Brother's Keeper, cont.


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Part 7

    The group of cars pulled into the driveway and up to the cub in front of a two-story  house.  The paint was a little chipped.  Kym took a deep breath as she got out of her car.  Everyone else followed her up to the door.  Kym shuddered as she looked through her keys for the one she needed.  Slowly, she unlocked the door and opened it.  The group of rangers followed Kym and Tommy into the stale air of the living room.  Looking around, Kym put a death grip on Tommy's arm.
     "I haven't been in here since I was little.  I was here one time after everything happened, just to get my things.  You guys can go wherever you need.  I'll show you around, then the place is yours."
     Kym showed them the kitchen, laundry room, and her dad's office.  Then she led them upstairs.  She walked to the far end of the hallway.
     "That is my parent's room," she pointed to the door on their right.  "I don't know if I can go in there."
     "It's okay," Sydney put a hand on Kym's shoulder.
     "My room is there," she pointed to the left.  My parent's bathroom is connected to their room.  And my brothers' room is down there on the same side as mine." Kym pointed toward the direction they came from.
     Walker turned to Kym, "Do you think that you could reenact the morning you came home?"
     Kym took a deep breath, "I can try."
     They all went downstairs to the front door.  "I came in and hollered for anyone.  Then I ran up the stairs.  I walked down this hall to my parent's room and knocked," Kym stopped to gather her courage.  "I went in slowly to the bed.  And found my parents."
     Tears began to stream down her face as she saw the blood stained bedding that was brown from the years.  It was still all tangled up and left where it had been.
     Now sobbing, Kym continued, "I ran down the hallway to my brothers' room and jumped on Austin's bed." She walked in and fell to her knees, her brothers' things around her.  Slowly, Kym. got up and walked downstairs, Tommy followed.  The rangers continued to look around upstairs.
     Tommy sat down on the couch next to Kym.  "I'm sorry Kym."
     She stood up, her sobs slowing.  On the wall hung pictures.  One was of Kym and her brothers when she was a baby.  Another was taken when Kym was four.  There were also three individual photos of the kids.  Kym ran her hand over the pictures of Ben and Austin.  It had been so long since she had been in the house.
      "You know, when I left here last time, the only things I wanted to take were my things.  Pictures weren't important then.  But now, I just want to take everything with me," she sat back down on the couch and looked around.
      The rangers came back downstairs and said that the visit may help.  Kym gave the house key to Walker.
      "You can come back if you ever need to , anytime."
      "Thank-you.  This may take awhile, but we'll search every possible avenue that arises," Trivette said.
      As they all left, Kym took with her the pictures from the wall.

Part 8

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