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Author's Note: Hello everyone, how are you all doing? Hope you're doing well. I'm sure by now many of you have heard the very sad news of Lisa Robin Kelly's passing. It was such sad and shocking news to hear, even though the past few years had been tough for her I had hoped to see her make a great comeback. I thought she was terrific in T7S and the episodes with Laurie in them are some of my all time favorites. I decided to post this story today to help honor her memory. I didn't want to write a sad story or one that actually dealt with her passing but rather one that highlighted one of her most well known roles in her career. I also wrote this story about two weeks ago but decided now might be the right time to post it but because of it's length I wasn't sure if it would be okay to post alone. I hope you don't mind me posting it in here. A few thank yous first. Thanks to Eliza Ghost for sorta beta-ing this piece for me and thanks to everyone else I talked to this past week, MistyMoutainHop, LedZepGirl, Mystery Girl 911, A1995, Marla's Lost, and so many others who mourned with me, recalled favorite Laurie memories, and encouraged me to post this piece. Thank you! And thank you to all of you who have stopped by to read, whether it be because the collection had been uploaded or because the summary caught your interest for this one installment. Thanks! I hope you all enjoy this, and if you have the time please review, I'd love to hear your thoughts, thanks for reading and please enjoy!

*It is important to note that this piece takes place at the end of season 1's That Wrestling Show.

Dedicated to Lisa Robin Kelly. Thanks for all the wonderful laughs, you will be missed. May you rest in peace.

"Gee Kitty, when you up it like that I guess he really was a bad doctor." Midge Pinciotii said to her friend as they climbed out of the Toyota parked in the Forman driveway, "I'll make sure to have a talk with him about it at our next session."

The nodding movement of Kitty's head suddenly stopped when she heard the blondes' words, she frowned and began to move her head in the opposite direction, "Oh no…Midge, honey, I don't think you should see this doctor anymore. He's a bad, bad doctor remember?"

"But he's also a good doctor Kitty, he has degrees and everything! He even has one from Harvard with to V's." Midge tried to argue and in her eyes, she was winning.

Kitty looked at her friend and neighbor with an uncertain expression. She knew how wrong and confused Midge was and if she didn't say something it wouldn't lead to anything good. But Kitty didn't even know how to begin this next explanation that would have to include terms that could help Midge finally understand everything. This would be her fourth attempt at explaining the situation and she was beginning to feel quite drained, maybe there was another way to get the message through to Midge.

The worried look in Kitty's eyes soon faded and a smile broke out onto her face before she released a nervous laugh, "Okay! Well Midge, why don't you and Bob come over tomorrow? And I can have a talk with Bob and…and we can play cards, okay?"

"Okay!" the other woman quickly agreed before heading over to her house, "Goodnight, Kitty!"

"Goodnight, Midge!" Kitty waved back and smiled before joining her daughter who was leaning on the back of the vehicle with her arms crossed over her chest; once Midge was gone, Kitty stopped smiling and her face dropped into another uneasy look, "Oh that is not a conversation I am looking forward to having."

Laurie turned to her mother, "So you can't tell your neighbor that his wife has some sex pervert for a therapist but you can tell your daughter she's a ungrateful spoiled brat. Nice to know where you priorities are, Mother."

"Now what are you talking about?" Kitty asked her scowling daughter, and then she suddenly remembered the words she had said before they found out the truth about Midge's 'psychiatrist' and she instantly felt terrible, "Oh Laurie, honey, that man wasn't a real doctor so it really wasn't even a real therapy session. It's almost like I didn't even say those things. Besides it's not like I really meant them."

"I know you meant them, Mother. You did your nervous laugh and everything." Laurie pointed out, her hurt being masked by an angry expression on her face. She wasn't sure what she was angrier about now though, her mother's words at that group 'therapy' session earlier that night or the fact that she was being treated like a small child now.

"I do not have a nervous laugh." Her mother made an argument that would have been more believable had that same nervous laugh not escaped her lips seconds later. Catching herself, Kitty stifled her laugh and knew she owed her daughter an explanation, "Okay, so maybe I do have a bit of a nervous laugh and maybe I did mean those words that I said; but Laurie, can you really blame me for thinking that? Ever since you left to college you've become this whole other person."

"I've grown up, I am an adult now, Mother."

