The next three days were torturous for the family. Although Alexandria's condition didn't change, she still didn't wake up. Pam was afraid to tell Jason and Freddy that she might be in a coma.

Through all of three days, Jason never slept a wink. All he did was sit at her bedside and either hold her hand or pet her head. Many times, Freddy and Pam tried to get him to sleep, but he refused with a quick and menacing growl.

Pam stuck around to help Freddy keep the household in check while Jason stayed with Alexandria, but sometimes she had to leave for personal reasons. Almost everyone had heard about the families troubles and visited them, but the most helpful of all of their friends was Pinny and Chet had been the most helpful. They showed up when they could and helped Freddy when Pam wasn't available.

The family was grateful to both their family and friends and hoped that Alexandria would get better soon.

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The darkness that had been her solitude for the last week and a half was starting to fade and she was becoming painfully aware that she was waking up.

Alexandria opened her eyes, but could not focus on anything and realized that her glasses were missing. However, she did not need her glasses to realize that she was somewhere other than her room. First, she analyzed that she wasn't on her normal bed. The one she was sleeping in was cushier and she was surrounded by warmth from the feather down comforter. Next, she noticed that someone was leaning on said bed, holding her hand. She forced herself to stay calm as she realized that she might be in the hospital because her bare upper torso and left arm were wrapped in bandages.

Ok…I'm somewhere, other than my house and my room, I can't see anything and everything hurts! I might be in a hospital…oh man, daddy is going to be so mad at me! He told me never to go to one!

Alexandria started trying to wiggle her hand free and within minutes she succeeded, realizing that the person next to her must have been asleep. With her good hand, she forced herself up despite how painful it was and looked around the blurred room. As soon as she saw the equally blurred outline of a door, she quickly and quietly rose from the bed and left through it.

Immediately, she realized that she was not at a hospital but someone's personal home. Carefully and gracefully, she followed the wall as slow as she could. She wasn't sure what time it was, but by the lack of sounds and talking, it was most likely nighttime. She almost screamed when she fell down about four inches on a flight of stair that she hadn't noticed before. She slowly climbed down the seventeen steps before she finally took notice to the voices coming from the room to the left. Quickly making friends with the wall furthest away from the voices, she tried to sneak past.

"Jason? Is that you?"

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Pinny, Chet and Freddy all sat in the kitchen at approximately at eight' o'clock that night. They had been talking for the last hour, ever since they had put the children to bed, and all were conversing over coffee.

"Do you think Jason's ever going to come out?" Chet asked worriedly.

Freddy sighed. "I don't know…About two hours ago, he finally passed out from having no sleep for the last week and a half."

Silence was only there for a moment before a familiar shadow passed in the hallway.

"Jason? Is that you?" Pinny asked

Suddenly the shadow froze before disappearing as quickly as it could. Puzzled, Pinny stood and looked down the hallway, but didn't see anyone. He cast another confused look at Freddy and Chad. "I don't see anybody."

Chet and Freddy rose out of their seats and also looked down the hallway, and no one was there, just as Pinny and said.

Freddy was the most confused. It couldn't be Jason because he wouldn't have run away AND he wouldn't have left Alexandria's room for anything. So maybe it was one of the kids? No, that didn't sound right either, they had put the kids to bed an hour ago.

"I'm going to go look upstairs." Freddy said quickly before disappearing.

Pinny and Chet nodded and started looking for the person in the hallway. They looked in all of the corners, but still couldn't see anyone. Both got to the end of the hallway just as they heard a loud yell from the upstairs.

"SHIT!"

Pinny and Chet turned back towards the yell, ready to go to it.

CRASH!

Chet fell to the ground with a yell as a vase was smashed on his head. Pinny turned as quick as he could, to see Alexandria running in the opposite direction of them.

"Alexandria, wait!"

Pinny went to yell at Fred but Freddy came bounding down the stairs with Jason right behind him before he could yell out to them.

