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[cagedlamb]

All things considered, Elizabeth knew she had been lucky. With only minor cuts and scrapes from fighting off panicked runners. With how insistent she had been about helping people, he should have been a lot worse. Booker was upset at her, but he also wasn't seriously injured. She didn't regret her actions in the least, though the more she thought about it, the more she realized the general consequences of her actions.

She had no idea who had seen Booker. A part of her hoped everyone was too panicked to see what the vigor did to his arm every time he used his ability, but she knew it would be hard to miss had they been paying any attention. All she could think to do was to continue on normally, and hope for the best. The morning was cool and cloudy, with some flurries falling here and there. She had work later on that day, but for now, she was out taking a walk with Oliver, the pit bull trotting alongside her obediently as she sipped her morning tea from the thermos she'd bought herself recently. As she rounded the corner, she nearly bumped into someone coming the opposite way.

"Oh, sorry! Are you okay?" The apology was almost reflexive, said before she even realized she recognized who it was she had just bumped into.

[OOC: Dated the 2nd!]

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[everyonetakes]

"Yep," Kate answers with a shrug. "I mean, it wasn't anything supernatural, just a mental illness, but still pretty goddamn weird when your mom turns into a teenager sometimes, right?" For a long time, she hasn't said much about it, she's preferred to keep it to herself if only because she didn't want to be defined by what had been wrong with Tara. She wants to make her own problems instead of always adopting her mother's, but she's come to a realization that not talking about it isn't the thing that changes how she deals with it.

The only thing that can change that is her own actions. She can talk about it, she can be honest about it and still be apart from it.

"And, shit, I don't blame you," she says. "I mean, tons of people can be total assholes. I got so much shit when I was a kid because of my mom that I didn't want to tell people for a long time either just because I'd heard it all before, you know? I'd been called names, I'd been the kid with the crazy mom. It's not something I go around talking about a lot and it's not even something that could put me in any danger, so yeah, I get it."

[cagedlamb]

Elizabeth had few books on any sort about people with illnesses of the mind. She knew of them, of course, but she had a feeling the advances in the field of that medicine were great.

"I'm sorry, that must have been hard for you," she said. She didn't say it to pity her, she could see she probably wanted that as much as she wanted pity for her own situation. "I'm...glad we spoke about this. I don't really like lying. Or omitting the truth, at least."

[everyonetakes]

Kate waves her hand, trying to dismiss it all. What she's said about her mom, the apology, the fact that Elizabeth feels like she needs to explain why she kept all this stuff a secret. Kate really means it when she says she understands, she knows it isn't easy to talk about stuff that makes a person stand out, especially when all they want is to be normal.

"Well, now all our shit is out there," she says with a laugh. "And seriously, I mean it, I won't say a word. Not that I think you're gonna want to talk about my crazy mom, but it's not such a big secret, so don't even worry about that." She doesn't need the same promise in return. The people who already know haven't judged her and she's pretty sure that anyone who does judge her over it isn't worth her time anyway.