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"Hey Evelyn," Evelyn opened the door to see Bobby and Jerry's social worker on her porch, a small boy next to him.

Phillip, Bobby and Jeremiah's social worker always brought kids over to crash. For the past couple of months though, Angel's been coming in and out of the house continuously. He was always spotted hanging with the older of his foster brothers from different homes, but they had recently gone down on a big drug bust sending them to jail for the next fifteen years. Since then the boy had been periodically crashing at the house while he moved foster home to foster home around the Detroit area and surrounding suburbs only to be picked up once again at the police station. Finally Phil had decided to contact Evelyn on setting him permanently in the Mercer family.

"Hey Phillip," Evelyn looked down and smiled at Angel. "Angel, it's a pleasure to see you before midnight"

"Uh huh," Angel said coolly.

Angel's eyes were cool, hard almost, as he subtly took the house in. It was small, much smaller than the other houses, and the couch looked even more worn in with the light on, than it did off.

Ralph, his last foster father, had finally gotten sick of him and called his social worker dropping him off in front of the local D.C.F.S. where he worked. He had stayed with Phil for a night before Phil had told him that he might have found a permanent home for him.

-Flashback-

"Get out of my house! I'm sick and tired of you causing this family trouble!" Ralph yelled at Angel.

Angel shrugged, his cool exterior showed no emotions. Inside however he was broken. Ralph was just like all the others. He broke the record though, it had only been two weeks since he moved in before he was being kicked out. By now Angel hadn't even unpacked knowing there was no longer any use to it. He was used to moving in and out, never bothering to settle in any longer.

"Will you at least drive me to D.C.F.S?" Angel asked coming out with his backpack already ready.

Ralph had willingly skipped dinner to drive Angel back into the city where Phil worked. It was late and they had just caught Phil coming out of the small building. The snow was spraying once again over the area, and Angel's thin hoodie couldn't stand up to the cold. His gloves had holes in them making them useless. Ralph looked like he could care less as he stepped in front of Phil surprising him momentarily.

"Take him," Ralph pleaded.

"Angel?" Phil looked down to the boy who kicked the snow around his feet.

"I don't care. I could stay out here if you want," Angel muttered.

"Mr. Riiyan, I'm not sure if you're aware, but there aren't any place I could put him this late at night," Phil tried explaining.

"I don't care! He's not my problem anymore. Here, take this, this is what I found in his room," Ralph handed Phil a small hand gun.

Phil shot Angel a death glare. Angel shook it off as if it was nothing.

"Tell me what sane healthy ten year old boy carries a gun!" Ralph demanded. "He puts my family in danger Phil, I don't want anything to do with him anymore."

With that Ralph turned around and walked away, never bothering to look back. He sped out of the parking lot leaving a flabbergasted Phil and a very cold Angel in the dust.

"Well c'mon then," Phil sighed looking down at the boy. "I guess it's my house for the night. I'll make some calls in the morning, see what I can do."

He made a move to put his arm around Angel's shoulder, but he ducked out. "Whatever."

"Oh, and if you don't mind I'll be keeping this," Phil said unloading the gun.

"Whatever."

Later that night Angel had found himself awake on a different couch. His eyes bloodshot from the tears he cried when he was sure Phil was asleep. That was one less chance of finding a home and not ending up in the streets. He had moved in and out of so many different public schools and foster homes that faces blurred together.

Phil woke up and went downstairs to start breakfast. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs to see Angel asleep still in the clothes he was in last night. He shook his head and made his way into the kitchen. Angel was a nice kid, but he didn't understand why he caused so much trouble.

He was smart, but had a temper, and a mouth that always got him into trouble. Smooth and persuasive Phil had always taken a liking to the young boy, trying to place him in houses that might do him some good just outside the city's limits. It didn't do any good though, not being able to take the city out of the boy no matter how far away he took him from the city.

"So, am I homeless now?" Angel walked into the kitchen rubbing his eyes.

Phil snapped his fingers an idea coming to him. He smacked his head wondering why he didn't think of it before. He had always been placed in the Mercer's home late at night. He should of thought of placing him there at first. Evelyn had already met him a couple of times, and Evelyn even promised that he was always welcomed into the house.

"I'm going to go make a call, you eat, shower, and dress up," Phil ordered.

He ran to his office, picked up the phone, and dialed the number he's known so well. After all, he had to call it every other month to tell Evelyn to pick up her boys from jail.

-end of flashback-

It didn't take long for Evelyn's heart to melt once she heard Angel's story. She didn't hesitate in saying that she would sign papers to make her his legal guardian for as long as he needed. There had been too many people who walked in and out of Angel's life, just like they did her other two boys.

All Angel needed was older brothers. All he needed was a second chance, and Evelyn was more than willing to take him in as long as he wanted. She wasn't going to walk out of his life like others did his.

"Please come in," she moved to the side to let both come through the door. "Jerry will show you to your room Angel."

