Authors Note: This chapter talks about Gracie's drinking problem. I am letting you know this now so that you know I don't necessarily agree with her drinking. You'll see later on in this chapter why I had to put it in. This isn't a very good one, but it had to be put in. Please R&R!
Chapter 2.
Gracie squirmed in her seat. No one had ever questioned her this much, but Dominic and the team and Mia wanted to know everything that was going on and she told them. She didn't leave a single detail, she felt safe with them, but feeling like their eye were burning through her scared the hell out of her, so she looked to the floor the entire time as she told her story.
When she finished she paused still looking at the floor and when she finally looked up she saw Mia and Letty with tears in their eyes. The inside of Gracie started to scream, she hadn't wanted to make anyone cry, she never even cried about the things in her life and now she had made Mia and worst of all LETTY cry. She'd never seen Letty cry before!
Gracie had know idea what she was supposed to do, she jumped off the stool that Dominic had set her on and ran to Letty and hugged her and Mia came up behind them and hugged them too. Gracie was snug in between them and she felt safe, somehow knowing that these people would help her and wouldn't let anything happen to her again. The guys looked at each other, exchanged nods and shrugs and encircled the three girls with hugs of their own.
Gracie in the middle of this massive hug closed her eyes. This was the feeling she was waiting for so long. All she had ever wanted was a family, someone who loved her. And every time she got that it was taken away from her. First her parents, then her best friend, and then her aunt, who even though had a funny way of showing it, she loved her.
"You're going to stay with us, there's absolutely no question about that." Dominic said as the hug that seemed to go on for ages finally ended, "I'm going to watch out for you as long as I can, I know your dad would have wanted it that way."
Gracie's cold and distant mind was being broken down in the matter of an hour. How could this be happening to her? She had built up so many shields to protect her from others and these people somehow were easily tearing them down. As what was going on finally set in, she started to cry, but was wrapped in the massive arms of Dominic and she could tell that he was going to protect her from anything that she thought might hurt her. He was now her family. He was all she would ever need.
The rest of the team was going to be her family too, but Dominic would be the only one of them she really needed to survive for a long time. Gracie's mind was filling with thought, how could she tell that this was going to happen? She'd only been here a little of an hour! But the way Dominic treated her, she didn't have to ask, no one had to tell. He was going to be there for her until the end.
"Don't cry." Dominic said as Gracie realized she was still wrapped in his arms. "Don't cry."
Dominic told the rest of the team that they were going to take the rest of the day off and help Gracie move into the extra room of the Toretto house where all the members of the team usually stayed, even though Leon Jesse and Vince shared a place down the road together. Gracie tried to protest, she didn't want them to give up an afternoon for her, but Dominic wouldn't hear any questions.
Since her backseat was full of boxes, she could only fit Dominic inside the Honda with her. She started the car up and pulled out of the parking lot and followed Jesse, Vince and Leon that were in one car, and Mia and Letty in Dominic's car.
They rode along in silence for about two or three minutes until Dominic decided it was time to talk.
"You're beautiful," he said suddenly almost making Gracie swerve off the road, she was easily and quickly accustomed to silence. She quickly brought the car back into a normal position and sighed.
Dominic let out a hearty guttural laugh that you could expect from someone his size.
"What are you laughing at?" Gracie asked, maybe it was her jumpiness, she didn't know.
"It's just that I tell you that your beautiful and you nearly drive us over a cliff. What has no one ever told you that before? Look in the mirror every once in a while girl, your gorgeous." Dominic said looking at her, his deep eyes smiling.
"It's not that exactly, we had been so quiet I get used to it easily you startled me. But I also haven't been told that for a long time. Not since my parents died," Gracie said with a hint of happiness in her voice, she was feeling move loved as this day went on.
"Well your going to have to be told a lot to make up for lost time." Dominic said touching the bottom of her chin making her smile. That smile was enough and Dominic was smiling for the rest of the ride.
The road along talking to each other about cars for the rest of the ride. Dominic finally made a comment to her about not legally being able to drive, but said something about not telling anyone because he didn't exactly do everything legally himself and she looked at least 17, so it wouldn't be a problem unless she was speeding down the freeway. But he said just incase he was going to take her to get her learners permit. Gracie just nodded, completely complying with everything Dominic was saying.
