A/N I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! GO TAKE MY POLL PLEASE!

After lunch Jack took Ashley out to the park and Gabriella, Troy, and Lucille made their way to Gabriella's old house. They stood outside the front door Gabriella started shaking.

"Are you ready?" Lucille asked.

"No but….let's go…"

Lucille pushed open the door and everyone walked inside. They stopped and looked around. Gabriella took a deep shaky breath.

"What's going through your head right now Gabriella? Who do hear or even see?" Lucille asked.

"Yelling…a lot of yelling."

"Who is yelling? What are they yelling?"

"My dad he's yelling at me calling me worthless and…..other stuff…"

"What other stuff?"

"Just curses…words I'm not comfortable repeating."

"All right what else?"

"Myself, I'm, yelling at him begging him to stop but he doesn't."

They walked in to the living room.

"Any memories here?"

"No, this is the one place I actually don't have memories."

"Let's move on."

They went into the kitchen and Gabriella gasped. A memory hit her like a million bricks.

Flashback

Gabriella was being dragged by her hair into the kitchen. Her father turned on the stove.

"Daddy let me go" Gabriella cried at her head stung.

Greg just made a tighter grip and pulled harder. Gabriella cried out in pain.

"Shut up idiot!" he yelled at her.

Then once the stove top was hot enough he grabbed her wrist and placed it down on the stove top and held it there. Gabriella screamed out as the hot stove burned her hand. "Stop it daddy please! I'm sorry please let go" she begged as the tears fell from her eyes.

He kicked her in the stomach. "Shut up!"

She fell to the floor. Then her father grabbed her other hand and did the same thing. Gabriella screamed and cried.

End Flashback

Gabriella gasped and spun around she went to run but hit Troy's chest. She buried her face in his chest clinging to him as tight as she could.

"No, no take me home, take me home!"

"It's all right Gabriella you're safe shhhh you're safe." Troy soothed rubbing her back.

"Please take me home please. I promise I'll be a good wife and a good mother to Ashley please I promise. Take me home."

"Baby you'll never get over this if we go home."

"Please, please!"

"Gabriella tell us what you just remembered." Lucille said.

"No! NO!"

"Gabriella you will not heal unless you tell us. If you don't want to tell me, tell Troy."

"He burned me." Gabriella whispered still buried deep in Troy's chest. "He forced my wrists onto the stove top and burned me then he kicked me in the stomach. I begged and begged for him to let me go but he didn't. He just…he didn't"

"It's all right my baby. You're safe. It's all over and in the past. You're safe."

Gabriella nodded and pulled away.

"Are you ready to go upstairs?"

Gabriella nodded. They three of them went upstairs and into Gabriella's old room. Gabriella took a deep breath. At first she only had a few flashbacks of her time there with Ashley but then it got worse much worse. It was almost as if her whole childhood had come rushing back like a fast moving movie in her head. They all came at once hitting her like a speeding train. She could hear herself screaming, she could hear her mother screaming, she could hear her father laughing like a mad man yelling at them telling them how horrible they were and how much he hated them. Gabriella sunk down to her knees falling onto her stomach burring her face in the carpet crying hysterically as she finally let it all out. Troy got down and pulled her into his lap holding her tightly rubbing her back and whispering comforting things. Lucille left the room giving them time alone. She couldn't help but smile at the thought that Gabriella had moved on and would never be haunted by those flashbacks again. She had finally healed…hadn't she?

"Everything is all right baby. It's all right now. You did it. I'm so proud of you. You faced this and beat it. Now you can move on."

"No actually I can't" Gabriella sniffed as she calmed down.

"What why?"

"Because I don't trust Carlos gave me truthful answers about my father and his past and I'll only be able to heal once I get those answers and know they are truth."

"How are you going to do that Gabriella?"

"My grandparents…I want to find them and ask them."

"Gabriella how can you be sure they will be honest with you?"

"It's the only other option my parents aren't alive anymore so I've got to ask them."

"Gabriella I love you that means I have to be honest. If Carlos didn't really care about you and your grandparents never cared about you in the past I don't think they will care now. I'm sorry and I know that hurts to hear but it's the truth."

"You're right. There is only one other thing I can do."

"What?"

"I have to talk to Mark Anderson. He is the only other person alive that will give me answers."

Troy sighed. He didn't like it but he knew it was the only way for Gabriella to heal and move on with her life.

"Ok, you do what you have to baby girl and I'll support you anyway I can."

"I'm scared to do it alone. Will you come?"

"Of course just name the time and place and I'll be there."

Gabriella nodded. She needed answers and she needed the truth. If she didn't find out the truth about her father's past she'd never be able to move on with her life. She was not going to live like that. She was going to get the truth no matter what it took.

A/N next chapter is her meeting with Mark how do you think it will go? Please go and take my poll.