Title: The Story
Author: Femvamp
Disclaimer: American Horror Story belongs to Ryan Murphy and other people who aren't me
Spoilers: Season 2 Episode 10 The Name Game
Summary: Someone had to remember. Someone had to tell the story.
"...The horrific mental health abuses at Briarcliff Manor home for the criminally insane, where she was held against her will and subjected to unspeakable torture the brave Miss Lana Winters."
Lana had gotten used to putting on fake smiles and shaking hands with people she wanted to punch in the face. It was one of the ironies of her life. These were the people she had once aspired to impress. Now she saw them for what they were; the people who abandoned her. Many of them had known she was at Briarcliff and the reasons why she had been institutionalized. They had turned a blind eye and left her there to rot but now that she was famous they were all fawning over her. She wondered if they believed her cured or if they thought of it at all.
No one seemed to care about Wendy at least not in any meaningful way. Wendy had just become one of Bloody Face's victims. The reason for her murder didn't seem to matter to anyone. No one cared that she had been killed because she had loved Lana and had failed her in a way that had offended the real Bloody Face. That Wendy had been a pawn in a twisted cat and mouse game he had played with Lana; a game he had ultimately lost. What interested people was Lana herself. Poor Little Lana. Plucky Little Lana. The woman who stared into the face of a monster and bore his child.
Lana knew this award meant great things for her career. It should have filled her with a sense of purpose and pride but she hadn't felt either since she had left Briarcliff. All she had felt was emptiness. Lana stared out at the audience and looked for the only person she cared to see; the only person who meant anything to her anymore; Kit Walker. She had invited him to yet another of her endless string of awards and dinners and he came to all of them just like she went to every one of his son's events. She stood in as mommy now that Grace was dead. Lana had given up her own son for adoption realizing she couldn't be the one to raise him herself. She just couldn't.
Lana smiled the first genuine smile when she saw Kit in the audience. She briefly considered changing her speech to include his part in their adventures but she knew he didn't want that. He never wanted that. When it came to Bloody Face, Kit wanted to be forgotten. He wanted to fade into obscurity and to give his son as normal a life as possible so Lana made sure that the legend of Kit Walker faded into nothing.
Kit Walker didn't exist in any of Lana's stories.
Sometimes Lana wanted to forget or be forgotten as well but someone had to remember. Someone had to remember that Kit Walker was a good man. That even though Sister Jude had done some horrible things Judy Martin was a good friend who had tried to do the right thing in the end. That Shelly only wanted to be free to be who she was. That it might have ended in tragedy with Wendy and her but it had been love between them.
Someone had to remember.
Someone had to tell the story.