"Alexandria's go-" Freddy started, "What the hell happened?!"

Pinny was helping Chet off the floor, rubbing the bump on the back of his head, but was looking at the distraught parents. "Alexandria smashed a vase over Chet's head when we turned around, then she ran that way." He said, pointing down the hall that lead to the basement door.

Jason was immediately moving as fast as he could in that direction with Freddy, Pinny and Chet right behind him.

The basement door was wide open, but not a single light was on as they descended down the stairs.

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Alexandria trembled as she hid behind lots of boxes underneath the stairs. She was holding back her sobs and tears in fear that someone would find her. When those two people had closed in on her in a small part of the hallway, she grabbed the closest thing she could reach and plowed the nearest one in the head before running while the other tended to the one she hit.

She almost screamed again when thundering footsteps from more than one person started coming down the stairs. She scooted to the closest corner and pulled her knees to her chest before hiding her face in them. She was too terrified to do anything but sit there. She jumped as the lights flickered on and the room was surrounded in light, but didn't look up or listen as voices started talking. She could hear them shuffling around slowly, looking for her, but she tried to focus on other things, other than what was happening around her. She was so caught up with her forced daydreaming that she never heard them push the boxes away that were hiding her from their view.

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Jason frantically stomped down the stairs, trying to find his daughter who had ran off on her own after he had fallen asleep. When Freddy had yelled a curse word at the top of his lungs, he had jumped up, only to find that Alexandria wasn't in the bed anymore. His fear of loosing her was overwhelming and he almost broke down into tears, but he refrained from doing so.

Now, he was on his way to the basement to find her, and he was frantic. So frantic that he had started looking without having the lights on.

When someone turned the lights on, he didn't even halt in his search until his husband put a hand on his shoulder. "Calm down Jason, she's in here somewhere and there's no way she can get out without us noticing."

It took a moment but Jason realized that Freddy was right, so he took a calming breath and nodded.

"Shhhh…" Chet said, putting a finger to his lips, "do you hear that?"

Everyone fell silent as they listened as carefully as they could. Sure enough, there was heavy breaths and soft sobbing coming from somewhere over to their left. Before anyone else could determine where it was coming from, Jason had strode forward and threw back a couple of stacks of boxes.

There was Alexandria, trembling and holding back tears as she curled herself into a continuous sitting fetal position and never moved. Jason stared at his daughter before looking back to Freddy helplessly, and immediately he came to his husbands side.

"Alexandria?" Freddy said softly but received no answer, so he tried a more subtle approach. "Alexandria?" he repeated, but this time he placed a nervous hand on her shoulder.

Immediately, she screamed and recoiled from Freddy's touch, who took his hand back the moment she shrieked.

Pinny quickly placed a hand on Freddy's shoulder when the man tried to reach for her again. "Wait Freddy" he said. "She's obviously terrified. Try talking to her, tell her where she's at. I'm sure that the only thing she remembers is Kingsley hitting her into unconsciousness."

Freddy nodded and sighed internally 'I'm going to be so out of character for the next half hour…' "Alexandria…" he started. "I know you're scared right now, but I need you to listen, ok?" The only acknowledgement that she was listening was that her sobs had stopped and her ears actually perked up. "My name is Freddy and this is Jason, over there are our friends Pinny and Chet. Jason and I were the ones, who saw you at the library, remember our three kids? Connor, Mickey and Eve?" By now Alexandria was peeking at them from the crack of her knees. "We brought you to our house to heal after what that man did to you, do you understand? Your not in any danger here. He can't get you anymore."

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Alexandria did listen to what the man had to say, but she could barely believe it. The people from the library had taken her from her father?

"W-why?" she whispered.

She tried to focus on the men's faces but was unable to with her blurred vision, but she could probably guess that they had confused looks on their faces.

Sure enough…

"Why what?"

She looked to the floor of whatever room she was in and said. "Why did you take me? It's not like it was anything that I wasn't used to…Now daddy's going to be mad at me…" she said sadly.

