Derek smiles at the touch to his hand, and he holds her much smaller hand in his own as he looks over at her. "I don't think that we ever stop loving. It's just hard to know what to do with it when they aren't there anymore."

He leans over to kiss her temple before settling back down onto his stool. "I hope that I'm always here."

Darrow has done a lot of terrible things to him, but still, Derek never wants to leave. It's also given him a lot of good.