Severed Time
Part 7
By Missy

SERIES: Severed Time
PART: 7 of ??
RATING: PG-13 (More Later)
PAIRING(s): Lenny/Laverne, Carmine/Shirley
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CATEGORY: Drama
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SETTING IN TIMELINE: Post-Hair Today...
SPOILLER/SUMMARY: Lenny and Laverne's sense of peace is shattered...
NOTES: Some L/L drama.

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Laverne clung to her oldest boy, as though she'd never let him go. When he released her, he asked,

"Where's Natty?"

"Back at our house. She's been acting strange the entire time she's been here." Lenny said.

"What did Daisy do this time?"

"Mike!"

"Mom, don't try to defend her; you know how she was, after she got on drugs."

"She didn't do anything to Natashya!"

"Mom, I'm not suggesting she did something to Natashya sexually-"

Laverne's open palm collided with his face. "You better not!"

"No, but something happened. You want me to talk to her?"

Lenny and Laverne looked to one another. It seemed their best option.

***

"Natashya? Do you wanna talk?"

The only thing Mike could hear was sniffling on the other side of the door.

"Natty?"

The door opened. "Don't call me Natty! I hate that!"

He frowned. "You used to love it, when you were little-er."

"Mamma said it wasn't ladylike for a girl to be called Natty; my name's Natashya."

"What else did your Mamma say? What did she make you do?"

Mike wondered why he was trying to get answers out of a girl Natashya's age. But they came.

"Mamma worked all day. I had to keep everything clean. She said that a prince was coming for me one day."

Mike stared at the girl blankly. His parents were behind him, in the doorway to their bedroom, listening to every word.

"I had to clean up my room. She said that no one would want to keep a girl if they didn't make everything okay."

"Was that...did she take any funny pills before she'd say things like that."

"Uh-huh."

Lenny shuddered.

"Mamma was really cold when I saw her last time. She was so cold. She said ladies need to entertain themselves, so I..."

Mike took her by the shoulders. "Natty, you're a little girl. You ain't a fancy lady; yer a little girl, and yer supposed to be taken care of. You understand?"

"No! Mamma said..."

"Mamma was wrong."

Lenny didn't know what he and Laverne had done to the girl to make her so odd. Then the drugs, the horrible drugs...they had taken Daisy. Had turned her into a different girl.

Natashya rushed out of the door, and into Mike's arms. "I'm so scared, Unca Mike..." She moaned.

"I know. But you got me, and your Grandma and Grandpa. Everything's going to be okay, soon. I promise you."

Lenny shook his head, resting a hand on the girl's shoulder, another in his wife's. Natashya clung to the legs of he loved ones.

He had no idea how they would do it, but, somehow, this family would pull through; by any means necessary.


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