They pulled up to the Toretto household behind the rest of the team and jumped out of the Civic. Everyone grabbed boxes out of Gracie's trunk and backseat and carried them into the house and up the stairs. They all knew exactly which room she would be staying in and left the boxes in there. When they all went back down the stairs to grab more boxes, Gracie stayed behind and looked around the room. She hadn't stayed in a room that nice in a long time. She smiled a closed-mouth smile and walked out of the room bumping into Leon on her way.
"Hey watch it there gorgeous or your gonna get crushed before you even get to stay one night here!" Leon said winking at her and chuckling to himself. That same old Leon. Gracie continued smiling and walked down the stairs to get more boxes.
After about 5 minutes, all Gracie's boxes were in her room and the team had left her to unpack and set up her room as she had seen fit. She had just gotten to the last box, when she pulled out a picture of her and her parents before they had left the house next door. She ran her hand over the glass and then curled up into the fetal position and began to cry into her knees. This went on for about 45 minutes until she heard a knock on her new bedroom door.
Gracie quickly sat up wiped her eyes and yelled "Come in!". The door opened and Mia was standing there smiling at her with a teddy bear clutched in her arms. She sat down next to Gracie and put her arm around her and handed her the bear.
"What's this for?" Gracie asked uncertainly.
"From the time I was born until not long ago, I used to curl up with that bear whenever I was scared or upset. His name is Mr. Balooga, and he always helped me, I thought maybe he could help you too." Mia said
Gracie hugged the bear and then hugged Mia. She hadn't felt this loved in a long time and she didn't want it to end. Tears began to stream down her face again and Mia stroked the back of her hair.
"God damnit Mia stop making that girl cry!" Dominic's voice came suddenly with a laugh. Gracie immediately stopped crying stood up and playfully punched him in the arm.
"We're having a party tonight." Dominic stated in his usually low voice.
"What for?" Gracie asked this time getting to ask questions.
"For welcoming a new member to the family." Dominic said smiling "All the beer you can drink and all the food you can eat."
"Great because I can definitely go for both of those right about now." Gracie said laughing.
"I would tell you know drinking for you, but damn I was drinking at your age, and it's not like you haven't started already so it would be sort of hypocritical for me to stop you..." Dominic trailed off when Mia started to laugh.
"What?" he asked
"Well I can't remember the last time YOU, Big Bad Dom Toretto, King of the Street Racers worried about being hypocritical!" Mia said snorting.
"Very funny!" Dom said creating a fake pouting look on his face. "Fine in that case, if I say stop drinking for whatever reason you stop no questions asked or you're in big trouble missy." Dominic said looking down to Gracie's small 5-foot frail figure.
"Got ya Daddy." Gracie said laughing to herself.
"Don't do that..." Dominic said as both Mia and Gracie continued to laugh.
*~*That Night*~*
"Oh my God, Gracie I cant have another one, I'll die!" Jessie screamed as Gracie handed him another shot of Tequila with everyone else laughing.
"Not much of a drinker now are we?" Gracie said having only just begun to drink, she had only had two Coronas.
Everyone continued to laugh and then Leon started chanting "Chug it chug it!" and everyone else joined in as they watched Jesse down the shot.
"Jesus I don't know how you guys handle all that shit." Jesse said turning green
"Takes practice ese!" Letty said laughing as she tilted her bottle of Corona towards Jesse and then continued to drink it.
"Alrighty it's our turn now!" Leon said grabbing the bottle of Vodka off the table and putting out 12 shot glasses.
"Oh not again..."Letty trailed off," Leon the last time you did this you got completely shit faced!"
"Yeah that's because I was on an empty stomach...." Leon said with the others only laughing at him. "Gracie race me."
"Don't kill her now, I just got her I don't need you coming around breaking my new stuff!" Dominic said with the others laughing.
"I'll be fine Dominic, sadly enough my aunt and I did this all the time." Gracie said filling her six shot glasses and then filling Leon's.
"Guys I really don' t think this a good idea letting her drink all those." Mia said worriedly.
"I told you, when I say stop, she'll stop." Dominica said drinking his Corona.
"Whatever I can't sit here and watch you let a just-turned-15 year old girl get drunk off her ass." Mia said angrily as she walked out of the room and up the stairs.
Gracie raised her eyebrows to Dom. Maybe she should stop? Mia didn't need to be so worried about her; she wasn't going to try to kill herself again. She wasn't sure what to do.
"Go ahead." Dominic said knowing what she was thinking.