All four adults had sad and angry looks in her eyes at the girl's proclamation about being used to the treatment. The man that was named Jason, who hadn't spoken throughout the whole exchange, moved and sat next to her. She eyed him carefully as he did so, but did nothing about it.

Freddy growled unhappily and she cringed from his direction. "You don't have to worry about that asshole anymore Alexandria, Jason and I are going to be taking care of you from now on…"

She gasped in shock and was quick to ask. "But why would you want someone as worthless as me?" Her question was immediately followed by a gasp as the man beside her, swept her into an embrace. She could tell that he was crying, but couldn't figure out exactly why that is…

She could tell that the man who had called himself Freddy had turned and muttered something to the other two who disappeared as quickly as they could. She listened to them walk up the stairs and Freddy moved to sit next to her on the opposite side of the man he called Jason.

She looked between the two as Freddy sighed. "Alexandria…you remember how you told us that you were adopted?" She simply nodded so he continued. "Well, we actually already knew that before you said it." He said awkwardly.

She put on a confused face. "How?"

Because he was so close she could see both him and the other man, and could tell that they were looking at each other intently before he looked at her again.

"We already knew because…we are your….real parents….I-I'm your dad a-and Jason is your mom."

Alexandria was silent for a moment before she burst into tears and embraced Jason back as tight as she could, crying for all she was worth, which in turn caused Jason to cry as well.

Ten minutes was spent in silent as mother and daughter bonded for the first time in at least sixteen years. Freddy smiled at the picture, but he had to break it sometime.

"Alexandria, are you ready to go back to your room."

"M-my room?" she asked

Freddy nodded. "Yea, we'll let you sleep for the rest of the night and then we'll talk more in the morning."

Alexandria nodded. "ok"

Freddy stood and then helped his husband and eldest stand as well. Jason refused to let go of Alexandria's hand, so she walked with him. However, she didn't notice the low staircase before it was too late.

THONK!

"Ow…" she mumbled and Jason immediately ran his hand over the bump, but she was quick to apologize. "Sorry, I have a hard time seeing without my glasses…"

This was the first time that they noticed her glasses were missing. 'Oops…well no wonder she was scared, she couldn't see where she was or who took her' "Don't worry" Freddy said with a smile, "We'll get you new ones as soon as we can along with some clothes and other things that you'll need."

Alexandria nodded again, but this time Jason wouldn't let her walk on her own. He helped her walk where she couldn't trip or hit anything by hugging her to his body.

They finally went to the main floor of the house where Pinny and Chet were waiting for them to show up. They looked at Freddy expectantly, who nodded in return. They smiled as Jason and Alexandria came from around the corner, hugging each other.

Before anyone could say anything, Alexandria tripped on some of the broken vase pieces, but her grip on Jason and his grip in return saved her from being thrown to the ground, but not the pain from her ribs and arm that she hadn't really paid attention to until now. She didn't cry out because from past experiences….that only made it worse, so she settled for gripping his shirt in her unhurt fist , grunting and clenching her teeth.

Both Freddy and Jason had to help her up because Jason's attempt made her clench tighter and make a small squeak. When she was standing straight up, she took a few deep breaths before she opened her eyes. Her father was so close to her face that she could actually see his face and the concern that it held.

"I'm okay…" she said shakily from both the aftershocks of pain and the sheer concern that both of her new parents were showing. She wasn't used to so many people being concerned for her well-being. It was usually only Mrs. Weston who cared. Then again….her adoptive father had also been concerned and nice in the beginning too. What if this was just another façade before her old life caught up to her. Man did she have some serious thinking to do…

She had looked away from her father after saying she was ok, so she was unable to see the worried look that her parents shared. "Okay Alexandria, if you're sure. Jason's going to take you back to your room and put you to bed, okay?"

She nodded and moved to his side, and he quickly took her up the stairs as slow and careful as he could before they both disappeared beyond the top of the staircase.

