Warning attempted suicide ahead! I repeat attempted suicide ahead! You have been warned!

"Now just keep drinking fluids and you'll both be just fine." T.J's grandfather instructed Manny and Frida when they returned from the hospital and went to see him with T.J and Andrea.

"Thanks for helping us." Frida taking a sip of a water bottle. "But what exactly happened to us?"

"Yeah I understand the whole fight between my spiritual blood and my demonic blood but what happened to Frida? Why did she pass out too?"

"Because she was feeling what was happening to you. I doubt that you two are aware of this but it seem that your souls have bonded with each other."

"Bonded? What does that mean?"

"It means that a strong connection has been formed between your soul and her soul which means that now anything you feel physically and emotionally she feels too and anything she feels physically and emotionally you will feel also."

"Does that mean if one of us dies so will the other?"

"No if one of you dies then the connection is severed. When a spirit develops certain feelings for another and that person returns those feelings then sometimes their souls bond together and the bond can only be broken if one of them dies or if one them changes their feelings. You Manny share a type of bond with your father, all spiritual children or half spiritual in your case share a bond with one or both of their parents. But your connection to your father is different from your connection to Frida. Unlike Frida you are connected to him by blood and genetics, you can't feel him but you two can communicate telepathically and sense each other."

"Do I have anything like that with my mother?"

"No I'm sorry but she and your father share a bond that's the same as the one you share with Frida."

"I don't understand." Frida said. "Why did her souls bond?"

"Could be for numerous reasons. The souls of Manny's father and mother bonded because of their deep love for each other, it allowed them to be closer to each other, and it allowed him to always be aware of when she was in danger."

"How do you know so much about my parents?" Manny asked.

"I only know from what I've read but according to the book, whenever your mother was in danger your father dropped everything and immediately rushed to her aid. The protection of the woman he loved always came first for the great white panther spirit."

"Like father like son." T.J whispered to Andrea.

"I heard that!" Manny snarled. "Anyway this connection we have does that mean if I break my leg hers will break too?"

"No but she'll feel the pain of it. This connection has it's ups and downs. On one hand it allows the two to grow closer, understand each other better, and they'll always be able to find each other. However one terrible side effect of it is when one person suffers an injury or becomes I'll the other person will feel it. They won't have the injury or contract the illness but they'll feel the pain of the injury or the symptoms of the illness."

"That's not good." Frida said. "Do you have any idea how many times Manny gets hurt a day?"

"Sorry Frida." He told her. "If it's any consolation I didn't do it on purpose."

"I know."

Ring-Ring!

"Hello?" Frida answered her cell phone. "Hey Mom what's up...What?...Mom what are you talking about?...Mom I can't understand you! Hold on I'm coming!"

"What was that about?" Manny asked her.

"It's my mother, she was crying. I have to get home."

"I'll take you."

Manny took Frida back to the Suarez house, on the way there they noticed that a lot of police cars were patrolling around the area. She went inside to find her mother balling and crying like a child while her sisters and grandmother were trying to comfort her.

"What's going on?"

"It's Dad." Anita said.

"What? What about Dad?"

Anita only handed Frida a note.

Carmela please forgive me for what I have done to you and our children.

Though I was hurt by your secrets and lies that was no excuse to leave you, force our daughter to leave our friends, and almost do that despicable and unforgivable thing at the hospital.

I won't bother coming back because I know that I don't deserve to be your husband or Anita, Nikita, and Frida's father.

Carmela my was greatest fear was that one day I would turn out like my own horrible parents and it's finally happened. I won't put you and our children through what I suffered but I can't go on living without you.

Goodbye my darling, know that this is not your fault and you were the best thing that ever happened to me and you were the first person I ever loved.

Anita, Nikita, Frida, I love you both and I hope that you can forgive me and will take care of your mother.

I'll love you all forever,

Emiliano A.K.A Papa.

Frida felt her hands and entire body tremble as tears began to sting her eyes.

"No..." She said in a voice barely above a whisper while shaking her head. "No...No he wouldn't. He wouldn't! No! No!"

Anita got up and tried to comfort her sister but she only ran outside, crashing into his arms, and breaking down.

"Hey what's going on?" He asked her.

"My father! He...He...He...He."

She tried to get the whole sentence out but she was crying so hard that she could barely breathe let alone speak. She tried to break away and run again but Manny held her close and began stroking her hair. He could feel her sadness and fear, it was overflowing.

"Hey calm down. It's alright, just breathe okay? Take a deep breath and then tell me what happened."

