SlytherinQueen020: She is and she knows it and enjoys it. She don't have an ounce of good in her. She never had it while she was alive and she won't have it now. Esha Napoleon: Thank you! NeroAnne: You're not the only one. Although I would recommend doing it sniper style because if she caught someone trying to shoot someone it would just end in badness. Debwood-1999: Things definitely are looking grim for the Lawsons. Caroline's out for blood, which is never a good thing. Duck and cover would probably be the wisest idea but then again, knowing them, she would find them anyway.

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That night in their bedroom Mindy held Elizabeth in her good arm and lifted the other to snag her bottle off her nightstand when her wrist completely gave out and she winced, dropping the plastic bottle to the floor and whimpering faintly. She stared at the now useless appendage and frowned, sniffling and preparing to reach down and grab it again when James already bent and grabbed it for her.

"Oh…!" she nodded in slight surprise and gave him a quick nod, "Thank you, Jamie."

"I want that wrist looked at by a medical professional" he replied uncharacteristically coldly before sitting on the bed next to her and planting a kiss over a raised scar on her shoulder which came from her father and a fire poker, "Obviously it's NOT fine-"

"You send me to a doctor I want someone stitching your neck too" she leaned over and pressed her lips to his neck which she wanted to finish bandaging up but Elizabeth decided to cry.

"You really have to make this complicated, don't you?" he sighed with a shake of the head, removing Elizabeth from Mindy's arm and carrying out bottle-feeding. Grinning girlishly all of a sudden, Mindy leaned over and hugged his neck before answering.

"I'm complicated." Looking up from feeding their daughter James could only force a smile and cuddle Mindy close under an arm. It was one of the last things she'd said to him before they made love for the first time…and her guts were spilled to him.

"I wouldn't have it any other way" he took a deep breath and kissed her hair before placing Elizabeth's bottle down and holding her up to his shoulder and patting her back to burp her, which only made Mindy giggle loudly and rise onto her knees to nip at his ear and jaw until he began to return the kisses and lower Elizabeth from his shoulder, keeping one arm holding her and the other holding Mindy's face. He wanted to focus on her, he wished he could focus on her, but too much was on his mind to actually do so. She felt it though, his touch just wasn't right his head wasn't where it normally was. Breaking free with a long sigh she touched his cheek and began to rub his neck while moving to reach for the bandages and Neosporin she wanted to use to prevent it from scarring even more. "This wasn't supposed to happen, Baby Doll…"

"But it did" she said curtly and kissed his wound before finishing the job, "Now what're ya gonna do?"

"What do you THINK I'm going to do?" he reeled both her and Elizabeth closer to him, actually sitting Mindy and their daughter in his lap, "I'm going to fucking hunt her down"

"But you cannot SEE her" she reminded him gently, petting his dark hair and rising onto her knees to move her mouth slowly over his, "Know her or not you and I are in this together"

"No."

"YES and I don't give a fuck WHAT you say to that, Jamie!" her voice rose unintentionally and she cringed before shrugging and holding him close, "She said my name. I saw her before she camed after you, and I love you more than life-"

"BABY Doll…!" he winced and shook his head violently, grabbing her chin with a hand and shaking his head, "No! None of this would have happened without fucking me so let me"

"Never" she responded stubbornly, not taking any of his shit for an answer, "She wants you to die I die too"

"Miranda!"

"Read my lips…." Her voice lowered and she narrowed her ice-blue eyes, "I don't…give…a FUCK what she wants from you. Or what she wants to do to you…" she shook her head and snuggled into his neck as hard as she could without hurting him, "Before she even thinks about doing something to our babies or YOU, she goes through ME."

"No no no no no" he clapped a hand over her mouth and narrowed his eyes, "You're digging your own grave, Baby Doll and I will NOT as your husband sit back and let you"

"Why?" she asked with a bit of a nasty shrug, "Because I am a girl?" her eyebrows raised and she laughed at that, "Of the two of us…YOU are much more fucked than me because she is your mommy. But I will not let you be fucked because I love you more than anybody so take THAT fucking Caroline."

