Celine

Celine watched as the smoke blew from her mouth. Apparently, Emily was coming home today, Celine wanted to go see her, but she couldn't bring herself to look her in the eye, knowing what Katherine did to her.

She was at a crossroads. Emily was her best friend, she'd known her forever, there was nothing they wouldn't do for each other, nothing they wouldn't tell each other…but Katherine was her sister...the same sister that would let her sleep with her on a stormy night..the sister who snuck her her first beer. She didn't agree with it, but her conscience just wouldn't allow her to hand Kathy in. She brought the cigarette back to her lips. "You know dad hates that." Kathy said, appearing from nowhere, pointing with her eyes at Celine's cigarette.

"You know what else he hates? Lying little drug dealers." Celine barked, a little too snappy,

"I am not a drug dealer." Katherine shot back, "I just happened to have some on me, and she just happened to want some…if I'd have known it was her then I never would have-"

"I don't care, Katherine." Celine took another drag and blew out another bundle of smoke, Katherine moved closer to the wall Celine was leaning on.

"You….you wouldn't tell anyone, would you?" She sounded like she was begging her.

Celine put her cigarette out by crushing it against the wall, "I hate lying for you, and I hate lying to Emily, but you're my sister, so no, I'm not going to say anything." Kathy breathed a sigh of relief. "But you better pray for your sake that Emily doesn't remember it was you." And Celine walked back inside.

Emily

Emily had to strain to walk up the stairs, in fact, the overdose had left her so physically weak, she needed crutches. "You need help there, sweetie?" Howard asked when he heard his daughter's heavy breathing.

Emily wanted to say no, it was a pride thing, but her clenching abdomen and aching legs said other-wise.

When Emily reached the door, with Howard's assistance, she collapsed on to the couch, (The nurse had told Howard and Bernadette that she would be like this for a few weeks, and that she would need a lot of rest, so she wasn't allowed to go to school.) but as soon as she did, she heard not one but ten voices all chorusing "Surprise!"

Celine wrapped herself around Emily's weakened form, she whispered in her ear, "I'm so happy that you're ok." Emily hugged her tighter, she inhaled Celine's scent, Madagascan Vanilla Flower… it was Celine's favourite perfume, she savoured the enticing scent, it still lingered when Celine let go of her.

Ashlii

Emily's welcome home party was now in full swing. There was music, there was laughter, and damn did Bernadette make a good buffet, but she just couldn't allow herself to relax, no matter how much beer she had, (Emily wasn't allowed any alcohol, for obvious reasons, so as not to wave it in Emily's face, Ashlii left her half-empty beer bottle on the kitchen surface.) Ashlii was more intoxicated than she cared to admit, she fell into her brother's shoulder.

"Hey, Leon!" She grinned widely at him, "I'm looking for dad, you seen him?"

Leon eyed her suspiciously, wiping Ashlii's dribble off his shoulder, "No." He went back to having a discussion with Leonard about Comic Con or something, Ashlii soon found Sheldon in the kitchen making tea, looking so focused she could swear it was some ancient practise.

"Dad, can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"If you knew something….something important, should you tell someone?" Ashlii wasn't in her right mind, she shouldn't say anything…not here….

"Well, Ashley, it's not every day I can say I'm puzzled….but what in Seven Hells are you talking about?"

She'd already said too much, "Nothing, dad, I'm drunk." Before Sheldon could give her an earful about the consequences of alcohol consumption, Ashlii had stumbled off to talk to her mother.

Katherine

Katherine hadn't so much as looked at Emily all night. She was far too guilty to engage in that. Ashlii glaring knives at her all night for no apparent reason didn't exactly help. "Hey, Sweetie, what's the matter?" Penny asked as she took her daughter's cheeks in her hands,

"I'm fine, mom…I'm just not feeling too great…" She lied and took another swig of beer.

"Do you want me to take you home?" A part of her was about to say yes…to get out of this place that was making her feel trapped and sweaty and….guilty..You are guilty….an inner voice told her…She sits there stripped of her strength because you pumped her full of that poison…

"No." She decided as she coiled her arms around Penny's waist. "I love you mom." Katherine was close to tears...Keep it together, Hofstadter, she told herself, "All I've ever wanted was to make you proud. The both of you."

"Honey, I love you too, and me and your dad couldn't be prouder." She let go of Penny, and smartened herself up, "You ok now?"

"Yeah, mom, I'm fine….I'm gunna go talk to Emily." Emily sat on the couch, as she had been all night, it's a good job Celine was keeping her company, other-wise she might have fallen asleep. "Hey, Emily." She smiled, she you'd expect her to, but she was studying Emily's face for any sign of familiarity about the other night.

"Hey, Kathy." Emily said casually, "Come sit down, you've been distant all night."

There it was, that nauseous feeling again…. "I just…I just didn't want you getting overwhelmed…so uhh….do you do you even remember anything about that night?"

Emily thought for a moment, "No…not really, one minute I was at the party and the next…."

"So.. you don't remember anything?" Emily shook her head, Celine shot Katherine a disapproving look, shaking her head, she walked off.

"Attention, everyone!" Sheldon was smiling, "I have an announcement to make! My cousin is having a train party for his birthday, and we're all invited!" Everyone started cheering, Katherine even lightened up, she heard Amy saying "Why didn't you tell me this before, Sheldon?" but she paid no mind, she saw Leon and dragged him away from Howard to dance.

AN: Ok, so, spoiler alert…. There's going to be a train crash! And someone's going to die! Please leave lots of reviews and tell me who you think is going to die in the crash. (This includes Muhammad and Ameira as they will be back by then.)

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Immortalgothgirl

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