A/N: Very agnsty chapter and some swearing. I would really appreciate
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Disclaimer: I don't own Will and Grace or its characters.
Chapter Eight Results and Consequences
Karen was getting dressed for work when the phone in her room rang. She ran out of her closet and picked up the phone that she had left on the bed.
"Hello," she said into the receiver.
"This is G. R., I've got the DNA test results," the voice on the other end said.
"What is it?" Karen asked, sinking down on the bed, gripping the phone tightly.
"There was a 100% match between Lois Whitley and Katherine Riley's DNA," G. R. said.
Karen barely remembered pushing the off button of the phone, but the next thing she knew was that the dial tone was blaring in her ear. She breathed
out slowly and then opened her mouth letting out a shrill scream of pain mixed with hysteria.
So the Riley woman was right, she was her sister. Karen stared out the
window and suddenly realized that even with the test results coming back positive, she could still get rid of the woman. She would resort to the one thing she knew how to do very well- lie.
~~~
"Good morning Karen," Grace said, sounding a little surprised. It was only eleven, and Karen rarely came at this time.
"I'm sure Jackie told you about the DNA test I had done Riley?" Karen said nastily, making Katherine's last name sound like a filthy word.
"I- yes, yes he did," Katherine said, taken aback for a moment at the fact that Karen was speaking to her.
"Well I got the results and you, are a liar," Karen said. "You are definitely not my sister."
"Karen wait a minute," Grace said. "I don't know who told you the results, but Katherine is going to be getting a letter from your mother soon."
Karen just laughed and walked over to her desk and sat down.
Grace turned to Katherine, who was looking pale, and whispered, "Go talk to her!"
Katherine nodded and walked over to Karen's desk. "What Grace said was
true Karen," she started. "I received a letter from Lois Whitely after my adoptive parents died. It says that she gave me away a few days after I was born."
"Look, DNA tests don't lie Riley," Karen said, standing up.
"But Karen, I am your sister why can't you just accept that!" Katherine
cried.
"Because I have a letter from my mother, saying the baby girl she had in England was stillborn," Karen said. "So I don't know what the hell you're trying to get by pretending to be my sister."
"The letter I've got says she lied about me dying so you wouldn't hate her even more," Katherine said.
Two spots of red appeared on Karen's cheeks and she raised her hand, slapping Katherine hard with the back of her hand.
"Karen, what the hell are you doing!" Grace cried, running over to where Katherine was standing.
"I don't know who you are, but all I know is that you are just some English brat who is insane," Karen said.
Katherine, who had covered her cheek with her hand, straightened up and
let her hand fall to her side. There were two distinct scratches bleeding on the cheek, made by Karen's ring.
"Oh my god," Grace said, seeing the blood. "Katherine are you-"
Katherine held her hand up and stared at Karen, her eyes shining brightly. "So I am insane am I?" she said. She touched two fingers to the blood and then showed it to Karen. "Do you see this Karen Walker? Do you! This blood that runs through me is the same as yours. I don't care what you say, but I know that we are sisters." She dropped her hand and then turned to Grace. "I won't be coming in on Monday, I'm going back to England. I'm sorry Grace."
Without another word, she walked past Karen and out of the office.
"Karen how the hell can you be so insensitive?" Grace said angrily, grabbing her arm. "She came her to try and find her family, and what she got was you hurting her."
"Good," Karen said, wrenching her arm from Grace's grip. "She was nothing but a little liar and I'll be glad when she leaves." She then left the office, stopping momentarily to grab her purse and coat.
~~~
Katherine was stumbling down the sidewalk through the rain to Will's apartment. She kept slipping and bumping into people, unaware of anything except for the pain she felt on her cheek and in her heart. There was nothing left now for her, she had no sister, no family, only Amber, who wasn't even really her daughter.
As she entered the elevator of the building Will's apartment was in, her mind cleared and she remembered the plan she had set up a few days ago. Walking into the apartment, she went straight to her room and pulled out one of the suitcases she and Amber had brought with them. Then she started packing all of her clothes very neatly, humming an Irish lullaby to herself.
'Soon enough,' she thought to herself. 'This will be over and the pain
will be gone.'
When she had finished packing the suitcase, Katherine went over a checklist inside her head. The letter was at the office where Grace would see it and she had already talked with her lawyer, everything was ready.
With a smile on her face Katherine reached into her pocket, and pulled something out.
~~~
Jack walked into Grace's office, and saw that she was the only one there. "Where is everyone?"
"Karen got the DNA results back," Grace said. "She said they were negative. Kat tried to tell her about the letter, and Karen slapped her."
"Oh my god," Jack said. "What happened next?"
"Kat said that she's going back to England and then she left," Grace answered. "And awhile after that, Karen left."
