"That she could help him in a fight. Fight alongside him. Them. That had to matter, right?
It mattered to her. The phantom of what she and John could have been dogged at her, nipped at her heels, and added a weight to every moment that she wasn't able to go into a fight with a trusted, reliable fighting partner by her side. A John Stiles.
Maybe in this fight, she was chasing that."













