Part 11 - Mother
Summary:
Avery confronts Remi and it's hard for both women.


"You abandoned me," Avery snarled at her, crossing her arms and gritting her teeth and looking every bit like her mother in her anger.

"No," she replied, "no, I didn't! Shepherd took you away. I had no choice-"

"You had fifteen years to find me," Avery replied, her tone surprisingly calm and collected, "but you chose to run away. It's what you do. It's what you always did."

"That's not true," she argued back, fighting against the tears that she felt stinging behind her eyelids, "I was a child myself. I didn't know what else to do."

"What about after? You could have looked for me. You could have at least tried," Avery said, "you had access to all sorts of information. You're telling me you couldn't find me with all that access to intel? You didn't even bother. You were too busy being a terrorist."

"You don't understand! You wouldn't understand!" she yelled at the young image of her sitting across from her.

"I do understand," Avery replied, "I understand perfectly. I know that you had fifteen years to look for me but you didn't. But Jane on the other hand, she only knew about for a few weeks before she risked her life to find me and save me."

Remi hissed, rolling her eyes at the mention of that woman, and she shook her head. "Is this some kind of joke?" she said, "that woman is no one. She's fake, just a hollow empty nobody that failed at performing a simple task. But don't worry, she's gone now. So don't bother hanging all your hopes on her."

"She's more worthy than you'll ever be," Avery bit back.

"Accept it. She was never anyone. I'm your mother. I'm the one who sacrificed -"

"You sacrificed nothing," Avery replied, "you're a coward. You were a coward then and you are a coward now. All I know is, Remi abandoned her child but Jane… Jane is the one who got her back. Jane found me. Jane saved me and brought me back home. And I will return the favor."

"Jane is my mother."