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12 - afterbirth

Violet laid on her bed, her head on Parker's chest as she told her about how her father was all alone now with the only living baby.

Parker and Violet had head everything Valerie had yelled and shouted at Tate. Violet had asked Parker if she to which Parker told the truth, saying she has no idea.

Tate didn't just loose a lover, but a sister and a friend. Parker couldn't bring herself to look him in the eyes and the few times he had passed Violet, she had not shied say from giving him a piece of his mind.

Tate wasn't who Parker remembered him to be.

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

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"What about Violet and Valerie?"

"What about us?" The sister's asked, joining their parents in their fathers office from where they sat on the leather sofa.

"We're teenage girls, not exactly a cakewalk."

Ben kneeled down in front of his daughters. "Girls. What kind of father have I been? You both weren't eating. Or going to school. Violet, you were already gone and . . . I didn't get it."

"I shut you out."

"And she didn't know she was dead until it was a bit too late." Valerie added, throwing her arms over the back of the sofa. "We were afraid we'd break you, daddy."

"I miss you two so much."

"I was never getting into Harvard."

"And let's be real, the changes of me actually being a criminal history teacher were pretty slim." Valerie laughed lightly.

"They weren't, Valerie, you would of made an amazing teacher."

"But we saved you a shitload of money." Violet joked.

"Yeah, you both did." He smiled at his girls.

Violent and Valerie looked at each other then at their mother. "You have to leave, dad." Violet told him. "Every minute you're in this house, you're in danger, and so is that baby."

Vivien helped her husband up. "Please, do it for us." She asked in a soft whisper. She placed a kiss to his lips before the three disappeared.

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Upon Ben being hung, the Harmon family were reunited. The baby missing.

"That's all very touching. But, where's the baby."

Valerie looked at the woman. "Try Nora or Hayden." She said as the Harmon's stood linked together.

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Violet, Parker and Valerie looked through the new owners teenagers room — the room that had once been Valerie's. The trio looked through his music, judging him.

"How are you?"

The three stoped and looked at him.