Future Mrs. Robertson

Thirty Five

Emma

Walking right to that red door, I thought I knew exactly what was waiting for me but to my suprise I saw something I wasn't prepared for. Kate stood in her might holding my daughter. I was expecting anything but this,

" Who is it, Kate"? Peyton's voice echoed as she walked closer,
Kate couldn't utter a single word as she stood the shocked. I pushed through her and walked in without invitation, Angel was playing with a doll, one I've never seen before while the twins we going around in circles.

For a minute, I looked at the sight before me and admired it, this would be how it looked if Kate stayed around and had never disappeared on us, sure maybe Pey wouldn't be in the picture but for some weird reason this sight was what I wanted to come to when I got out of work but of course, I couldn't admit it to them and would never allow my kids the same pain twice. Which is why Pey right now has managed to cross one thin line to get me mad pissed.

Me : I have no idea what on earth is going on right here, quite frankly I don't even want to know. So what I'm going to do is take MY KIDS and leave this hell house.

I looked at Pey who had tears on her eye looking at Kate with bagging eyes, I've never been confused in my life.

Pey : You need to tell her Kate or I'm sorry I'll have to, I can't allow this to ruin my marriage. She says as she cries.

Me : Well you should have thought long and hard about that before even considering to bring my kids here!

I went and placed both the twins in their car seats, I lifted Angel who looked somewhat out of it on my left side and picked the twins on my right. I was about to walk out the door when Kate finally decided to speak, her voice so soft, I don't know how I heard her but I did

Kate : Em wait, I was sick Okay!

Yep! That did it for me, that alone ticked the hell out of me.

Me : Listen! I don't care what happened to you but you were never a lier so don't start now, you missed your own daughter's funeral and for what? I wish the thoughts of her hunt you forever. People are actually out there praying and bagging for kids but you had it all and some how manage ruin it. I don't even know what I saw in you. If it were up to me and I was able to turn back the hands of time, trust you, me I would have never spared you even a second of my time.

Peyton

I looked between Em and Kate, they both looked broken yet very much stubborn to listen to each other. If I don't step in and now, 2 things would happen.

One being that Emma walks out of that door and Kate never, ever sees the kids ever again, in anyone's eyes this might seem as the best solution but that's only because no one knows the pain this woman went through.

Two being Emma walks out that door and not only Kate losses her family but within a few hours I'll be handed divorce papers and that alone I can not allow to happen.

Me : She's telling the truth, babe

Em : Of course you would agree with her, what can I expect from someone who willingly stabbed my back.

No only did that hurt but the it opened a wound in my heart, I don't think will ever heal. I pushed my feelings aside at the moment it didn't matter.

Me : Remember the case I once attended in New York? About the woman who had a brain tumor and it was on stage four? For quality and security purposes, she was kept anonymous but the patient underwent a surgical procedure that deemed her in coma for a year, when she woke up half her memory was wiped off, before the procedure, she was admitted into a hospice, she was on her deathbed and one day a scientist came with this new procedure that needed volunteers and she was the only one who agreed to be the lab rat.

Em : I don't understand how that story fits this....

Emma looked at Kate and went quiet as she finally pieced the pieces together, I could see her reaction got from confused to shock then to realization.

Em : She's was the patient.

I wasn't sure to answer since ot did not seem like she was asking. Finally Emma showed some emotion towards Kate and it wasn't of hatred but of sadness.

Me : When she first started the procedure she was asked why she chose to do it and her answer was.... Kate cut me off

Kate : I had nothing to lose. It was either lay in that bed and accept my faith or fight one last time. Not for me but for my wife and children. My last wish, if I didn't make it, I had asked the hospital to film the whole journey so that my family would see I did not abandon them but rather I died fighting to be with them.

By now the twins were long asleep and Angel back to her doll. Em sat on the floor with her knees up and hands hugging them, Kate kneeling in a great distance afraid of touching Emma but also wanting to comfort her.

Kate : I came to Faith's funeral, Emma. I saw when my daughter's casket go down and when she was being covered by the soil. I watched as you looked like a Zombie with your head on Peyton's shoulders. I watched as Hope and Alex looked stone cold. I saw everything and if I had showed up to you guys at the state I was in, I  would have caused you a much bigger pain than the one of feeling abandoned. I made the toughest choices and chose to leave my family so I could be better for you all. I was even hard to leave the twins on the door step but at the time,it was my only choice.