Written because it bugs me that everyone seems to forget it exists.

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One day Ian Kabra will work up enough courage to send it. It is nothing special, just a file, a file full of the details of her parent's death. He hopes that she won't throw it away as soon as she figures out who sent it. Ian wonders if she will hate him when she realizes this information has been at his disposal all this time.

But he is afraid the file will break the fragile, fragile truce between the fou- no, five branches of the Cahill family. So Ian procrastinates and says he'll send it tomorrow or next week or he will pass it to her at the next family reunion or branch leader meeting.

In the end Amy Cahill will probably never receive the file holding hate-filled letters and incriminating reports that could have Alistar, Cora, Eisenhower, and Mary-Todd receiving life sentences like his mum.

Secretly Ian will have a small degree of self-loathing until he gives Amy the file; (but that's not going to happen anytime soon so he learns not to hold his breath).

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And Ian will almost certainly never find out that while he was wallowing in self-pity (for not possessing enough courage to send the file), that Natalie sent a copy of the file to Dan, who proceeded to read it, memorize it, and burn it.

Because the past is the past. And lest the future crash and burn, it needs to be forgiven and forgotten.

Natalie conveniently forgets to remind Ian that it happened already.