"I shouldn't have stopped for that cup of coffee," Jack said, pulling something out of his pocket.
"I doubt that you could have done anything about what happened Jack," Grace said. Then she saw that Jack was holding a white envelope, the address in the corner said York, England. "Is that it?" she asked, already knowing the answer.
Jack nodded and said, "I opened it. If I had known what it was, I wouldn't have." He handed the letter to Grace who took it out and read it over quickly. Looking over Grace's worktable, he spotted a white envelope with his name, Will's and Grace's names written on it in what was Katherine's handwriting. He reached over and picked it up. The envelope wasn't closed, and he pulled out the letter that was inside. "Oh god," he said. "Grace!"
~~~
Katherine always loved when her father used to show her his Swiss Army Knife. It had a lot of neat attachments, but she loved the knife blade because he used to whittle pieces of wood a lot.
Now, she held her the Swiss Army Knife, the blade sticking out. She was in Will's bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub with her feet inside. She pressed the knife down to her left wrist and then stopped for a moment,
closing her eyes. After a while of convincing herself that this was for the best, she pressed down hard on her skin with the knife.
Jack, Grace and Will ran into the apartment and to the bathroom.
Grace, who was at the front of the three, saw the blood and yelled, "She's bleeding, stop her!"
Jack and Will ran inside and they each grabbed an arm.
"No! You have to let me finish!" Katherine screamed horribly. She began to resist, and the two men nearly lost their grip on her.
"Grace, get the knife," Will yelled over Katherine's crying and wailing. He was holding her right arm and was keeping it steady so Grace wouldn't get cut.
"Oh god Will, I think I'm going to be sick," Jack said as Grace went over to them and pulled the knife out of Katherine's grip. Katherine's blood was getting on to Jack's hands, face and shirt as she was struggling.
"Don't think about it Jack," Will snapped angrily. "Grace, get-"
"I've got alcohol and gauze," Grace said, interrupting him.
"Try and clean her up," Will said. "We'll hold her as still as we can."
Grace went up to Katherine and wrapped a towel tightly around her left wrist to stop the bleeding. After a few moments, she took the towel off slowly and saw that the bleeding had stopped. She then went and grabbed a washcloth which she then poured alcohol on. She walked to Katherine and said, "I hope you guys have a good grip on her," as a warning. Then she reached over and
started to clean up the blood on Katherine's wrist.
When the alcohol soaked washcloth touched the wound, Katherine began to
yell incoherently. Eventually, she began to scream actual words. "Why? Why? Mummy!" And finally, when Grace had finished cleaning the wound she screamed, "Karen, why!" and she wrenched her left shoulder upwards. She then collapsed back against Jack and Will, sobbing softly.
"What's wrong with her" Jack said out loud, looking scared.
"Grace you better bring that washcloth back," Will said.
There was another cut on Katherine's arm as there was blood seeping onto the light blue blouse she was wearing.
"Jack help me take her blouse off," Will said, motioning for Grace to take his place. He saw the expression on Jack's face and said, "Come on Jack, she's got a wife beater on underneath." He then unbuttoned the blouse and with Jack's help pulled it off.
"Oh my god," Jack said.
Grace gasped and Will shook his head sadly.
All over Katherine's arms were scars from other cuts that she had inflicted on herself. There was a long cut below her left wrist that looked like it had just started healing when Katherine had wrenched her arm upward.
As Grace stared cleaning the second cut, Jack felt the anger rising in him towards Karen. She needed to be told what her stubborn refusal had done. He decided then that he would take the letter to Karen and show her that Katherine had been telling the truth. As soon as they were done with Katherine, Jack would leave immediately.
~~~
Grace helped Katherine in a pair of plaid pajama pants and a long sleeve shirt that she had found in the packed suitcase. Then Jack and Will helped
Katherine walk over to her and Amber's room.
Once she was settled under the covers, Jack left the room and walked over to where Grace's jacket was on the couch.
"What are you doing Jack?" Will asked, coming out of the bedroom.
"I'm going to Karen's," Jack said with a snarl, taking the letter out of a jacket pocket. "I'm taking the damn letter and pounding some sense into her stubborn head." His expression softened a little and he asked, "How is Kat?"
"She'll be alright," Will answered. "I'm not a doctor, but the cut isn't too deep. It looks like we got here just in time."
"Jack," Grace said. "Kat said she doesn't want Amber to know what happened. Think you can pick her up at school?"
"I'll go to Karen's first," Jack answered. "And then get Amber." He walked over to the door and opened it.
"Better keep her at your apartment tonight," Will said. "I don't think
Amber should see Kat."
Jack nodded and then left the apartment, walking over to the elevator.
