Chapter One; Tiffany Black
One bright and sunny day Peter decided to go over to visit Maggie at her apartment. I gave him permission to go as long as he took the girls with him since I had a lot of work to do with the TARDIS. Peter and Maggie played a game of Frisbee while Jane and Cassie climbed trees. That's when suddenly another little girl only a little bit older than Jane walked over to them.
She had tanned skin with black hair and dark green eyes. "So you must be the creepy alien girls." She said in a very nasty and revolting tone.
"Yeah," Jane began before she leaped down onto the ground. "So who the heck are you?" she questioned her.
"Tiffany Black, my father's dating Maggie's mother since he recently got divorced not too long ago." She responded.
"Well he doesn't sound all that guilty about it." Jane said.
"You watch your mouth you freak! Cause someday they're getting back together!" she snapped.
"Well good luck with that since I really don't think that there's any chance of that happening." Jane told her.
"Yeah, well at least I have a mother!" Tiffany yelled and at that point Jane had had enough and shoved her over onto the ground.
"Jane!" Peter scolded with disbelief as he caught the Frisbee inside his hand before running over to her at the same time she quickly spun around on her heels and ran away.
"Jane wait!" Cassie cried as she grabbed onto the tee branch and slowly helped herself down.
"Tiffany are you alright?" Maggie asked as she leaned over and offered her her hand but the mean girl simply scowled up at her before standing back up on her feet and starting to brush herself off.
"No! That idiotic freaky sister of Peter's pushed me in the dirt!" she snapped.
"That's because you were asking for it! You made fun of the fact that you had a mother and we didn't!" Cassie snapped back at her as she placed her hands on top of her hips and pointed her finger at her.
"Nobody asked for your opinion you little shrimp." Tiffany muttered under her breath with an angry glare.
"Tiffany is that true?" Maggie questioned her just as Peter raced over to them.
"Well, maybe,.. a little." She admitted.
"You either did say it or you didn't, and if you did that was unacceptable. You know how hurt you've been ever since your father got the divorce, and Jane and the rest of her family have been just as hurt and upset ever since their mum died. Just because you're angry about something doesn't give you any right to take it out on anyone else." Maggie told her sternly.
"You can't talk to me like that, you're not my mother!" she snapped.
"No, but you can be sure that I'm going to tell your father about it later on when he comes to pick you up." Maggie told her.
"No! Don't! I'll get into big trouble!" she cried.
"Yeah well you should have thought about that before. Now go on and go play." Maggie said.
"I hate you you stupid bitch!" she shouted before she ran away.
"How could either one of her parents allow her to behave like that?" Peter questioned as soon as she had run away.
"They don't, that's why she felt so threatened." Maggie explained. "She's been acting this way ever since her father has been going out with my mother. I really didn't think that she would take the divorce so hard." She said.
"Well what happened anyway?" Peter asked her.
"Well from what I heard her father is taking drugs and that caused an abusive relationship with her mother." Maggie said.
"And they still let him near her?" he questioned her with disbelief.
"Yeah, I know, I thought exactly the same thing but unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about it. She is a mentally disturbed child right now. I can't say I really blame her, but still, that doesn't give her any reason to act like that." She said.
"Well I better go find Jane and make sure that she's alright. Can you watch Cassie for me until I get back?" he asked her.
"Sure." She agreed with a nod before she watched him started to run away into the distance.
Meanwhile I had just finished working on my TARDIS and had been coming in through the back sliding door in the kitchen when I heard the front door slam shut. "Jane?" Mickey questioned as I heard another door slam shut and I walked into the living room to see what had been the matter.
"What was that all about?" I asked him.
"I dunno, Jane just came running in here a few seconds ago. She looked awfully upset." He answered.
"I sure hope she's alright." Martha said.
"I'll go talk to her and find out what's wrong," I began as I started to walk down the hall when suddenly Peter raced inside.
"Is Jane here?" he asked.
"Yeah she just ran into her bedroom. You wouldn't happen to know what's going on by any chance would you?" I asked him.
"Yeah I'm afraid so, a bully was picking on her and so she pushed her down." He explained. "She made a point of saying that Jane was a freak and she didn't have a mother." He added.
"Poor girl, she must be crushed." Martha said.
"Oh dear, I'll go talk to her." I said with a groan but Peter placed a hand onto my chest.
"No Dad, let me. After all I know how she feels since we're in the same boat." He told me.
"Well alright, but you come and get me if you need any help." I told him.
"I will, I promise." He assured me with a nod before he started down the hallway and then knocked on her bedroom door. "Jane, it's Peter." He said as he gently pushed his way inside after hearing her muffled sobs.
"Go away! I never said that you could come in!" she yelled as she continued sobbing inside her pillow.
"I know, and I know that you're pretty hurt and upset right now and I don't blame you. But I just wanted to talk to you for a moment." I told her as I sat down at the foot of her bed.
"Why?" she asked him as she continued to sob as he looked at her lovingly and leaned over to gently rub her back.
"Because I'm your brother and I know how you feel." He told her warmly. "You feel like a piece of one of your hearts has been torn out and when you look at other kids and their mothers you feel like you think that you'll never truly be happy again." He said as she sat up and sniffed.
"That's exactly how I feel, it just isn't fair." She told him with another sniff.
"Listen Jane, don't let Tiffany get to you. She's just a bully and she's going through a lot right now. She's hurting just like you are but she has a different way of showing it and that's why she's so mean. I don't think she knows how to show her anger and the rest of her emotions properly because nobody ever taught her how." He explained.
"Gee, I guess I never thought of that." Jane said while she blinked away her tears.
"Besides, there are many different kinds of families in the world or in the galaxy. It doesn't matter who's in them, it just matters that we all love each other. And you know what?" he questioned her.
"What?" she questioned him back.
"I love you,.. very much." He told her as he gently touched her cheek and softly wiped away her tears with the back of his hand.
"Well that works out perfectly because I love you too, six billion times a trillion." She told him with a sniff and a loving smile in which he exchanged.
"Would you like a hug then?" he asked her as he held out his arms as she nodded and fell into them with a final sniff as he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly before kissing the top of her head and resting his own against her forehead while continuing to rub her back.