"Alexandra, we have to talk."
"About what, Mother?" The girl was rather anxious, and when she sat down, her hands fluttered in her lap, a nervous habit. Does she fear me so much now? Elizabeth wondered, watching the hands.
"In a few hours, I will leave for America. You will remain here."
"How long will you be gone?" Alexandra asked. These visits to America had begun in the past year, and Alexandra had learned not to fight them at all. In fact, though she felt terribly guilty about it, she looked forward to them, because she always went and played at Sho's house all day. She had her own room there now.
"I'm not coming back."
Her eyes widened, tears shone. Elizabeth kept on.
"I will be returning to my family, the home that I was meant to be in for these past years. I will return to my job, my career, and my husband. You, however, will have to remain here. I have already made the preparations."
Alexandra was silent.
"You can do what you like. I don't care. From now on, if you happen to see me, pretend like it is the first time we have met. Do you understand?"
Still, she was silent.
"Do you understand?"
"Yes."
"Good. You are no longer allowed to call yourself Alexandra Palone. Your name has been legally changed to Mogami Kyouko. You must call yourself that from now on, to everyone. And tell Fuwa that he cannot call you Lexi anymore. You are Kyouko."
"Then my birthday is on December 25th, right?"
"Excuse me?"
"We...Sho-chan and I...decided that Lexi's birthday was September 14th, and that Kyouko's birthday was December 25th. That was the day he named me Kyouko."
If she's more willing to go along with the lie, then... "Then I will legally change your birthday as well, to December 25th." I'll be sure to forge that before leaving the country. I've committed worse felonies. "I have made arrangements for you to stay with the Fuwas, but you may leave whenever you like. When I drop you off at their house tonight, that is the last act I will do as your mother. Do you understand?"
She nodded, and then started crying. Elizabeth scoffed in disgust.
"Do you think that when a woman or child cries someone will automatically come to help you? Don't be ridiculous. Life never works that way."
A/N: As some of you probably recognized, Saena/Elizabeth's last line is taken directly from the manga, chapter 3, where Kyouko pinches Maria and tells her to stop crying at the LME newcomer auditions.