Frank POV

"What would the neighbors think? Stephanie let that Morelli boy get fresh with her, she needs to be grounded Frank. She needs to be punished for not being a good 'burg girl Frank don't you see what she's doing to me?" my wife of the past 10 years just ranted to me. I couldn't say a thing I sat there stunned for a moment, then my senses came back to me.

"She's a six year old little girl for Christ sake Helen. What do you think she did wrong was actually her being sexually abused. If you can't see that or fault her for it then I only have three words for you. FUCK AND YOU!" I gathered my little pumpkin into my arms and left the house that day never to return.

That was almost 24 years ago, I raised Stephanie with the help of my family. Helen raised Valerie to be her perfect clone, through our divorce I found out that Valerie was never my child. Seems like Helen got herself a little action before we got married, I always wondered why Valerie was born early. Only the Lord and Helen know who the father is and she's so far down a whiskey bottle these days I don't think she has anymore brain cells left to remember who really knocked her up.

Which isn't such a bad thing since her and her crazy family can't influence MY daughter with their weird 'Burg ways. Not to say my family isn't crazy, I come from a VERY large and loud Italian family. Trust me we are all about the family when it comes to the Italians. So I was very thankful for the help that they have given me and Stephanie through the years.

Stephanie bloomed under the guidance of my family. My father and mother, aka Pappa (only Steph calls him that the rest of the grand-kids call him Nonni) and Nonna fell in love with my daughter the moment she was born with her big blue eyes and even bigger personality. My twin sister, Sarina was the mother to Steph that Helen never was, she took my daughter under her wing while she was raising her own kids thank god I found a house next to hers and her husband, who just so happened to be my best friend Joe Juniak the now mayor of Trenton.

Family is a really big connection with Italians, my Uncle Harry is known on the street as Harry the Hammer is my mother's brother. Yea stereotypical Jersey Italians we've got connections to the mob, but hey he's my Uncle so what. I got my job as postmaster on my own merits! No the only help he showed towards me and mine was to Stephanie. When she was 10 she declared herself wonder woman and tried to fly. She jumped off the roof of my house and broke her arm. Uncle Harry thought that took some major guts so he always kept an eye on her while she was growing up, she had protection.

That protection has come in really handy two times, that scum sucking Morelli boy that abused my Steph tried to rape her when she was working late at the tasty pastry when my pumpkin was 16. Luckily he had some of his guys make a drive by to make sure she got home safely and were able to stop that piece of shit from getting his way with her. Uncle Harry made sure that Morelli scum learned a lesson, disfigured and broke his leg so bad he couldn't get into the Navy like he wanted. Heard he's trying to get into the Grizolli family by scheming and scamming down on Stark Street. No good for nothing Morelli, just like his worthless alcoholic abusive father.

The most recent protection was after she graduated from Douglass College, he set her up with her own business, Plum Bail Bonds. I'm not to thrilled with her dealing with some of the riff raff of Trenton society but I have been promised that this business is above board and there is no mob connection to it even with Uncle Harry backing it. He said that she has done such a great job running it that it is in the black, he just sits back and collects his portion of the profits. Not that there was any doubts my Stephanie is brilliant!

A/N: This is an A/U if you haven't figured that out, which means that I'm toying with the characters "THAT" woman created and putting them in a whole new ball game (aka story). So if you are here looking for infringement money then BAHAHAHA good luck with that. If you are here looking for a Babe story then I hope you enjoy this story that has been in my head for YEARS!