's putting too much of her own bias into what she saw," her dad replied with a sad smile on his face. He knew all too well how frustrating it could be living with someone who caught small glimpses of their future that didn't really mean anything because they were always given without context. "Just like she did when she had that vision of Sam standing at the alter awaiting his bride in Las Vegas and…"
"And she thought that he and I were eloping without letting you know or having you be a part of the ceremony," Toni interrupted with a soft laugh. The idea of either her or Sam getting married, without being coerced by some sort of supernatural power, still seemed too ridiculous for Toni to fathom without laughing out loud hysterically most days. Although lately Toni had caught herself wondering if there ever could be a time when that would seem like a more tangible ideal. Sam had thought so once, but he had abandoned that dream when the Yellow Eyed Demon killed the woman who had been the co-star in those dreams. But could there ever be a time when Toni could slip in and become Sam's leading lady in a story of life long domestic bliss? Toni was beyond certain that there wouldn't be, but the fact that even a tiny part of her hoped that it could exist was beyond troubling to her, so she tried her best to just not think about it… Much.
"Yes that most definitely was an unfortunate misinterpretation of the scene she had envisioned," her dad answered with a tone filled with regret. "But she truly is sorry for thinking the worst, but Toni… What did Yvette actually SAY to you today? I don't believe for one second that it was just a look from her that upset you this badly. I know you aren't that sensitive, even when it comes to the subject of that boyfriend of yours."
Toni huffed out a sigh at being called out so directly by her father then said, "All that she would actually say was that I should get back here as soon as possible and she apologized for that meaning that I would have to cut my run short. When I tried to press her for a reason why it was so urgent, she got really teary eyed and she refused to look me in the eye at all. Hell she actually tried to walk away from me without acknowledging my question, but she did actually stop when I grabbed her by the arm to force her to stay…It took a little bit of prodding and she wouldn't look up from her feet when she spoke, but she did eventually say, 'You should be with Sam Antonia.'. Just like that… With my full name and all. Seriously what's going on dad?"
"She said 'be with Sam'?" Her father repeated. "Be with him in what way? Did she mean physically or metaphorically? Although you two are a couple, so what else did she mean?"
Toni shrugged replying, "I asked her the same things… Well not in so many words, but all that she would add to it was that I really needed to get home as fast as I could to talk to you. Then she… Well after that she started to cry and then she just walked away towards her townhouse so I figured that that meant that you had some really bad news for me. So please, please, please dad, give it to me straight because I've had enough of the vague, touchy feely crap… What did I miss while I was out on my run? Pleeeease…"
"Oh Angel," her dad said with a small reluctant smile tugging at his lips. He would never actually admit it out loud, but he secretly loved it when his daughter sounded so young and small because it gave him the chance to be the sage protector he had never been during her actual youth. He gently petted her hair to try to comfort her and said, "I can definitely see why hearing something like that would have worried you so much, but Toni… Sweetheart, I… I don't have any devastating new to tell you… Well nothing more Earth shattering than the fact that you've missed a couple of phone calls from Sam and possibly a text message or two."
"Okay… So I've missed a call or two from my boyfriend… I get that, but there's got be something I'm missing here… What else is there?"
The frantic look in his daughter's eyes caused Tom to pull her into another proper, tight hug because he didn't want her to see how much this was actually amusing him. He let his hand start to run down the length of her hair and that reaction caused Toni to stiffen completely in his arm while she braced herself for the worst. Sure her father had confirmed that Sam was alright, but that didn't mean that there wasn't another reason that Yvette had had a vision about a situation where Sam would need Toni's support in person more than ever. Although she was madly in love with Sam, he wasn't the only Winchester that she cared about and would be devastated if the worst were to happen to him.
The Colonel immediately noticed how tense his daughter had become in his arms, so he made sure to remind himself not to drag out his explanation any longer than he already had. He kept petting Toni's hair as he moved his face beside her ear to whisper, "And he misses you too… And he was wanting to know if you had made any progress with the translations that the prophet came up with from the tablet… And I heard Dean in the background talking with someone, but I couldn't tell with whom or what topic they were discussing."
Toni shuddered but managed not to sob and then she slumped against her father feeling completely numb with relief. Whatever Yvette had 'seen' had nothing to do with the case that she was currently working with the Winchesters, or at least it didn't seem to immediately have anything to do with it, so her fears had been all for nothing. Well at least for now they did, who knew what was coming next. Well Yvette might have some insight on that subject, but she wasn't talking about it and Toni was more than happy not to be given any disjointed previews.
Without saying a word in reply, Toni wrapped her arms around her father to match the intensity of his embrace. Then the McNamara's just held each other in total (and comfortable) silence. Soon she would be on the road to meet up with Sam and his brother to help them figure out the last bits of this conundrum that they had found themselves in with the help of a prophet and angel. Soon she would be neck high in monsters and other creatures that she had once believed were just the figments of someone's imagination that they had shared with the world through writing fanciful works of fiction. Soon she might be looking into the face of death with no way to save herself or the people she loved. Soon a million other things could go terribly and irrevocably wrong, but for right now she was safe and secure in her father's arms and she couldn't find it in herself to be in a rush to push those feelings aside. She especially didn't want to since leaving the safe haven of her father's home meant that she was going to be facing a monster from Purgatory that none of them were even sure that they could kill and had already proven that he knew where to hit them where it hurt the most.
No, for now Toni was more than happy to pretend that the domestic bliss she was feeling with her father at this moment was her reality. Yvette could keep her secrets and Sam could continue missing her, but for now no one existed outside of the man that had become the truest pillar of support in her life.