Lie Like a Tomb
disclaimer: i do not own csi
Catherinemade him a martyr...did too good of a job protecting her daughter from all her father's faults and imperfections, both minor and major. She did her damnest to make sure she saw no fighting, no grabbing and certainly not the bruising on her wrists and thighs where he forced himself onto/ into her. Metaphorically she covered her daughter's ears so she could not hear the yelling and cursing of her parents. She refused to tell tales (even if they were true). refused to have her daughter go through what she went through as a child. She had ounce said better a bad father than no father and she had meant every word.
Obviously the feeling was not mutual, God alone knows what he told her precious daughter. What excuses/ lies did he give to why they divorced, she wonders. Some how she doubts it's the truth, that it was his infidelity that drove the knife through the heart of their marriage. Did he blame her long work hours? –that she cared more for the dead than for the living? – that she cared more for strangers and their families than she did for her own family? Or did he in a fit of jealousy drag her supervisor in, blaming him, telling an impressionable mind of an imagined affair between us.
And now that he is dead, dead for over a year with no justice in sight, those words he spoke must seem even more truthful than before. And the distance between mother and daughter will most likely grow longer and deeper because she can't/ won't tell the truth about her father. She will lie like a tomb and remember only the positives to her daughter.
She has made him a martyr– and there's not a damn thing she can do about it.
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