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perhaps her quick identification of charlie proves that her maternal instincts remain, somehow ingrained into the scattered version of herself that madison's pieced together.
she freezes, hand falling away from her mouth as she surveys her daughter. she looks so much like james, but catherine can see bits of herself, too.
❝ i — ❞ she begins. her mouth moves but no further explanation comes out. ❝ i suppose you don't. ❞ she finally manages. ❝ but i know you. ❞ out of muscle memory, her right palm grazes her stomach. how many times has she reached down, surprised to find the flesh beneath her hand flat? she wouldn't wish that hollowness upon anyone.
❝ do you remember a woman named madison li? ❞
Similarly, Goodneighbor was a place that captured her interest from the ever instance she set foot in the Commonwealth, rumors of a location with the means to glance into one's memories and with the lack of many, it'd been a opportunity that she couldn't afford to pass by her. Irma and Dr. Amari were helpful in the procedure which turned out to be a success, but Charlie was admittedly struggling with wrapping her head around everything she got back.
The Third Rail was a comfort amidst it all and for that, she was thankful, between the music and the company. She enjoyed sitting and talking with Magnolia and Whitechapel Charlie. But nobody can take the place of the friends she'd made over in the Mojave - or the ones from her birthplace in DC's ruins.
She missed them and sticking around Goodneighbor moping wasn't an option. Sooner or later, Charlie planned to go back home.
It was in the middle of a quick run along to the bar that she heard her name being uttered, not Aries but Charlie, and she couldn't help but turn towards the source, eyes equally widened but with mild confusion.
"Do I know you?" She didn't intend to sound blunt. Catherine's face wasn't one she recognized - as much as James had spoken highly of her over the years, he never had any pictures to show Charlie.