A/N: UPDATE! YAY! I have been reading all of your reviews and it seems almost unanimous that Badass!Sam is preferred for this fic so... thanks lol Enjoy the new chapter!
It took 3 days for Mercedes to finally decide to go back home, and when showed up back to Raymond's house she was surprised to see police outside.
"Uh oh." Mercedes and Sam breathed at the same time; they exchanged a look that said it would be easier to just run away again, but better to just get it over with.
"I should go in alone. I don't want any drama with- you know." Mercedes said uncertainly.
"I'm not gonna run away from your father like I have something to be ashamed of." Sam said sternly, looking around their surroundings.
"I wasn't so much worried about my dad as I am about the police." she said with a worried look on her face.
Before Sam could respond there was a knock at the driver's side window, they both looked over to find a police officer beckoning them out of the car.
Once they were out they identified themselves and were brought into the house that was cluttered with officers in uniforms and some in suits. Once inside all eyes were on them, and they both hated it.
"Oh my god! Mercedes!" Faye screamed when she saw her daughter standing there. She ran up to her and engulfed her in tight hug, stroking her hair. When she finally pulled back Mercedes could see that her eyes were bloodshot either from crying, lack of sleep or both.
"Don't you ever do anything like that to me again! Oh God I was so worried about you!" Faye said as she hugged her daughter again. Her eyes suddenly swept to the handsome young man that was standing protectively by Mercedes.
"And who are you?" she asked curiously
"Officers, this is the man that kidnapped my daughter. Arrest him." Raymond said, stepping out of nowhere and appearing in front of the three of them.
"What are you talking about?! I wasn't kidnapped! I ran away because you slapped me!" Mercedes said, stepping closer to Sam to shield him from the police.
"Oh hell no! Did you hit my child?" Faye demanded fiercely, stepping closer the Raymond.
Raymond looked down at Faye uncertainly then looked away without answer.
Suddenly an officer stepped up and ordered everyone to come to the police station. As the police officers loaded up the cars Mercedes looked over at her parents and then to Sam.
She hopped into the car with Sam before anyone could stop her. The car took off and headed towards the police station.
"What do I say? I've never been to a police station before." Mercedes whispered to Sam anxiously.
"You tell the truth." Sam said distractedly, as he stared back at the officer who was eyeing him suspiciously.
"What if they ask me about, you know what?" Mercedes said so quietly he wasn't even sure that he heard her correctly.
Sam remained silent for a long while, and Mercedes had to squeeze his hand in order to gain his attention.
"If they ask you about my family... I want you to tell the truth." Sam responded coldly.
"What?!" Mercedes yelled in a stage whisper, composing herself when she noticed she had caught the attention of the police officers.
"I don't want you lying for me. You should not even be involved in the secrets of my family, but that's my fault. I will not bring you into this more." Sam whispered back.
"I'm with you! I'm already in it!" Mercedes said aloud, no longer caring if the cops heard her.
Sam fixed his gaze on Mercedes rather harshly, trying to make her change her mind, but Mercedes refused to back down. Sam leaned back with sigh, but held on to Mercedes's hand the rest of the way.
As soon as they reached the station they were put into separate interview rooms, read their rights, and then were thoroughly interviewed. After it appeared that Mercedes's story was the true one, everybody was released, everybody except Sam.
Mercedes was looking around for him when she spotted her parents standing outside the door waiting for her by an escort vehicle.
"Mom? Dad?" Mercedes asked as she stopped in front of her parents who were staring at her.
"Come on Mercedes, we're going home." Faye said as she reached out towards her daughter.
"Home? You mean his house?" Mercedes asked, somewhat confused as she pointed in her father's direction.
"No, I mean you're coming home with me." Faye clarified, leading Mercedes towards the car waiting for them.
"Wait what?! But I want to stay with Ray- I mean dad." Mercedes said pulling back slightly from her parents.
"You do?" Faye and Raymond asked in shocked tones at the same time.
"Yes. I would like to stay with dad. I mean I have school and work-" Mercedes was saying before being cut off by her father.
"And that boy." Raymond muttered bitterly.
Mercedes shot him a deathly glare, as he stared at the entrance to the station, as if waiting for Sam to come out.
