Lunch at Kong Studios started out normally. Russel was making a sandwitch with about everything in it and making his bandmates a little disgusted as he put in pickle chips, a slice of cheese, mustard, pretzel sticks, lettuce, ham, bacon bits, a peice of pork, ketchup, a few olives, and some peanut butter. "I think I just lost my appetite." Murdoc stated as Russel took a bite out of his sandwitch.
Russel replied by rolling his eyes. "Whatever man, it all goes down the same place."
"You must learn to eat lighter Russel and healthier." Noodle said. "Here, have some of my sushi."
"No thanks baby girl. I'm not really that fond of fish."
The phone then started to ring.
"Please let me get that." Murdoc said. "It'll be better then watching Russ eating so much crap."
Russel just scoffed at the bass player.
"Hello, Murdoc Niccals here." Murdoc said into the phone.
"Murdoc?" A female voice from the other end of the phone said. "It's me, Vanessa."
Murdoc's eyes widened a bit when the girl said her name. "Nessie?"
"Yes Murdoc it's Nessie. Listen, I ran away. I finally left James."
"You serious, you finally left that bloke?" Murdoc said in disbelief.
"I feel stupid, I should've listened to you and left his ass a long time ago."
"It's all right Nessie. At least you did leave him. Better late than never. But where will you be staying?"
"I don't know. Maybe some motel or something. Just until I get a decent job so I could get my own place."
"No way Nessa. I won't let you do that." Murdoc said. "Where are you right now? I'm going to go pick you up."

Murdoc drove as quickly as he could to the bus station. He had just left Kong without telling the band what was going on, leaving them with confused expressions on each of their faces. Murdoc didn't have time to tell them. He wanted pick up Vanessa immediately. He was scared whenever she was by herself. She might've been old enough to take care of herself but she was Murdoc's little sister, (well, half sister actually) he had to be protective of her.
Murdoc's father Jacob was known for his womanizing and he had had a one night stand with a female neighbor, resulting with the woman being pregnant. Murdoc never knew the woman's name, all he knew about her was that she left Vanessa with Jacob because the woman didn't want her husband to find out about the affair. Jacob didn't want to raise Vanessa however, he already had two sons (Murdoc and his older brother Hannibal) and thought that was enough. Murdoc and his brother Hannibal ended up taking care of her. It was even Murdoc who gave her the name Vanessa. Although the fourteen and sixteen year old couldn't really get along with each other, Murdoc and Hannibal loved their baby sister and always took care of her. The two brothers taught her how to walk, how to talk, how to read, they even played her some of their favorite music, which she loved very much.
When Vanessa was six, Murdoc and Hannibal were already out of the house and she was living all alone with Jacob. She hated living with him. For one thing, she didn't know much about him since he never really wanted to be involved in her life, and when Jacob had no other choice but to raise her, he was very cruel to her. Jacob never showed Vanessa the love her brothers showed her. One night, when Vanessa was sixteen, a drunk Jacob had came into her room and raped her. That was the last straw for Vanessa. She left Jacob a few weeks later and ended up living with Murdoc. Vanessa loved living with her brother. He helped her get a decent job and even helped Vanessa pay for college.
Things between them were great, until James came into the picture. James was a boy that Vanessa had met in college. She thought he was pretty cute and they eventually hooked up. The relationship was well for a while, until one day James and Vanessa got into a big argument and it ended with James punching Vanessa hard in the face and kicking her over and over. Vanessa cried herself to sleep that night. James apologized the next day by giving Vanessa a small bouquet of flowers. Things between the couple went on that way for months. Murdoc had found out when he walked in on James slapping Vanessa hard in the face. Vanessa had never seen Murdoc so angry. He punched, kicked, and slapped James until Vanessa screamed for Murdoc to stop. She told Murdoc how it wasn't any of his business and that James only hitted her because she deserved it. Then Vanessa said something she thought she would never say to one of her brothers.
"I hate you. Stay out of my life."
And that was the last thing Vanessa had said to Murdoc.
But Vanessa had now finally left James and was willing to make up with Murdoc. There wasn't anything else that Murdoc wanted more.

Murdoc searched around the bus station for Vanessa until he finally saw her on a bench reading a book. Murdoc smiled when she saw her.
"She always has her face in a book." Murdoc said to himself.
Time had not change Vanessa. Her light brown hair was still the same medium length and her forehead was still covered by her bangs. Her skin was a light tan and her face was round like that of a child. Her eyes were a wonderful hazel brown. When Vanessa was small, her eyes were always full of happiness and joy. But as she got older, the only things Murdoc saw in her eyes were sadness and hope. The only thing different about Vanessa was a tattoo on her right arm. It was of a black dragon soaring through the sky that was Vanessa's arm.
"Nessie." Murdoc called out to his sister.
Vanessa looked up to see who was calling her. And when she saw Murdoc, she did something Murdoc hadn't seen her do for a long time: she smiled.