He eased up when he heard that they were just nightmares. It could have been much worse and if they were getting worse. It meant that she was decompressing and getting over the trauma in a natural and safe manner. Much more safe then usual. Maybe telling her his demons would help her. Maybe....." did you know..... in the end that me and my wife were having money issues. Not really, but I couldn't bring dirty money to my house, so I dealt with it. Medical bills were growing high and.... Emma started getting really abusive. She would tell me that if I was a gangster where was the money and would scream at me when we were late with a bill. Well.... one day she slipped on why she had medical problems. She had been raped." He looked down and held back anger. He had taken beatings from her and the screaming from her and now.... maybe being with an abuse victim has finally started to make him think that this wasn't about revenge. But about protecting someone who treated him better."<br/><br/><br/>" I fucking lost it. I drank for days and prsyched myself up and broke the code I married as an officer. I put on a level at best and took a gun from evidence and found the men that did in. I killed every fucking one of them and made them look like hamburger." He paused for moment and remembered the screams before he turned to her and smiled as he picked her up and sat her in his lap." The anniversary dinner..... was really..... going to be the dinner I said I was done. That she could stop treating me like shit or get out of my house. Maybe my brain thought I was in the wrong. That I deserved it. But after seeing a fellow victim. I see this isn't about revenge. It's about protecting what I have now and that my wife can rot."