You are assuming that it was the first time... if you read that, you'll see that she has been her brother's playtoy under the instruction of their mother since her dad was killed. Her brother has been doing what his mother instructed because he loves his mother and has always wanted her approval and love.There are always different ways the body copes with a situation (especially when being relatively young). So there would have been a good amount of freedom in that regard. As for the specifics...I don't exactly know how grooming works and how the situation changed after her father died but considering the impact it had on her when her brother raped her the first time, I wouldn't call her completely broken. That's also why I thought there was hope and she could possibly find a bit of happiness in the future, after being rescued/getting out of that household/situation.
Janice, in her anger and jealousy twisted William's affection, used it to for her to get revenge on her daughter who she sees as the person who took her husband's attention and love away from her... and has been playing William like a fiddle to do it.
This situation has been going on for a while... it has been years since Janice's husband's death and Janice has been using that time to take her anger, frustration and revenge out on Claire.
I would say she's been saved from further abuse by her brother and mother, but I wouldn't go so far as say she's been 'rescued'... rescue would imply that she's been plucked completely out of it, but how could she be and by whom?That's also why I thought there was hope and she could possibly find a bit of happiness in the future, after being rescued/getting out of that household/situation.
The Antichrist, her uncle? A man who is already married (though for how long, who knows), with kids and is also a part of the same family that Claire is in. A man, that until just recently found out how fucked up the family that he married into really is. A man that's just found out that he's the apparent 'Antichrist' and is caught in a war with aliens.
And let's not forget, a man that had also just been manipulated by the very same young girl in an attempt to blackmail him.
What do you think could happen there?
That he would bring the girl, his own niece, that just seduced and helped to orchestrate him breaking the sanctity and vows of marriage to his wife, risked the future of his family so that her mother, his wife's own sister, could blackmail him, into his own household??
In essence allowing the fox to sleep in the hen house??
Or that this young woman, who's lived at home all of her life, doesn't have a job to speak of, is just going to pick up and leave? With no money, no job, still in college... so, where's she going to go?
Live on the streets?
She couldn't leave before... you think her mother, or the family of her mother, would simply just let her leave, run away, live on the streets?
Edith and the others had no idea what was going on in that household (probably will now thanks to the Antichrist), but before it would've only taken one simple phone call and a couple of fake tears from her mother to have the family find Claire and bring her back home.
Currently, Claire has only been saved from the abuse of her mother and brother, but she hasn't been 'rescued' from life. At most, she's been given a chance... by her uncle, the Antichrist, to try and get on her feet... to learn to fend for herself, to find a job, to actually make choices for herself, to learn to get past the suffering she's endured (and also caused while under her mother's control) and make something of her life.
But that is going to take time (which is what Agents of Karma is about)... the stains of that kind of life isn't erased by a single act of kindness... it takes work and Claire is going to have to learn that and how she goes about it will be up to the players in some part.