AN: I'm kinda overwhelmed with the response of the first chapter. Thank you guys so much, I was nervous to post it but I appreciate the response. So thanks for all of the follows, favorites and reviews! I'm kind of just making this up as I go along so your thoughts and reviews will help to keep me inspired. I don't know how often I will update but the plan is to stay a chapter ahead. Anyway, hope you enjoy this update!

~KJ

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Sam woke up the next morning in her bed, well the bed she currently spent her nights in. This wasn't her bed nor was it her room. No matter how many times her mother tried to convince her otherwise. Sam felt the presence of another being beside her and it wasn't the little form that usually came in the middle of the night. Danny seemed to find his way into her bed more nights than not, especially since moving into the lake house. Sam attributed it to Danny not being familiar with this new house yet. Speaking of Danny, she hadn't gotten a call to pick him up so hopefully he was okay.

Sam looked over at the sleeping figure lying next to her. Lifting up the cover, Sam poked her finger in the girl's ear ever so slightly to just brush the fine hairs. The young woman instinctively brought her hand up and swatted the side of her face, instantly waking herself up. "Ahhh!" Sam covered her mouth with one hand to muffle her laughter. "What the hell, Sam?" Kristina barked.

Sam chuckled, "You tell me, I'm not the one slapping myself in my sleep. Besides you're in my bed" Kristina just glared at her older sister. "What are you doing here anyway, I thought spring break wasn't for another three weeks?"

"It's not." Kristina rubbed the side of her face. "Ugh, you better hope this doesn't leave a bruise."

"You'll be fine Krissy, stop being so dramatic, again why are you here?" Sam sat up in the bed.

"Where's my nephew? I was surprised he wasn't in in here last night when I came in."

"He's with his father and you're deflection is painfully obvious. Why are you here? Does mom know?"

"Why would you say I'm deflecting?" Kristina looked at Sam.

"Okay, that's how you want to play it? MOOO…" Kristina placed her hand over Sam's mouth to muffle the sound. "Fine, I'll tell you. Jeez just don't tell mom. I'm not ready to hear her yet. I'm taking leave from school."

"Kristina! Why? You're almost done, you just have a semester and a half before you graduate. Why are you prolonging it?"

"I just feel like there's so much going on right now between dad being paralyzed, Morgan's sickness, Michael's gonna be a dad and you. There's a lot going on and I just feel I need to be here with my family." Kristina sat up and placed her back on the head board to be eye level with Sam.

"Krissy, Sonny, Morgan and Michael will understand. They know you love and support them. They also understand you finishing school is important and wouldn't want you to delay graduation because of them."

"Sam, I'm going to finish!" Sam admired the heart her little sister had. Kristina could be selfish at times but she also loved her family with everything she had. Driving them crazy was just one of her little ways of showing it.

"What did you mean, me?"

"Huh?" Kristina feigned confusion.

"Krissy. You said I was one of the reasons. What were you talking about? I'm fine, you don't need to take a leave of absence from school for me."

"Sam, five months ago you were engaged and about to start planning your marriage to Patrick and starting a life with him, Emma and Danny. Then, unexpectedly, your not-so-dead husband comes back who in actuality had been living in town for a year with no memories and started a new life with Elizabeth. And now Patrick and Emma have moved away, Jason still doesn't remember your life together, you're on the outs with Nik, and you moved you and your son back in with your parents. You're a mess."

"Gee, thanks sis." Sam painted a sarcastic smile towards her sister and then flipped the covers off of her in exasperation. She stepped out of bed, annoyed with the bluntness in which her sister pointed out her failures.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to say it like that." Kristina watched her walk around the room towards the bathroom.

"You know, you didn't have to say it at all. But if you want to talk about people being a mess, we can do that!" Sam walked into the bathroom to pee but left the door cracked.

"You're being defensive, Sam" Kristina shouted.

"And you're being an asshole. You can leave, anytime now." Sam shouted back as she washed her hands.

Sam walked out the bathroom, "Kristina, if you have your life so put together, why are you hiding out in here instead of telling mom about your dumbass decision?"

