"I came here to find you, to apologize, to bring you back home, but I guess now I'm here to drop your kids off so you can mourn the death of your 'husband'," Mike locked the stroller in place and turned to leave.
"Mike, don't leave. I couldn't tell you because I still love you, too," Erin tried explaining.
"Apparently not that much, because you wouldn't have married him if you did."
"But I do," Erin pleaded.
"But I don't," He harshly stated, walking away.
Days past, weeks past, the funeral came and it was sad. Brother, Son, Husband, Father, all lost to one fatal accident. All because of one bomb. All because he wanted to save her.
3 weeks after Jay died...
"It's so hard to go out there, Kim. It's so hard to face everyone. To look at my kids every day. I see him everywhere," Erin wiped her eyes.
"You have to try though, Erin."
"No one knows this, but he saved me. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want anyone to know, but we were running fast from the bomb. I was running too fast. I twisted my ankle and fell. He came back for me but he knew that there were only a few seconds left so he laid on top of me. I tried to tell him to run, but he stayed. It's my fault he died. If I'd kept running, he'd be alive. If I hadn't stopped, if I wasn't there, he'd be alive," She looked away in shame.
"Erin, you can't blame yourself," Burgess consoled.
"But I can. The world would be such a better place if I wasn't here."
"If you weren't here, then why would Jay want to be? If he was alive and you were the one dead, he would blame himself, yeah, but he'd know that you loved him. And he does know, he knows you love him."
"I love him and I want to be with him, but he isn't here anymore."
"So be with your kids," Burgess suggested.
"Hank is babysitting them, it hurts to look at them."
"You haven't seen them in two weeks, Erin! Two weeks. They have to know that you'll be there for them."
"Kim, they're only babies, they won't know," Erin argued.
"But they will," Burgess stated. "I have to go, I suggest you go be with your kids, I'll see you later."
When Burgess left, so did Erin. Although she didn't go to see Hank and her kids, she went to a bridge...
