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disbelief.
    Cassidy called gently to the agent. “Alex, honey….” The tall, beautiful woman turned slowly to her lover. Cassidy’s eyes reflected so many things to Alex now, concern, pain, disbelief, but most of all an abounding love that she could hardly process. Alex felt Cassidy’s hands brush her hair aside and wipe the tear that was streaming down her cheek. “What can I do?” Cassidy asked lovingly.
    The agent smiled and took the hand that was holding her face lightly. “Cass, Jane….She wants you and Dylan to come with me for the funeral.”
    “Okay,” Cassidy said. “Whatever you need, you know that.” Alex shook her head and held her bottom lip between her teeth. “What? Alex?”
    “Cass…She knows.” Cassidy did not understand. “About Dylan, Cass.”
    The teacher’s mouth fell slightly open and she wiped her face with her hand. “I don’t understand.”
    “John told her about that night.”
    “Why?” Cassidy looked at Alex with tears in her eyes.
    The agent nodded her understanding. “Listen, I don’t know, Cassidy. They’ve always had a…well a rocky road…but he loved her in his own way.”
    “Alex, I’m not sure I should…”
    “He would have wanted that.” Cassidy looked away. “He told me…You two are easy to love.”
    Cassidy shook her head. “Alex, we were never…”
    “I know that. I know what he meant. He meant it for me. He was right. It’s your decision. I will support whatever you want to do. There will be so much press, and you know that O’Brien….”
    “Alex, what do you want me to do?”
    “No. You need to do what you….”
    Cassidy saw the answer in the agent’s eyes that she expected. “We’re going with you.”
    “Cass, if you…”
    The teacher let out a sigh and took both of Alex’s hands. “Do you love me, Alex?”
    “Cassidy, you know…”
    “Do you love me?” Cassidy repeated softly.
    “More than anything in my life.”
    “Hum. Don’t you know, Alex,” Cassidy faltered. She shut her eyes tightly and then opened them to look directly into blue eyes that had become dark with grief. “When I said I wanted to be with you forever; I meant that.”
    “I know that,” Alex smiled.
    “You do?” The agent nodded. “That means through everything. Everything, Alex.”
    Alex nodded again and kissed her lover’s forehead. “Cass?”
    Cassidy had her eyes closed reveling in the healing that the slightest touch from this woman seemed to bring. “Hum?”
    “Can we just spend tonight with Dylan?”
    Cassidy pulled away slightly to look at the agent. “Of course.”
    “I just…I….”
    “Is it because of John and Dyl…”
    Alex stopped her lover’s thoughts. “I need to be with my family. Both of you.” Cassidy offered the agent a cockeyed smile. “Is that okay?” The agent’s thought was interrupted by two fingers pressing to her lips.
    “You never have to ask if it is all right for us to be together. I just hope you never ask for us to be apart.”
    Alex smiled. “I just hope we can get to those boring things you mentioned soon.”
    Cassidy closed one eye and pursed her lips. “I think I have just the remedy for that.”
    Alex was puzzled. She watched as Cassidy moved across the room and picked up a stack of papers and placed them squarely in her lap. “What’s this?” the agent asked in confusion.
    “Oh, forms, you know; school stuff.” Cassidy watched as Alex thumbed through the pile and noted the look of shock on the agent’s face at the number of papers before her. “See? Problem solved. You wanted boring.” Alex chuckled earnestly. Cassidy had a way of knowing just what to say or do at any moment. It might only be a momentary diversion, but it was exactly what Alex needed, to see something normal in her life. She looked up at Cassidy and smiled. “What?” Cassidy shrugged in an attempt to lighten the mood.
    “Do butlers do paperwork?” Alex asked with the raise of an eyebrow, referring to Cassidy’s favorite