Chapter 3: SISTERHOOD
"What!" Cordy says in a shocked and surprised tone, "But I don't have a sister...I only left five years ago, you can't exactly just be a baby and then grow up in that time." Cordy doesn't see the logic, but somehow knows it's true.
"Hey!" Conner sounds offended, "I've only here for two years, and I'm nineteen." he frowns at his 'mother'.
"Sorry hun, I'm just a little...shocked, that's all." Everyone stares down at Kary, no one knows what to say or think.
"Let me explain," Kary takes a few minutes to try and figure out what to say to the only living family she knows. "Um...I haven't exactly had a normal childhood, I don't know how to say it, but your father had an affair with my mother...and voila." Kary shrinks down, under the covers, she doesn't know what to expect.
The group can hardly believe it, Cordy has a sister, well a half sister that no one knew about. Where the hell did she come from?
Angel voices the question everyone was thinking "how come you are just meeting her now?" he senses something familiar about the girl...but can't figure it out.
"Well, that's a long story...which I don't want to share with you all, especially you Angel." Angel looks startled that she knows his name.
"And why is that?" Lorne suddenly breaks in, to avoid the awkwardness.
"Because it involves him. And because I'm tired and in pain and would rather forget about the bastards and The Lab then reenact it all." Kary sighs as she feels exhaustion creeping up on her, she hadn't slept for three days and would really like to just drift away into nothingness and not have to think about the Lab.
"what do you mean the Lab?" Gunn asks.
"Gunn, I just wanna sleep and then I promise I'll answer all the questions I can." Kary mumbles as she falls back onto her pillow. Cordy automatically takes on the role of big sister and starts herding everyone out. "Oh and thanks Conner, for not spearing me with your sword." Kary calls as the door is shut.
"Okay, how did she know our names?" Gunn asks everyone gathered around the kitchen table.
"I don't know, maybe she read about us somewhere, like in a newspaper." Fred tries to make sense of all of this. The group starts discussing what they should do about Cordy's sister, when Angel notices that Cordy hasn't said anything yet.
"Cordy, can I talk to you for a sec?" he asks as she snaps out of her trance. Once Cordy and Angel are alone in the foyer, he turns to her and gives her a hug, "what are you thinking about?" he asks her as he softly runs his hands through her hair.
"Well, for starters, I have a girl who claims to be my sister upstairs asleep, my father cheated on my mother and something about her seems familiar. Oh god, my head is spinning and I feel completely out of it." Cordy sighs as she rests her head against the only man she feels safe with.
"Understandable, we'll figure all of this out when she wakes up." he lent down and kissed Cordy softly on the lips...it grew to a more passionate kiss and Angel pulled Cordy against him.
"Okay, don't wanna see that," Conner stats as he passes his mom and dad making out, "I'm just gonna take this food up to our mystery guest."
"Just let her sleep, she seemed exhausted" Cordy says as she breaks away from Angel.
"well it's been like four hours, so I'll just leave it there if she's not awake," Conner turns to the stairs and heads up to Kary's room, but when he looks inside, Kary has moved from the bed to the floor, and is sleeping comfortably. Conner quietly puts the tray down and is about to leave when suddenly he is attacked from behind. He reaches back and flips the attacker on to the bed in front of him and is about to punch, when he realizes its Kary.
"What the hell are you doing?" a puzzled Conner asks the startled girl.
"Sorry...I thought you were...was someone else." she looks ashamed and hangs her head.
"It's okay... um...what's your name, I figure since you know mine, I should know yours" Conner is trying to be polite.
"Kary" the single word is whispered from an injured soul.
"well Kary, I think it's time you did some explaining, c'mon everyone is downstairs." he heads towards the door and Kary reluctantly follows, knowing that she some how has to tell complete strangers something that she hasn't even admitted to herself, That she is a creation made for destruction.