I do not own Split or Glass.

I still have not split.

The Light of the Casey

The Believer

Miss Patricia was the first and very oldest amongst them, the ones that sat around The Light.

She was created as a mother figure for Kevin.

A real mother figure

Kind, calm, caring.

Even toned and even tempered.

She stroked his hair and told him stories.

She made pb and j sandwiches for him when he was hungry and left alone in the house by himself.

She made him sit very quietly away in the still dark when Things Got Bad and B.T. was sent in to take the pain.

Patricia was very gentle and kind.

Then she evolved.

She wanted more for the growing horde of followers that sat around The Light.

She wanted justice from the brutalities of the world.

She wanted protection for Kevin and the Others.

She wanted, needed, something to believe in.

Miss Patricia did not know that Dissociative Identity Disorder alters typically do not change and grow their personalities.

So she began to change and evolve anyway.

Becoming a . . . Believer.

A Believer of The Beast.

It didn't happen all at once.

Believers have to believe in the light, know that it is there before they can see it.

That's what makes them Believers and not Knowers.

They have Faith.

Faith that He would put right the wrongs

He would show the world they were not weak.

But strong.

And that no one could ever hurt them again

And Patricia became not only the Mother but the Believer.

And when the end came, when the bullet entered the body's chest, tore through flesh and bone to pierce the heart and end all their lives, Patricia mourned.

She mourned the loss of the rest of their lives as only a mother could.

She mourned the pain that filled the girl's dark, depthless eyes.

And she mourned that she did not have further time . . .

"I always believed. Tell them, tell them I always believed."

. . . to prove her loyalty and belief in The Beast.

"I always believed."

Can I say again how much I loved, no matter how darkly, this character?

I mean, my goodness.

Anyway, thanks to the silent readers of this story. :)