2 days later
"well you can walk and talk on your own still Annabear so I guess that means we won" says Astrid
"I guess so…. Do you live here now" asks Anna
"yes and no, I was sent here to apologize for blaming your sister for your 'death' if I couldn't I'd be sent back to the mental facility, I'm here under Miley's watch, she hasn't heard back on my chances of staying here, if they say no I can't stay then I have to go back" says Astrid
"what did she tell them about me" asks Anna
"Miley told them you are alive, that you'd faked your death to get away from your family for a bit because you were stressed, that you got lost and in an effort to not make a fool of themselves after already declaring you dead at the hospital they had decided to omit the fact that your body was missing, they apparently believed it so you don't have to hide anymore" says Astrid
"Cat's visiting later today now that we have heat sorted out up here, so if I were you Anna I'd get dressed" says Isabelle feeling better herself
"trust me if I could I would, despite knowing how to stand, walking and using my arms is still a struggle, almost like I'm paralyzed, Astrid undressed me for my shower last night, she cleaned me up, I can't get dressed by myself yet, she was too busy telling me how beautiful I am, even naked to dress me for bed" says Anna
"should we leave you alone so she can dress you then" asks Isabelle
"Andre's looking at me in a way I don't like" says Anna nervously
"to be honest I didn't even notice you weren't dressed Anna, I'm sorry if I'm staring, Isabelle baby let's go eat breakfast and let her get dressed" says Andre wheeling Isabelle to the newly finished kitchen
"does he make you nervous Annabear" asks Astrid as she slowly dresses Anna
"a little yes, being naked makes me uncomfortable, I don't like the way my body looks, it matured without me being in it, it's creepy" says Anna as her skirt is pulled up
"I'll try and remember that, who am I kidding I can't forget a thing thanks to my stupid camera brain, why do you love me" says Astrid putting Anna's bra and shirt on
"your ears, they're cute, it helps that you haven't grown and are still under five foot, honestly everything about you is cute, your hands are very soft, I like how they feel on my skin" says Anna biting her lip
"one of the only good things that mental facility did was letting me keep my hands moisturized, normally patients aren't allowed liquids of any kind not provided by the facility, your eyes sparkle more than they did before you left Myre" says Astrid starting Anna's makeup
"that's not something I can control Astribear….. that didn't sound right" says Anna as Astrid finishes her makeup
"I liked it actually but my heart always flutters when you say my name" says Astrid
"can you help walk me to the kitchen" asks Anna
"Annabear I'd love to" says Astrid walking Anna to the kitchen
"that was fast" says Isabelle as Ivy arrives
"you didn't fake your death did you, this is mystical in nature isn't it" says Ivy
"on point as always Ivy, how did Cat take it" asks Anna
"she doesn't believe in religion of ant kind really, even if it was engrained into her home education after her school learning, she believes in ghosts and magic, that's it, all the other stuff like being a demi-God she thinks is all lies, she was however extremely happy you aren't dead" says Ivy
"what did Tori or Jade think" asks Anna
"Tori's sceptical but Jade's more open to It than you think, Tori's more likely to believe the faking the death angle, which is fine as it's the story Miley's been going with publicly, making the nessicary changes with the hospital to 'correct' your medical record" says Ivy moving her hand over Anna's shoulder and head
"what's going on here, why are you touching her like that, it's freaking me out" asks Astrid
"a little magic to connect long forgotten nerves to muscles that are a tad stiff" says Ivy
"huh" says Astrid
"Cat doesn't need to see Anna stiff like this, she will lose her mind, I'm merely allowing her body to be bendy again, at which point she can cast her own magic to make it permanent" says Ivy as Anna suddenly moves her arms
"wow, you must have learned a lot" says Anna
"voices Anna, I'm being told what to do, hand me a glass of water Astrid" says Ivy as Astrid complies
"you're going to heal her right" asks Astrid
"no I'm drowning her… what do you think I'm doing, of course I'm healing her, daughter of Neptune and/or Poseidon remember, Andre told me Anna told you that already, anyway I'm done now, Anna slowly sit in the chair, I'd say go hide and make out with Astrid right now to stimulate the muscles but clearly its too early for that" says Ivy as Anna sits down
"I don't like the way my body looks Ivy, my chest is too big for my height" says Anna not realizing things changed
"Uhh that's not true anymore unless this is an illusion Annabear" says Astrid shocked
"I don't do illusions Astrid, I turned back the clock on their growth, her not being physically in her body for so long meant things grew at different rates, based on numbers that do not exist, anyway they will slowly grow now till Anna is satisfied with their size, I've used up my energy meaning Cat will be fronting in a few seconds, expect her to be huggy to the extreme" says Ivy as Cat fronts again
"awww you girls look cute together" says Cat hugging Anna and Astrid
"thanks Cat, I'm sorry me running away from my problems scared you" says Anna
"I'm just glad you're ok Anna, honestly I'm surprised Miley was able to get the hospital to correct your medical record" says Cat as Miley and Lilly walk in
"yeah I can be persuasive when I want to be, I promised them a private concert featuring Hannah Montana if they corrected the record now that she had been found, I told them I'd found her under a bridge, which technically how I found her, I do go look under the bridges here for homeless people or teens, I help them out, technically they can't prove me wrong" says Miley
