Little Lotte- lets start a pride, all our own.

Chapter 8

Fear laced through Kate's heart when she opened her eyes to find herself alone in her bed, the night before fresh in her mind. Immediately she thought he had left again, just like before, but the sound of his voice wafered up from the floor beneath. Throwing her bathrobe around her body, she hurried downstairs to find Jack and Bobby hovering over the dinning room table, the surface covered with guns of all shapes and sizes.

"What are you doing?" Her voice stole away the attention of both Mercers, as she tightened her grip on her bathrobe, disgusted by the sight of the weapons.

"Looking over the possessions of the fuckers who killed mom." Bobby interjected, inspecting one of the killing machines. Jack abandoned the table to head towards Kate, a grin on his face from what had happened the night before, but found that she walked right past him heading towards the kitchen to start a pot of coffee.

"Have you forgotten this is mom's home?" She asked, returning to the kitchen to stand at the doorway, watching Bobby's back. Jack stood awkwardly, attempting to guess how she took the actions that occurred that night.

"Don't preach to me Kate." Bobby warned, putting down the weapon that he was holding in his hand. "Jackie, I left a camera from those bastards up in my room, will you get it?" Hesitating for a moment, he did what Bobby asked of him, leaving the two alone.

"Would you be doing this if Kerri was home?"

"He isn't now is he?"

"What if I brought him home last night? Like he was begging me too, what if he walked down here and saw all of this shit?"

"If you brought him home last night these guns would be the least of his concern, all that noise you and Jack made last night would have scared the boy for life." Bobby was grinning as he spoke, abandoning his work he turned around to face her.

"What happened last night is none of your business, Bobby." She shot at him, aggravated by the current state of her home, not at his question.

"When I can hear what happened, it is my buisness." His grin slide off his face, replaced by serious concern. "So what did happen between the two of you?"

"Well Bobby, he took his dick and-"

"You know what I mean" He cut her off, there is a difference about knowing what goes on behind closed doors than having someone talk about it.

"I don't know... I just don't know," She dropped her gaze to the floor, bitting down on her bottom lip. "Kerri loves, all he had to do was quote the Lion King and my son fell in love," Kate shed a small laugh. "his son."

"Jackie can quote a Disney movie? He's more of a fairy than I thought." Kate slapped his arm and scowled.

"Shut up. Just for your imformation, That was the first movie we watched together. It was the sequel, but we were eleven and I snuck him into my room, my father would have honestly killed him if he found us, but we did it all the same. I think it made it all the better, knowing I could defy the fucker."

"Is that why you let Kerri watch that movie like it's crack? Because it reminds you of Jack?" Kate sighed, smiling faintly as her son came to mind. He would in front of their television watching his favorite movie, Kate and Eyvlen talking quitely in the corner watching him lost in the animation.

"I guess so... when did you become a phycologist Bobby?"

"I've always done this for you, You just never noticed. I could have been a fricken' counselor from all the shit I've helped the two of you through." As he spoke, Jack returned from upstairs, shifting through the images on the digital camera.

"They were watching mom." He spoke quietly, handing the device over to Bobby. "It's that lawyer guy, he said, Bobby he said he only met her once."

"He was lying, obviously." Kate interjected, running to the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. "He was dating her."

"What?"

"The lawyer, Mr. Bradford, he was dating mom." Bobby and Jack stared at her, confused and shocked. "He must not have wanted to sully Mom's name, they were... quite close, he thought the world of her."

"I don't need to know that!" The eldest mercer protested, trying to push the image of his mother in bed with the elderly man.

"Mom? With a boyfriend?" Jack looked down at the camera again, attempting to picture such a strange image.

"Yeah Jack, most women, they like having a man in their life, you know, someone to always be there for them, and all." Kate sipped from her coffee before abandoning the Mercer brothers to return to her room to get dressed.

"She's never going to forgive me, is she?" Jack sulked, turning to Bobby, who sighed and rolled his eyes.

"She deserves so much better than you fairy." He grumbled, looking up at the ceiling, towards the direction Kate was. "If you didn't just stand around like that maybe she'd give you a chance."

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Follow her when she walks away for starters? You grew up with her Cracker Jack! You know the girl she is and the guy she wants. God knows why she wants you, but she does. If you love her like you claim you do, go fucking tell her, and stop acting like a lost puppy."