After the Cortez family massacre Adora Cortez is left as the main suspect,
With everyone doubting her, including her lawyers how can she win this case?
That's until Annalise Keating decides to take the difficult case and becomes determined to win it...
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(Trigger warning!!) ⁂ ⁂⁂
"You have to be completely honest with us",In this moment I sat in Annalise Keatings living room with five law students around me, "I have been",I say simply leaning back, "Really",Annalise says questioning my patience, "You don't believe me?",I put a mused look on my face, "Wes read out the case- file",Annalise says eyeing me down, "Six bodies found, two dead from large blows to the head,three from gunshots to the chest and legs, one severely beaten with a baseball bat",He shows pictures of the bodies and murder weapons,
"Um..Main suspect Adora Cortez has an alibi but no witness to back up where she says she was since her boyfriend skipped town, evidence- fingerprints on the murder weapons and a strong motive which is they had kicked her out and took her off their will",He finishes and glances my way, "So your telling me you didn't do it",Annalise says leaning back, "I lived there since I was born just until the day before of course my fingerprints were on everything",I defend, "Your alibi? Your boyfriend just decided to leave town?",She was testing my patience, "He was planning on leaving a month before, he booked the flights well before they were killed",I roll my eyes,
"The motive, they took you off the will, that had to piss you off",The younger black woman perked up and stated, "They told me long before they were taking me off the will, if I wanted to kill them it would have made more sense to do it whilst I was still on it",I shake my head, "Your aunt is testifying against you, why?",A blonde woman from the side asks, "That bitch hated me the second I came out of my moms womb",I stretch, "So can you win the case or not?",I ask glancing at each of them, "Of course I can, I just need you to co-operate",She says pouring some vodka into a glass and quickly drinking it, "Co-operate How ?",I sigh at the thought of having to take orders from this woman, "Don't talk to the press, only say what I tell you on the stand and you'll be fine",She says shrugging, "That it"I say earning a look from her, "You want to do something else?",She asks, "No",I shake my head and lean forward taking up a glass she poured for me, "Good, Laurel,Frank you two go get whatever you can out of the 'witness' and try make the aunt look biased towards her",She orders, "Conner, Michaela you both go through this list of people and see if they'll testify",She throws a list at them, "Asher look through those files and look for the best defense, Wes watch her and make sure she doesn't try kill anyone",She finishes before walking into her office the blonde woman following,
"So you probably wouldn't tell us if you actually did but did you?",The guy by the name of Asher asks throwing a pile of files on the couch beside me, "I said no, didn't I?",I roll my eyes and lean back, I notice the other guy,Wes, is watching me attentively as if I could blow up at anytime.
"You don't have to watch me like that, I'm not gonna kill you",I sigh turning my head to look at the man who had the features of a young boy, "I know",He nods still staring at me, "You believe me?",I ask raising a brow, "Yeah",He nods making me feel weird, "Did you have any violent encounters with your family before that night?",He asks..
⁂flashback⁂
"Really, Mom, that's how low your gonna be?",I roll my eyes in annoyance, "If you won't treat this family with the respect we deserve then we have no other choice but to remove you from the will",She shook her head, My jaw clenched and my fists tightened. "I'm out",I say before standing up and making my way up to my bedroom, Packing my clothes my mother barges In. "What the hell are you doing?!",She yells at me, "Getting out of this hellhole",I say back zipping up my case and pushing her out of the way. "You have no money you'll be on the streets!",She grabs my arm pulling me back with all her strength. "I'd rather be in the streets than in this house for one more minute with you",I spat pulling back, ripping her sleeve in the process...
⁂End of Flashback⁂
"Adora?",He asks making me snap out of my thoughts, "Um-No, No violent encounters at all between me and my mother",I shook my head, "I said family",He leans back staring me down as if catching a small child out on a lie, "Is that not what I said?",I try recover, "What about your sister?"...
⁂Flashback⁂ ⁂Adora at sixteen⁂
"I swear to got it's not mine!",I hear my sister shout at my father from down the hall, I peak my head out the door to catch on to what they were fighting over. "Who owns it then? Certainly not your eleven year old brother!",He shouted back, "It's Adora's!! She must have hid it in my room so she wouldn't get caught!",I hear her yell back. "Adora!",My fathers voice bellows through the halls, "Yeah?",I ask popping out from my room and walking down the hall to my sisters room, "How could you",He shook his head clearly disappointed in something, "What?",I ask confused as ever, "After all we've told you about how drugs ruin lives- tear apart family's! You go and do this!",He yells holding up the clear back of white substance.
I look over to my sister whose pleading with her eyes for me to take the blame. "I don't know what I was thinking",I say through gritted teeth looking at my sister dead in the eyes, "Your mother will hear about this! We'll decide your punishment when she gets home, this is not over yet",He says storming out of the room.
"Thanks",My sister sighs out. "You were quick enough to throw me under the bus",I glare, "You know what they're like",I shake my head and leave her room slamming the door behind me.
⁂End of flashback⁂
"Just a normal sisterly relationship",I reply shrugging.
"And you had two brothers, one older one younger than you, correct",Wes continued,
"Yes",I nod confirming the fact,
"Your oldest brother has a record and had only gotten out of prison a week before he was killed?",He continued to ask questions, I gulp and nod. "Alleged Child molester-",He started but I cut him off. "He was a child molester",I nodded at the gruesome thought of what had happened to my cousin. "She was four",I scoff in disgust, "four year olds don't make that shit up on their own".
He nodded giving me a look of understanding. "Your youngest brother had a clean record",He reads out, "I also understand your uncle lived with you",I tensed at the thought, "Yes",I nodded, "What relationships is you have with him?",Wes looked up probably noticing how tense I became. "Does it matter?",I snap, "he's dead, how does this help my case?"
"It helps your case to know the relationship to had with the victims",He explained, "Victims...Ha, that's one thing to call them",I roll my eyes, "My uncle sexually abused me and my sister at a young age, does that help my case?",I scowl, "Yes actually it might, Is He the husband of the aunt that's testifying against you?",He asks standing up, "Yeah",I nod, Before I can ask any questions he bolts into Mrs,Keatings office,
