The Subtle Poetry that is Laurel Castillo
I guess there are very few people who sees what's happening. Laurel is lost and broken. Deciding to keep the baby was what kept her sane but Annalise firing them broke her big time. She is not beyond repair, but she surely is headed to a dark and scary path. Probably darker than what Wes went through.
She held on the the idea that Annalise will be there. That she is not alone in fighting this fight cause she knows it's not over. But she realized that Annalise let go. Though Annalise may be living up to what Wes hoped she could be and what (as Laurel said 3x13) she promised them she would be, it does not dismiss the fact that she had let go of Laurel's hand and pushed her to this stingy road.
She believed that the baby was Wes. She never questioned it. That's why they showed the bathtub flashback. She knows she cheated on Wes and I beleive in her sincerity, how much she regrets and hate it. Especially with their last moments together. She never even got to talk to him cause he never answered her calls. I didn't wanna believe that she slept with Frank but we all knew it since last season, we just denied it.
She knows that the baby is Wes'. (How could you not? The doctors told her how far along she is when the explosion happened. She knows her math, that's how she ended up with that bathtub scene.)
But there is definitely a shadow of a doubt in her. She just never entertained the thought. Until Frank asked her. The shadow grew darker and casts a bigger shadow that even she is questioning what she thought she knew.
It's like if you leave the house and you are certain you locked the door, until someone asked you "are you sure?". You start to doubt what you remember and check if you did. It is not a complex idea or a complicated drama.
The great thing about Laurel is she is written impecably. Even her flaw and vulnerability is a perfect equation. They've played with how ones mind would work and it makes total sense. From her grief to her guilt to her pain.
Her grief was paralleled with Annalise. She have loved and protected a stranger and he's just gone. She failed.
At this moment she is the most vulnerable. And it has nothing to do with her being pregnant. Because she is just lost and broken. Sure Michaela and Oliver is working with her and Frank and Bonnie is somehow looking after her, but she is alone in her fight. She is struggling with something yet to be revealed. We only know bits and pieces of her story but we won't understand it until we see the bigger picture.
Even the story of her kidnapping is probably just a bit of that darkness in her head.
Seriously, what is worse than murdering your professor's husband? Chopping his body off? Burn it and throw it to the garbage? Covering it all up? Tying up a girl hostage? Staging a crime scene? shooting your professor? And this is just during their first year!
How could she have suffered something worse than that? What was her life before this? How bad was it that she is certain her father killed Wes?
We have seen a lot of her but it is still not enough to figure her out. So the simplicity of Frank's Paternity Claim plotline does not even grazed the top of how deep her story is. We just have to wait for it to be unveiled. And I'm betting, Bonnie's story will be no match to what we are to discover.
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