I thought I'd try a sequel. here it is

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Sisters, Mothers and Daughters.

"I hate you!"

"Why can't you be more like your sister?"

"You didn't put me up for adoption!"

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Chapter 1

Catherine awoke and found that she'd fallen asleep in the living room with the empty bottle of wine next to her. Her head was pounding and the guilt made her feel worse. She'd slapped her, and slapped her hard. Argument after argument is all that they were having. Mother and daughter at warm, they only communicated by shouting. They'd both said words that they didn't mean and words that had hit close to the bone. Catherine knew she'd taken it too far but Lindsey said the sentence that had hurt the most. 'You didn't put me up for adoption.' Catherine would always react badly to that statement; there wasn't a day that went by without her thinking about it. The guilt had gotten better over recent years but there were times when she felt so bad that she wanted to cry, she got over that by looking at Lindsey and seeing that she made the right choice on both counts.

She couldn't have given Charlie the life she deserved, however recent events suggested that she hadn't given Lindsey the life she deserved. The teenager was going through a really rebellious phase and was heading towards trouble, as a CSI Catherine knew what could happen if things didn't change. She'd thought about calling Charlie but she was busy with medical school in New York, and she didn't want to trouble her. She thought about calling her former colleague Sara Sidle as she'd seen Charlie through her teenage years but Sara had a lot on her plate, and she also didn't want to admit to someone that she was having problems bringing up her daughter. Her mother was also someone she could turn too but Lilly was on vacation with Nancy and her family. She was pulled out of her musings by the phone ringing.

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"Willows."

"What's going on with you and the Muppet?" Charlie asked without bothering to say hello.

"Hi mum how are you?" Catherine replied. "Let me guess she called you?"

"At a lovely hour too. She says you slapped her." Charlie said and she didn't sound happy, Charlie had experienced violence as a child so stayed away from it as a rule. "I'm not going to comment on that because she told me what she said and in all fairness I'm the daughter not the mother."

Catherine sighed before speaking. "I don't know what to do, all we're doing is shouting at each other. You went through a bad phase how did you get through?" Catherine asked out of desperation.

"I got a family that I'd never had before; she's had that all her life."

"I don't need you to make me feel guilty." Catherine said even though Charlie hadn't meant it like that.

"How about counselling or something, I went to see a shrink when I was under the charge of child services, and after being in a war zone. I know it sounds like a load of crap but it does help, and you're both good at talking."

"You think we need a shrink?" Catherine asked not sure she liked the advice her eldest child was offering.

"I don't want to answer that for fear of not being able to come home again." Charlie joked. "You just need to try talking. It's worth a shot mum, pretty soon she'll be going off to college and if you don't repair things now you'll regret it forever."

"You sound like a shrink."

"Working with psych at the moment. Anyway Mum I got to go; I'll call you soon to see how it's going."

"Ok honey take care, love you."

"Back at ya mum." Charlie replied hanging up.

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Charlie always had a way of speaking sense, she was right they needed to do something and something fast. Getting up off of the sofa she made her way upstairs to Lindsey's room. Knocking on the door she got no response so she walked in expecting to find her gone but the teenager was asleep, Lindsey looked younger than she was and so sweet. It was amazing how quickly she'd grown up; Catherine sat at the edge of the bed and moved the teenager's hair away from her face. Lindsey stirred and looked at her mother.

"I'm sorry." Lindsey said and she meant it.

"So am I." Catherine replied. "So you called Charlie?" She asked and the teenager nodded.

"Told me we need a shrink, I think she's right." Lindsey replied to Catherine's amazement.

"I know she's right." Catherine said. "I shouldn't have slapped you, and I promise I won't do it again."

"I shouldn't have said what I said, especially knowing what Charlie went through. She had a go at me for saying it." Lindsey admitted and Catherine nodded the fact that Charlie hadn't said anything to her spoke volumes about what she thought on the subject, Catherine knew that she and Charlie would have a chat about that in the near future and she wasn't looking forward to it. But there and then her focus was on getting her and Lindsey back on track.

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