Reunited; or, Meeting the In-Laws [Harry, Judy, Johnny, Christian]

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[Takes place the day after Harry tells Johnny Aunt Judy's here and shortly after Christian and Caeline get engaged.]

The colonel headed across the plaza to Palace as soon as she was finished with breakfast. She'd had a horrible night, her subconscious teasing her with imagined images of Johnny. Hearing from Mr. Sinclair -- from Harry -- what was real and what wasn't had helped, but only somewhat. The truth was bad enough and she felt a stabbing guilt that she should've done something else, something more, to try to find him four years ago. Objectively she knew she'd done all she could and had nothing to be ashamed of, but there you go, the brain says one thing and the gut says another and all one could do was stand in the middle and hang on.

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