On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, Nita sits in the dark and quiet of her own apartment and thinks about all of the people who have stepped in for her, at the last moment, and saved her life.

Read it over at AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/238710). Hope you like it! It turned out very differently than I expected, but definitely allowed me to work through some of my own questions about the YW books...