"but you told me she showed up at your door" says Cat confused
"if I told them that they'd ask to see her and ask a million questions, when she showed up at my back door her muscles were sort of stiff and she couldn't speak, the moment I got her in here she fainted, she was in no condition to answer any questions, honestly they were just happy she was alive, the doctor that pronounced her dead was fired when her body went missing" says Miley
"why'd you want to run away, you had to know it'd hurt Isabelle Anna, why hurt her" asks Cat
"I didn't believe dad should have run for prime minister, we'd only moved a few months before, nobody knew him, nobody listened to me, I knew it would hurt Izzy but I couldn't support him if he didn't listen to my warning, he didn't even seem to care that a car had hit me and I'd worshipped him for his leadership, he'd never been like that before, it made me afraid that he'd changed, after I ran away dodging cameras on my way out of the hospital, he didn't seem to care, there was no public announcement about my 'death' even, all he talked about was how he was running to change Isabelle's life, no mention of me at all, not even as a passing note, I'd never intended to be gone this long, but six months went by and nobody seemed to care about me being dead, I was afraid that if I'd popped up alive out of nowhere he'd have me killed or the police would kill me for impersonating myself, you don't understand how he changed Cat, literally the moment he announced he was running he stopped talking to me" says Anna
"he did care Anna, he couldn't not care about you" says Cat
"actually she has a point, Anna was healthy, not a bone creak or muscle spasm to be seen, he really did make his campaign about making people's lives like mine better, if he cared about her getting hit by the car he didn't show it" says Isabelle
"I ran into the street hoping to get hit, hoping he'd look at me for the damaged girl I was, my plan after escaping the hospital and realizing he didn't care was to try and get to Oslo and make my way home on my own to try and find Astrid so we could be together, unfortunately a dead girl as I basically was didn't exactly have a bank account I could access for the boat ride to Norway so as much as I hated it I was forced to stay here, away from the girl I was desperately in love with that he'd torn me away from to get Isabelle 'better' treatment, though It would seem bringing her away from the cold only made her issue worse, I remember right up to the day we moved that whenever a bitter cold day arrived her issue completely resolved itself, only for her to walk into the house and immediately fall down and have to crawl" says Anna
"dad didn't care about me being outside because he didn't think I liked it, he had good intentions Anna, he could only judge my severity based on what he saw, it wasn't his fault, your disability is invisible, losing mom is what changed him not politics, he didn't speak about you in public because he felt it was a private matter, he was actually very very depressed when you 'died' Anna, had the part not rallied around him he would have walked away from politics, you know he claimed he saw you every day, heard your voice, he knew you were mad at him" says Isabelle
"I was everywhere but Westminster sis, what he heard was impossible unless someone recorded my voice to torment him, it is possible" says Anna
"ok I need to lay down, once you guys are done eating come cuddle with me, even you Andre, I'm feeling lonely" says Cat heading to the living room
"what's up with her today, this isn't like Cat" asks Andre
"Cassandra's modelling with her girls, Trina and and Sadie are out doing girlfriend stuff, Olivia and Mo are at London Eye for the day, Maria and Lexie are sleeping after staying up all night watching a very very long movie, Tori is producing her music and Jade is setting up the launch site for the official streams she's going to be doing, as wonderful as Cat is she's not technically inclined enough to help Cassandra or Jade, feels awkward enough about basically rooming with her two favourite singers Mo and Olivia so she avoids going outside with them so as not to seem creepy, Trina doesn't understand her very well so that's Trina's fault for that one, basically she's having a big bought of the mega doubts, she can't help anyone at her place so she comes here where most of her family now resides, in an attempt to feel safe, that and Anna is kinda her favorite" says Miley as Anna runs to cuddle Cat dragging Astrid along with her
"wow she seemed to react fast, I was going to ask her if she lied to Cat or not" says Miley
"not, she'd have told me if she had, besides I could feel her energy, she was terrified telling that story, most likely afraid she'd slip up, she's lied before, when she lies she's calm, for instance when she said she was a horse at the palace here, she was referring to the main Royal palace Buckingham, she was never a horse, they terrified her when she was little, she'd never become one, not willingly" says Isabelle
I guess we're done eating now" says Andre
"well breakfast was quick, might as well go cuddle kittyboo" says Isabelle
"wait why kittyboo, that seems odd for a cousin to say" asks Andre
"for one she was wearing her safety tail, you might not know this but she's what a therapist might call an age regresser or as most people call it 'a little', she's in little mode" says Isabelle
"then why the tail, it seems awfully sexual" says Andre
"it's purely an indicator for others that she's in little mode, and its not a plug, its clipped to her belt loop, she doesn't wear it outside, not unless she has to, if she wears it outside she had cat ears to go with it so it looks like a theme, anyway let's go cuddle her" says Isabelle as she and Andre go cuddle Cat
