He was handling it all so well. She was still struggling to work through everything that had happened, and he just seemed to want to pick up right where they left off. A part of her wanted that too, but it was not that simple. She gently pulled away from him and offered him a sort of somber smile. Years had passed, even if he was the exact same person before all of this happened...Roxie was not the same person she had been then. She had grown into her role as a leader and it would have been a disservice to her pack to just fall into his arms and pretend like it did not matter.<br/><br/>"Ric, we can't just do that...I know, knowing what happened changes somethings and we were there to make peace but..." Starting, or rather re-starting, a relationship in the middle of all this could be messy and possibly even dangerous. Roxie had to think about what was best for her pack and for his. "Someone was willing to kill us to keep us from doing exactly what is happening now. We can't forget that."<br/><br/>She felt like she needed to soften the blow, so she reached out and took one of his hands into hers and held it for a moment. "I'm not saying I'm shutting any doors, I just think we have to focus on what's in front of us. Someone doesn't want peace between the packs and it could be connected to what happened back then and what's happening now..."