The phone's call never stopped. The video chats never stopped. There were text messages to start every day for both of them. Though they both had long hours and the time seemed to fly by. He was still working in Europe and had been there for a year and had come back for a year and a half. Though the time they had spent together was minimal during that time, they had still been close. She was working on her medical degree most of the time and her Ph.D. as well at the same time. No one really understood the power of her brain at this point.Though the schools had tested her at nearly every stage of her growth for her teenage years, they couldn’t get an accurate reading on her. They had to say though she was in the top one percent of IQ in the world. She had a brain that they just wanted to study, though, as she got older, she fought them on all the tests. She was over the fact she was different or

   Dawn woke and knew that it was odd there was nothing from him. She thought maybe it was just because of the day, but she had thought maybe something could come through. It was her eighteenth birthday, after all. A half a world away, but in her heart, it just didn’t seem right.The day's events were her going to her mother's and listening to how they had changed all the decorations for the party to fit Jenny’s wedding more than her and Christian’s party. Dawn didn’t even know if he was coming at all to the party. He didn’t seem like he cared too much for anything that was being done. Dawn didn’t either. Though she knew the reasons she had thought of that her mother had gone all out for the party, she had hoped maybe it was the last-ditch effort to be nice with her. Dawn knew that was a long shot, and the more the day went on, the more she knew she had no hope of that

    Later that night, when the entire complex was quiet. He was rubbing her back slowly. “Are you okay?” he asked softly as he adjusted her weight to more of his chest than his shoulder where she had been propped for the past half hour.“Yeah.” She said as she moved her head to look at his face.“I’m sorry that I had to hurt you.” He said as he kissed her head.“But you didn’t really.” She said as she smiled at him. “It kind of had to happen. I think you made up to me with everything else.”“Lots of waiting and painful nights went into planning that.” He said as he chuckled, and then he moved to be eye to eye with her. “Dawn, I love you.”“I know.” She said with a smile. “I love you too. I have been telling you all this time.”“You have been?” He asked.

Epilogue….    Six years from the day they got married they stood outside her father’s farm house watching the older man take their daughter, Sophie, on the tractor while their son, Kyle, lay in his father’s arms sleeping. Maverick looked at her with his grin knowing soon enough she would be showing again the next addition to the family.He got out of the military three years ago and then moved on to a different career while she worked hard to make a name for herself while being a full time mother as well. Her dream of being a doctor was there but it wasn’t as important to her any longer. She now had other things to focus her brilliant mind too.Sophie came back and was walking with her mother as they looked over the herd of cows that her father had added since she had last been there. Her parents were

Silence Silence is a source of great strength.-Lao Tzu   Sara sat and looked over the growing crowd of people she knew she had to get up and go find. The people she did know were leaving her alone so she could get herself together. None of them expected this, and when she had the lights turned on, they entered a complete nightmare that she was standing in the middle of. This might be something that could make or break someone, and she knew that. Though she had been taken back, she knew she would be fine. Death and the dead never bothered her too much. It was always the living that seemed to aggravate her more. It seemed more and more vehicles were arriving by the minutes as the entire area was completely lit up.“So Doc?” someone called out as they walked towards her. She knew they must not