A/N: Katherine is LadyKatherine29's character.

Finn had called Katherine the next morning after getting her number from Dario and explained everything.

"So some jerk put a hit out on my boss? But he's alive and hiding out with you two? Keep him and your girlfriend safe and get here soon… he asking about Matanza?" Katherine responded.

"Yeah, where is he?" Finn replied, lightly rubbing the back of Amanda's head and held her close to him as she was still clearly shaken.

She had shared with him what she remembered that led to the physical empathy… and he as well as Dario knew it was something she didn't want to relive.

"Hiding out here with Lotus." Katherine answered.

"We're gonna need her help… Tiny has physical empathy." Dario explained after the phone was in his left hand.

At the same time, Seth reached the hotel door and knocked on it… and Amanda walked into the hallway, still in her pajamas and Seth turning alarmed at her shaking body and reddened eyes as she rubbed her tattooed shoulder.

"What is wrong with you?" Seth questioned.

"Everything went crazy last night… after you left, I couldn't sleep at first." Amanda responded, cringing slightly as Seth examined her for a head injury… but he found no sign of one.

"Physical empathy…" Seth responded quietly, Amanda looking at him.

"You picked up on that?" Amanda asked.

"Yeah, I guess so. It was Hiroki and Yukie wasn't it?" Seth questioned once more.

"We were young… had skipped school one day and… something strange happened." Amanda replied.

1/29/05…

"I'm not sure we should even be out here!" 14 year old Amanda responded as 15 year old Yukie and 17 year old Hiroki had led her to the snow covered train yard.

"It's the only way to show how smart you two are. My friends did it and I'm doing it to you." Hiroki explained. "Unless you wanna go back to school and be total losers for the rest of your pathetic lives."

"No one likes a jackass, Hiroki! I don't like how these friends are corrupting you!" Amanda responded after shoving him hard, Yukie pulling Amanda away from Hiroki… but then they heard cracks under their feet and Amanda let out a scream as she and Hiroki slipped through the broken part of the rickety steps, Yukie and Hiroki pulling her up after Hiroki pulled himself up.

"Are you okay?" Yukie questioned, before she punched Hiroki in the face. "What is your fucking problem?! We're going back to school. All of this, messing with you!" She responded, before grabbing onto Amanda's hand.

As they started to leave, Yukie felt something hard hitting the back of her head as her eyes widened in shock, making her fall face first into the snow.

Amanda helped her up and turned to Hiroki before she grabbed a rusted out pipe and struck him with it, Hiroki falling to the ground.

"Don't ever fucking hurt your sister!" Amanda yelled, ignoring the pain that shot through her face as she dropped the pipe and she and Yukie left.

But at the hospital, Hiro had to be physically restrained after finding out about it and slapping Amanda, which pissed off John Sr.

"Don't ever hit my daughter, you bastard!" The older man yelled as he shielded his youngest child from the angry man, Hiro backing off into the room and walking to his oldest and middle child as John Sr took Amanda home with him.

At the house after she got cleaned off and into warm pajamas, he comforted her as she cried.

"I know, sweetheart, I know you didn't hurt Yukie." He whispered as Amanda eventually cried herself out and with her energy gone, she fell asleep with her head on his right shoulder.

The older man picked her up and took Amanda to her room, putting her on her bed and pulling the covers over her before he kissed her on her forehead and left to let her rest.

Amanda had lost three people she had considered family… all because one of them didn't want to admit the truth…

Present time…

"We never spoke again after that… but every time one of them or our friends got hurt after that, it affected me too." Amanda responded.

"Is there a way to shut it off?" Seth questioned.

"That's what we're trying to figure out… we're gonna go meet up with a friend, stay here, please?" Amanda replied before they hugged.

Seth kissed her on her forehead before they let go and she headed back into the room before he left… when he was in the lobby, he saw Hiroki and Yukie.

"Just missed them?" Yukie questioned.

"Yeah. Hiroki, Mandy just told me something and you're gonna want to listen because she remembers that day in the train yard!" Seth responded, Hiroki turning pale in shock.

"She already heard too much in one day. So, my sis must practice on her reading." Hiroki explained, covering Yukie's ears.

"What, the old train yard? They shut it down after an accident involving three kids, that's what my mom said." Yukie responded after taking Hiroki's hands off of her ears.

"Yeah, but I don't know why this asshole brought it up." Hiroki explained.

"Because you led your little sister and your friend to that train yard! You insulted them, Mandy shoved you, you both fell and helped her up… and when she and Yukie tried to leave, you threw something at your sister's head! You've been blaming her for 12 ½ years over your stupidity!" Seth responded angrily, Yukie turning to Hiroki.

"You caused that bad head injury and blamed her?" Yukie questioned.

"It was me lashing out and I got scared and panicked when you didn't remember and she had blocked it out of her mind!" Hiroki replied. "And when she left… you had stopped remembering her altogether. I was an idiot, I can't take back what I did."

"Hiroki, we lost our best friend for good!" Yukie replied after slapping him before she turned to Seth. "Is she looking for a way to get the physical empathy turned off?"

"Yeah… but I have a feeling it's not only her and Finn." Seth explained.

At the house, Katherine ignored the strange number as she greeted Amanda, Finn and Dario… but Amanda walked closer to the phone.

"You know who it is?" Katherine responded, Amanda nodding before she picked up the phone.

"I'm currently gonna undo 12 ½ years worth of damage… or part of it that your son kicked in motion and him and you blamed on me! Screw off, old man!" Amanda responded before she hung up and blocked Hiro's number.

"Fiery one." Katherine replied in an impressed tone before Lotus walked in and over to Amanda.

"Rey and Vampiro should be here soon… in the meantime, this should stop the physical empathy for now." Lotus responded before putting a protection pendant on Amanda… who immediately started to feel better as Finn answered his phone.

"Seth, everything okay there?" Finn asked.

"Well, now the truth is out… Mandy got royally betrayed by Hiroki, all because he didn't want to admit the truth about Yukie's initial head injury." Seth explained, Finn walking to Amanda and pulling her into a hug.

Katherine and Lotus looked at each other before they headed outside as Dario went to go clean off.

"That's a damn horrible thing to do to someone, throw her under the bus just because he was afraid to admit how his sister got hurt and lost all memory of their friend." Lotus responded, carefully doing so in a quiet tone so Matanza wouldn't hear them.

"Worse than anything Hero ever did to me. The sooner we shut the physical empathy off, Mandy can start to think clearly and rectify the damage to an extent… nothing will fully fix it." Katherine replied in the same quiet tone.

"And then Dario can reclaim the Temple." Lotus whispered.

"One step at a time, Lotus." Katherine replied as she looked at Finn and Amanda, who were all cozy on the couch as Finn comforted her.

'They truly love each other. And Tiny needs that love now.' She thought.