Love and Capes/Tear Jerker

""Fifteen people fell off the bridge...and I could only save fourteen.""
 * Abby at first takes it well that Mark is the Crusader. Then she sees a giant fight on television, where he gets injured. It never occurred to her that the Crusader could be hurt.
 * Love and Capes is mostly a warm and lighthearted book, but Abby gets a genuinely heartbreaking moment near the end of #10:


 * In the second volume arc, Abby gets tossed into a timeline where Mark died shortly after their first date. To save him, she has to go back in time with Doc Karma's help and warn him about Evil Brain planning his assassination. She at first has no success because with her disguise, as a brunette, Mark thinks that she's just a random crank. Realizing she's not going to see him again, Abby takes off her disguise, leaps into Mark's arms after the date, and gives him The Big Damn Kiss. She cries, thinking she'll never see him again, only to check her watch. IT's midnight. In the alternate timeline, he died at 11:58. She did it.
 * Windstar, who also managed the purchase of the bookshop building, dies. Turns out that though he had super-speed, he didn't have super-breathing power. He pulled a Heroic Sacrifice saving innocents from a fire. Everyone is shocked, as his niece discusses if she could take up his mantle, or even if she should.
 * After they come home from Windstar's funeral, Abby asks Mark with some curiosity, and some concern, if he thinks that he will ever die. After all, he is near-invulnerable but still can die, as noted by the alternate timeline. Mark says that he probably will die, since he is aging, but he has no plans on risking his life recklessly, and leaving Abby alone.