Okay, I want to thank kar-chan for pointing out my mistakes with the to thing, I write stuff and then I don't check it unless it has a little green line under it (word) and then I don't really check it I just click whatever looks best…so sorry about that. And as for the scene changes I didn't realise I was doing that… I tried to separate the damn scenes to make them easier to read and well it wont let me…. and it annoys me so I wont go into that.. but needless to say ill try and work something out to make it clearer.

Anyway thanks to all those who reviewed…. You're keeping the story alive…

On with it then…

The sun quickly heated up outside, blinding anyone who looked directly at it but Dino was to distracted to notice it.

Dino tried to glare at the large muscled guy who had barged his way into his apartment, but was too afraid to keep it up for long.

The guy now just stood there watching him, standing in his way if he tried to leave the room or phone anyone.

It wasn't that the guy did anything threatening that was, well so threatening; it was the constant presence, as if anything could push him over.

Even when Dino had asked him questions he had only answered in Monosyllables, and from his brief answers to the questions he had wanted to answer, somehow Dino just knew that Gino was behind the big guy, and that was never a good thing.

The doorbell rang suddenly, but For Dino it was totally unexpected like a gun shot going off in the room, and so he reacted like it, jumping a foot in the air, then huddling on the ground in a corner, afraid to raise his head to see who had tried to shoot him, but as the door slammed, he realised what an idiot he had been and raised his head. Even if his mind was screaming it was the door you idiot, he still ran a cursory look around the room before straightening up.

Only to jump in shock again as someone spoke from behind him.

With a look akin to panic he looked behind him, trying to not look so scared and tried to smile, not realising it came out more of a grimace then a smile.

This only made Gino smile in delight. There was nothing he relished more then to see his friends or workers squirm, afraid of him and what he would do to them. It was such a power rush, he thought, his mind quickly getting back to the business in hand, his voice coming out dangerously low "where is my car, Dino?"

Swallowing loudly, he tired to think of something to tell him, something to stop him from killed, something…while his subconscious screamed at him cursing him for his stupidity, for his maleness, for trying to go after the one girl that could cause him more trouble then a whole army of guys…

His hand reaching up to tug at a suddenly tight collar, realising as his hand touched his skin that he wasn't wearing a shirt with a collar, he spoke in a suddenly low humble voice…

"Well you see: it's like this…."

Liz smiled slightly as she heard the giggling coming from the back seat, so obviously Tess's and yet it had been so long since they had even heard her giggle that it was quiet a shock to assimilate, but then she had giggled so much today since jumping off the cliff, that they had quite a time to get used to it, hence only the small smile in reply to it. Always thought giggling at something Kyle had said or done.

Maybe there was finally someone for her sister, someone who wouldn't let her get away with things, someone who would challenge her, someone she could trust…

Damn she thought, as her eyes started to water up, this was not the time to think about that ass…

Gripping the wheels in her hands, she clenched them till they hurt, the whiteness standing out against tanned nature of her skin.

Seeing out of the corner of her eye the guy, Max she thought his name was, was about to speak, she reached over and turned on the radio, turning up the volume as her favourite song of the moment came on "last train". Moving her head to the strong beat of the guitars and drums, soon getting lost in the words, not even realising that she was singing along to it, in fact quiet loudly, not even realising the giggling in the back had stopped.

But Kyle noticed, and when he questioned Tess about her abrupt stop, she just smiled innocently at him, and said something that he picked up even over the loudness of the music "Its about time", with a satisfied smirk findings its way across her face.

As the chorus came on, Tess joined in, her voice harmoniously off setting Liz's perfectly.

Liz was in fact shocked, but found that this, the simple ness of it, the speed at which her sister supported her when she was thinking of just stopping, this is what she had missed.

Beeping the car horn, happily for once, she sang along, keeping it up even as a hip hop song came on, Brooke Valentines "Girl fight" throwing in a few dance moves as she went, winking in the mirror at Tess who mirrored her, rolling down her windows and started singing out them, shocking the people they passed and yet leaving a wake of dance and movement in their wake with their enthusiasm.

Kyle and Max just looking on, not joining in content to just listen and enjoy, something telling them this wasn't a regular occurrence, at least not for these sisters.

The song stopped just as abruptly as they pulled up outside their apartment, where the police sirens and lights attracted the attention of everyone in a ten-mile radius.

But more importantly their's.

Jumping out of the car, Liz starred in confusion at the squad cars lined up outside her garage, her home, her everything.

Panic threatened to choke her, its hands firmly rapped around her neck.

