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Jessie told herself she must of lost her mind for a moment, because she thought he would hug her, tell her it was good to see her or something, she should have known better. "What the hell you doing here girl?" He asked still holding the picture.

Jessie glared at him. "Eve said it was your turn, she's tired of dealing with your little bastard."

Phil stopped and looked up grabbing her chin in his hand. "Watch your mouth girl."

Jessie jerked her chin loose. "Why you've cussed twice in the last five minutes."

"Dad..." Josh trailed off from the door of the wheelhouse. "Josh get back to work." His father snapped. "We've set the pots, whose this?" Josh said still standing there with the cold air pushing its way in.

But Josh knew without being told, the kid looked just like his dad, she had his eyes, Jessie had been a sore spot between him and his dad for years. Phil had been honest and told his two sons about Jessie, they knew he sent child support every month, but Josh couldn't understand how he could just know he had kid, and not have nothing to do with her, Josh and Phil would fight about it a couple of times a year, when Josh pushed him on it.

Phil looked at his son. "Well shut the damn door, you're freezing her to death."

Josh shut the door and walked over to stand beside his dad. She looked mad that was for sure, and dirty.

Phil looked back at his daughter. "Might as well tell me how you ended up here?"

Jessie was thirsty, hungry, cold and tired, and had a insane need to cry. Josh saw the play of emotions on her face, he took his jacket off and wrapped it around her. "Better?" Jessie nodded but kept her head down.

"Eve said she was tired of dealing with me, she chartered a flight and dumped me in Dutch Harbor, she told me to find you and tell you it was your turn, I figured you would dump me off the boat or drown me, so I hid." Jessie said fighting exhaustion, cold and the need to eat.

Josh looked at his dad. "I told you, you should keep in touch with her, you left your kid with a nut case."

"Josh thats enough. Jessie, what's Eve's number?" Phil asked.

Jessie gave him a look. "It wont matter." But she rattled off her mother's cell number anyway.

Phil dialed the number and waited till Eve picked up. "Are you crazy dropping the kid off like that in Dutch Harbor, anything could have happened?"

Eve sighed in the phone. "She got there right, I'm done with that brat, I hate being tied down, I'm finally getting married, and in order for that to happen, she wasn't part of the deal, now its your turn."

"Eve she's a damn girl, what the hell do I know about girls?"

Josh wanted to hit his dad, why was he doing this in front of the kid, she had to feel bad enough her mother not wanting her.

"Phil, she's your problem now, take her to social services or adopt her out, I don't care, now quit bugging me." She said and hung up

Phil slammed the phone down. "Just great." He muttered. He looked at his son. "I guess we'll have to take her back to Dutch Harbor and take her to social services."

Josh set his sister to her feet. "Go wait outside the door there, I'll be along in a minute, we'll get you fed."

Jessie glared at him, but she went and walked out closing the door behind her. Josh turned to look at his dad. "You cant mean that, she's your daughter, she was just dumped by her mother, c'mon dad..."

Phil turned to look out the window. "Josh, I'm on a boat ninety percent of the time, she needs to be in school, I don't know anything about girls, its dangerous out here, this is the last place she needs to be."

Josh walked over to stand beside his dad. "Dad, she's your kid, she needs you, hell she needs us, just let her stay through Opie season, Hell you were seven when you started fishing, I'll help, Jake will help, you know that, I'll find her some school work to do online, it'll keep her busy, don't make a rash decision right now, you'll regret it."

Phil turned to look at his son. "And if I make the same decision after Opie season?"

Josh sighed. "Then I'll take her myself."

Phil laughed. "Oh yeah party boy, I can really see that, you're to busy with women and drinking."

Josh shrugged. "I'll do what I have to, she's family." The young man said and walked out slamming the door.

Phil sighed and sat down, he just hoped his younger son would be more understanding of his reasons.

Josh lead the way down to the galley and hoped the rest of the guys would be a while before they came in. Josh told her to sit at the table and she did, laying her head on the table. Josh fixed her a cup of oodles of noodles and handed it to her, she gulped it down like she hadn't eaten in a while. Josh handed her a cup of hot chocolate and sat down across from her. " Been a while since you ate?"

Jessie shrugged. "A couple of days."

Josh wished he could slap her mother silly, what kind of idiot treated a kid like this?

"Do you have any clothes with you?" He asked.

Jessie fiddled with the handle on the worn coffee mug. "I got a backpack stashed in the wheelhouse inside the cabinet."

"Okay." He took her empty dishes and put them in the sink. "C'mom, I'll get you started on a shower and go get your stuff and bring it back to you."

Jessie was to tired to argue, she had a full belly and just wanted to go to sleep, but a hot shower sounded great, she felt like she would never be warm again.

Josh took her to his and Jake's quarters and showed her how the shower worked. "Okay, you good, I'll just run and get your stuff."

The girl nodded and Josh left. He was going to find his brother and give him a heads up about what was going on.