Barbara hugged onto her father so tightly for a moment, happy that he was around and was okay--that they both were, which seemed like a miracle sometimes. "I expected no less of you, Dad."
She smiled, returned to her coffee cup. "Don't mention it." She had loved Sarah too, in her own way. "Mostly just that--I mean, semester just wrapped up. I'm logging in grades and preparing a late summer course, but I thought I might actually take some time off for a change." A Gordon getting a vacation was one of the signs of the apocalypse. In actuality, she was intending to take her training with Bruce to the next level, but her father would never find out about that.