Part 6

"So …did you have fun?" Sara smiled as she looked in the mirror to a sleeping Jason to the seat next to her where Lindsey sat.

"Surprisingly … yes" Lindsey teased as she continued to drink the icy drink that Sara had brought her a while back now.

"Surprisingly?" Sara echoed with a fake hurt – "We went ice skating, I brought you endless amounts of junk food and pop. It was a great day" she protested.

"It was alright Sara…but…"

"But what?" Sara asked.

"Well… you had a fight with a huge guy and nearly got us killed" Lindsey explained with a smile. Sara laughed, it was true she had been fighting with some huge, over weight guy that had knocked Jason down.

"Hey he should have been more careful. He could have really hurt Jason" Sara defended.

"He could have killed you" Lindsey explained.

"I had my gun" Sara joked.

Lindsey just shook her head, "Seriously Sara…I had a great time. It was the best… thank you so much"

"Hey I have to get something right with you every once in a while." Sara turned up the dirt road that lead up to the cabin, not wanting to return back to this place. "I mean… I can't have you hating me all year round… I make an effort at Christmas"

"I don't hate you Sara. I just give you a hard time. I… love you. I'm glad your…" Lindsey shrugged, "…you know"

Sara looked over at the younger Willows woman with a huge smile, "Yeah… I know. I love ya too Kido"

Lindsey got that cheeky look again, "Hey … who doesn't?" she asked.

"You're your mothers daughter Linds, you know that?"

"Yeah well... you want to know the best part of today?" The teenager lent back in her chair with a smug look on her face.

"What was that?" Sara asked.

"When you fell over on the ice" She laughed.

Sara went to grab Lindsey but the teenager was too quick she'd jumped out of the stationary car and took off towards the cabin laughing. "Get back here …"

Sara tried to catch her but gave up once the girl had gotten into the cabin. She instead decided to deal with her later and get Jason out the car. As she turned back and lifted him out she noticed for the first time Catherine's car was there. She sighed in relief.

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Slowly Sara stepped out onto the deck – she walked over and moved her arms around Catherine's waist, holding the blond close. Catherine sighed and lent back into the brunette pressing her face against Sara's. "Mm…god baby I missed you"

Sara smirked, "Good…because I missed you to" she explained pressing a kiss against Catherine's neck. "Really missed you" she explained.

"Have things really been that bad?" Catherine actually felt a little guilty about forcing Sara up here for two days on her own.

The two of them were looking out onto the flickering darkness of the lake that was fully visible across the wooded area. There was calmness in the air that Sara always appreciated. "Worse" She explained.

"I'm sorry baby…"

"Don't be… I knew what I was getting into." Sara explained. There was another silence until Sara spoke again – "So how was the trip?"

"not too bad…though I've had a detailed lecture on blood splatter – yet again. I mean come on – I specialised in that felid – I know what's the what – why do I have to go sit through it time after time?" She grumbled on.

"Baby… you know that you sound like Lindsey right?"

"I'm aware of that" Catherine laughed. She turned around in Sara's arms – the brunette winding them around Catherine's waist – the two still close together but Catherine now lent against a post that made the porch area. "You know what baby…I haven't kissed you in three days…"

"Well…how's about I fix that for you" She smiled. "No more talk or work, or the kids, or the hell that was the past two days."

Catherine nodded, moving forward they both met, their eyes closing and their hands gripping onto each other.

"When you two are through with making out like teenagers… Catherine your son's crying"

They were broken apart by Nancy's hard tone from the doorway – Catherine just looked at her anger clear. "Sar…baby…could you go check on OUR son?" the blond emphasised for effect and to make it clear to her sister.

Sara just turned, leaving them both – looking at Nancy as she passed and letting her know she wouldn't keep quiet and keep taking this shit for long. Once she'd left Catherine looked to her sister. "God damn it Nancy…when are you going to stop this?"

"Stop what?"

"The shit you keep pulling. I've been with Sara for what seems like forever now… I think you really need to accept that she's a huge part of my life and your crap isn't okay with me." Catherine growled.

"Look, it is how it is… lets just make best of the next week and we can go back to living out lives how we both want to live them."

"Want to live them? I don't want or need this Nancy… I love her." The blond just took a deep breath – she really couldn't understand what it was going to take for them to treat Sara with respect. "I thought this week would change all this… but your not even trying are you?" She accused.

"Trying…oh I'm trying Cath…because there's a lot I want to say but I'm holding it" Nancy shot. Then she shook her head and let out a sigh – "God what the hell happened to us…"

"To us? Nothing happened to us. You on the other hand turned all bitter and twisted – your not the sister I thought you were Nance. Your not the friend I had for all them years…"

"I'm still your sister, and your friend…I'm just looking out for you god damn it" She explained. "She's not the person you think she is. She's a drunk, and a god damn emotional mess…"

Catherine advanced on her sister and with more anger than she'd felt in a long while put her finger into the face of someone she'd always trusted and relied on. "You talk about her like this again you'll regret it – you hear me. I agreed to this god damn trip so we could sort all this mess out but I don't think we can – right now I want to leave but I can't cause the kids are in that house wanting a Christmas I promised. So keep your god damn mouth shut and back of from Sara and after Christmas day I'm leaving here. Leave Sara alone, she's done more for me and the kids than anyone has – she's been there through so much – if it wasn't for her I wouldn't even be here today so you owe her a degree of respect if you can't give her anything more – Got it"

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She took the stairs two at a time hearing the sound of Jason crying – she didn't know what had made him like this but she was instantly filled with a sense of fear and need to fix it. Once at the room she opened it to find him sat in Lilly's arms.

"Hey Kiddo…" Sara's soft voice offered. "What's all this?"

Lilly looked up with a shrug – she stood up holding her grandson – then approached Sara. "It must have been a nightmare or something…he just won't calm down" she explained. She then passed the young boy to Sara who took him in her arms. "I think he needs Catherine"

"Well … he's got me …" Sara offered with anger evident.

"Well I'll leave you two it" Lilly explained.

"Yeah… I think that's for the best." Once the door shut again she held Jason to her and attempted in calming him. "Hey kiddo… what's all this about" Though she was angry at both Lilly and Nancy she was managing to hold it together well.

"Monster…" Jason balled out in a round of tears. "Scawered"

"Monster… dude…there's no monster…you had a bad dream." She soothed, "I promise kiddo…"

"Don't leave meeee." He whined as he took clumps of the brunettes shirt in his clenched fists. He was a mess…and Sara just hoped that this had nothing to do with that movie he'd watched the night before they left to come here. Some stupid black and white horror that Catherine had told her not to let him see, with a sigh she mentally kicked her self, she'd messed up again.

"I'm not going to…here dude…what do you say me and you head on down stairs. You spend the night watching TV." He buried his head into my neck and nodded. "Okay, first I think we need to get you washed up what do you say?"

"kay" And with that Sara headed towards the bathroom.

"Is he okay?" Lindsey asked walking towards the bathroom –

"Yeah... just a bad dream huh slugger?"

He nodded quietly.

"You up for watching some TV Linds" Though spending time with this kids wasn't all bad – Sara had a motive to this. As long as Lindsey and Jason were around she wouldn't be getting into any arguments or and conversations about this mess with Catherine that would led to an argument.

"Sure"