Just in time Jerry came down the stairs, Bobby's shirt in his hand totally oblivious to Phil and Angel who were looking at him curiously. "Hey ma, you know if Bobby still uses this?"

Evelyn shook her head and nodded her head towards Angel. Jerry blushed and threw on the shirt before jumping down the rest of the stairs. "Oh hey!" Jerry said surprised. "You must be Angel!"

"Maybe" Angel asked defiantly.

Jerry raised an eyebrow. "He's going to be like Bobby isn't he?" Jerry moaned.

Phil nodded. "Oh yeah," he said. He patted Jerry's back. "Good luck."

"Jeremiah, take him to his room please, and introduce him to your brother. Phil and I need to talk in private," Evelyn said taking Phil into the dining room before Jerry could rebut.

"So you're staying for good huh kid?" Jerry asked looking down at the boy.

"Until someone gets tired of me," Angel muttered.

"Naw, my mom said she was adopting you like she did me and Bobby, so I guess you're staying for good." Jerry led his way up the stairs.

"Yeah, well don't hold your breathe," Angel said coldly.

Jerry laughed inwardly. He was definitely staying for good. He knew no other foster mom who took more lip than his mom. He had a mouth to match Bobby's.

"So you're the new kid huh?" Bobby asked coming out of his room to see a boy trailing Jerry closely.

Angel looked at him and Jerry. "You guys are brothers?"

Jerry and Bobby nodded. They had gotten use to the reaction, and were sick and tired of it.

"Cool," Angel grinned.

Bobby took a liking towards the boy immediately. He was tough, he could handle himself easily. He felt his thoughts going back to the boy in the middle of the small store humming softly to himself strumming on the guitar and thought foolishly why they boy couldn't be like the one standing in front of him.

At the dinner table Angel looked lost as Bobby and Jerry took their place at the table.

"Angel you said here," Jerry pointed to the empty chair across the table from him.

"Angel, you can say grace tonight," Evelyn said taking Angel's hand as Angel took everyone else's lead.

Bobby held out his hand for Angel to take and Jerry took Bobby's other hand. Together they bent their heads down and closed their eyes.

"Um…dear God, thank you for the food in front of us, and um…" he looked up to Jerry for help.

"Thank you for keeping us together," Jerry added.

"Thank you for having ma find us," Bobby added looking over at Evelyn who smiled proudly.

"And thank you for sending us Angel to watch over," Evelyn added.

Angel looked up surprised, but if anyone saw it they ignored it and they all sat down. Bobby and Jerry were digging into their food. Angel looked at them unsurely. Bobby saw the look and decided to welcome his newest little brother. He took his plate and put a load full of food equivalent to both his and Jerry's plate combined onto Angel's plate.

"Eat up," Bobby said.

Jerry looked at the plate and suppressed a laugh. Evelyn looked at Bobby sternly, but her eyes danced with laughter.

"Come on, if you're a real Mercer you'd be able to finish that in no time!" Jerry said laughing.

Angel looked horrified at the stack on his plate, but didn't say anything and took a whole lot and stuffed it in his mouth.

Thirty minutes later they were all done eating and waiting for Evelyn to bring in the pie. Angel had completely finished the entire plate much to everyone's amusement. He was nice enough, and didn't bite as much as they thought he would. His answered started off as yes and no's and the family was ok with it knowing that he would warm up to them eventually.

"So, how long you've been in the system?" Jerry asked curiously.

"I don't know…" Angel said quietly. "I've been in the system all my life."

"Same here," Jerry told him.

"Same here," Bobby added.

"Ok, this pie is suppose to last at LEAST one day!" Evelyn said looking at the boys.

Bobby laughed. "Yeah right ma, if you wanted it to last a day you shouldn't have showed us it until tomorrow."

Evelyn frowned. "So Angel," Bobby started casually. "I asked Jerry this questioned, and now I'm going to ask you this question. Are you a fag?"

Evelyn was cutting pieces to give to the three boys when she paused smacking Bobby hard over the head.

"God damn ma! Why do you always hit my head?"

"Because you NEVER use it!" Evelyn said.

"Naw, I'm into chicks, not dicks," Angel smiled mischievously earning him a smack on the head as well.

"Yeah, you belong here," Bobby said laughing as he and Angel rubbed their heads.

"I'm the only sane one here," Jerry muttered accepting the piece of pie from his mom.

Later on that night they all headed up to Bobby and Jerry's room passing around the nerf ball from either side of the room. Bobby was on top of the bunk bed passing to Angel while Jerry counted his money for the week.

"So what do you guys do around here for kicks?" Angel asked getting bored.

Bobby looked at the time and shrugged. "Nothing, for now, ma don't let us out after 9."

"That don't stop you half the time Bobby," Jerry told Bobby.

"Shut up!" Bobby said dropping the nerf ball on Jerry's head.

"Man what the hell was that for?" Jerry demanded.

"Because I felt like throwing it. What now?" Bobby said dropping down from the top trying to stare Jerry down.

