Dearest Daughter

TIMELINE: Anytime after S6
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I have been told that the following Vignette does not make sense. However, it did to me when I wrote it, and my Muse refuses to allow me to change it.

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Dearest Daughter
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Dearest Daughter,

I got a call from you today.

You claim, once again, that everything is ‘Fine’ and that you are ‘All right’ and ‘Not to worry’. You tell me that you are only going to have dinner with him, and that you will be home soon.
The problem is, I always worry. There is not a damn thing you will ever be able to say to me to make me do otherwise, either.
I know you are an adult and I know that you seem more than able to take care of yourself. Or that Fox will do it for you, should you not be up to the task, but I still worry.
You’re so headstrong, like your father. I find that trait in you to be very admirable, yet it still worries me.
You are a young woman, and there are times, more and more I must admit, that I wish you would act like the woman, more than the Special Agent, that your heart was set on becoming, outside of medicine.
You are so headstrong, and it has to make me laugh. I can recall many times in my own life that I would stand up to your father, over a decision he had made that was not to my liking, much like you do with Fox.
It warms my heart, to know that he loves you, even if you will not admit it to yourself. But, I know you will someday. I just hope that it is soon. You need some stability and though I know you are tired of me saying this, you need a life outside your work.
And he will give you that life, if you will only allow him to show you. He sent me a thank you card, which you are unaware of, thanking me for not trying to talk you out of the FBI, not this time.
He wanted to let me know that he was thankful, for your being with him this final time, as it made him finally see what he would be missing, if he left. Thanking me for the courage that I gave him, to be able to ask you what his heart has so desired.
And so now the time has come and I hope that the next time I hear from you, it will be with more that just the words that have become your signature. I want it to be the words that every mother dreams they will hear from their daughters.

Love,

Your Mother