"Anyway, Susan and I did a lot of talking yesterday. Susan told me she's always in fear that I'll find someone else, someone more attractive or someth...ng. I told her I didn't need anyone else and I thought I'd demonstrated that I loved her. The rest is private, but the upshot is that I'm going to stop doing things that wind her up, and she's going to stop the unnecessary possessiveness that was getting to us both. Well, we'll both try, anyway." As part of that, with Susan's okay, I want to give. She's going to take away my powers. She needs them to stop father.”“And then you could die.” I swallowed, gazing into her eyes.Her eyes grew dark. “You have your spouses. A family. But...my family is gone. I miss them. I...”“We're your family, Chase.” Tears beaded my eyes. “Don't you love us?”“So much.” Chase shuddered and then she hugged me. “But you can't possibly understand. I killed them. Every day it weighs at me. I destroyed myself to save the world. I'm bound to father. I should have. ..." Julia! You're smudging it everywhere!" Sara cried, pointing at her bigtoe, "do you want to help me paint my nails or not?" I was just wondering...." I began, before trailing off. It didn'treally matter anyway. It was obviously Ian she was avoiding, because Iknew she really did like Mr. Lindegaard and definitely wouldn't ignorehis calls with such disdain. I knew she liked him because I seen herreading that love letter he'd written for her a couple of times, the oneshe kept on top of her. Step through with Younger-Rebecca in the shower and Returning-Rebecca yet to come. Just be gone by 10:10 pm, she thought; she had no wish to run into another version of herself, ever again.Rising, she tested her left ankle, winced, and then returned to the bags. In the short time since sitting down, her ankle had begun to swell. Her nose and ears had grown markedly colder also, to say nothing of her bare hands. Setting the bags on the table, she removed her gloves from her coat pockets and.