I am very greatful for the review that I recieved, and here is a repost of chapter 12. My eyes were opened with the help of two very great reviewers, and I think they know who they are. So I will try to take the criticism as well as the good. Thank you all!

Thank you again for all the reviews, and here is the next chapter!

'Genius may have it's boundaries,
But stupidity is not thus limited.'

Last Time

A few minutes after Brian and Suki had fallen asleep, Dom and Rome walked in. They smiled, seeing Suki in Brian's arms, it seemed that he had at least remembered that they were together. Brian opened his eyes, smiled a little at the site of them, and they smiled back. His look turned to one of horror as he looked past them, seeing...

Brian's look soon turned to one of anger and malice, as he looked into the stone green eyes of Rick Forester. Rick was of Spanish roots, and was about six foot two inches tall. Brian lifted himself into a sitting position, and threw his legs over the side of the bed. "What are you doing here Rick?" Brian asked menacingly, waking Suki.

"Not happy to see me, Brian?" Rick asked, his voice full of sarcastic hurt.

"No it's great to see the man who killed my daughter's mother." Brian said, his voice cold and hard.

"That's what I thought. You know Brian; you were always blaming me for what was your fault. It's your fault that Carrie died, you knew if you got too involved with someone that it would never last. I told you not to, but you couldn't just let her go. I loved her first, and then you took her away from me, breezing into town in your shiny little racecar. " Rick said, spitting the words out as if they were poison.

"I should kill you where you stand. Because of you, Emmy has to grow up without a mother." Brian said, his voice half sorrow, and half filled with hate. "I didn't steal her from you, she came willingly, and I told her no at first, that she had you, but you had to screw that up, didn't you? You're a little pensamiento de asno. " (pansy ass) Brian said, going back to his years of living in Spain.

Dom looked at him as if he were crazy. He didn't know that much Spanish, but he knew what that meant. He didn't even know that Brian knew Spanish, let alone spoke it.

"¡Usted no puede manejar cualquier cosa¡No era mi avería que ella no le amó!" (You can't handle anything! It wasn't my fault that she didn't love you!) Brian yelled.

"¡Ella no le amó! Ella le utilizaba, para su dinero. ¡Ella amó a me, y a esa pequeña muchacha!"

(She didn't love you! She was using you, for your money. She loved me, and that little girl!) Rick yelled back.

"I could kill you for what you did to her!" Brian said quietly. Rome walked over to Brian, and put a hand on his shoulder. "I will always remember what happened. Do you think it's so easy to see Emmy everyday without thinking about Carrie? Do you think it's easy for me to know that she will never meet her mom, because you were trigger happy, and Carrie loved me enough to push me out of the way, and give her life for mine?" He asked, his voice low, and full of emotion.

"I think that you should leave Rick." Rome said, and Rick looked at him for the first time since arriving.

"Yeah," Dom added, and then, "Thank you for your time." He said, emphasizing his point with a well aimed punch to the jaw.

"I don't think that you feel as much as you should. I think that the only way that you will ever find out how much she was worth is if you join her." Rick said, and laughed. His demeanor turned serious as he once again turned his gaze to Brian. "You won't know when, and you won't know where, but you will pay for you have done." He said, and as he was about to leave, Brian spoke up as an idea popped into his head.

"Were you the one driving that car that hit me?"

He looked at Brian and smiled, as he was walking away, he stopped for a second and said, "Yep." He kept walking, rubbing his jaw;and as Dom was about to go after him, Brian and Rome stopped him.

"Don't, he's not worth it. I won't risk you getting sent to jail. After all then my nice stay at Lompoc would have been for nothing." Brian said to him, as Rome had grabbed his shoulder.

"Okay, but this is the only occasion that I will stop. He hurt you Brian, and you're part of my family, and when someone hurts my family, they don't get away with it." Dom said. He was serious, that when his family was hurt, he would do anything to protect them, or seek revenge.

"Thank you for that. I really mean that. You all are closer than my own family," He paused making a guesture to all of them; "I mean that too, my family doesn't give a damn if I live or die. With the only exception being Kell, and my daughter." He thought for a moment, and then continued. "You really don't know what you all being here means to me. But when it comes to Rick, there are secrets that you don't know, and that I don't really want to talk about."

Everyone nodded, and Suki was the one to finally speak up. "We know that Brian, it happens to everyone of us. You can keep your secrets as long as you need to, but if it hurts you mentally or physically, you need to tell us. You can't keep all your emotions cooped up inside of you, it's not good." She laid her arms around him, and kissed his temple. "I love you, and you are my family now. Everyone in here is family, and we know what it's like to have secrets that are meant for only each other. You don't have to say anything until you want to." She said.

Everyone nodded, feeling the same way. "Thanks." Brian said again, hugging her.

They all laughed, and Dom said; "Maybe I should get away from you," He laughed again, "You just seem to draw trouble, I mean do you have a sign on you that I can't see, saying, 'Come and get me?'" Dom asked, and everyone burst out laughing, including Brian.

"Maybe, but I can't see it either!" Brian whined. They all laughed. Life was getting better, it was just a matter of time, before it got back to normal.

A/N: And here I ask you again, is this any better? I hope it is, but tell me what you think.

Don't forget, tell me if you want to beta. I will choose one of you. Thank you for taking the time to read this story, and at least I know that you all think that it is worth the time to read.

AMC