Please Me, Daddy
I had to survive long enough for him to get here.
Now he was here. And he looked like a man ready to burn the world down.
I wanted nothing more than to run into his arms and tell him I was fine, that I was alive, that our child was safe inside me, but there was no time for that. I gave him a small smile instead, a silent reassurance that I was okay, even though my hands were shaking, and then I forced myself to turn away from him and ran toward River.
River was lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood, the red spreading far too quickly beneath him, and the sight made my chest tighten painfully.