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On her way back home, Kate was still processing what Alexis had told her just moments before. She was also trying to figure out what she was going to tell Rick when she got home. Kate knew that the minute she told Rick what Alexis had told her that he would completely freak out and that completely understandable. This wasn't easy for Kate at all.
As Kate was walking into the main lobby of the building that their loft was in, Martha was doing the walk of shame. It didn't take Martha that long to see that there was something going on with her daughter in law.
"Katherine, darling; what's wrong?" Martha asked as she had come up to her daughter in law in the lobby.
"I just got back from meeting Alexis…"
"Okay why did you meet her at this hour?"
"She sent me a text about an hour or so ago saying that she needed to talk to me."
"What about?" Martha asked.
"Let's just say she wanted to talk about something that she did tonight that you and I are well versed in…" Beckett said.
"Oh that thing that made us…"
"Mothers, yeah that."
There was pause in the conversation as other residents passed Kate and Martha in the lobby. Now Martha was processing the news just as Kate had been.
"Were they safe? This was the first time, right?" Martha asked.
"From what Alexis said they were quite safe and it was the first time for both of them." Kate replied.
"Okay, so what's keeping you down here?"
"Rick was fast asleep when I left to meet Alexis. I left a note for him…."
"And from the sound of it, you don't know if you should tell Richard about this or keep it to yourself."
"Exactly." Beckett said.
There was another pause in their conversation as a group of twenty somethings came into the lobby and headed to the elevator bay down the hall from where Kate stood with Martha.
"What should I do, Martha?"
In that moment, Martha didn't know what tell her daughter in law.