As the fight was finally over, the worn-out commander walked into the command center and saw Kat was standing there, with a surprised look on her face as though she had been slapped multiple times by someone. "Is everything alright, Kat? You have this look on your face that says someone had just attacked the base." said Cruger as he walked over to her. She looked up at him with an upset look on her face. "No Doggie, everything's not alright at the moment. This is so frustrating. I don't even know how to raise a teenager at all." replied Kat as she slammed her fist down firm onto the panel in frustration.
"I don't know if I should have kept my anger in check by not letting her go out there or that girl will become the death of me for the next few years. I've neglected my part of raising her for so many years that I have one very fuming and enraged teenage daughter who is trying to figure out who she really is. She wants to know everything about her past and why Gruumm is after her, but I honestly don't know how to tell her in the most reasonable way possible so that she could understand what could happen to her."
Seeing that it would have to happen sooner or later someone would have to tell me the truth about my past, he put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I don't know if this will help or put me in the dog house, but I believe that she's trying to reach out to you Kat. That girl is your daughter no matter what she has done, where she's been or how much trouble she's gotten herself into and knowing you, she will forgive you in the end because she's exactly the spitting image of both you and Derek. Especially when it comes to getting her hands dirty. She's like you in so many ways than she knows and I know that she means the world to you. We both know that now. Go talk to that daughter of yours and tell her everything what she needs to hear. If anyone who needs to tell Olivia about what she wants to know, I think that she would be glad that she heard it from you." he said.
She looked at him with solace and nodded. "Your right, I can't keep hiding the truth from her any longer. I'm going to talk to her right now." said Kat.
Hoping that I was in a better head space to talk to her then I had been earlier, she left the command center. She knocked on the door and said, "Liv, honey it's me. We need to talk. Please open the door." When she didn't hear an answer, she walked in and noticed that there was a written note on the desk. Gone to the ice rink to clear my head. I'll be back in a couple hours. Don't wait up for me. Liv. Knowing the exact ice rink that I was at, she decided to tell me there.
Soon as she entered the place, Kat found me on the ice, skating far away far from her. Kat stood there, shaking her head and smiling, seeing that I reminded her of someone very special at that age. "She has no right to tell me what to do. She may be the one who brought me into this world, but she can't possibly understand what I've been through all these years." she heard me say in anger from the other end of the rink. She then went over to the counter, got herself a pair of skates and skated out onto the ice towards me.
As I was ranting out my feelings, I heard someone coming up behind me. I looked up to see that she was there. "I didn't know that you could skate." I said, shocked to see her out on the ice. "I do, but I don't skate very often. I used to compete in ice competitions when I was your age, long before I went into the science academy. So before I left the base, I made a call to Kari about some of the places that you like to go and she told me that this is the one place where you like to vent things out when you're like this."
She looked at the people skating around us. "Olivia, I know that you're angry with me right now and you think that I don't care about you, but the truth is…I really do love you. I loved you since the day you were born. Not a day goes by since I had to leave you at the orphanage and it doesn't stop me from thinking about you every single day. You are the light of my life and you mean everything to me." Kat said, hoping that I wouldn't skate off from her. I looked up at her, knowing that I couldn't stay mad at her any longer.
"You have every right as my mother to send me to my room for the way that I behaved back there. I've been thinking it over about my actions in the command center and I shouldn't be mad at someone for what they were trying to do in order to protect me. I have no excuse for the way I had expressed my anger and I could've hurt someone by doing so. The one thing that I taught myself over the years while I was in the orphanage is that I should never use my power in anger unless it was in self-defense or by protecting someone I care about. I should've listened when you asked me to go to my room and could've been more respectful towards you. I'm sorry for what I did and I promise that it won't happen again." I said as I turned to face her and started skating backwards.
I continued to skate backwards, Kat skated over and reached out for my hands. "I know. I shouldn't have sent you to your room and the way I said it to you was out of line. I should've been treating you more like a daughter instead of treating you like a cadet in the academy. If your father was alive, he would be very angry with the both of us of the way we treated each other. I know that he would be giving you a lecture about arguing with your mother." said Kat. Completely out of nowhere, she stopped skating and brought me closely for a hug.
Intended that I should get some answers, I asked her to explain why Gruumm was after me. Kat finally said, "Gruumm wants you because of your powers, Olivia. He wants to use you in his army. You are the first person in our family that was born with such a unique gift. I found out several months after you were born that you had this gift and at the time I didn't know whether or not if I should have been happy about your gift. Before I could give you a bottle, you would move it towards your crib and your playpen without having me seeing you do it. As time when by, I started getting used to your power."
Subsequently after that, I understood why Gruumm wanted me for my power. I looked up at her with a smile on my face, knowing now on why she did what she had to, in order to protect me. "I think that I should skate a bit more. Maybe try some ice skating moves. I haven't fully finished venting out my anger just yet. Care to join me, mom?" I asked sheepishly. Seeing that I accepted her explanation, she nodded and continued to skate with me.
