Everything Changes

Bedelia And Kim

The Lydia Motel

Bowery/Little Italy Border

6:50 pm

Manhattan

Bedelia had been through a lot in her life, and that claim was nothing to sneeze at.

That being said, being abducted was a first for her. She was just leaving her apartment to go meet Audrey for food and got as far as getting her keys out to lock the door behind her, but that was when Odis Lee appeared. He'd been waiting for her and while he didn't knock her clean out, he held a gun to her spine and threatened to shoot her if she didn't cooperate.

Bedelia had known Odis Lee for her entire life to date, meaning that she knew he would follow through on his threat, so that's how she ended up driving them to a very seedy town to an even seedier establishment called The Lydia Motel.

It was clearly a 'don't ask, don't tell' kind of place that you would only really see in a gangster movie, but she didn't pay too much attention to the detail because she was doing her best not too gag on the awful odors in the air. By the time she was led to a second story room, she was already noseblind, but everything still happned so fast that the only thing she really registered was that Kim was there, yelling at her to look out.

Odis Lee knocked Bedelia out with his gun and she fell to the floor, unconscious after that.

"Mama, wake up! I know you can!"

Bedelia registered that she on a bed and that she was being spoken to, but when she opened her eyes, she was immediately met with a splitting headache.

"Power through it, mama!" Kim encouraged, caressing her face in as gentle a way as possible. "Come on!"

Bedelia finally opened her eyes and sat up, bursting into tears at the sight of Kim, who was retreating to the other side of the small room, wanting to keep her distance. She looked worse for wear and was clearly suffering from a drug withdrawal, as evidenced by her constant scratching. Even still, Bedelia hadn't seen Kim since the early days of her pregnancy with Maggie Blue.

"Kimberly Paige?" the older woman wiped her tears. "Is that you?"

Kim nodded and began to tear up a little. "I-I didn't want to do those bad things! I didn't want that cop to die! I really didn't!"

Bedelia's heart sank as she realized that this was what Olivia had been talking about earlier.

Even though she herself was feeling scared and was desperate to distract Kim long enough to send an SOS text to Amanda, Bedelia still did her best to put on a brave front.

"Kimberly Paige Nicole, come here."

Sobering up at the sound of her mother's authoritative tone, Kim dragged herself back over to the bed. She looked a little pathetic, standing in front of her, but Bedelia willed herself to stay on point.

"Are you telling me that your daddy killed someone and that you were there?"

Kim nodded. "He did, and when he killed her, he tried to get me to kill her friend!"

"And did you?"

Kim wiped her tears and mimicked putting a hand on a Bible. "Hand on the holy book and with God as my witness, I was there and I had a prybar, but I didn't lay a hand on those ladies."

"I believe you." (Kim breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her hands) "What did you do with the prybar?"

"I threw it in the river and it landed on a garbage barge."