But she couldn't, she just couldn't. At last Anita with tear filled eyes came up to him and gave him the note that Frida had dropped on the floor when she ran out. When he read it he quickly took Frida inside and grabbed one of Emiliano's police jacket's from his closet.

"What...Are you... Doing?" Frida asked between hiccuping sobs.

"I'm going to find your father, you stay here with your family."

"We already have the police searching for him." Nikita said.

"They'll never find him in time but I will. Don't worry I'll bring him back and he'll be alive I promise."

He sniffed the jacket, got a good whiff of Emiliano's scent then went outside. He sniffed the air around him, desperately seeking out the man's scent. At last he picked it up and ran toward the source of it as fast as he could. At last he found Emiliano at the edge of town with a half empty beer bottle in one hand and a gun in his other hand. He was drunk, walking around all sluggish like while taking a few more swallows of beer and holding his gun dangerously close to his head.

"Don't do it!" Manny called getting the man's attention. His eyes were red and swollen as if he had been crying for hours. "Put down the gun Emiliano."

"Go away!" He shouted in a voice that was mixed between slurs and sobs.

"I'm sorry sir but I can't do that!" Manny walked slowly and cautiously toward him. "Just give me the gun sir and I'll take you home. Come on you don't really wanna do this."

"I can't go home! I can't ever go home!"

"Yes you can! Please sir think about your wife! And your daughters!"

"They're better off without me!"

"That's not true! They need you!"

"I abandoned them! And I almost hit Carmela!"

"It's alright she forgives you! They all do! They still love you Emiliano! They're at your house right now scared and crying and hoping to God that you will come home! I'm sure that you all can work this out and everything will be okay. But if you do this it'll destroy your wife and Frida! If you kill yourself then they'll blame themselves for the rest of their lives! Even if it isn't their fault!"

"They'll get over it!"

"I don't think so! You left because you were mad at your wife for keeping secrets right? Well your wife blames herself for you leaving and Frida blames herself too because she feels she exposed her mother's secrets! They're both racked with guilt but if you go back to them and try to reconcile then they'll get over it but if you go through this they'll never recover! I know they won't!"

"You don't know for sure that'll happen!"

"I know what it's like to blame yourself for something that isn't your fault! I've blamed myself for things I can't control all my life! I blame myself for what happened to my mother because if I had never been born then my father wouldn't have left her and she wouldn't have had to give up her whole life to raise me! Whenever my powers destroy something I blame myself because I didn't have enough control, and whenever your daughter gets hurt I blame myself for not protecting her! I have guilt that will follow me til the day I die and it's a horrible burden! Don't put your wife and your daughter through that! You love them don't you?"

"Yes!"

"Then don't hurt them! What are you doing now is hurting them more than anything in the world! Go back to them! Apologize and tell them that you love them! That's answer not this!"

Emiliano looked at Manny then back his gun. He brought the gun to the side of his head and prepared to pull the trigger. His entire body was shaking like mad. Manny froze, not sure what to do next. Then much to his relief Emiliano dropped the gun and fell to the ground sobbing and wimpering until he lost consciousness. Using his strength Manny lifted Emiliano on to his shoulder and took him back home.

"Oh Emiliano!" Carmela cried when she answered the door.

"He's alright ma'am, he's just unconscious and very drunk." Manny said.

"Take him upstairs and put him on the bed."

Manny did as he was told.

"Man he sure is heavy. What does he eat? Bowling balls?"

Carmela only gave him a weak smile as she watched him lay her husband on their bed.

"Thank you so much for bringing him back." She told him.

"Not a problem. Where's Frida and the others?"

"Anita and Nikita are with my mother. They're out buying tea that should calm my nerves and Frida's asleep in her room."

"I didn't think she could sleep with this going on."

"Well actually she fell asleep crying on my lap, she hasn't done that since she was eight poor thing. So he's really okay?"

"Yeah but I think maybe you should get him some help. Something tells me he's got a lot of issues."

"I know. We'll work it out."

"He thinks that you should leave him."

"I'm sure he does but I won't because I love him too much."

"He said that he almost hit you."

"He did but he didn't. I know he regrets what he almost did and I know he thinks that he's monster because of it just like his father was but the biggest difference between him and his father is that he stopped. His love for me was greater than his anger and right now he needs me."

"Is there anything else I can do."

"You've done enough. Get some sleep Manny, there's a guest room down the hall so you'll be comfortable tonight."

"Thanks."

"No thank you for bringing my husband back to me."

She then kissed Manny's cheek and went to spend the whole night by her husband's side.