My father deserved it too. (it's something often thought, but rarely said out loud: ward earp was a bad man. he beat his wife. he abused willa and treated her like a child soldier. he neglected wynonna and waverly.

she regrets what happened that night in the homestead, and everything that came after, but she doesn't always regret killing ward. she is her parent's child for the best or worst.)

My mother was locked away for trying to kill my sister -- or so we thought. Apparently she had been trying to kill a demon connected to Waverly. One that she bound to herself instead. But even once she was free of that...she apparently doesn't stick around long. I spent most of my teen years in and out of foster homes, kept away from Waverly to protect her future. A lot of those people are dead now. I can't say I'm sorry about it.

(the parole officers who turned her into dealers, the judges who saw her as unfixable. lesser than. she's a protector, but she's also in charge of protecting people who have been systematically terrible to her. she can't save everyone, and some of the people she doesn't feel sorry about not saving.

but as she tells her stories she listens to his)

Waverly was born of an affair too -- though apparently her dad didn't abandon her out of choice. But he dies too. Some great future I have to look forward to.

(at least she doesn't know yet she had sex with waverly's dad...)

You wanted Hope to be safe. To have better than you had. I would do the same for Alice, there's little I wouldn't do for her.

(there's a pause, and then:)

The picture was beautiful, by the way