Hey everybody! So I had this idea to write a fic for each of the characters in LOST, based off of a song that I thought reflected something about their character. Kate's up first - her song is For the Love of a Daughter by Demi Lovato.
Four years old with my back to the door
All I could hear was the family war
Your selfish hands always expecting more
Am I your child or just a charity ward?
You have a hollowed out heart
But it's heavy in your chest
I try so hard to fight it but it's hopeless
Hopeless, you're hopeless
Oh, father, please, father
I'd love to leave you alone
But I can't let you go
Oh, father, please, father
Put the bottle down
For the love of a daughter
For a while she was innocent. For a while she didn't understand what Wayne was doing to her mother. For a little while she thought that Wayne could just maybe be a good father, that he could replace what her father had been for her.
That all changed when her mother would wake Kate up for school, her face covered in bruises. That all changed when Kate found the alcohol hidden throughout the house. She doesn't understand what's really going on – after all, she's only a child – but she knows something's wrong. Some part of her wants to accept him as her de facto father. But as long as her mother has bruises, as long as she hears the yells, the cries of pain, the curse words, she can't.
The older she grows, the more she wants to run away. She wants to believe that Wayne (she never could call him Father anymore) might love her and her mother deep inside him. Kate tries to fight him more and more, but it doesn't work. He's stronger.
She wants to run away and leave him far behind her. But she can't. She wants to believe that he'll put the bottle down and straighten himself out. She wants to believe that he can love her and her mother enough to quit, to put the bottle down.
And then she finds out that Sam, the man she trusted in, the man she knew as Daddy, isn't her true father.
She's the spawn of a disgusting, abusive person.
She is Wayne's biological daughter.
She hates herself, just for being a part of him. She hates him, just for being a part of her. She can't take it. She's older now – old enough to actually do something about the feelings that have been piling up in her for years and years and years now.
She's smarter than anyone gives her credit for. She knows how to pull off what she wants to do. In fact, she can ever make it look like an accident. She knows what she's going to do – what she has to do. She'll save her mother.
Kate makes it look like an accident, but her mother knows that her daughter killed Wayne.
Wayne finally put the bottle down, but it wasn't for the love of his wife – or his daughter.
It was because he was dead.
That's when Kate started running – and she hasn't stopped running since.
Ok, I know it was kind of depressing. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed it! PM me or review and tell me who you want to see next! And if you have a song to go with them - well that's even better! Love always, Lily.