Comfort Can Come Anywhere

Kyle and Twilight had managed to make it back to Dallas in time, it was early morning, and life was going normal. But Kyle wanted her there with him for comfort and as a friend, because he was feeling down over the loss of James Allison. He was buried in a cemetery not too far from where the old orphanage was, it was called Pinewood Cemetery, and James's grave was the middle right section underneath a tree. Twilight and Kyle were here at the cemetery itself, and Kyle quickly found Jame's tombstone, carved on it read...........

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

JAMES EDWARD ALLISON

CARING POLICE OFFICER AND LOVING FATHER

JUNE 10, 2008-NOVEMBER 2, 2039

Kyle walked up towards the grave while Twilight silently watched from behind, Kyle had also brought a bouquet of flowers as well.

"Um, James, this is Kyle Welder, your police chief. Well, I guess you obviously know who I am, because you were one good cop, but I came here today to get something off of my chest James."

Twilight stared from the background in sadness as she heard Kyle speaking, but unbeknownst to them, another woman was approaching with flowers too, but she stopped dead in her tracks.

"You know what happened, happened a year ago, but what happened, happens again and again in my mind. I close my eyes and I.............I see that man holding you."

Kyle was now choking up, "I see that....that gun, pressed against your head....and I see the fear on your face."

The choking continued

"But what I don't see James, is that one second, that one.....fraction of a second when I could've taken him down. It was there, i-it had to be there, if only I had seen it and done something, you might be alive today James."

Tears were now forming out of his eyes, "But I missed, and I just wanna say, that I'm so sorry James, I am so very sorry!"

Finally Kyle broke down in tears, Twilight was a human, so she walked up and put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. The woman who had been listening, walked up to the both of them.

"Excuse me, officer, ma'am?" she asked, Twilight and Kyle heard her voice and turned to see her.

"Oh, uh yes?" asked Kyle as he wiped his face with tissues.

"I'm Heather Allison, James was my husband." she said, pointing to her late husband's grave.

"Oh, Mrs. Allison." Kyle said as he wiped his eyes with tissues, he walked up to her and shook her hand in greeting.

"Let's sit a moment." Heather said as she and Kyle walked towards a bench, but she quickly noticed Twilight standing there too.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"Oh, I'm uh, Tara, I'm with him for supervision."

"That's sweet."

"I'll go ahead and let you all do this together." Kyle and Heather then went over to a bench and sat down.

"I should apologize for listening to you." she said.

"No-No, that's alright."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Oh sure." Kyle answered.

"Do you ever ask yourself, why you had to be the policeman who got there first?"

"Mrs. Allison, I ask myself that question a million times a day. But I bet you ask yourself, why your husband had to be the one to be there and get killed that night."

"No I don't, he was there, because it was his duty to be there."

"We were home watching television, and James got a call on his scanner about a robbery in progress, so he told me that he had to handle the call and we would finish watching our show when he got back. So he got up, cussed the dog for chewing on his shoes, and...." Heather could not keep it in, but tried "left my life forever."

"And sometimes, I find it......difficult to deal with the fact that.....if I had convinced James to have backup cover for him, he would still be with me." she said with a neutral expression.

Kyle was quick to understand, "Oh but, Mrs. Allison, you could not have had the audacity to know what would've happened to him that night, i-it wasn't your fault."

Heather and Twilight smiled sadly as Heather gave a small chuckle, "I know, but it took me a long time to realize that, and now you need to know, that it's not your fault either, okay?"

Kyle could now sense a form of comfort filling his heart and finally gave a warm smile. He and Heather then got up from the bench and went back over to James' grave where they slowly and gently put their flower bouquets down. Once their flowers were laid, Heather then turned to Kyle and hugged him as a show of support for all he did, Twilight soon joined them in silent.

Once everything had been settled later that morning, Heather had left back for her home while Kyle and Twilight departed for the old orphanage building. Kyle had driven there in his patrol vehicle and was planning on going back to Equestria with her, but he had some things to do before he returned, and the first thing to do was to set things right with his precinct for his behavior.

Once they got back to the orphanage, Twilight opened the passenger door.

"Twilight?" Kyle asked as she stepped out.

"Yes?"

"Listen, thanks for helping me with my problem, I do believe that I owe you an apology for my actions first."

Twilight smiled, "Oh Kyle, there's no need to apologize, you had within your right to be upset over what happened. But you need to learn when to just let it go and move on, we'll discuss this more when you come back okay?"

"Got it, right now I have some business to deal with at the PD, so I'll return this evening."

"Okay then, see you later." Twilight said, stepping out fully and closing the door. Kyle watched as Twilight leaped the fence then activated the portal and step through it, he then smiled and took off back to the precinct to apologize to his fellow officers.