Disclaimer: I don't know why, but CBS is really hesitant to give ownership of the Elementary characters to me. Hmm...
Kitty sat in a chair at Scotland Yard, searching for some way to escape. She didn't want to see her little sister again, and yet she had. She didn't want to tell Lucy what had happened, so she was thinking up ways to escape the place. If not, at least to escape the conversation.
She couldn't get to the fire alarm; that was out in the hall, and she had to walk past a dozen different officers to get to it. It wasn't on her way to the toilet either, so she ruled out that idea. She thought about drilling through the floor and just dropping down, but that would cause too much of a riot. Maybe if she actually started a fire…
It was too late anyway. Kitty could see Lucia and Plummer coming her way. She looked away, not wanting any of this. All she really wanted was to go back to New York and snuggle up close to Sherlock for a while. But she knew that wasn't possible, since Gregson would arrest her the moment her feet touched New York soil. However, at the moment, prison seemed luxurious to this confrontation she was about to have.
The door closed, but Kitty refused to respond. She knew it was only Lucia. Plummer had a very distinctive smell and it wasn't in the room, so he wasn't there.
"SJ?" Lucia asked, approaching warily.
"Kitty," Kitty snapped. "Kitty Winter."
"Fine," Lucia huffed. "Tell me what happened, Kitty."
Kitty's patience was already low, and this wasn't helping. Still, she chose to ignore. Lucia kept trying to get Kitty to face her, but to no avail.
"Kitty, I'm you're sister, for Pete's sake!" Lucia sighed exasperatedly. "Please tell me what happened. Why'd you leave five years ago, and never come back?"
Kitty's patience finally ran out.
"I don't have to tell you anything!" she snapped, leaping out of her chair and facing her little sister.
"Well, I think I deserve to know the truth!" Lucia snapped back.
"You wouldn't be able to handle this truth!" Kitty snapped, raising her voice slightly. "Trust me!"
"How do you know I couldn't handle it?" Lucia shot back. "And how can you tell me to 'trust you' when you dropped out of my life without an explanation?"
"You're right," Kitty said, lowering her voice again. "But you wouldn't be able to handle this truth. Even I can't handle it, and it happened to me."
"Kitty…" Lucia began, but the trailed off, not knowing what to say. She adjusted her uniform and reached out to touch her sister, who pulled away.
"No, Lu, don't," Kitty said. "There's a reason I changed my identity. It was so no one would find me."
Lucia's blood boiled, and she couldn't explain why. Perhaps it was all those years she never spent with her sister. Her big sister, her safe haven, her role model.
"Don't give me that," Lucia hissed before her voice gradually loudened as she spoke. "You have no idea how much doing that hurt me. I looked up to you, I felt safe with you. Then you went and left us, and without an explanation or trace, when you could have come back! I-I spent every day looking out my window, waiting for you to come home, but you never did! Y-You never even called. Or wrote! You just disappeared and expected us to just move on! Well, you're wrong!"
Kitty was stunned, as was Lucia. She had just poured out her heart and soul in her workplace, and they both just stood there.
"Lu," Kitty sighed, ready to start the story, but Lucia shook her head. She turned and ran from the building to hide her tears. Kitty's blood boiled in anger. It wasn't fair of Lucia to say that after what she had been through. On the other hand, she did have a point. Kitty should have at least left a note. But she had been so broken back then, and so broken now, that she didn't want to do anything but run. She really did hate it when her sister was right.
A half-hour later, Kitty found Lucia slumped up against the back of the building, just staring off into the distance. She decided to cut the small talk and get to the point.
"You're right, Lu," Kitty said. "You deserve to know the truth."
Lucia looked up and smiled a bit. She patted a spot on the ground, but Kitty shook her head, having made up her mind to give Lucia the short version of the story.
"Five years ago, I was kidnapped and raped. I ran. Another man found me and fixed me. Then I found my offender the other night and almost killed him. The other man talked me out of it. I hurt my offender a lot, so I had to run away to avoid jail. I came here. End of story."
Kitty turned on her heel and speed walked off. Lucia just sat there, dumbfounded. That was why her sister ran away? Why didn't Kitty just tell her? They could have avoided the fight they had. Lucia decided to give Kitty a bit of space and shrugged it off.
Her big sister had always been a complicated person.
Yeah, this is taking a lot longer than I thought. But it'll reach a happy ending sometime. Perhaps when we reach the end of the world (Narnia reference, sorry all non-Narnians!). Leave a review and I will see you for the next chapter. Peace out! :)
