Abi smiled, "Finally..." she thought. "You know I used to worry about you a lot. Especially when I would read stories in the papers." She paused, "I know that you were just trying to not frighten me unduly. I appreciate that, I do. But things are different now. We don't have little kids to protect anymore. If we are going to make this work going forward I want to know more about what you have to confront. This is not because I am nosy, but so I can be supportive." Then she hastily added, "I also understand that in law enforcement there would be some things you would not be permitted to talk about with anyone. I respect that. I just want to know what you are doing and how you are feeling about this job in this smaller town. I know, for example, you have to deal with rural meth labs. That must be really hard. And then there was that fire a couple weeks ago where a house burned down because some drunk guy was mad at the owner of the house and 4 little kids were killed. I read in the paper that you had to go to the bar and arrest that guy. Doesn't that kind of thing get to you? How do you deal with that? 4 innocent little kids dead in a house fire because of this jerk. It made me cry just to read about the story in the paper."<br/><br/>This was perhaps the first time ever that Abi could remember that Xavier asked about her job. It made her happy and she smiled as she spoke. "I love teaching. I love sharing the material - the history, the art, the philosophy, the drama - I love sharing that with the students. I love how some will discover something and catch fire. I realize that some folks think this is all old and musty out dated esoteric stuff. But it is not. These ancient peoples were just as human as we are. They lived in a very different world, but they still felt joy and fear, and anger and they wondered about their world and they had relationship problems and they fell in love and they lost loved ones. They had to deal with the relationship between the law of nature and the laws of the city - they believed in and were driven to seek blood revenge, but where does it stop? How can the law constrain this - should the law constrain it? That is part of the theme of a trilogy of plays called the Orestia. Then there are issues of knowing our place in the universe, and not presuming that we can compete with the gods - that's the Bacchae. And that book you gave me, all about love and connecting with another human being and the physical need to be a part of another... Anyway..." She realized she was starting to ramble... "Anyway, I do love it very much. As to trips..." She paused and thought for a moment. She almost blushed when she thought of her archeological trip to Delphi back before she met Xavier, that was a wild time... "I think my archeological trip to Delphi in Greece was the most fun trip I ever got to take. I was there for the summer. The work in the daytime was very physical and hard, it was hot but we found some really cool stuff and we had lots of fun after hours. But that was a long time ago..." She let her mind take her back for a moment, she thought of Emily her roommate and lover during that time. They had lost touch with each other after they had both gotten married and had kids, but that summer was the first time she had fallen in love and it was with Emily. "Sorry, I was just thinking of the Oracle and the huge Temple to Apollo there in Delphi, and the caves where people would perform wild rites to Dionysius, Anyway, that was my best trip bar none."<br/><br/>"As to students, I love all my students - even the ones who don't catch fire with the subject matter. I guess I have a reputation for being kind of strict but I also try to be kind to them. I don't have a favorite student. They are all unique." She thought of Robin, but she really didn't want to go there. There was something about Robin that made her feel like they was present in the midst of this awkward time with her husband. She was still perplexed that he was seek Robin out in the manner that he did on Saturday.<br/><br/>"So, do you feel that being the Chief in Sedgwick is as dangerous as being a detective in KC? How long to you want to hold onto this job? She briefly thought about the BLM protests, but she also knew that for all of his issues with their relationship he was a fair and decent man, and a good officer.