Zack's P.O.V.

Tyne stirred waking up the next morning. I still had an iron grip on her. She looked at me and snuggled up against me. I smiled kissing the top of her head. "morning baby girl." I whispered and she purred. "morning dad." she said softly. I ran my hand through her hair softly keeping her close to me. She sighed resting her head on my chest. "dad?" she asked. "yes?" I asked. "what happened last night?" she asked and I looked at her. "who do you mean?" I asked. "well, I remember waking up and wanting you to hold me. But something was inside me. Wanting me to stay awake or something but then I went to sleep again." she looked up at me fixing her eyes on mine. "so what happened?" I kissed her cheek gently. "you're best not to know." I whispered and she nodded. "I thought so." I sighed softly. "I'm sorry baby. But it really is best if you don't know about what happened last night." I said and she held me tighter. I looked at her and her eyes were full of fear. Something told me that not all the nightmare had been erased and it was bugging her to know the rest of it. "how about we go out?" I asked and she looked at me and smiled slight. "me and you?" she asked. "me and you." I said and she nodded kissing my cheek. "yes please!" I smiled getting up and we got ready.

We headed out to the city after a bit. I took Tyne's hand gently and she squeezed it tightly. "don't leave my side." she whispered and I nodded. "I won't. It never even crossed my mind." I said and she smiled softly. We walked past the mall and she let out a small shriek diving to the other side of me holding my arm. She watched it closely as we walked past it. She sighed softly once we had got to the next block. We walked a bit further till we passed some guys on the road. Tyne watched them closely letting go of me. "keep up Tyne." I said. "alright." she said softly. The next thing I knew Tyne screamed. I turned around and the guys ran away from her. I growled and Tyne dove over to me holding me tightly. She had blood running down her arm. "what did they do?" I asked. "they tried to attack me. But one of them did actually manage it." she whimpered and I kissed her cheek. "stay close to me while I deal with them." I said and she nodded. I headed off and she followed me. I saw them talking to each other. I pulled my hood on. "alright you guys. Let's see how you like it when I deal with you for messin' with my girl!" I snapped and they turned looking in my direction. I jumped down holding my axe and they froze. "hey we never touched the girl." one said and I looked at Tyne. "he's the one that got me!" she whimpered and I growled glaring at them. "really?" I asked. I hit him in the head with my axe and he fell down. "don't mess with my girl!" I hissed slamming him into a wall. The others backed off. He growled running at me. I punched him sending him back and he hit the ground. I walked over looking at my axe. "you want me to end this miserable bastards life baby?" I asked running my fingers along the edge of the axe. "end it dad." she said and I smiled. "as you wish baby." I raised my axe and slammed my axe into his stomach cutting down. He went limp. I walked away. "let that be a lesson to you lot." I snapped glaring at the others. I healed Tyne's arm and she held onto me as I walked off.

I kept her close to me and she refused to let go of me. I didn't care if she didn't though. I had missed her a lot recently. I put my arm around her keeping her close to me. We stopped after a while and sat on top of a building. "dad. Hold me tighter." she whimpered. "I am darlin'." I said looking at her. "no. hold me tighter." she buried her face in my shirt. I sighed resting my head on hers. "baby it's alright. I've got you safe." I murmured and she held me tighter. I sighed stroking her hair gently. "poor baby." I said softly kissing the top of her head gently. She leaned on me more and I kept her close. "I never knew you two could be so hard to find." a voice said and we turned around to see Fletch. "you two really know how to make it hard to find." I smiled as he sat down on the other side of Tyne. "what's wrong with Tyne?" he asked. "some guy attacked her and she wants me to hold her but she's insisting that I'm not holding her." I said and he sighed softly leaning on her back. Tyne whimpered softly. "you're not holdin' me are ya?" she asked looking up at me. "baby I am. Believe me." I said pulling her onto my lap. "but I can't feel it. I'm still scared." she whispered. "you will be for a while baby. This isn't gonna be an easy time." I said and she buried her face in me sobbing. I looked at Fletch who leaned on the two of us. "baby. Zack's got ya. He's not gonna let go of ya." he said and Tyne sniffed. "I know but I'm scared." Fletch sighed softly. "my poor girl." he murmured kissing her cheek gently. I held them both close watching the city as people went around their daily work.

Tyne eventually cried herself to sleep. I held her tightly looking at Fletch. "what are we gonna do with her?" he asked. "I don't know. I was just about to ask ya that." I said softly stroking Tyne's hair. She whimpered softly grabbing me tighter. "she's havin' another nightmare." Fletch said looking at her. Tyne suddenly screamed and her eyes snapped open. She looked at me and shrieked pulling away from me. "Tyne?" Fletch asked and Tyne looked at him backing up. "don't touch me." she whimpered and we looked at each other. "what's wrong Tyne?" I asked. "no! Just stay away from me." she murmured. "Tyne watch out!" Fletch yelled as she got closer to the edge. She stepped back falling off the building. The two of us rushed over and Tyne screamed. Her body slammed into the sidewalk below us. We both gasped before taking off down the building to her. Peopled surrounded her and someone called the EMTs. I pushed through them with Fletch following. We dropped to her side. "no. baby ya have to be alright." I whispered stroking her hair. Fletch held her hand in his checking for a pulse. "it's there but not very strong." he whispered. Tyne opened her eyes slowly and looked up at me and whimpered softly. A minute later the EMTs showed up. They came over to her with a gurney. They went to take Tyne and she growled softly. "Don't touch me!" she hissed and they stopped. "Baby they have to. Ya have to go up to the hospital." Fletch whispered. "no. I wanna stay with you two." she whimpered. "but ya didn't want us to touch ya." I murmured now very confused by her. "no. I didn't want my father to touch me. He was there." she said softly and I looked at Fletch. "of course he was baby. How did I not see that." I looked at Fletch and shrugged. "look, they'll take ya there and we'll meet ya at the hospital." Fletch said and she nodded slowly. They took her and left leaving Fletch and I watching.