"N-"

"Say no and I will never talk to you again for the rest of my-"

"You have no way of knowing her or any of this, Baby Doll, I would prefer to fight my own battle with whatever the fuck it is she wants with me"

"I love you!" she shouted blindly, "I love you, I love you, I love you! There is NOTHING you or anybody can do to make me not love you more than anybody else"

"I…" his voice got lost before he shook his head and snuggled her, "me too….that's why I worry"

"I'm a big girl" she nodded surely and kissed Elizabeth, "Right Lizzie Bear? Nobody messes with you or Daddy and lives to talk about it!"

"Right" James nodded and spoke into her neck, "But my mother is already DEAD so your little theory will not"

"Jamie…" she groaned before helping ease him onto his back, using her good wrist to grab a can of ginger ale for him, "This tastes like shit, but should settle your stomach"

"I'm not sick" he dismissed when she shook her head and held the glass to his lips, straddling over his chest and ensuring he had some.

"You puked on the road…" she sighed and nodded, "that is pretty sick to me. And I love you, I do not want Lizzie Bear getting sick because Senora Psychopath mindfucked you yet again."

"No…" he shook his head and kissed their baby before touching Mindy's face and pulling her down on top of his chest to feel her icy skin contrast with his. "I'm not being so irrational to be a dick, Baby Doll"

"This is my fault" she frowned yet again when he shook his head and cradled her like a baby in his arms.

"Absolutely not"

"I tolded you to thank her for being a stupid cunt" she sighed when he shook his head and kissed her hair once more.

"She knows way more than she should…" he gulped and continued to pet her and the baby, "called Connor a 'mongoloid incest baby', how would she know if not"

"Then obviously she DID, baby" Mindy nodded and traced circles on his bare chest before kissing it, "She will find out anything she can and make you sad."

"That is her specialty…" he sighed and pressed himself against her subtly, "I love you, I really do…"

"And she will use that against you too" Mindy nodded surely while pecking Elizabeth, "We are all fair game"

"Then I want you as distanced from me as"

"She knows who we are, Jamie baby…she will find us no matter WHERE we go, and I already told you no matter what happens we're in this together" she nodded and kissed him on the lips, poking her tongue between her teeth and trying to keep her bad wrist out of harm's way when he took the wrist in a hand and extended it out to the side while gingerly holding it, "Can you repeat after me, Jamie?"

"What?" he was listening, but didn't know what phrase she wanted repeated for her. She smiled and hugged his neck before removing her clothing and working on his.

"We are in this together, Baby Doll and my Jamie. No matter WHAT happens."

"But the thing is, I don't know what WILL-"

"We are in this together, Baby Doll and my Jamie no matter WHAT happens" she repeated irritably, and immediately James did so as much as he didn't want to. He didn't WANT Caroline fucking gunning for her and their children, but things wouldn't have gone much better if he hadn't accepted her request and so he flipped her over, placed Elizabeth right beside them, and kissed Mindy into the bed for as long as he could.

"I'm calling the doctor in the morning" he nodded and gave her wrist a huge kiss, "I don't want anything nagging you even if its only a bruise."

"Silly Jamie…" she sighed and giggled, hooking her arms around his neck and squealing in delight as he made love to her. Caroline wanted a fucking fight? Great. Let her come. If the hag dared to even look at James the wrong way Mindy was going to put her fist where it didn't belong. `

As pressured as James felt as the father on them all, Mindy felt the need to be just as strong especially while he was mentally weak like this. No matter how it was sliced she wasn't losing James over it. They were going to spent the rest of their lives and grow old together. They wanted this; THIS was the life they wanted with each other. And now some bitch who belonged in the seventh layer of hell was going to take it away from them? Not as long as she was alive, and deep down, Mindy knew James felt the same way if Caroline even hinted at possibly coming after his Elizabeth or any of the other children. They were so fucking happy and that bitch had to come in and ruin everything. There was only one logical thing they could do and eventually would have to resort to as a form of getting through to Caroline that James was no longer anything of her concern…and that was endure. There was enough unconditional love to last a millennium and now all they had to do was keep James's head in line. Maybe Caroline was only limited to that house? Mindy would have to keep both eyes open.