How did his kids get so old? Mary could have sworn she was literally just at the birth of Victoria, loitering around for JJ's protection should anyone want to show up.
Anyone, of course, being a close relative of own current source of nightmares.
As he got the food together, Mary pulled a stool over to sit on and could feel herself getting hungry. Oh, she was going to devour this burger. Nicholas' question drew her out of lustful burger thoughts and she said, "oh, it was... fine." It was completely unconvincing, and she'd thought she would keep all this from Nicholas. She should keep all this from Nicholas, let him continue to believe that she could probably handle anything the forces of hell threw at them.
But... Mary was so tired and rebirth was an exhausting and confusing feat. She wished her Lord could have warned her about that.
"It was just sort of-" she sighed shakily. "Everything went kinda- bad-" Mary's face crumpled and she dropped her head into her hands, wracked with sobs. She'd thought she was done with that after last night, but here it was again to steal her breath away and rip at her throat.