I don't own any of these characters except for Katelyn!! SHES MINE!!

Catherine Willows was not happy. Not in the least. Her niece had gotten into trouble at school again, the third time this week and it was only Wednesday. She strode through the hallway, her heels clicking sharply on the cement floor of the school. She went into the office, of which she had become very used too these past couple of months.

"I'm here for Katelyn" she said.

Walking into the back room where the small girl sat, the secretary said, "Katelyn, she's here."

The small girl got up and walked out of the back room and out of the office and over to Catherine, and looked up. Catherine glared at the girl and started to walk quickly out of the school, Katelyn following closely behind. Catherine was thinking about what to do with the girl as they drove home.

"Aunt Catherine." The girl said timidly.

Catherine merely turned slightly, lips pursed eyes small.

"Please say something." She said trying to hold back the tears.

"You want me to say something I will." She said putting the car in park. "As soon as we are inside I will say something."

The girl bolted inside and sat down in the same spot that she had when being lectured earlier on in the month. Catherine stood outside for a while trying to collect herself.

"Katelyn, I'm not going to yell at you, I just want to know what happened." Catherine said going over and sitting on the couch next to her. Her voice when saying this made Katelyn wish that she had yelled. Catherine just sat next to her and took her hand in hers.

"Honey, what's going on, this is the third time this week that you have gotten in trouble at school, are you looking for attention?"

Katelyn just looked down, she didn't know how to explain what had been happening at school and she wasn't sure that she wanted to.

"Kate, please."

Still nothing from her, Catherine was getting fed up. She rubbed the side of her face and looked the girl square in the eyes.

"Katelyn Anne Marie Willows, you will talk to me, and, because Lindsey is at a her fathers and I don't have to go into work today, we can sit here all night if we have to, now tell me what's been going on." She said her normally gentle voice raised.

She looked into the dark blue eyes of her aunt and said, "Everyone is giving me a hard time, and all I have been doing is trying to defend myself."

"Defending yourself, why?"

"Because my parents disappeared, and no one knows where they are or what could have happened to them." She said the tears flooding out of her eyes.

"Honey, what did you do?"

"I told them to go to hell, because they said that I'm lucky to even be here, it's because of you that I'm not being shipped off all over the state. I'm the one responsible for my parent's disappearance; I'm at fault, just like always." The girl said tears flooding her face; at this point Catherine scoops the girl into her arms and holds her tight.

"Baby, you know that it's not true, right?"

"What's not true?"

"It's not your fault about your parents, and I love having you here, Lindsey loves having you around, and as soon as we find anything we'll get you back to your parents, if that's what you want." She said rubbing the girls back and holding her super close. About ten minutes later she whispered, "What shall we have for dinner?" There was no response from the girl. "Kate? Are you awake?" still no response. She chuckled to herself and picked herself up off the couch while holding her niece, laid her gently on the couch, and covered her up, bent over and kissed her cheek, and went to get something to eat herself.