"Ready...set....go!" Jesse yelled drunkenly being held up by Letty.
Gracie beat Leon buy about three seconds. She put down her last shot glass, grabbed her head and shook it. When she looked up Leon was on his last one.
"Oh Goddddddddddddd" Leon let out in a low growl.
"Letty told you not to do it dumbass." Vince said with a know-it-all tone clearly in his voice.
"Oh shut up!" Leon said.
The rest of them went on drinking, but Leon and Gracie stayed in the kitchen together. Gracie didn't want anything else, she had had enough, it would be kicking in soon and she didn't want Mia to come down the stairs with her still drinking.
About 10 minutes later Leon started laughing. Gracie cracked a smile and started laughing too.
"Wanna dance with me?" Leon slurred out.
"Sounds great to me!" Gracie slurred back.
Leon grabbed her hand and pulled her into the living room and started to grind with her, no one else noticed at first because they were all dancing themselves but as the two continued to dance like that and Gracie was all over him, Jesse, Vince, Dominic and Letty started to notice what was happening.
"Take it easy man...."Vince trailed off
Letty started laughing, "I think she's the one Leon has to worry about!"
Jesse shook his still somewhat green head and turned around. The sight of them dancing like that made him dizzy.
Dominic on the other hand wasn't all that happy seeing them like this and walked out onto the back porch. Gracie and Leon didn't notice this at all. Gracie was still all over him and Leon seemed to forget about her age. He picked her up and carried her up the stairs with her giggling the entire way.
"Oh shit...Dominic!" Vince yelled out to the back porch watching the two stumble up the stairs.
"What is it?" Dominic said angrily, he was already upset about what was going on in the living room he didn't need any bull shit right now.
"Leon just carried Gracie upstairs to his room..."Vince trailed off as Dominic slammed the back door open and ran up the stairs.
He burst into Leon's room where he found Leon on top of her, but Gracie was almost passed out. Dominic grabbed Leon by the back of the next and threw him into the hallway where he proceeded to punch him in the face 5 times before Leon started to scream.
"What the hell man?!" Leon said trying to cover his face. He was too drunk to fight back at this point.
"Are you forgetting something?!" Dominic yelled angrily.
"Did I forget to take out the trash?" Leon asked. He was really off; he didn't understand what was going on around him.
"She's 15 you assshole!" Dominic said kicking him in the stomach.
"Oh yeah...oh shit! Oh my God! What am I doing?!" Leon said starting to understand.
"Your drunk man go to bed." Dominic said calmly for some reason.
Leon completely complied with his wishes and walked into his room where Gracie was asleep on his bed.
"I'm so sorry!" Leon said to her sleeping face, she didn't stir she couldn't hear him. He didn't know what to do about her sleeping body, but Dominic came into the room picked her up and closed the door behind him. He carried her down the hall to his room and placed her on her bed and sat down on it. She was still completely asleep.
"Why the hell did I let you drink? Look what happened to you. I don't know who I'm kidding, how can I take care of a 15 year old? I screwed up again. If I just hadn't let you drink I wouldn't have to have beaten the shit out of Leon in the hall just now. What wrong with me Gracie?" he said only to himself, she was still asleep.
At this moment Dominic Toretto began to cry. He shook the bed stirring Gracie, and she awoke. Dominic looked up to her face and Gracie crawled to the bottom of bed and wrapped her arms around him.
"Don't cry." She said, "Don't cry." She couldn't see him like this, he was Dom. The one protecting her, why was he crying?!
"I really did it this time." Dominic said as his tears stopped. "I don't know what I would have done if anything else with you and Leon happened. It would have been my entire fault. Why did I let you drink Gracie?"
"But you didn't let anything else happen. I shouldn't have been drinking tonight, but I did it, I have my own will." Gracie said groggily stroking his bald head. She was pretty far-gone but was trying to have the mind of a sober person. Her head started to hurt so she lie down in Dominic's lap where he began to run his hands through her hair.
"No more drinking, I'm not going to let you drink again. I made a mistake, 15 year olds shouldn't be drinking."
"Ok no more." Gracie said as she began to fall asleep in his lap. She was glad he was stopping her. He was showing her how much he really cared and how much he wanted to protect her. And for some reason, knowing that someone cared enough to stop her from drinking, made her really want to stop. She only did it to get away from her problems anyway, and right now she didn't have that many that she wanted to get away from. She smiled as she finally closed her eyes and fell asleep in his lap with his arms around her.
