He walked up to me and lowered himself on his heels, pulling me into his arms. I wrapped my arms around his neck and whimpered, "I don't think I can d... this." He tilted my head up and looked into my dark green eyes. "Baby girl, I know your strong enough. That's why I love you so much. Your the strongest woman I know."Kevin picked my limp body up and carried me to our bedroom, gently laying me on our bed. I rolled over, running my hand over his side of the bed as I thought. "This will be the. Spreading then the full Seventy-eight cards face down in a majestic fan across the surface before her. Before, without pause a single card was drawn from the apex and deftly turned over."The present." She stated flatly. Regarding then upon the up turned surface, the well used placard baring image of an ancient fortification. Its battlements in the act of crumbling. Thrown into cataclysmic disarray by a descending bolt of lightning."The tower" She mused cryptically. "A house divided."Reaching. "Was that ... I mean, was Brentano the first?"Judy nodded in the dark car. "Ninety percent of all law enforcement officers never have to shoot at a person. I've been one of them until today. Well, I still am. I wasn't on duty after all. It's just that I had to shoot him before he reached Melanie. I didn't know what type of ammo was in the gun, and I couldn't risk shooting her with a through-and-through. The detectives understood that." It was a shitty situation, but you saved us, Mom."Judy. Anyone you loves now,honestly, probably wouldn't be the one you'll love forever and everanyway."Phoebe looked up, her eyes shining with tears, perhaps, but shining."Really?" Really." Thing of it is, though, I'm not even sure I'm...well that I'm..."Marcia had a sudden intuition of what Phoebe was trying to say but shegave the girl a chance to say it in her own way, to finish in her owntime. She was having trouble finding the way, but it seemed importantthat she do so."I'm not even sure that I.