Freddy sighed as soon as they were out of sight and plopped down on the couch next to him.

Pinny and Chet shared a look before turning back to Freddy. "How did she take it?" Pinny asked.

Freddy didn't bother to look up, but spoke anyway. "I suppose she took it as well as could be expected. Her and Jason cried for a while but other than that there wasn't really a reaction, so something tells me that the reactions or consequences will come up later."

Freddy was desperately trying to ignore the possibilities of what could happen later….would he and Jason learn the full extent of the damage that that bastard Kingsley had done to their daughter? Freddy slightly shuddered. He sure the hell hoped not…

"Why don't you go upstairs and try to get some sleep, Chet and I will clean up the kitchen and head home, ok?"

"Freddy nodded. "Yeah, that sounds ok" he sighed. "Thanks"

"No problem Freddy" Chet smiled. "We'll be back in the morning to help and check on everything."

Freddy once again nodded and headed up the stairs, he entered his room and quickly dawned on a pair of boxers and a t-shirt. Although, instead of going to settle into his bed, he went straight to Alexandria's room.

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Alexandria struggled up the long staircase, but managed just fine with her….mother's help. It felt strange to call a man her mother, and she made a mental note to ask how that was possible later. He led her to the farthest door on the left and took her inside. Just briefly she saw how bare the room was except for a large sized bed and a dresser that had several food plates and glasses on it. Her mother set her on the bed as carefully as he could but it still did not dull the pain from the weight being pushed on her ribs. Once again all she did was grunt, but it was loud enough that he heard it. He was immediately in front of her, brushing his fingers lightly over her slightly bruised face and her bare shoulder. She looked down at her torso. Finally, she realized that she didn't have anything but bandages covering her breasts and upper stomach, while a pair of securely-fastened-over-baggy shorts covered her lower half. Immediately, her face flushed and she looked to the floor.

"May I please have a shirt, sir?"

Jason, though he didn't speak, was to say in the least…speechless. In the library she was a perky and helpful girl, so where did she go…and who had replaced her? When coherent thought came back to Jason's brain, he gave a nod before leaving through the door and coming back a five minutes later wearing a pair of sleeping pangs and holding a long sleeve button down shirt.

As quick as her broken bones would allow, she threw on the shirt and covered herself. She didn't bother trying to button the buttons because her broken hand wouldn't allow it. However, as if her mother could read her mind, he started buttoning them up for her.

"Thank you" she mumbled.

Jason once again nodded and carefully tucked her into her bed. Then, to her surprise, did something totally unexpected…

He climbed in beside her

She lay there in shock as he settled in next to her. He moved the feather comforter around him and her before he took his mask off.

She let out a soft gasp at her mothers face. It was marred with lots of scars and he was missing part of his cheek. Also, his eye looked as if it wouldn't open up all the way and the scars followed his neck, down to his torso and even past that.

Hesitantly, she reached up her good arm and ran it across his face, studying it closely. She could see out of her indirect line of vision, and he was looking at her for some sort of reaction.

What should her reaction be? Why was mother so scarred? Did he have the same kind of past too? Or are they from father? Her inner-self gasped…she chastised herself. Of course they were from father…after all, that's what daddy always said…a man's place is to keep their spouse and children in line with an iron fist.

Alexandria quickly and carefully kissed her mother on his left cheek before softly shoving herself into her mother's chest and snuggled up to him. Both in comfort to herself and to her mother, and her mother quickly hugged her back before he fell immediately into a deep sleep.

She continued to lay there, simply staring into space. She never noticed someone open the door until they tried to climb into bed with her and her mother.

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The simple sight of Jason and their newly found daughter cuddling on one side of the bed caused Freddy to smile. Jason, he could tell, was asleep, but Alexandria was wide awake, so he made quick work of climbing in the bed.

