A fork in the road.... [WASHINGTON. Closed to Robert]

[abster]

Sitting on the porch, knees bent and pressed to her chest, Abigail leaned against Sam and curled up beside him. She hadn't said anything much, if at all since- since it happened. She didn't know what to say, she didn't know who was taking it worse her or Gabby. Maybe her, probably Gabby. She didn't really understand, she didn't understand it at all that their mom was gone and she wasn't coming back.

"You need to get to work," Abigail said, her face dry. She didn't even know if she could cry any more. It all felt weird inside. Pushing Sam out, she waved as he left and she heard fresh screams and tears from Gabby inside. Until she stopped, the soothing sound of someone else in their home making it better for her. Abby wasn't much help at the moment, she didn't know what to do.

Pressing her face against her knees, she hugged herself tighter and tried not to think about it. Tried not to think about her mom lying there in a hospital bed, small and sick and dead.

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[scaledtokill]

"Virginia is a very high functioning addict," he explained. As angry as Abigail was at him he didn't think that she would spread any rumors or do anything to hurt his wife. Virginia hadn't done anything to earn Abigail's ire.

"You can probably see how dealing with me would drive someone to seek coping mechanisms," he said. It has happened with April's mother as well, only she didn't have the control Virginia did. "It's not an environment I'd want a child to grow up in."

[abster]

"Oh, like... I read about Corry in the papers. I didn't realise, I'm sorry. Will she not- get help or something?" Abigail asked, she didn't know what to say to that. She couldn't see her controlling father liking that. She didn't think he liked anything though. "Me either. If she is that is."

[scaledtokill]

"I'm very proud of Corry for getting clean," Robert said. He didn't know if Corry would ever want him to talk about that to her but he was proud. While alcohol or drugs had never been his addiction of choice he knew how difficult it was to try and give up a vice.

"And that would mean Virginia had to admit she had a problem. I love my wife, but acknowledging flaws of her own is not in her character."

[abster]

"She sounds... exactly the kind of person I imagine being married to you. No offence," Abigail said. It was weird to think of her dad's other lives, other kids when he'd been missing so much of her own. "What was it like? Your other families I mean, the other kids? My siblings."

[scaledtokill]

"None taking, she's an amazing woman," Robert said. He knew how strange it must be to hear him talk about Virginia like that but he didn't think he could explain it. Virginia was his soul mate and he couldn't ever really leave her if he wanted to.

"You would have to ask them, I don't know that all of them would feel comfortable with me sharing," he said. April certainly wouldn't and honestly he had no idea what Bach's life was really like. "Bu it wasn't easy on any of them."