If she had known what finding her family would cost her, Nadia thinks that she would still have been glad to have known them. She had spent her life wondering about them, and her parents most of all. She had spent so much time thinking of them, she had never imagined a sibling, or... She'd always thought that she would be lucky if she had one ( Read more... )

( Loyalties; spoilers for season 5 )

I spent a year in the dark, eyes shut and limbs frozen. I listened to the beeping of hospital monitors, counting out the beating of my heart, the steady drip of medications through the IV in my arm. I heard doctors and nurses speaking amongst themselves, talking about me ( Read more... )

There is so much I can't tell you about who I am. So many secrets I have to keep, and so many things that I don't know myself ( Read more... )

I never thought I would know my mother. When I was a child growing up in the orphanage, I would make up stories about her, about the mother who I knew one day would come for me. She would have good reason for leaving me for so long, and when she came for me she would explain everything. When the other girls dressed up and made themselves pretty for ( Read more... )