Inside his mind, he was going over what he was going to say what needed to be said and how he was going to say it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Will and Grace or its characters.
Chapter Eight Results and Consequences
Karen was getting dressed for work when the phone in her room rang. She ran out of her closet and picked up the phone that she had left on the bed.
"Hello," she said into the receiver.
"This is G. R., I've got the DNA test results," the voice on the other end said.
"What is it?" Karen asked, sinking down on the bed, gripping the phone tightly.
"There was a 100% match between Lois Whitley and Katherine Riley's DNA," G. R. said.
Karen barely remembered pushing the off button of the phone, but the next thing she knew was that the dial tone was blaring in her ear. She breathed
out slowly and then opened her mouth letting out a shrill scream of pain mixed with hysteria.
So the Riley woman was right, she was her sister. Karen stared out the
window and suddenly realized that even with the test results coming back positive, she could still get rid of the woman. She would resort to the one thing she knew how to do very well- lie.
~~~
"Good morning Karen," Grace said, sounding a little surprised. It was only eleven, and Karen rarely came at this time.
"I'm sure Jackie told you about the DNA test I had done Riley?" Karen said nastily, making Katherine's last name sound like a filthy word.
"I- yes, yes he did," Katherine said, taken aback for a moment at the fact that Karen was speaking to her.
"Well I got the results and you, are a liar," Karen said. "You are definitely not my sister."
"Karen wait a minute," Grace said. "I don't know who told you the results, but Katherine is going to be getting a letter from your mother soon."
Karen just laughed and walked over to her desk and sat down.
Grace turned to Katherine, who was looking pale, and whispered, "Go talk to her!"
Katherine nodded and walked over to Karen's desk. "What Grace said was
true Karen," she started. "I received a letter from Lois Whitely after my adoptive parents died. It says that she gave me away a few days after I was born."
"Look, DNA tests don't lie Riley," Karen said, standing up.
"But Karen, I am your sister why can't you just accept that!" Katherine
cried.
"Because I have a letter from my mother, saying the baby girl she had in England was stillborn," Karen said. "So I don't know what the hell you're trying to get by pretending to be my sister."
"The letter I've got says she lied about me dying so you wouldn't hate her even more," Katherine said.
Two spots of red appeared on Karen's cheeks and she raised her hand, slapping Katherine hard with the back of her hand.
"Karen, what the hell are you doing!" Grace cried, running over to where Katherine was standing.
"I don't know who you are, but all I know is that you are just some English brat who is insane," Karen said.
Katherine, who had covered her cheek with her hand, straightened up and
let her hand fall to her side. There were two distinct scratches bleeding on the cheek, made by Karen's ring.
"Oh my god," Grace said, seeing the blood. "Katherine are you-"
Katherine held her hand up and stared at Karen, her eyes shining brightly. "So I am insane am I?" she said. She touched two fingers to the blood and then showed it to Karen. "Do you see this Karen Walker? Do you! This blood that runs through me is the same as yours. I don't care what you say, but I know that we are sisters." She dropped her hand and then turned to Grace. "I won't be coming in on Monday, I'm going back to England. I'm sorry Grace."
Without another word, she walked past Karen and out of the office.
"Karen how the hell can you be so insensitive?" Grace said angrily, grabbing her arm. "She came her to try and find her family, and what she got was you hurting her."
"Good," Karen said, wrenching her arm from Grace's grip. "She was nothing but a little liar and I'll be glad when she leaves." She then left the office, stopping momentarily to grab her purse and coat.
~~~
Katherine was stumbling down the sidewalk through the rain to Will's apartment. She kept slipping and bumping into people, unaware of anything except for the pain she felt on her cheek and in her heart. There was nothing left now for her, she had no sister, no family, only Amber, who wasn't even really her daughter.
As she entered the elevator of the building Will's apartment was in, her mind cleared and she remembered the plan she had set up a few days ago. Walking into the apartment, she went straight to her room and pulled out one of the suitcases she and Amber had brought with them. Then she started packing all of her clothes very neatly, humming an Irish lullaby to herself.
'Soon enough,' she thought to herself. 'This will be over and the pain
will be gone.'
When she had finished packing the suitcase, Katherine went over a checklist inside her head. The letter was at the office where Grace would see it and she had already talked with her lawyer, everything was ready.
With a smile on her face Katherine reached into her pocket, and pulled something out.
~~~
Jack walked into Grace's office, and saw that she was the only one there. "Where is everyone?"
"Karen got the DNA results back," Grace said. "She said they were negative. Kat tried to tell her about the letter, and Karen slapped her."
"Oh my god," Jack said. "What happened next?"
"Kat said that she's going back to England and then she left," Grace answered. "And awhile after that, Karen left."
