Rebuilding a family (Snowbarry)

How do you know all of this?

"Nora honey... wake up," Caitlin said, stroking Nora's back

"Mom..." Nora said, turning over in bed

"No honey, it's Caitlin..."

"What happened?" she asked, sitting up abruptly

"You fell asleep after crying... I didn't have the courage to wake you up so I let you sleep"

"I thought it was just a bad dream... I thought I was in my room and my mother was waking me up..."

"I'm so sorry, Nora"

"Don't be sorry... I should have known... she would never have woken me up by stroking my back... and whispering sweet words to me..."

"I think no one is too old for a pat from a parent or in general...especially in your situation, but if you feel you are too old for stuff like that..."

"No... she never did... so I'm just not used to it..."

"Oh..."

"Why did you wake me up?"

"First of all it's morning, it's already 10..."

"Then?"

"Well I promised Dawn a cake for a snack, I wanted to ask you if you would like to help me prepare it"

"Because?"

"When you were little you liked it... I wanted to know if you would like to help me to distract you a bit..."

"How can you not grieve for what happened?"

"What do you mean?"

"Caitlin, your voice isn't cracked with sadness like Daddy's was, you're not hurting like him or me! Why?"

"As much as I loved Bart, I can't materially suffer as much as you are suffering...

My bond with Bart was almost non-existent when you left... It hurts me to think he is gone, but the fact remains that I never knew him... in my mind he was still a 3-year-old...

I only knew what he was like from photographs..."

"You still haven't told me how..."

"I won't tell you right now... It's not the right time... now you're suffering from..."

"How do you know what I'm going through? You keep talking like you know something! You made it clear that you don't care about my brother!"

"I didn't say that Nora... however I know from personal experience... I'm not surprised you don't know... you were 5 when you left...

My father died when I was a little younger than you... When it happened I suffered terribly and I dealt with the pain in the wrong way..."

"Skipping school?"

"Drugs and Alcohol..."

"Look Caitlin, don't lie to me!"

"I am not lying to you, Nora... I have faced many losses in my life... my father 2 times and my boyfriend 2 times... every time my life took a normal turn a tragedy would happen... then 7 years ago when I thought that was all finished..."

"Well, I'm not like you!"

"I hope so... I would never want to see you the way I ended up... I got to the point where I forgot who I was, then everything changed"

"When?"

"On my 16th birthday me and my boyfriend, or at least I thought he was my boyfriend... me and him, we..."

"What? Did you get pregnant?" Nora asked skeptically

"Yes... he left me shortly after... I went back to my mother and miraculously she helped me..."