Chapter 2.
Gracie squirmed in her seat. No one had ever questioned her this much, but Dominic and the team and Mia wanted to know everything that was going on and she told them. She didn't leave a single detail, she felt safe with them, but feeling like their eye were burning through her scared the hell out of her, so she looked to the floor the entire time as she told her story.
When she finished she paused still looking at the floor and when she finally looked up she saw Mia and Letty with tears in their eyes. The inside of Gracie started to scream, she hadn't wanted to make anyone cry, she never even cried about the things in her life and now she had made Mia and worst of all LETTY cry. She'd never seen Letty cry before!
Gracie had know idea what she was supposed to do, she jumped off the stool that Dominic had set her on and ran to Letty and hugged her and Mia came up behind them and hugged them too. Gracie was snug in between them and she felt safe, somehow knowing that these people would help her and wouldn't let anything happen to her again. The guys looked at each other, exchanged nods and shrugs and encircled the three girls with hugs of their own.
Gracie in the middle of this massive hug closed her eyes. This was the feeling she was waiting for so long. All she had ever wanted was a family, someone who loved her. And every time she got that it was taken away from her. First her parents, then her best friend, and then her aunt, who even though had a funny way of showing it, she loved her.
"You're going to stay with us, there's absolutely no question about that." Dominic said as the hug that seemed to go on for ages finally ended, "I'm going to watch out for you as long as I can, I know your dad would have wanted it that way."
Gracie's cold and distant mind was being broken down in the matter of an hour. How could this be happening to her? She had built up so many shields to protect her from others and these people somehow were easily tearing them down. As what was going on finally set in, she started to cry, but was wrapped in the massive arms of Dominic and she could tell that he was going to protect her from anything that she thought might hurt her. He was now her family. He was all she would ever need.
The rest of the team was going to be her family too, but Dominic would be the only one of them she really needed to survive for a long time. Gracie's mind was filling with thought, how could she tell that this was going to happen? She'd only been here a little of an hour! But the way Dominic treated her, she didn't have to ask, no one had to tell. He was going to be there for her until the end.
"Don't cry." Dominic said as Gracie realized she was still wrapped in his arms. "Don't cry."
Dominic told the rest of the team that they were going to take the rest of the day off and help Gracie move into the extra room of the Toretto house where all the members of the team usually stayed, even though Leon Jesse and Vince shared a place down the road together. Gracie tried to protest, she didn't want them to give up an afternoon for her, but Dominic wouldn't hear any questions.
Since her backseat was full of boxes, she could only fit Dominic inside the Honda with her. She started the car up and pulled out of the parking lot and followed Jesse, Vince and Leon that were in one car, and Mia and Letty in Dominic's car.
They rode along in silence for about two or three minutes until Dominic decided it was time to talk.
"You're beautiful," he said suddenly almost making Gracie swerve off the road, she was easily and quickly accustomed to silence. She quickly brought the car back into a normal position and sighed.
Dominic let out a hearty guttural laugh that you could expect from someone his size.
"What are you laughing at?" Gracie asked, maybe it was her jumpiness, she didn't know.
"It's just that I tell you that your beautiful and you nearly drive us over a cliff. What has no one ever told you that before? Look in the mirror every once in a while girl, your gorgeous." Dominic said looking at her, his deep eyes smiling.
"It's not that exactly, we had been so quiet I get used to it easily you startled me. But I also haven't been told that for a long time. Not since my parents died," Gracie said with a hint of happiness in her voice, she was feeling move loved as this day went on.
"Well your going to have to be told a lot to make up for lost time." Dominic said touching the bottom of her chin making her smile. That smile was enough and Dominic was smiling for the rest of the ride.
The road along talking to each other about cars for the rest of the ride. Dominic finally made a comment to her about not legally being able to drive, but said something about not telling anyone because he didn't exactly do everything legally himself and she looked at least 17, so it wouldn't be a problem unless she was speeding down the freeway. But he said just incase he was going to take her to get her learners permit. Gracie just nodded, completely complying with everything Dominic was saying.