Reaching behind her, her hand looking for a safety, something to tell her this wasn't real, and if it was she wasn't on her own.

Her hand was engulfed in a larger obviously male one.

For some reason, and she didn't look behind her or anything, she felt safer knowing he was there.

Pulling up behind them, Maria was at first shocked but Maria being Maria was a lot more vocal in her anger.

Jumping from the car, all the guards knew of her presence long before they actually saw her considering who was standing in front of her.

"Just what the hell happened here?" her voice shook the windows of the buildings around there, the volume of it threatening to blow the ear drums of those who were wearing microphones in their ears.

Micheal, who was standing in front of her, protecting her in case it was anything that well cold harm her, felt like clapping his hands to his ears to stop the volume of the banshee in front of him, but he fought back the urge. He was after all a very macho guy.

And so he did the only macho thing he could think of, grabbing her head, he pulled her chin up to kiss her on the lips, igniting a fire in both of them, that only for the presence of the guards, her sisters, his brothers, their neighbours and the news crews spread sporadically through out their vicinity, it would have gone a lot further then just kissing. As it was there was some mild groping on Maria's part, while Micheal satisfied himself with just her lips, while thinking of what he would like to do to her once they got inside, anywhere…

On a bench, a wall, in the back seat of a car, on a table, even at some point he hoped maybe something conventional, like a chair, or maybe later on down the line a….

No don't even go there, he chastised himself.

Pulling away from her reluctantly, pushing a piece of hair that had escaped her loose ponytail back behind her ear tenderly.

Leaning into her ear, he murmured, "It's going to be alright. But you do realise that you can catch more flies with honey then vinegar." When she looked like she was going to kick him, he talked faster "I'm a cop, I can get all the information that you need faster then you yelling at them could."

Maria smiled at him, like he had said that he would bring the sun down to her level for her, and Micheal couldn't help but realise that he was in a lot of trouble, if a smile was all it took for him to go off on a tangent….

Pushing away from her, he stalked over to the guards and started firing questions at them, and stalked was the only his walk could be described.

If they had been scared of Maria, they were even more scared when the guy stalked over to them, looking like he could beat up the whole police force there with his hands tied behind his back for upsetting the small pixie.

There answers were plentiful, all wanting to get away from the guy who turned out to be a detective, one of their own, surprisingly enough this actually made them more afraid. Living in an imagination fuelled environment, when they heard the guy they were afraid of was one of there own, immediate thoughts like dirty cop, and such entered there minds. In one such mind, when he heard detective he nearly pee-ded himself, his imagination being so good as to conjure up all the ways he could hide their bodies and get away with murders with his inside information.

Which was why when Micheal demanded answers, he jumped forward spit out all the information and ran, even spitting out information on cases that were not even pertinent to this case.

When he had gotten all that he could get out of the cops, he turned and walked back to the group arranged by his car, not even being surprised that the girls all seemed to have one of his brothers standing behind him, forming quite a formidable picture.

One of support, one of feeling, one of a family.

Family, that's what they seemed to be becoming.

And funnily enough, it didn't scare him as much as usual, the word that is, not the getting close to this special group of people.

Looking closely at his brothers faces, silently telling them to hold on to the woman, he pulled Maria, the lone one, who stood with only one arm being hugged by Liz, closer to him, wrapping his arms around her, and pulling her in for a comforting hug, that for Maria, whose emotions were on high alert, was feeling something else, something entirely different, that was sending her blood pumping, something that caused her to blush at the questioning look Liz sent her, when she didn't push the guy away, knowing her aversion to surprises.

"Its like this," his voice brooked no argument or interruptions "the cops were called out here an hour ago after an alarm was set off in the garage, when they got here the garage was ransacked, and there was movement towards the apartment when they got here, and so the apartment up above is safe, but just to be on the safe side they want you too change the locks and bolts." He stopped so they could assimilate all that information, and then continued when he judged that they had enough time to get used to the idea " there were no casualties, thank god, however its looks like the two cars that you were working on," raising an eyebrow to Liz to emphasise which car, and eyebrow raise that went un-noticed by the rest of the girls and his brothers, or so he thought, " were taken. They don't have any leads yet, but they suspect an organised crime ring."

Shocked the girls just starred at him as if he had grown a second head.

No this can't be happening, Tess thought, not her baby.

Not our home, Isabel thought.