Kristina ran her hands through her hair as Sam stared at her. "Oh. Right, because you want your big failure of a sister, who clearly chases the people she loves off, to run interference with mom to take the heat off of you."

"Sam…"

"Sam what? What?" Sam shot daggers at her sister, she was hot!

Kristina stared back but didn't say anything.

"Fucking amazing." Sam had a slight chuckle to her voice. "Don't start shit you can't finish." Sam rolled her eyes and turned back to the bathroom to brush her teeth.

Kristina walked towards the door but stopped just outside of the bathroom door before walking out the room. "I didn't mean to upset you, Sam."

Sam tossed her tooth brush into the sink in frustration, as she stared at herself in the mirror, tears filling her eyes. "I'm a fucking mess."

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Julian walked into his home and marveled at the silence. Between Alexis, Molly, Sam, Danny and Leo's visits, the house seemed to never be quiet. He kind of loved the craziness the Davis girls, as they called themselves, brought to his life. He had never had a big family before and he was enjoying the ride for as long as it lasted. With Sam and Danny living there now, Julian felt like he was finally getting a chance to be there for Sam in a way he was robbed of before. He got to watch his son and grandson grow up together and it was like the universe was finally working in his favor. Serendipity. Julian heard a knock on the door and went to answer it.

"Hey Danny!" "Grampa!"Danny walked up to his grandfather and gave him a high five before walking past him into the house to play with his toys. "Bye, daddy" Jason heard as the little boy ran off.

"Jason." Julian stared at the man.

Jason stared back. "Julian…. I'm sorry, did I do something to you? From what I understand we never knew each other in my previous life, or yours for that matter. So is this animosity I'm sensing something new that I created, because that would actually be refreshing?"

Julian widened his stance, crossed his arms and chuckled at the man. "Well from what I understand you weren't much of a husband to Sam before and you damn sure aren't much now. You spent an entire year creating a new life because you were too lazy to actually put the work into finding out who you really were, that you had a family who grieved for you. And Now? After you found out, you were still too lazy to put in the work to find out the entire truth. It was easy to just dismiss Sam, her feelings, her memories so you could live in a fantasy land where you didn't have to actually work for anything. How convenient for you to have everything just handed to you? Meanwhile, the people who loved you were in agony trying to cope. Maybe you should've tried a little harder to reconnect with Sam. Instead, you broke her heart, callously. So it seems fitting this new life you insisted on creating, the one that just happened to land in your lap with no effort from you, collapsed like a house a cards."

"This, coming from the man who spent most of his life in the mob, taking orders from someone else. Really? You're judging me?" Jason proded.

"I may have made some mistakes in the past but I have learned from them and changed to be the man my family deserves, something you never had the guts to do before. If you had you would've never left Sam and Danny that night. I mean what man finally gets his family back and then leaves them the same night to go get shot up?"

"I don't know, Julian. What man gets his family's house blown up almost killing them and lies about it? Are you just going to punish me for the man I used to be, someone I don't remember?"

Julian smirked, "To be fair, I'll punish you for both. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a family to get back to. Julian closed the door in the man's face.

"Hm. No threshold today." Jason mumbled to himself before turning back to his car.

Julian walked back into the living room with his grandson, feeling confidant in his confrontation of the man who seemed to only cause his daughter heartache. He remembered the few times she opened up to him about her love for Jason and he could tell it ran deep. Even though he hadn't liked what he heard of the man, it pained him to see his daughter's agony over him. And the pain only seemed to deepen once she found out he was alive but didn't remember her or the life they shared. Not to mention the life that she was building with a decent guy who treated her right got completely derailed. Jason brought Sam nothing but anguish and pain and Julian reveled in the fact that Jason seemed to be miserable too. Julian would do his part to add to the man's despondent existence. He finally got a chance to be a protective father to his girl and he wasn't going to pass up the opportunity. Sure, he was a bit of a hypocrite and probably an asshole but Julian felt that was part of his charm.