I then turned to Fletch as we headed to the motel to get Taya. "what did she mean he was there? It was only us." Fletch said looking at me. "I don't know." I murmured thinking. "unless when she woke up, the nightmare seemed real so to her, rather than seein' you and me, she saw her father so assumed he was there." Fletch sighed softly. "he's gonna wish he was never born by the time we're finished with him." he murmured and I smiled. "yep." I said nodding. He leaned on me gently. "think we'll ever get her back to normal?" he asked and I nodded. "yeah. We'll do it somehow." I said holding him close. "don't worry kiddo. We'll work it all out." he nodded slowly. We got to the motel and collected Taya before heading back to the hospital. It was a silent trip out to the hospital as we were all worried about her.

We arrived at the hospital and a nurse came out to us. "how's Tyne?" I asked. "mrs. Kowalski is suffering injuries in her back and is in surgery. She'll be alright assuming she does as she should and rests. She has got broken ribs as well which will affect her too. Although it was a job and a half getting her into the surgery to start with. We had to put her to sleep in order to move her." she said and we nodded. "that's all fine but will she actually be alright when she comes out?" Taya asked crossing her arms. "I'm sure she will be. We have the best doctors working on her right now." the nurse said and Taya eyed her. "she'll be alright." Fletch murmured holding Taya close. Taya sighed holding him tightly. We walked off and sat down waiting to hear any word on Tyne.

We had been there for two hours. Fletch paced up and down the floor. Taya watched him. "I thought he said mum would be fine?" she said turning to me. "yeah. But when things start to take a long time, he starts to worry." I said and she smiled. "dad. You know mum will be fine. You said yourself that she would be fine." Taya murmured and Fletch looked at her. "yeah well that was different. I'm now worried. But you are not to worry. I'll do both our worrying." he said and Taya looked at me before leaning on my arm. I put it around her holding her close to me. "you alright?" I asked. "just hoping mum will be fine." she said and I nodded. "don't worry. She's a tough girl. She'll make it." I said and Taya smiled. She hugged me tightly. We watched Fletch pace the floor. Then the nurse came out. "mr. Kowalski?" she said and his head shot up looking at her. "what?" he asked. "your wife is out of surgery and in that room." she said pointing to it. Fletch was gone withing seconds and into Tyne's room. Taya and I followed and he was next to Tyne nuzzling her. Tyne held him tightly. "what happened?" she whispered. "you thought we were gonna hurt ya. You were living another nightmare." Fletch whispered and she burst into tears. "hey it's alright." Fletch murmured kissing her cheek. "I'm never going to sleep again." Tyne whimpered. Fletch held her tighter. "hang in there baby. I'll get you through this." he murmured kissing her neck. Taya climbed up next to her and I stood behind Taya. "don't worry mum. You have all of us." Taya said softly and Tyne smiled slightly. Tyne looked over at me and I took her hand gently. "trust them Tyne. We'll help you get over all this. You just have to trust us a bit more than what you normally have to." I said and she nodded slowly. She leaned into Fletch more and he smiled holding her tightly. "but that does mean you will have to stay at home more most of the time." I said and she nodded. "it's gonna be fine. I'll spend my time with you. It's been a while since I had quality time with you." he murmured and Tyne stroked his cheek smiling. "sound fun." she whispered and I looked at Taya who smiled. "good mum." she said and Tyne giggled.

I went off to get Tyne discharged so we could take her home. Taya followed. "sir we can't let her out under you. Our files say that you aren't her father." the nurse said. I stared at her. "damn it I've been her father since I found her as a child!" I snapped. "sorry sir but you name isn't her father." she said. "well who the hell does it say is her father?!" I hissed. "Kaikarah Escamilla." she said and I growled softly reaching for my axe. Taya dove behind the wall as I pulled my axe off my belt. The nurse looked at me a bit shocked. "you have exactly three seconds to hand me the discharge papers." I said sitting my axe on the top of the desk. "are you threatening me sir?" she asked. "yeah. You can call it that." I growled. "oh. Hold on then." she said. She grabbed some paper and handed me the forms. "just fill them out." she said and I watched her closely as I did so. Taya crept out back over to me. "hey ma'am?" she said climbing up my back. "yes?" she asked looking at her. "you better change that name of her father. He's not her father. This man here is and if you don't change it, your dead meat." she said and I smiled putting my axe back on my belt. "and then I'll also be dealing with you and so will my dad and that won't be pretty!" I walked off with Taya feeling quite happy with herself and the nurse started work on it. We got Tyne and took her out of the hospital back home and Taya told Tyne about all that had happened keeping Tyne happy on the way home. I just hoped she'd be alright at home. She hated being inside all the time.