[Parker had known that it was coming. She'd know after everything had happened and Laura had been a bad ass, even if she didn't remember quite how Laura had done it. But she knew that once she'd done it, she'd graduate. She'd graduate and Paddy would be going too. Parker was happy for Laura, and she'd wrapped up a package and set it on her desk next to the glass of scotch that she hadn't really been drinking. They'd come, and it'd be time to go.]