I... know.

[He sighed softly, hating the memory of Vanessa telling him how there was no record... there was an odd triumphant tone to her voice in that. Like she had won. That had cemented that she hadn't been the better person he believed she was.]

She told me... that she looked into you and found nothing.

[He pushed off those thoughts before they got darker.]

But that is different now. You have me, and I will never leave you, I will stay with you, no matter what it takes.