He slid underneath the covers and hugged Alexandria from the other side. "Hey"

Alexandria squeaked out a soft. "Hi"

"Do you feel okay?" he asked

Alexandria wasn't sure on how to answer his question, so she stayed silent and gave a small nod of her head.

"Well…I think we'll get Pam back in here to look at you, but I do know for sure that we'll have to take you to the hospital to get a cast for your arm, but let's just sleep and we'll worry about that stuff tomorrow." He leaned in and hugged her a little tighter to symbolize it, before he lay back down and watched as she fell asleep before falling asleep himself.

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Consciousness slowly creeped back to the young girl lying between the two adults, who looked as if an earthquake would not even cause them to so much as stir. Her mother was a quiet sleeper and his breaths were calm and steady. The previous evening, Alexandria could tell that he was exhausted by the bloodshot eyes and half-droopy facial features, so she was glad that he was getting some sleep.

Her father on the other hand, sounded as if he would wake up the whole household. He was no longer joined in on the comforting cuddle, but on his back. One hand was above his head, against the mahogany headboard, while the other lay against his stomach and his mouth was open, catching flies as he was snoring the loudest snore she had ever heard in her life.

How in the world could her mother sleep through that?! In fact…..how did she?

Oh well…

Alexandria managed to see onto her fathers watch and saw that it was five 'o' clock in the morning…the usual time she got up to do her daily chores that her adoptive father made her do before returning to her room.

Alexandria, skillfully for her injured stature, managed to pull herself out of her mother's embrace and off of the bed. She knew that she didn't have any clothing to change into, so she went ahead and made her way downstairs to the kitchen.

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Pinny and Chet quietly pulled up to the Kruger-Voorhees household at six that morning, in order to help Freddy make breakfast and get the kids up for school. They stood from the car and walked to the front door. Pinny bent over and dove into the thick bushes beside the house, pulling out a key from a hidden compartment inside the siding of the house. He unlocked the door and they quietly walked inside, so as not to wake the sleeping occupants.

Chet was the first to notice that the kitchen light was on and the smell of an old fashioned country breakfast and a lemon scented cleaning solution permeated through the small area of the hallway. Jason, who had passed out from a week of no sleep, could in no way have been awake at this early hour, and Freddy was too lazy and self-centered to ever even think of cleaning with a cleaner that powerful. He placed a finger to his lips in signal to Pinny to be silent as they creeped up to the open doorway of the kitchen. As they got closer, the sounds of a scrubbing brush on a hard surface became clearer as they neared it. Chet and Pinny quickly and quietly peeked around the corner.

What they didn't expect to see was Alexandria on her knees, looking tired as she cradled her injured hand to her chest and used her good hand to push around a bucket and scrub the floor. They could see that her fingers had started to bleed at some point because the brush had little red spots on it and her fingers were an angry red from the chemicals seeping into it from the cleaner.

Pinny looked to Chet with a sad look, who replied with his own. They walked into the kitchen quietly, but Pinny was the only one to approach her. He was hesitant, but he proceeded to lightly touch her shoulder. "Alexandria?"

Her reaction was immediate and not something that he expected. He could tell that she jumped and let a small almost unheard squeak out but she tried to cover it by quickly placing her hands palm down on the floor and putting her head on them, in a sort of bowing position. From where he was standing, he could see her tremble but she never said a word. All she did was bow in front of him like a servant would.

Pinny kneeled down next to her and grabbed her around the shoulders, carefully lifting her from the floor. She didn't once look up from the floor and into his face. Very carefully, he lightly pushed her in the direction of one of the kitchen chairs but she wouldn't budge.

"Alexandria, you need to sit down in the chair and rest, you look like your tired and in pain…"

Alexandria shook her head. "I can't….I have to get breakfast done and clean the house before I go back to my room and wait for daddy to let me back out."

Pinny let a small squeak of surprise pass his lips and was in too much shock to ask the next question, so Chet decided to do it for him. "Sweetie, do you really think your new daddy would do that to you?"

