It wasn't that he was thinking of Haley and what had happened to her.
He just knew that he had been through this before, that he couldn't do it again, that he couldn't watch his son go through it again. He wouldn't.
He was pretty sure he'd never kicked down so many doors in his life. But he kicked everything that got in his way - everything that stood between him and Emily.
And when he finally found her in a burning building, that didn't stop him either. He swept her up in his arms and held onto her as tightly as he could, rushing them both back out into the daylight.
"You came," she whispered, her eyes unfocused as blood ran down the side of her face.
"Of course I came," he murmured, kissing her head. "I will always come for you, Emily."