Crossover The Brotherhood/Afterlife: Kara: Talking to Richard

[k_a_webb]

It wasn’t a surprise. Kara sat in the office of the Unity house she’d died in and smiled at Richard as he walked into the room. He smiled back, sitting down next to her, with his back against the wall and his knees up against his chest. They’d met before, the first and second times she’d died, and she knew it wouldn’t be long before he started trying to convince her that she should move on, but for a while they simply sat together in companionable silence. Even though she knew why he was there she was grateful for the company.

“Are they looking for another body for you?” Richard asked.

“That’s what they were doing, but there’s a chance they may have found one by now.” Kara looked at Richard. “I know you think I’m making a mistake, and sometimes I think I am too, Rick, but the world still needs me.”

“Someone else could take your place.”

“No one knows Daniel as well as I do.”

Richard smiled. “You don’t know Daniel as well as you think you do. He’s changed, Kara, and I think he’d beginning to realise exactly how badly he screwed things up when he was younger.”

“Maybe he is, but the Brotherhood still exists.”

“The Brotherhood would exist even if Daniel wasn’t in control. When he showed the world that the Millennium Children he existed he made everyone fear them at the same time. There has to be somewhere they can be kept, so the general populace can feel safe.” Kara sighed. “Sometimes I hate him for it, but I understand why he made the choices that he did. If I hadn’t been a shifter, if I hadn’t of living through Mim’s attempt to protect us all from a future she was terrified of, I could easily have been the same sort of person.”

“No, you couldn’t.” Their eyes met as he shook his head. “No matter what you would never have made the decision to show the human race that they were no longer the most evolved race on Earth. You understood better than Daniel ever could how they would see you and how much it would change the world when everyone did finally find out about the Millennium Children, which might never have happened.”

“It would have, eventually, but not during my parent’s lifetime.” Kara remembered the day they’d gone to the Brotherhood to see if they could find her, before she’d gone with Conrad and Lucas, and how hard it had been, for all of them, to come to terms with what had happened. “They would never have known what had happened to me if it wasn’t for Daniel and sometimes I hate him for that. Maybe, with time, I would have let go of my anger enough to go to them. I doubt it, thought, because I always thought they should have looked at my fox self and seen me.” She shook her head. “I know now that would have been impossible, but back then I hated them for what they’d done to me. It wasn’t logical and I wish I hadn’t felt that way, but I was a child, and I suddenly found myself able to turn into a fox and homeless at the same time.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.