Alexandria was afraid to answer him. On one side, he could try to comfort her and reassure her that her new father wouldn't do that, but what would be the point of lying? However, on a different note, he could tell her new father and she would get in trouble…

Right now, she didn't really care if she got in trouble because she needed the comforting words even if they were false. She hesitantly nodded her head and continued to look to the floor, but her face was forced to look into the cat-like man's face when he grabbed her shoulders. "Why do you believe that Alexandria?"

Her nervousness increased as she tried to stutter out. "M-Master always said that a father's duty was to keep his family in line, no matter the consequences. I-I just want daddy to start his day in a good mood so he doesn't punish me later when he gets mad"

Chet was deeply distressed "Your father, though he looks rough, is actually a very nice man to his family and friends."

She frowned. "B-But mommy's s-scars…."

Chet's hands tightened slightly on her shoulders before relaxing. He gently grabbed her shoulder and led her away from the kitchen and to the living room couch. Surprisingly she didn't put up a fight and let him lead her there. He sat her down and had Pinny sit down next to her and instinctually cuddled her against his side. She stiffened in his embrace before relaxing as a blanket was draped over both of them.

After only a few minutes, the warmth and comforting embrace of the man holding her, caused her to fall into a deep sleep.

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As soon as she fell asleep, Pinny finally let the tears fall from his eyes for the girl's pain and the distress that the new information would cause the family.

"I-I think you should go get Freddy and Jason, Chet, they need to know that she's still in the house before they wake up and find that she is not in the same place that they left her when they fell asleep."

Chet simply nodded and headed off upstairs as Pinny continued to sit next to and comfort Alexandria in her sleep.

Not even two minutes later, all three men came into the room, two of which looked very confused and the other still looked extremely concerned. Pinny could tell that he hadn't told them yet, probably that she was just downstairs.

"What the hell is she doing down here?" Freddy asked as soon as he entered the room.

Pinny and Chet looked at each other before Chet started the conversation. "When me and Pinny got here this morning, Alexandria was already downstairs." He started. "At first we thought it was Jason when we walked in the door, but when we looked in the kitchen, Alexandria was literally scrubbing the floor so hard that she was making her fingers bleed."

To show them, Pinny held up her good hand and showed them that it was covered in small cuts around the fingers and heel of the palm. Jason moved from his spot and sat next to Alexandria on the opposite side of Pinny, stroking her hair as she subconsciously leaned into the touch in her sleep.

"Why the fuck would she be doing that?" Freddy continued to ask

Once again the two others looked at each other and that worried the parents.

Pinny told them this time, but he only looked at Freddy. "S-she said that she had to clean the whole house, cook the families breakfast and be back in her room before you got up or else you would punish her for not being done and then punish her later in the day for something little because you would be in a bad mood." Pinny was extremely saddened by the look in Freddy's eyes.

"Why would she say that?" he said in a low voice.

"She mentioned that her…daddy said that a father's duty is to keep his family in line no matter what…so I'm thinking that she thinks that every father does it, not just her adoptive father."

There was silence in the room for what seemed like an eternity. "Freddy…"

The man looked up from the spot on the floor that he had been looking at for the last half of the conversation and to his cheetah looking friend. "What?"

"She also seems to think that you were the one that caused Jason's scars."

Jason took in a quick breath of air and looked to his husband. Freddy returned the look but continued to sit silently.

"Thank you for telling us" he said quietly.

Pinny and Chet could tell that Freddy was the one that was more upset this time, so they simply nodded to him.

"Excuse me…" Freddy said, surprising everyone as he got up and left the room as quickly as they could. However, before Jason or Chet could even think about going to him, they heard the front door slam and the car pull away from the house.

Everyone looked at each other and then to the peacefully sleeping girl. They knew that Freddy had probably gone out for a kill to take out his frustration, but they didn't know exactly where he went because usually he didn't kill 'in person'.

Jason cuddled up to his daughter on her other side and they sat there peacefully in silence….at least until Alexandria woke up.