Kitty nodded, "I know, I know. And I knew you were growing up and turning into a grown woman the day I bought you your first training bra." Laurie gave an irritated eye roll at this comment but her mother merely ignored it and carried on with what she had to say, "But just because you're an adult doesn't mean you have to change yourself completely. It doesn't mean you can stop being responsible, in fact you should be more responsible now that you're an adult."

"I haven't stopped being responsible and I haven't changed that much." Laurie argued against her mother's words.

"Oh really?" Kitty said as if seeing this as a challenge to point out the changes to Laurie's behavior, "What about your relationship with your brother? You two used to get along better than the way you now, insulting each other every time you're in the same room. What happened there?"

With an unamused look on her face Laurie answered with a simple, "He got annoying."

"Alright, what about school, hmm? When you were in high school you had some of the highest grades and now I find out that you failed your statistics class by finding your report card in your trashcan." informed Kitty.

Laurie looked outraged as she stared back at her mother, she now had another thing to be mad about, "You went in my room?"

"It's part of my house." her mother quickly reminded before getting back to the topic at hand, "What's going on at school, Laurie?

"Nothing is going on at school." she answered back but not before giving another eye roll; she didn't understand why her mother was making such a big deal about this. In Laurie's eyes she was over reacting about all of this. "I'm just having fun. Is that such a crime? I thought having fun was part of the whole college experience."

Nodding her head, Kitty showed that she agreed with some of what Laurie was saying, "That's right, it's part of the college experience. And another big part of that college experience all is learning and getting an education. Laurie, you are so smart there are so many things you can do with that brain of yours. You can be anything you want to be, I know you can."

Even though she was touched by what her mother had just said Laurie wasn't ready to just forget what she had said earlier that evening. She moved her head to look straight ahead and away from Kitty.

"You still called me ungrateful." She reminded before turning to look at her mother again, this time letting her see the sincerity in her eyes, hoping it would help her mother believe the words she said—because she really did mean them. "And I'm not ungrateful. I really do appreciate you and Daddy working to pay for my classes." Laurie said, her tone of voice having lost it's harshness and anger.

Seeing the look in Laurie's eyes did pull on Kitty's heartstrings and made her once again feel guilty for not only saying those words about her daughter—out loud—but saying them to her face, "Maybe ungrateful was little harsh. But Laurie, you only call when you need money and every time you come home, you've got loads of dirty laundry, some of which does not even belong to you." she pointed out and Laurie looked to the side trying to keep from smirking. "It feels like those are the only times when you think about your family."

"But it's not, Mommy. I think about you and Daddy all the time. Like at dinner time I wonder what hot meal you're serving for dinner and in the morning I wonder what Daddy's saying about the morning paper." She paused for a second or two and scoffed before adding "I even wonder what dumb things Eric and his stupid friends are up to. But it's not like I can be a baby like Eric and call you up every five minutes."

"Well maybe not every five minutes but once a week would be nice." Kitty reasoned before putting her arm around the younger woman's shoulders, "We miss you, honey."

Laurie looked back at her mother, feelings of resentment had suddenly disappeared and she squeaked out, "I miss you too, Mommy."

Kitty gave her daughter a tight smile before she opened her arms and pulled Laurie into a hug that the blonde soon returned. Mother and daughter stayed in their hugging embrace in silence until Kitty spoke up but didn't quite break the grasp she had on her daughter—it was so rare nowadays that she got a hug from her.

"So are we okay now?" she asked rubbing her hands on Laurie's back—she hopped she was warm, her jacket really was awfully thin.

Laurie pulled out of the hug and stared at her mother before she replied, "Will you stop searching my room?"

Despite the fact that Laurie's words had been said with a hint of attitude Kitty smiled and nodded her head once, "If you call once a week. Without bringing up the subject of money."

"Fine." Laurie agreed in defeat.

"Good! Now let's get inside." Kitty said, already heading to the glass sliding door, "It looks like your father and brother are already home. Oh, I hope they had a good time. Maybe they did and we'll walk in on a father-son bonding moment like them talking about wrestling or maybe they'll be wrestling themselves!" she giggled at the thought, "Oh I hope I have my camera in the kitchen."

When Laurie heard her mother's words she scoffed at the idea of her father and brother getting along and the idea of them wrestling with each other was too absurd. Although…

"Five bucks says Daddy wins!" Laurie said suddenly excited at the idea.

Frowning slightly Kitty turned behind her to look at Laurie, "Laurie, that just…that isn't fair."

Laurie shrugged her shoulder before following her mother into the kitchen.

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This was a special installment and so there's no word to guess. Sorry about that.

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