The fat stinking bastard, when she got his hands on him, she'd beat him to a pulp, grab his dick, that thing he seems to think with, put a fish hook through it and go fishing with the damn thing, Maria thought maliciously. Not scared to admit she enjoyed the metal image it brought forth. It soothed her little bloodthirsty heart.

Liz grinned evilly, cracking her knuckles, the only thought running thought her head was what she was going to do to the guy when she got her hands on him, the torture, the agony, his screams for mercy, his begging, his …… she felt like laughing thinking off all the things she would do to him for wrecking their dream, the dream they had worked so hard to achieve, the dream there father had died for.

And she did laugh, much to the discomfort of the guy standing behind her, slightly disturbed by the insane laugh that came from her juicy red lips…

Just because he was disturbed by the laugh, didn't mean he couldn't admire her many physical attributes, her many, raking his gaze down her body, many physically perfect attributes…

Down boy his libido screamed at him, it wasn't the time.

Micheal looked at the emotions plain for everyone to see on the girl's faces. For Tess and Isabel he found what he expected to see. Outrage at what had happened and an obvious distaste for the thought of anyone even thinking about going through their private stuff.

But on Liz and Maria's face, or at least the reflection of it that he could see in the car's mirror, he found something he had seen many times in his short life on the police squad, the look spoke of someone who could so easily be pushed into doing something they normally wouldn't do, like murder.

And since he had a fair idea who had perpetrated this little act, then the odds were in favour of them doing something with a capital P on the painful to that guy.

Running his hand gently down her side to distract her, he watched in fascination as emotions he couldn't describe chased there way across her face. Every emotion visible to the eye, some he found quite fascinating when he was able to identify them.

One that he wasn't too sure of though, had his curiosity going.

Raising his hand, he rubbed up her side stopping just below the curve of her breast, his long fingers leaning against the underside of her bra.

That emotion ran across her face again. And it finally clicked in his mind what it was she was showing, showing to everyone but him.

Her desire for him.

God he thought, he was such an idiot. Pretending that it was the most natural thing in the world, he turned her head, so it was resting against his chest, protected from any curious bystanders and from any over curious brothers or sisters, protecting her from the embarrassment unconsciously.

He didn't look to Max for confirmation, knowing that his brother would agree with him.

"Your staying at our place till everything is sorted out here, and we aren't taking no for an answer."

He knew they were in deep shock when they didn't even argue.

They just quietly walked back to the cars, got in and waited for Micheal and the rest to follow.

Micheal took one look at the guys whom he was even closer to then his own conventional family if you could call them that, the one group of guys he could trust totally, and grimaced.

Not even letting on to the fact that he was talking about the girls in the car for one second, knowing even without looking that Maria was watching his every move; he trained his body language so that Maria would think he was talking to them about the sleeping arrangements.

"They could be in a lot of trouble, and they'll need someone to look out for them. I need you to stick to them like glue," he allowed a brief laugh to escape despite the seriousness of the situation "And I know you'll have no trouble with that."

Kyle spoke, his voice grave understanding the seriousness of the situation "You know, I got you back." He smiled at Micheal "and you know ill have no trouble having hers, and maybe her front and …." He grinned foolishly, and Micheal bit back a curse knowing where the idiots mind had gone, and were he wanted his to be…

Max and Alex soon joined in showing their support, and then soon their minds were also in the gutter, silly dopey looks on their faces.

This time Micheal did curse. He didn't want to be the grown up in this situation. He wanted to have dirty daydreams about the pixie…. damn stop it.

Clapping his hands to get the guys attention, he grimly held each of their gazes till they all came back to reality.

"And that's another thing, no taking advantage of the girls while they are under our roof"

They nodded they heads in agreement, knowing that all Micheal needed was their word.

And then Kyle had to ask the brainy question, which was weird coming from him, but then Micheal thought, he should have expected something like that from he the guy that constantly thought about girls "But if they take advantage of us?"

Micheal grinned wolfishly, "Then its free game…and all bets off." Before setting off towards the cars, grabbing the one with Maria in it, without even a second glance.

But the car he took, also happened to have all of her sisters in it as well.

Backing out through the crowds, he took one last look behind him, and laughed at the mock abandoned looks his brothers were now sporting.

The guys followed, and they set of for the apartment, not knowing the hell there were rising inviting four girls into an intensely guys only bachelor pad.

But they would soon find out all bachelorhood and what living with four girls even temporarily had to offer, willingly or not and all…

Okay that's it for now… I actually have a plan for once…. So hence why I getting them out so fast…

this thing is not bloody uploading properly, and its damn well starting to piss me off major...

Anyway

Laters

Willow1986