-1Kate lifted the last of the bags and started emptying it onto her bed. All of her life she had fought having to come home to live with her parents again but now she had no choice. This was the last chance that she had to keep her already smaller family together.
'Kate, your mother needs you,' Kate sighed heavily and took her jacket off, throwing it onto the bed. Her father held the bedroom door open, her mother sitting on the end of the bed.
'Who the hell are you? I want my daughter…where is Kate,'
'I am Kate, Mom, it is me,'
'No Your not Kate, she's younger, she's only seventeen. Your too old to be Kate. Christopher…where is Kate?'
'Mom,' Eileen Todd Pushed Kate away, Kate stumbling back into Christopher.
'She doesn't need me here,'
'She needs you to help her get to the toilet,'
'Why can't you do it?'
'I can't,'
'You are un believable,' Kate lifted Eileen up, shaking her head.
'Who are you?' Kate sighed heavily, standing behind the door waiting on her mother.
'a friend,'
'What's your name?'
'Kate,'
'My daughters called that. I wonder where she is,' Kate pushed any pain she was felling to the side, easing her mother back into bed. She fell asleep instantly, Kate managing to slip out of the room without causing hr to wake up.
'Next time she needs to get to the toilet, you take her,'
'I can't Kate,'
'You're her husband. Yes you can,'
'This isn't up for debate Kate, you will do what your mother needs.'
'I didn't give up a job to come here and be bossed about by you. I am thirty two years old and haven't lived at home since I was eighteen years old. I refuse to let it go back to the way it was when I left,'
'That was your choice to leave,'
'You didn't give me any choice. Stay here and get abuse every day or leave home, go to university and have a decent life. The only reason I am back is because you were stupid enough,'
'Don't you dare judge me. You don't know what it was like,'
'I had people coming in here every day to look after you. You didn't need to do anything,'
'I had to take care of her during the night. I was lucky if I got three hours sleep a night,'
'You had the entire day to yourself. Don't dare say otherwise,'
'Kate don't you talk to me like that. You weren't here and didn't know what was happening. You never called. Last time your mother saw you,'
'If you even mention their names I will walk out that door and you will never hear from me again. I promise you that,'
Kate lay on her bed, flicking through the countless emails from Tony, begging her to come back. Gibbs was giving them hell, smacking Tony twice as hard. The bedroom door opened, Kate closing the laptop over suddenly.
'I need you to put your mother to bed,' Kate walked past Christopher, saying nothing to him. Her mother stumbled up the stairs but went straight to bed without saying a thing. She slammed the bedroom door shut in her fathers face, holding her head in her hands as she sat on the bed. She had been back a day and already she was dying to leave. A small knock came at the door before her father opened it, not bothering to wait for her to stand up to answer the door herself.
'There is someone here to see you,'
'Let them in,' Kate threw the empty bag down on the floor, straightening the covers.
'Hey,' She turned, smiling at Gibbs before allowing him to wrap his arms around her. The feeling of someone caring forced the feelings she had been hiding to come out, Kate silently crying onto his shoulder. Gibbs knew and wouldn't let her go.
'I wish I hadn't left,'
'I know you do. Why did you?' Kate hesitated, pulling back. Gibbs wiped the tears away from her face with his hand, Kate smelling the sawdust and coffee off of his skin.
'It's a long story,'
'I have time,' Kate pulled the sweater over her head, Gibbs watching her.
'You want coffee?'
'Coffee would be good,'
