Week Eleven: Stretch

Auntie Lily and KT. I'm still not over this episode. I don't think I ever will be. It's The Thirteenth Floor all over again.

Set during 02x11

"What about this?" Lily holds up another dress, blue, with purple flowers.

The blonde child simply smiles serenely. "It's lovely."

"You've said that about the last five dresses." Lily drops it onto the bed, amongst the piles of other clothes that she's pulled out from the bottom of her wardrobe. "Don't you have one that you prefer?"

"I prefer whichever you do, Auntie Lily."

Auntie Lily. That's going to take some getting used to.

"Hm." Lily sifts through the clothes strewn everywhere. "Well, at least give me some ideas. Anything. What colours do you like?"

KT looks a little confused for a moment, as if the concept of choice is a new thing to her - although, having been locked away in Calimov, Lily reasons, it probably is - before she leans forward, and plucks one of the dresses from the pile. A pink one, with flowers on. A particular hated favourite from Lily's childhood, but perhaps it will now finally serve some other purpose, other than her ultimate humiliation.

"That one?" She asks, conformation, before the little robot girl nods. "Right. Okay. Here - stretch up your arms, I'll see if it fits." The child obeys immediately, as Lily holds the item of clothing up against her, and judges the size. "Yeah. That should do it." She pauses. "Do you need me to, y'know, help you get changed, or -?"

"I shall do it." KT smiles at her again. "Thank you, Auntie Lily."

"Yeah, well, you're welcome, I guess." Lily rises from her crouching position, wincing at the ache in her legs. "As soon as you get dressed, I'll take you back to your mum and dad." KT looks visibly cheered by this, as she quickly begins to change, eager at the idea of seeing her "parents" again.

"Auntie Lily?"

"Yes?"

"What are Mummy and Daddy like?"

"Oh - Uh -" Lily shrugs, a little caught off guard by the question. "They're - Well, they're like everybody else, really. Kind people. Good people. They're my best friends, and I'd do anything for them. Why do you ask?"

"Because I thought so too."

"Well -" Lily feels a smile tug at the corner of her mouth. "- then you were absolutely right."