"This is perfect!" Katherine yelled, running into Bryan's room. She plopped down next to him on the bed.

"What is?" Bryan asked.

"There's this big concert tonight. I'm going to escape then."

"What's the event?"

"A Backstreet Boys concert. I'm going to escape a half-hour before the end," she plotted. "You are going to see me off, right?"

"No," he said, simply. "I can't. Laundry." He looked away.

"Sweets, you've got to stop being so loyal to your work, it's driving you insane. We both know it."

"I don't want to see you off." He honestly sounded like a stubborn child.

"Why?"

"Because I want to see you leaver here like all the other times. You always come back that way."

"I'll come back eventually," Katherine claimed.

"And if you don't?" Bryan stared at her intensely, almost scaring her.

"You know I will. I always do, just like you said."

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"I have a plane set for Sydney at 10 PM."

"Kat, waht if you ull it off? Then what? Are you just going to come back and say, 'Daddy, I'm home. Did you miss me?'"

"Wherever I am, you'll come there and live with me," she said.

"You know that's never going to work."

"I want to try. If you don't want to come, fine, don't. I didn't think you cared, anyway." Katherine looked down at her hands, fiddling with her fingers.

Bryan took her hands in his. "I am just so worried. Sydney is so far away. I will never able to save you from harm."

Katherine wrapped her arms around him. She whispered in his ear, "You don't always have to be the hero."

"I know," he murmured into her shoulder.

A feeling deep down inside Katherine's stomach was telling her to stay there with Bryan. She probably should have listened to it, but ignored it.

"I have to go now, hun," Kather purred softly.

Bryan pulled away and looked at her. "Remember me, even if you meet any hot blokes and fall in love."

"How can I forget you?"

"B-R-Y-A-N W-I-L-L-I-S," he joked despite his mood at the moment.

She slapped his shoulder playfully. He caught her hand and kissed the backside of it. She kissed his cheek one last time before leaving.