It was a cold Thursday night, katie could remember that day so clearly. That day would always stay with her. She was huddled in her room to afraid to move, there was a storm outside and it frightened her. She was only six at the time so little things like this scared her. Her mom had just got home from the corner, that's where she made her money doing god knows what, she heard her come up the stairs. Katie prayed to god that she wouldn't come into her room, she didn't want to get hurt. She just wanted to go to sleep. She buried herself deeper as another loud boom came from outside. That's when her mother came into the room.

"Oh Kitty Kat where are you?" her words were slurred which meant two things to Katie: 1, her mother was drunk and 2, she was most likely going to wake up hurting. "Come on Kitty lets not hide from your mother."

Katie could only whimper slightly, she didn't want to hurt she just wanted to be happy and go to sleep. She wanted her mother to comfort her and hold her through this storm not hurt her.

"There you are Katie." She said walking to the bed, ripping the covers off of her. "You really shouldn't hide when someone is trying to talk to you Katie. When I want to speak to you, you come right away do you understand me?"

Katie moved from out of her bed and went to stand in front of her mother only to be hit in the face with her hand. She stumbled back and bit back a yelp, her mom got mad when she yelled or reacted to being disciplined. Stacey grabbed her arm and dragged her towards her and whispered lowly, "Listen Kitty, don't look me in the eye when I'm talking to you, it's disrespectful. Besides I don't want to have to look at you, your despicable and just down right ugly. I don't know how you could be my kid."

Once again Katie forced herself to bite back a whimper, but she couldn't control her vocals. She was upset that her mother could think that of her. Didn't she love her like all her other classmates parents loved them? Why was she different? Why didn't her mom love her?

"Okay." She mumbled looking at her feet, only trying to please her mother.

"Don't talk back to me little kitty kat!" she spat at the girl in front of her. "You know what I think? I think you need to be taught a listen in respect. Since kittens hate water so much I think your punishment should have to do with water." She dragged her crying six year old into the bathroom and sat her on the toilet seat. "Don't you dare move." She said lowly.

Stacey then continued to fill the bath tube up with cold water, it was almost filled to the rim before she turned it off. "Stay here." She left the room. Katie could only image what her mother was going to do to her. Her body started to shake in fear of what might happen to her. When her mom return she had a bag of ice with her, she dumped it into the tube only to make the water colder.

The drunken mother grabbed her daughter by the neck and dragged her to the edge of the tube. She forced her to her knees and then shoved her face under the water. Katie struggled to get up, the water was cold and she was running out of air, sadly her mother was to strong for her. Eventually her mother let her up for air, Katie gasped for the air that she desperately needed.

Thinking the worse was over her mother dunked her under once again. The water was so cold it made her body shake and she truly struggled to get out of her mother's grasp. She could faintly hear her mom laughing at her saying she diserved it. Stacey only repeated the cycle two more times before leaving her shaking at the side of the tube, hysterically crying.

"I hope you learned your lesson Kitty Kat."

Katie was still frozen in place next to Santana and Brittany. Her mind was slowly bringing her back to reality. She felt a hand on her shoulder while she saw a concerned looking blonde crouched down in front of her. Britt looked like she was saying her name over and over again but Katie still didn't have her hearing back, the memory still had her trapped.

"Katie…Katie?" Brittany finally got the girls attention. She wiped the tears away with the pad of her thumb. "What's wrong honey? Tell me and San."

Katie forgot that Santana was here with her, she looked around for the Latina only to find that it was her who had her hand on her shoulder. San smiled down at her, encouraging her to answer Brittany's question. She then looked back at Stacey who was smirking at her, it sent chills down her and shook her. Katie shook her head and put her hands over her ears.

Santana moved in front of Katie, just like her wife was, "Hey Hermosa," she cooed. She took her hands off her ears and took one while B took the other one. "It's just you, me and Brittsticks okay. No one else, focus on us."

Focus on them, focus on them, Katie chanted in her head. She looked at Britt who still had a concerned look on her face while S was just smiling at her trying to make her feel comfortable. She clutched their hands tighter and took a deep breath. "I don't like her here." She mumbled out looking down.

Letting the whole eye contact thing slide, only because this whole situation was getting to intense for the smaller girl, Santana stood up and faced the people who were supposed to make Katie her daughter and said, "We need to take her outside for some air okay?"

Not waiting for an answer Brittany took girl outside with Santana on her trail. They sat down on the cement stairs. Katie inbetween the adults to keep warm, she grabbed the Latina's hand as soon as she sat next to her and held Brittany's tighter.

"Take your time Katie, just know you can tell us."

Calming her nerves down a little Katie finally got some confidence and said, "My mommy called me that once." She focused her gaze on Brittany's wedding ring, she found such interest in it, "She called me that when she hurted me, really bad." She said as a fresh batch of tears were coming out of her eyes.

"Did you have a memory of what happened?" Santana asked the girl carefully, fearful she might upset her more.

Katie nodded her head, "It was so real Tana, I got scared that this was a dream."

"This is most certainly not a dream." She whispered to the girl, trying to keep her voice calm. She wiped the girls tears off her face gently.

Feeling somewhat safe Katie had some confidence to tell them what exactly her mother did to her that scary night. "She took me into the bathroom and filled the tube up with super cold water and even added ice to it. She…she dunkeded my head in and wouldn't let me breath." She cracked out, "It was so scary."

Santana's jaw was set into a hard line. What kind of sick twisted bitch does that to their own child? Their own child for God's sake. You don't try and drown your child no matter what, that's not normal.

Brittany took the broken girl in her arms and held her in her lap. She tried to comfort the girl, she even promised her after they were done here that they would get ice cream. They would get ice cream as long as Katie promised to show Brittany a smile. The girl only got a small smile out before Brittany caught Santana storm into the office building. She quickly stood placing Katie on her hip following her wife.

"Santana…" She called after her, she stopped as her wife was nose to nose with Stacey James, "Oh dear lord…" she mumbled as Katie buried herself into Brittany's face..

Sorry for the delay. Just been busy with school I have mid-terms coming up and stuff. I'll try and get the next one up sometime soon along with family matters and maybe big sister little sister. I don't know. Sorry for the bad update.