"I didn't say it would be easy."

I look back at him, wondering just how much my face is giving away, how much worry.

There are still so many things I wish I could protect him from.

Still so much guilt over what I couldn't protect him from.

It was a blessing in some ways that he was with me in the lab that night, but sometimes I wonder if it would have been more merciful...

Don't think that way. It's neither productive nor healthy.

"We haven't done it sooner because I've been trying to... to keep you away from him. It. Enter."