AN: Yes, we are disregarding the two chapters prior to the one I just wrote. I may not be able to update before Christmas. This may be the last chapter until new year. I also have a question, do y'all want me to skip ahead in time or not? Everyone, If I do not see everyone before Christmas, I wish everyone good health and happiness into the new year and have a very merry Christmas.

New Year's Eve

Platters of food were put out for the guests that would soon be arriving and despite being told not to eat anything by Eliza, Lena began to take little things here and there to eat for herself. Nia seemed to have an inkling as to what her mother was doing, by the way she giggled at her. Alex noticed the first time and she thought it was the cutest thing ever.

"Your child knows what you are up to Lena, she has good senses." Alex smiled, looking up from her phone, "Winn and James will be here soon and-"

The idea of James made Lena feel sick to the stomach, so much so that she put the cocktail sausage back on her plate, "That man is vile, why would you still be friends with him?"

"Why would you go out with him?" Alex asked with a raised brow. She then noticed how Lena scowled at her, "I was desperate, I was a desperate, sad woman and that is the only type of woman who would go out with a hypocrite like that. Seriously Alex, why'd you have to put me off my food?"

It was then, there was a knock at the door. Lena sighed heavily, "I'm not ready."

As Alex stood up, she walked over to Lena and placed a firm hand on her shoulder before delicately saying, "Brave Heart, Lena." With that, she sauntered off to the door. She opened it and as soon as she did, James was stood there. Lena rolled her eyes, "I'm going to bathe the little one!"

James frowned at Alex, "Is…Is Lena avoiding me?"

"Who would want to do a thing like that?" Alex said too enthusiastically.

"Uh, Kara and…Lena."

Winn looked between the two, "Anyway…Happy New Year's! I figured Nia might want some baby clothes and the like, so I bought her some clothes and a few toys." He said with a smile that Alex missed, although she would never actually say that outloud.

"And uh, I brought rum." James said, holding the bottle up.

Winn frowned at him, "For the baby?"

James looked at him, incredulously, "What? No! I know some of you think I'm stupid."

"Well, with the way you treat not just women, but people in general, I'm not surprised." Eliza spoke up, reading a magazine on the sofa.

"Mom!" Alex snapped, whilst she knew her mother wasn't entirely wrong, this was supposed to be a family occasion.

"Excuse me?" James retorted, "Mrs Danvers, with all due respect, Lena left me!"

"And yet you treated her like crap when she took a target off of her back! And don't you dare question if she does or doesn't know love! Of course she does, it's you who has no idea what love is. You are self-centred and mean spirited, Lena does not deserve you, nor does anyone or any woman deserve someone like you." Eliza snapped.

Alex stared at her mother in disbelief whilst Winn stood there, awkwardly. James glared at the older woman, before deciding that he should go, "Yeah…I think I should go." He said, before leaving.

Alex walked over to her mom, "James did not deserve that!"

"Someone had to tell him sooner or later Alex. She knows what love is, what the hell do you think Kara and that child are? They are everything that she loves and he is the one that has no idea! He is arrogant! He is self-centred and does not care about the opinions of others and acts scorned when someone puts him in his place. If there was another universe where James was the same person with a different name, I would imagine that he would be no different either." Eliza hissed, before standing, "I'm going to check on my granddaughter and my other daughter." She said, before going to the bathroom to check on Nia and Lena.

Alex turned back to Winn, "I'm so sorry you witnessed that."

"Oh no, it's fine!" Winn said, enthusiastically, "Where's…Where's Kara?"

"Sit down, I'd better fill you in." Alex said to him, before taking a place on the sofa herself.

In the bathroom, Lena was gently cleaning Nia and she was surprised when Eliza sat beside her, "I heard what you said, about James…You didn't have to defend me like that."

"Oh honey." Eliza said softly, "If he was in a TV show in another world as an actor and the people who ran the show kept him on, I'd honestly want to know why, because no one wants someone like that representing someone who is meant to be kind-hearted and none judgemental. He needed to be put in his place, because you don't deserve that."

"I also don't deserve Kara…" She said quietly, "What do I do Eliza? She killed Nia and whilst Nia is right here in front of me…It's hard to think that Kara is capable of such a thing. I think now that maybe she had a reason to do it. Maybe she wanted Nia to be reborn again or something…I just don't understand." She then sighed frustrated, "I really want to understand why she did it."

"We all do honey, but then we also, all need time to digest what has been going on here. There is no excuse for what James did to you full-stop and there is no excuse for what Kara did, but at least, perhaps, she may have a reason for that…We just need to let time heal what has happened and maybe one day you both can talk about it." Eliza said softly, rubbing Lena's back.

Lena smiled sadly, "Thank you Eliza."

"You're welcome honey."