"I shouldn't have stopped for that cup of coffee," Jack said, pulling something out of his pocket.
"I doubt that you could have done anything about what happened Jack," Grace said. Then she saw that Jack was holding a white envelope, the address in the corner said York, England. "Is that it?" she asked, already knowing the answer.
Jack nodded and said, "I opened it. If I had known what it was, I wouldn't have." He handed the letter to Grace who took it out and read it over quickly. Looking over Grace's worktable, he spotted a white envelope with his name, Will's and Grace's names written on it in what was Katherine's handwriting. He reached over and picked it up. The envelope wasn't closed, and he pulled out the letter that was inside. "Oh god," he said. "Grace!"
~~~
Katherine always loved when her father used to show her his Swiss Army Knife. It had a lot of neat attachments, but she loved the knife blade because he used to whittle pieces of wood a lot.
Now, she held her the Swiss Army Knife, the blade sticking out. She was in Will's bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub with her feet inside. She pressed the knife down to her left wrist and then stopped for a moment,
closing her eyes. After a while of convincing herself that this was for the best, she pressed down hard on her skin with the knife.
Jack, Grace and Will ran into the apartment and to the bathroom.
Grace, who was at the front of the three, saw the blood and yelled, "She's bleeding, stop her!"
Jack and Will ran inside and they each grabbed an arm.
"No! You have to let me finish!" Katherine screamed horribly. She began to resist, and the two men nearly lost their grip on her.
"Grace, get the knife," Will yelled over Katherine's crying and wailing. He was holding her right arm and was keeping it steady so Grace wouldn't get cut.
"Oh god Will, I think I'm going to be sick," Jack said as Grace went over to them and pulled the knife out of Katherine's grip. Katherine's blood was getting on to Jack's hands, face and shirt as she was struggling.
"Don't think about it Jack," Will snapped angrily. "Grace, get-"
"I've got alcohol and gauze," Grace said, interrupting him.
"Try and clean her up," Will said. "We'll hold her as still as we can."
Grace went up to Katherine and wrapped a towel tightly around her left wrist to stop the bleeding. After a few moments, she took the towel off slowly and saw that the bleeding had stopped. She then went and grabbed a washcloth which she then poured alcohol on. She walked to Katherine and said, "I hope you guys have a good grip on her," as a warning. Then she reached over and
started to clean up the blood on Katherine's wrist.
When the alcohol soaked washcloth touched the wound, Katherine began to
yell incoherently. Eventually, she began to scream actual words. "Why? Why? Mummy!" And finally, when Grace had finished cleaning the wound she screamed, "Karen, why!" and she wrenched her left shoulder upwards. She then collapsed back against Jack and Will, sobbing softly.
"What's wrong with her" Jack said out loud, looking scared.
"Grace you better bring that washcloth back," Will said.
There was another cut on Katherine's arm as there was blood seeping onto the light blue blouse she was wearing.
"Jack help me take her blouse off," Will said, motioning for Grace to take his place. He saw the expression on Jack's face and said, "Come on Jack, she's got a wife beater on underneath." He then unbuttoned the blouse and with Jack's help pulled it off.
"Oh my god," Jack said.
Grace gasped and Will shook his head sadly.
All over Katherine's arms were scars from other cuts that she had inflicted on herself. There was a long cut below her left wrist that looked like it had just started healing when Katherine had wrenched her arm upward.
As Grace stared cleaning the second cut, Jack felt the anger rising in him towards Karen. She needed to be told what her stubborn refusal had done. He decided then that he would take the letter to Karen and show her that Katherine had been telling the truth. As soon as they were done with Katherine, Jack would leave immediately.
~~~
Grace helped Katherine in a pair of plaid pajama pants and a long sleeve shirt that she had found in the packed suitcase. Then Jack and Will helped
Katherine walk over to her and Amber's room.
Once she was settled under the covers, Jack left the room and walked over to where Grace's jacket was on the couch.
"What are you doing Jack?" Will asked, coming out of the bedroom.
"I'm going to Karen's," Jack said with a snarl, taking the letter out of a jacket pocket. "I'm taking the damn letter and pounding some sense into her stubborn head." His expression softened a little and he asked, "How is Kat?"
"She'll be alright," Will answered. "I'm not a doctor, but the cut isn't too deep. It looks like we got here just in time."
"Jack," Grace said. "Kat said she doesn't want Amber to know what happened. Think you can pick her up at school?"
"I'll go to Karen's first," Jack answered. "And then get Amber." He walked over to the door and opened it.
"Better keep her at your apartment tonight," Will said. "I don't think
Amber should see Kat."
Jack nodded and then left the apartment, walking over to the elevator.
Inside his mind, he was going over what he was going to say what needed to be said and how he was going to say it.