Authors Note: All characters, except Phin and her former life, belongs to Stephenie Meyer. I just exercise them. Here comes dad, and like I said, you'll get to know some about her hysterical hospital fear. JoeBob1379: you wished for T-rated, and I try to write all my fic's that way, if I cross the line please tell me, I had never heard of these ratings until a month ago when Twilight sucked me into its universe... Thanks for the reviews!!! They help me through my work day, they saved me from getting furious, I just thought about them and all was well. You guys are my Jasper!

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Chapter 14

Seth

I could hear her crying all the way down the hall, it was a relief to go downstairs, it broke my heart seeing her that way. At the bottom of the stairs Emmet and Jasper were spread out, looking relaxed, but I guess that would change if anyone tried to get past them. I noticed how all the vampires were on their toes, guarding. Edward came up to me.

"Don't worry, they'll never get near her. Jacob is on his way with the rest of the pack."

In the middle of all this sat Mike, looking very confused. I placed myself on the floor next to him.

"Wow, I knew she didn't like her family, but didn't expect them to be insane."

"They're not, really. But she was so busted up for a few years that they didn't know what to do."

"But still, sedating her?"

"Ah, that, yep. She broke her leg, and refused to go to the hospital. If you see Ray's nose from the side, you see how hard she fought. In the end they had to sedate her and strap her down, and she still managed to rock the gurney to fold down on it self..."

"She said she'd never been in the ER."

"I don't think she remember, it's from her lost years. They thought she would kill herself from depression and had her hospitalized. There was a scandal about the place and she was released, and it turned out that the doctors there had given her that diagnosis just to get her committed, so they could do tests on her. She wasn't the only one, and actually one of the sanest ones to leave. It was after that she became terrified whenever hospital or doctor was mentioned. She can't remember a thing from it though, and I believe it's for the better."

I couldn't say a word, I only shuck my head slowly. I still didn't understand her mom, but I guess we all react weird in stressful situations, and she had been really nervous when I caught her hand, worried. A thought popped in my mind.

"Does her tattoo have anything to do with that?"

"Yes. It hides the scars. They carved in her body, evidently to see how much pain one person can take. She can take a lot..."

"I've felt them, they're very thin. I thought it was scaring from the tattoo itself."

"It's done with a scalpel. When they didn't get the reaction they wanted, they started carving words instead. I've seen the pictures, they taped everything. I wouldn't even take the words on her body in my moth if I was payed for it, and they were very visible. As soon as she turned 18 she had it done. It's designed to scramble the lines, so one can't see the scars."

"Well, it worked. I'd never guessed."

"That's when she started to live a little. So many claimed it to be Rhyus's doing, but we, my sister Sanna and I, knew better. I was there holding her hand throughout the days of agony, she freaks from needles, it took over 20 hours to finish that tattoo."

I pondered this as there was the sound of several cars approaching the house. Slamming doors and loud talking let know that it was a big group of people. Her mom entered first, followed by a man that was the origin of Phin's oval face.

"Where is she? I'd like to see my daughter please."

He sounded like he was a man used to get his way, well good luck with that. I got to my feet and stretched out to full length, nearly 6'8 by now. Edward beat me to it though.

"She's resting I'm afraid. She is not very strong , though she believes herself to be."

"Oh, how impolite of me, I'm Phil Ericsson."

"Edward Cullen, and this is the rest of my family. I don't think I'll present us all, it would take forever."

As he said it, all the vampires in the room moved just a little closer, and the rest of the Ericsson's came through the door.

"You're absolutely right. Are you the lucky young man joining our family?"

He looked hopeful, I rolled my eyes and stepped forward.

"No, he's just my best friend. I'm Seth."

From his look I could see that he was unused to look up at anyone, well, he was only about 6'4 so...

"Eh... Nice to meet you. Can't say I've heard a lot about you."

I laughed a little and noticed the girl next to me, looking at me in a peculiar way. At that moment she had the exact look I had seen in Phin's eyes the first time she looked at me. Scary.

"Well, likewise. She don't talk much about her past."

He turned to look at Edward again.

"This fatigue of Phin's, does it have to do with her working so much nights to get money to fix her car?"

He made a face at the phrase 'get money'.

"It could be part of it, mostly we think it's just the normal reasons."

"Hm. Anyway, we brought up her car, so she needn't worry about that piece of junk she's been driving."

"I'll make sure she's told. It might come in handy when she's relieved from her bed rest."

Phin's dad held out a pair of car keys, I took them and dropped them in my pocket. I didn't know she had another car. A smile flew across my face as I figured it probably was to expensive and show-offy for her...

"It's been in the garage for a while now, I think the last one to drive it was her ex-husband, while they were still married. We gave it to her for her eighteenth birthday."

He sighed deeply. After a deep breath he started again.

"We were planning to take her out to dinner, if she was well, to tell her this, but I guess it won't work that way. Juliana's engagement will be held, two weeks from now, in our country-club back home. You're both invited, and of course your friends here can come if they want to."

As the last word passed his lips Jacob entered the room, from the patio, and with him came the rest of the pack. With a jolt in my heart I saw my sister amongst them, Leah was finally home. Jacob sniffed the air, wrinkled his nose and looked intently at me.

"Everything OK?"

"Yeah, you came just in time for the game."

I tilted my head towards the big screen and they understood immediately. All off them walked over there, surrounding poor Mike, he looked very short all of a sudden, as if they had not at all been called here to defend the love of my life. I watch as Leah sits down, very stiffly, on the floor next to Quil, sternly looking at her feet. This smell must burn her nose badly, she's been away for so long now.

"Friends of yours?"

Phin's mom threw a half-disgusted look at the bunch of half-naked Quileute's next door. Emmet stands up.

"Nah, they're mine. Wrestling buddies you know..."

He goes over to watch the game, leaving Jasper alone in the stairs. I catch a glimpse of the young girl's face and have the hardest time muffling my laughter, she all but drools over my pack-brothers. I just have to tell them. Poor her fiancée, he'll probably need to gym a lot to meet her standards after this...

"Well, anyhow. I hope you can convince her to join us in the celebration! We'll be heading back tomorrow, so if it's OK, we'd like to come by before we leave. I'll call you in the morning."

Her father seemed resigned, like he had lost the air he was breathing. His eyes were pleading to me.

"I'll see if I can get her to see at least some of you. If all of you come, she'll probably run out and hide in the woods though."

"Yeah, she has a tendency to do that."

"Wait, what made you change your mind about taking her from here?"

I needed to know where this one-eighty came from.

"Mike. He would never let anyone harm her, not even herself. If she was in a bad state he would let us know. So, him being here, obviously feeling friendly with you, means everything is good. Have a nice evening."

I just stood there, speechless, watching them leave. Didn't know what to say. Then I heard a howl from Edward.

"She owns THAT! And still drives a busted old Corolla? No way!"

As I went over to the open door I saw, left in the driveway, a yellow Dodge Viper with black racing stripes. WOW! Mike came up beside me, together with the rest of the pack.

"She refuses to admit she owns it. They gave it to her after putting knock-out pills in her drink at her birthday-party, so that they could get her to the hospital for check-ups. She was beyond furious, said they might have ruined her new tattoo. That's why she always drink water by the way, then you can taste them..."

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A N: So, what did you think of her dad, and all the rest? Some steam coming in next chap, not much, just a teaser, there will be more later on. As I said up top, I do my best to stay T, but since I'm not quite sure where the line goes I might falter... BTW, I'm posting a pict of the Viper in my press =) Please review, I love you all you know.