They pulled up to the Toretto household behind the rest of the team and jumped out of the Civic. Everyone grabbed boxes out of Gracie's trunk and backseat and carried them into the house and up the stairs. They all knew exactly which room she would be staying in and left the boxes in there. When they all went back down the stairs to grab more boxes, Gracie stayed behind and looked around the room. She hadn't stayed in a room that nice in a long time. She smiled a closed-mouth smile and walked out of the room bumping into Leon on her way.
"Hey watch it there gorgeous or your gonna get crushed before you even get to stay one night here!" Leon said winking at her and chuckling to himself. That same old Leon. Gracie continued smiling and walked down the stairs to get more boxes.
After about 5 minutes, all Gracie's boxes were in her room and the team had left her to unpack and set up her room as she had seen fit. She had just gotten to the last box, when she pulled out a picture of her and her parents before they had left the house next door. She ran her hand over the glass and then curled up into the fetal position and began to cry into her knees. This went on for about 45 minutes until she heard a knock on her new bedroom door.
Gracie quickly sat up wiped her eyes and yelled "Come in!". The door opened and Mia was standing there smiling at her with a teddy bear clutched in her arms. She sat down next to Gracie and put her arm around her and handed her the bear.
"What's this for?" Gracie asked uncertainly.
"From the time I was born until not long ago, I used to curl up with that bear whenever I was scared or upset. His name is Mr. Balooga, and he always helped me, I thought maybe he could help you too." Mia said
Gracie hugged the bear and then hugged Mia. She hadn't felt this loved in a long time and she didn't want it to end. Tears began to stream down her face again and Mia stroked the back of her hair.
"God damnit Mia stop making that girl cry!" Dominic's voice came suddenly with a laugh. Gracie immediately stopped crying stood up and playfully punched him in the arm.
"We're having a party tonight." Dominic stated in his usually low voice.
"What for?" Gracie asked this time getting to ask questions.
"For welcoming a new member to the family." Dominic said smiling "All the beer you can drink and all the food you can eat."
"Great because I can definitely go for both of those right about now." Gracie said laughing.
"I would tell you know drinking for you, but damn I was drinking at your age, and it's not like you haven't started already so it would be sort of hypocritical for me to stop you..." Dominic trailed off when Mia started to laugh.
"What?" he asked
"Well I can't remember the last time YOU, Big Bad Dom Toretto, King of the Street Racers worried about being hypocritical!" Mia said snorting.
"Very funny!" Dom said creating a fake pouting look on his face. "Fine in that case, if I say stop drinking for whatever reason you stop no questions asked or you're in big trouble missy." Dominic said looking down to Gracie's small 5-foot frail figure.
"Got ya Daddy." Gracie said laughing to herself.
"Don't do that..." Dominic said as both Mia and Gracie continued to laugh.
*~*That Night*~*
"Oh my God, Gracie I cant have another one, I'll die!" Jessie screamed as Gracie handed him another shot of Tequila with everyone else laughing.
"Not much of a drinker now are we?" Gracie said having only just begun to drink, she had only had two Coronas.
Everyone continued to laugh and then Leon started chanting "Chug it chug it!" and everyone else joined in as they watched Jesse down the shot.
"Jesus I don't know how you guys handle all that shit." Jesse said turning green
"Takes practice ese!" Letty said laughing as she tilted her bottle of Corona towards Jesse and then continued to drink it.
"Alrighty it's our turn now!" Leon said grabbing the bottle of Vodka off the table and putting out 12 shot glasses.
"Oh not again..."Letty trailed off," Leon the last time you did this you got completely shit faced!"
"Yeah that's because I was on an empty stomach...." Leon said with the others only laughing at him. "Gracie race me."
"Don't kill her now, I just got her I don't need you coming around breaking my new stuff!" Dominic said with the others laughing.
"I'll be fine Dominic, sadly enough my aunt and I did this all the time." Gracie said filling her six shot glasses and then filling Leon's.
"Guys I really don' t think this a good idea letting her drink all those." Mia said worriedly.
"I told you, when I say stop, she'll stop." Dominica said drinking his Corona.
"Whatever I can't sit here and watch you let a just-turned-15 year old girl get drunk off her ass." Mia said angrily as she walked out of the room and up the stairs.
Gracie raised her eyebrows to Dom. Maybe she should stop? Mia didn't need to be so worried about her; she wasn't going to try to kill herself again. She wasn't sure what to do.
"Go ahead." Dominic said knowing what she was thinking.
"Ready...set....go!" Jesse yelled drunkenly being held up by Letty.