"…. Cat you're a little" asks Andre concerned
"Izzy I didn't want him to know, it was supposed to be a secret, he's a guy, they take my specific cues wrong, now I don't want him involved in the cuddle" says Cat in tears
"Cat Anna and Astrid are on either side of you, even if I wanted to I couldn't get access, I only asked because little modes are usually a result of trauma, that fact terrifies me, that someone actually got to you and hurt you or raped you or something, can't a friend care about your mental health" says Andre heading off to paint feeling hurt
"how doesn't he know what happened…" asks Cat
"who was it Cat" asks Isabelle
"Ryder's ex-friend Andrew, he cornered me like Ryder, the only difference is he didn't rape me per-se, he did everything but stick his thing in me, it was my second month at Hollywood Arts, all I know is he was suddenly taken out of the school and I was put in a friend group with Jade, three years went by before anyone tried cornering me again, I don't know who ratted on him all I know is I felt safer at school after he was gone" says Cat as Andre bursts back in
"I'm the one who ratted on Andrew Cat, he walked out of the janitors closet all smug then ten minutes later you crawled out with your underwear in your hand headed to the girls bathroom, I told Lane about it and he said he'd deal with it, that's as much as I knew, other than him suddenly not being at school I didn't know how they found out if they didn't talk to you, that was till the school burned down and all that was left of the janitors closet was a security camera black box, then I asked Lane if that's how they kicked Andrew out and all he said was you were drugged, he wouldn't go any farther than that" says Andre
".. so…. You saved me before you even knew me… I don't know what to say, h-how did the group with Jade thing start" says Cat again in tears
"all I know about the group with Jade is that she walked out of lane's office the next day and walked right over to you and gave you a hug, probably the only time anyone saw her soft that year, next thing I know you're best friends with Jade, that's not an Easy feat but then again Jade hides many things about her from us" says Andre
"I need to know what made you look at me crawling out of the janitors closet and think 'oh no she's in trouble', you didn't seem to be type to stick your neck out for tiny girls at the time" says Cat
"at first I didn't think anything of it, you seemed to be a nerdy type and I've seen them do random cosplays before class for fun, then I saw the underwear in your hand and the blood drained from my face, none of the girls I knew took off their underwear just because, I'd have helped you to the girls bathroom but given what I'd assumed happened I didn't want you to think I was going to drag you back in there and do the same, Lane and I talked for two hours, I missed my first two classes that day and didn't get out of his office till lunch, Beck said police arrived to cuff Andrew but he was trying to be edgy like Jade at the time so I couldn't exactly take his word for it" says Andre
"did Jade know what happened" asks Cat
"honestly I don't know what Lane told her, all I know for sure is when she introduced you to us she hugged you tight and looked me in the eye and nodded slowly, I'd assume Lane told her what I believed happened, she'd never locked eyes with me before or since, not with you around" says Andre
"do you think Jade hoped I'd kiss her, like maybe she planned the whole thing, it's always been a fear of mine, nobody really knows where her dad made the money he made and she won't say what she spends it on" asks Cat
"no Jade's edgy but not creepy, as far as I know having met her dad ONCE during a parent teacher thing that was open to all students and parents, all I know is he worked trying to save at risk youth, as for how Jade spends it I do know that after she was cleared of crimes here in London the Hollywood arts rebuild fund suddenly got five million dollars from a shell company called JWest Corp., along with a note saying it should be dedicated to you" says Andre
"… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" screams Cat descending deeper into little mode
"what's bad about Jade asking the new rebuilt school to be dedicated to you" asks Andre
"she's mortified Andre, Jade asked the school to be dedicated in honor of her worst moment, she feels betrayed" says Isabelle
"no no that's not why she asked for the dedication Isabelle, trust me I asked her straight up yesterday when I was over there if she intended to commemorate that day" says Andre as Ivy once again fronts
"then why did she do it" asks Ivy
"she looked at cat sitting in the corner and said straight up she was the most dedicated student, that she deserved to be 'made eternal' as she called it, see Jade believes that Cat overcame obstacle after obstacle, as a result she became the most well known besides Tori and herself, which apparently the school agreed with her, basically granting Cat a paid position in absence, meaning any student that attains her level of dedication and gets on the Honor role gets a private video chat with Cat in which Cat gets paid, ten grand a video chat Ivy, all so cat can talk to new students about ways to up their grades and maximize efficiency, Jade says Cat was open to it and that's why she asked the school to dedicate the new building to her, the other reason is so that NOBODY has to go through that again, so that CAT could have an active role in making sure NOBODY has to go through what Cat went through, Jade said they will be offering Cat a chance to hold a class after school to enlighten men about what rape and acts similar to it, Cat will get a chance to make a real difference Ivy" says Andre
"understood Andre, if she gets that chance she will take it" says Ivy