"Who is that boy anyway?!" Faye asked with frustration.
"He's the son of a suspected mob boss and your daughter is dating him." Raymond said, almost triumphantly.
"What?! A mob boss?! Mercedes Lynn Jones have you lost your damn mind?!" Faye screamed in horror.
"Dad!" Mercedes scolded her father.
"Mom, I have no idea what dad is talking about! All I know is Sam is smart, and funny, and kind, and he likes me for me." Mercedes said firmly, as she looked her mother straight on.
"Mercedes don't lie to me! Now I know you have feelings for that boy but your safety comes first! If that boy is into anything dangerous I want you to end it. RIGHT NOW!" Faye exclaimed, her tone of voice letting everyone know that her word was final.
Mercedes was caught, she couldn't argue her way out of this like she could with everybody else. Her mom was as feisty as she was, if not more so.
"Fine." Mercedes mumbled under her breath.
"Fine what?" Faye asked rhetorically.
"If I find out, with reasonable proof," Mercedes paused to look at dad, "that Sam is involved with the mob I will break it off."
"Good." Faye said, but still looking Mercedes up and down skeptically. Just then both parents' phones went off, signaling work for the both of them.
"I'm sorry honey I have to go, I've been gone from work for over 56 hours and they're looking for me. I love you so much Mercedes. Take care of yourself, and listen to what your father tells you, you hear me?" Faye said as she hugged her daughter close.
"Yea I hear you." Mercedes said hugging her mother just as tightly.
"Goodbye Raymond, remember what we talked about." Faye said to Raymond, sticking out her hand opting for a hand shake instead of a hug.
"Oh I won't forget." he said cutting his eyes discretely at Mercedes.
Mercedes watched her once happily married parents treat each other like strangers, this was her normal though.
Her mother asked a police officer to escort her back into the city while Mercedes got into the squad car with her father.
"You lied to your mother. You told her you don't know anything about the Sam's but I know you do." Raymond said after a long while of uncomfortable silence.
"I didn't lie! I told her if I had any proof of Sam's involvement in the supposed mob that I would break up with him." Mercedes defended.
"Well when you two break up I'll have all the evidence I need to put that family away for a long time and keep the city safe once and for all." Raymond said looking straight ahead as if envisioning it.
"We could always break up for other reasons, you know like regular teenage reasons." Mercedes said, trying to back step.
"Maybe. Maybe not." Raymond mumbled
"Speaking of lying to mom, what did you tell her about you slapping me?" Mercedes asked, feeling the anger rising up inside of her.
"Mercedes don't start…" Raymond started to say.
"Don't start' what? You hit me! In the face!" Mercedes yelled.
"Well if you weren't such an ungrateful brat you wouldn't have that problem!" Raymond yelled back.
"Well that's what growing up without a father does to a person!"
"Don't you dare try to blame me in this! You're an insolent little ingrate because of your doing! Nobody else! I'm here to help you, not coddle you!" Raymond spat.
"Will you listen to yourself! I'm not one of your damn clients! I'm your daughter! The daughter you threw away, along with everything else in your old life! If anyone is an insolent brat it's you! At least I didn't dumb my whole family for a damn secretary." Mercedes yelled, on the brink of tears.
"That had nothing to do with you! So you can stop using that as your only resource." Raymond replied back coldly.
"But didn't it! You didn't just divorce mom, you divorced me to! Every day for five years I expected you to come back through our front door, wanting us to be a family again! But I didn't get so much as a phone call or a visit in those 5 years while you were off with your new wife and new life!" Mercedes screamed, as the tears finally spilled over.
"You just left me behind to wonder what I did wrong. What I did to make you abandon us, abandon me... You never even apologized." Mercedes said much softer, as she sobbed quietly.
Raymond looked at Mercedes for what felt like the first time since she came to live with him. What he saw shocked him, he saw a little 3 year old girl; confused and hurt. He sighed deeply; there was nothing he could do about it now.
His eyes wandered away from Mercedes, who was crying with her back to him; to the eyes of cop driving them back home, who was staring at him through the rearview mirror. The cop and Raymond both looked away at the same time, with Raymond hanging his head in shame.
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