**ERICKSON'S POV**
After Briar left to return to his own home I turned back toward my house and hurried inside. I wanted to see my daughter, to make sure that she was still safe.
"Daddy?" Catherine called out to me the moment I was back inside. As soon as I turned to look at her, she jumped at me with tears streaming down her cheeks. "D..d..daddy, is A..A..Addie g..going t..to b..b..be O..O..OK?" She was sobbing and crying so hard that the words were hard to understand.
"I am going to make sure that she is." I told her as I rubbed a hand over her small back. "I am going to get her the medicine that she needs and then I am going to make sure that she gets all better so that she can play with you again." I knelt on the floor and set Catherine on her feet so that I could look her in the eyes. "I promise you, sweetheart. I will make sure that she doesn't ever leave us."
