Once Upon a December
Author: Kasey
Rating: PG-13 references to violence but nothing graphic
Category: Episode reaction, Singerfic
Spoilers: Redemption
Summary: "Mothers know these things? Mine certainly didn't."
Disclaimer: I own not them, I own them not. Title from a song. Again--references to violence herein. Nothing graphic, but if such things might upset you, I suggest you not read.
Mothers know these things? Mine certainly didn't.
What kind of mother calls her daughter a liar? I don't mean a teenage daughter or a rebellious kid or something, I mean a more-or-less good little seven-year-old who hasn't shown a propensity to make up stories. What the hell kind of mother doesn't believe that child?
The kind that then expects it to be forgiven automatically later in life, I guess. Not gonna happen. She can wish all she wants, expect all day long, it's not gonna happen.
The things he did to me--And the fact that I was stuck there because she thought I was making it up because I didn't like my stepfather.
There was a reason I didn't like him, mom. Wonder what that could've been. Considering I told you for a year and a half before finally giving up. I kept telling you, and each time I paid for it. But not ONCE did you believe even for a SECOND that I could be telling you the truth.
I had the chance to save her. To save the poor little girl--no, I don't like kids. I find them obnoxious, unable to control impulses, clumsy, irritating--
But to know she was suffering the same fate I did--there wasn't even a question. Damn all consequences--I wasn't about to be--I mean, maybe I'm not the most generous person in the world (I don't know where I get that image from, but so people say), but even I'm human. Even I wouldn't let a little girl go through that.
Mothers know these things? Sure, Lieutenant Sims. Until something happens and your boy says Bud did something. You honestly think you'd know for certain whether or not something happened? It's some sort of built-in radar only mothers have?
And why the hell don't all of them have it, then? If mothers know these things?
I wasn't a liar. He did horrible things to me--worse things when I told on him, even though Mom never believed me over him. I never once made up something and claimed he did it. But I got very good at lying and saying I was fine. Teachers seem to know these things better than mothers sometimes.
Even if a judge wouldn't believe her story, like my mother didn't believe mine, I made sure she wouldn't stay in her current situation.
It's the least I could've done.
