For the low points in their relationship

For the Love of a Daughter, Demi Lovato: Don’t you remember I’m your baby girl?//How could you throw me right out of your world?//So young when the pain had begun//Now forever afraid of being loved

Confessions of a Broken Heart, Lindsay Lohan: I dream of another you//The one who would never (never)//Leave me alone to pick up the pieces//A daddy to hold me, that’s what I needed

Broken Angel, Boyce Avenue: Inside you’re dying ‘cause you can’t believe//He would leave you alone//And leave you so cold//When you were his daughter//But the blood in your veins//As you carry his name//Turns thinner than water

And for when things got better

It’s Quiet Uptown, Hamilton OBC: I don’t pretend to know//the challenges we’re facing//i know there’s no replacing what we lost//and you need time//…just let me stay here by your side//that would be enoug…//forgiveness, can you imagine?

David had been over it a hundred times. Baberton wasn’t welcoming. It wasn’t pleasant. It wasn’t safe. It wasn’t somewhere he wanted to raise his daughter. Ivy was growing up fast and he didn’t want her to have to do that with a killer on the loose. This place was awful and, other than Gemma, there was nothing for David here. Karen was gone. Isabel was married. Michelle really didn’t like him. Work was slow and, let’s face it, soul destroying with the way he felt about himself half the time. He didn’t like that his choice meant leaving Gemma behind in such a dangerous, toxic place but it was hard to spend time with her anyway. Here, -A kept warning him off and ruining it every time he thought things could finally go well for them. Part of him missed Siobhan, missed the thrill of being with her. Maybe that’s why he’d been drawn to Isabel in the first place. He’d been feeling tired and dejected again. Bored and forgotten, like he always seemed to. He’d wanted to feel something and that had helped but only for a brief while. It was pointless to stick around, this wasn’t the life he wanted. He could keep in touch with Gemma, since he knew she wouldn’t come with him, and hopefully -A wouldn’t be able to do a thing about that. It was a worry because she’d been hurt a lot in the past but they appeared to be leaving her alone lately. He hoped so anyway. David just didn’t want her to feel completely abandoned, he was worried she’d hate him. He just didn’t think she’d come if he asked and he supposed Michelle wasn’t the worst person to leave her with. If only she were more responsible. Still, he wasn’t exactly the perfect guardian himself so he couldn’t really judge her. She’d done more for his daughter than he ever had. David was tired of being an absent father and he planned to stay in her life even though he had to leave. She could always come and visit, stay for weekends or something. Things like that. It would have to be enough and this was absolutely not going to be anything like the last time.

Apparently, yeah...