Gracie beat Leon buy about three seconds. She put down her last shot glass, grabbed her head and shook it. When she looked up Leon was on his last one.
"Oh Goddddddddddddd" Leon let out in a low growl.
"Letty told you not to do it dumbass." Vince said with a know-it-all tone clearly in his voice.
"Oh shut up!" Leon said.
The rest of them went on drinking, but Leon and Gracie stayed in the kitchen together. Gracie didn't want anything else, she had had enough, it would be kicking in soon and she didn't want Mia to come down the stairs with her still drinking.
About 10 minutes later Leon started laughing. Gracie cracked a smile and started laughing too.
"Wanna dance with me?" Leon slurred out.
"Sounds great to me!" Gracie slurred back.
Leon grabbed her hand and pulled her into the living room and started to grind with her, no one else noticed at first because they were all dancing themselves but as the two continued to dance like that and Gracie was all over him, Jesse, Vince, Dominic and Letty started to notice what was happening.
"Take it easy man...."Vince trailed off
Letty started laughing, "I think she's the one Leon has to worry about!"
Jesse shook his still somewhat green head and turned around. The sight of them dancing like that made him dizzy.
Dominic on the other hand wasn't all that happy seeing them like this and walked out onto the back porch. Gracie and Leon didn't notice this at all. Gracie was still all over him and Leon seemed to forget about her age. He picked her up and carried her up the stairs with her giggling the entire way.
"Oh shit...Dominic!" Vince yelled out to the back porch watching the two stumble up the stairs.
"What is it?" Dominic said angrily, he was already upset about what was going on in the living room he didn't need any bull shit right now.
"Leon just carried Gracie upstairs to his room..."Vince trailed off as Dominic slammed the back door open and ran up the stairs.
He burst into Leon's room where he found Leon on top of her, but Gracie was almost passed out. Dominic grabbed Leon by the back of the next and threw him into the hallway where he proceeded to punch him in the face 5 times before Leon started to scream.
"What the hell man?!" Leon said trying to cover his face. He was too drunk to fight back at this point.
"Are you forgetting something?!" Dominic yelled angrily.
"Did I forget to take out the trash?" Leon asked. He was really off; he didn't understand what was going on around him.
"She's 15 you assshole!" Dominic said kicking him in the stomach.
"Oh yeah...oh shit! Oh my God! What am I doing?!" Leon said starting to understand.
"Your drunk man go to bed." Dominic said calmly for some reason.
Leon completely complied with his wishes and walked into his room where Gracie was asleep on his bed.
"I'm so sorry!" Leon said to her sleeping face, she didn't stir she couldn't hear him. He didn't know what to do about her sleeping body, but Dominic came into the room picked her up and closed the door behind him. He carried her down the hall to his room and placed her on her bed and sat down on it. She was still completely asleep.
"Why the hell did I let you drink? Look what happened to you. I don't know who I'm kidding, how can I take care of a 15 year old? I screwed up again. If I just hadn't let you drink I wouldn't have to have beaten the shit out of Leon in the hall just now. What wrong with me Gracie?" he said only to himself, she was still asleep.
At this moment Dominic Toretto began to cry. He shook the bed stirring Gracie, and she awoke. Dominic looked up to her face and Gracie crawled to the bottom of bed and wrapped her arms around him.
"Don't cry." She said, "Don't cry." She couldn't see him like this, he was Dom. The one protecting her, why was he crying?!
"I really did it this time." Dominic said as his tears stopped. "I don't know what I would have done if anything else with you and Leon happened. It would have been my entire fault. Why did I let you drink Gracie?"
"But you didn't let anything else happen. I shouldn't have been drinking tonight, but I did it, I have my own will." Gracie said groggily stroking his bald head. She was pretty far-gone but was trying to have the mind of a sober person. Her head started to hurt so she lie down in Dominic's lap where he began to run his hands through her hair.
"No more drinking, I'm not going to let you drink again. I made a mistake, 15 year olds shouldn't be drinking."
"Ok no more." Gracie said as she began to fall asleep in his lap. She was glad he was stopping her. He was showing her how much he really cared and how much he wanted to protect her. And for some reason, knowing that someone cared enough to stop her from drinking, made her really want to stop. She only did it to get away from her problems anyway, and right now she didn't have that many that she wanted to get away from. She smiled as she finally closed her eyes and fell asleep in his lap with his arms around her.