WHO: Erica & Hermes WHEN: December, 1987 / May 1999 WHERE: Hermes' place in Philadelphia WHAT: Two different relationships falling out scenes WARNINGS: Attempted rape
With Manuel things had been going well. After she'd fallen pregnant, the two of them got married and Erica had been sure that everything was going to be happily ever after. (It had been difficult to leave home and her father. Attending university she'd still stayed with Hermes because he was everything she knew and everything she'd wanted to know, but now what she wanted was Manuel and a family of her own. Hermes hadn't understood at first, but he'd come to accept it.)
Which was why when Erica showed up at his door with bags and a baby in her arms crying as much as she was, she didn't know if the only response would be to tell her he'd known it would happen.