This is a weird day and Chuck can't help but feel torn about it. Yes, it's going to be wonderful to go back home with Ton, reclaim her life, reconnect with her aunts and get started on making some kids. On the other hand, there's a good chance she'll be leaving some really wonderful adoptive kids behind, and even more so she's guaranteed to lose the prison family she's found along the way. So many are already gone, and now it seems unavoidable that she'll never see them again.
It's unusual to see Chuck's relentless enthusiasm dampened, but that's exactly what she is today - damp. Soggy, even, waterlogged in her soul. She slides up to him in an unguarded moment, hooking an arm around his.
"Weird, huh? We haven't even been here a year and it still feels like forever."