Jerry took the ball and whipped it back at Bobby. Bobby duck and it hit one of the lamps knocking it to the floor.

"Nice job Jerry! And next time aim for the TV," Bobby muttered.

Evelyn came up the stairs upon hearing the glass and frowned when she saw the three boys trying to clean the glass with their hands.

"Out, the three of you before you hurt yourselves," Evelyn shooed them out of the room.

Bobby nodded and smiled innocently taking the nerf ball as he left. They all reconfigured at Angel's room. Bobby threw the ball at Jerry who in turn ducked having it hit a frame hanging on the wall having it shatter to the ground.

"Nice job Bobby, next time aim for the window," Jerry said a smirk on his face.

Evelyn came into the next room and frowned. "Ok do you boys really need a time out at this age?"

Bobby gave an angelic smile and Jerry said sorry. Angel threw his hands up in the air. "I had nothing to do with it!"

Bobby started walking towards Evelyn's room when Evelyn stopped him. "Hold it Michael Jordan. You have the worst aim in this house if you break anything in my room you're grounded until the end of the school year!"

"But it's only November!" Bobby whined.

"You got it," Evelyn said going back to their room and cleaning the mess.

"Fine!" Bobby pouted. He led the other two down the stairs and grabbed his hockey stick which was in the corner of the living room where he'd thrown it a couple of days ago. The puck was still on under the couch where he'd hidden it from his mom. "Let's find a pick up game tomorrow. 'Til then," He dribbled the puck in and out. "Let's practice."

"You know mom's going to kill you if you break one more thing," Jerry said grabbing his hockey stick.

"Same goes for you little brother," Bobby muttered concentrating on keeping the puck away from Jerry

"Take my old stick," Jerry said noticing Angel who simply stood then watching them.

Angel grabbed the stick from the corner and frowned. "Are you guys insane hockey in the house?"

Jerry smiled and stole the puck from Bobby. "Better than his other ideas. Football, baseball…"

Bobby took the puck from Jerry and swung it towards the sofa cushions just as his mom was coming down with laundry. "If you guys are playing hockey I suggest stopping now. And no baseball, fighting, football, basketball, rollerblading, and water balloon fights ok?"

Bobby frowned. "Then what could we do?"

Evelyn dropped the pile of laundry and looked at each boy who looked back curiously. They all returned her stares with a blank one. She muttered something uncomprehendable to all the boys before moving to the bottom of the stairs and picked up Jerry's backpack. It was slightly heavy and a pen fell out. Evelyn bent over and grabbed the pen before going over to Jerry and dropping his backpack besides his feet. She then went over to the couch and grabbed Bobby's backpack, which still had a tag on it. She shook her head when she felt it light. She opened the backpack only to find it empty except for a few sheets of crumpled paper at the bottom.

"Where's your homework Bobby?" Evelyn asked.

"It's in there," Bobby said. "It's a bit folded."

Evelyn looked at her son indecorously and fished out the crumpled paper from the bottom. It was turn and the black ink was wearing off. The original date, which was nearly a month ago was scrawled messily on top along with Bobby's name, but otherwise there looked like it had been long forgotten in the bag.

"This?" Evelyn asked. She unfolded it to see the corners were torn off.

"Yep," Bobby said proudly.

Angel and Jerry looked at Bobby. Angel cocked and eyebrow, and Jerry laughed. "Dude Bobby, that shit looks like your homework from kindergarten," Jerry said.

Bobby shot him a look, but it only made Jerry laugh harder. "Bobby, this cannot be your homework," Evelyn said dumping it back in the bag.

"Why?" Bobby demanded walking over to her and snatching his backpack away.

"Is this how you plan on turning it in?" Evelyn asked.

"Yeah, why?" Bobby asked confused, before blushing as his family shared a laugh at his expense.

"What's wrong with it?" Bobby demanded.

Jerry fished it back out and un-crumpled it, reading the distinguishable words. "Please answer these questions as you are reading pages three ten through three thirty in your American History book."

Bobby snatched it from Jerry and reread it himself. He looked up, "since when did I have US History?"

Evelyn threw her hands in the air, "I give up!" she said making Jerry and Bobby laugh. She picked up the laundry, before quickly remembering something and snatching a magazine from under the hamper.

"Jeremiah, God does not like these kinds of magazines under your bed," Evelyn scolded him showing him a magazine she found under his bed.

"Ma, that's not Jerry's," Bobby said taking the magazine and starting up the stairs.

"Give me that Bobby!" Evelyn shouted up the stairs. "There's no talking sense into that boy is there?" She said frustratated. "Jeremiah, go and get that magazine for me. If I go I'm likely to hit him over the head again."

Jerry nodded and started up the stairs. Minutes later a sound of glass shattering made Evelyn roll her eyes. "Why do I even keep breakables in this house?" she muttered picking up the laundry hamper and continuing on her way to the laundry room.

Angel looked up the stairs but before he could follow Evelyn had him by his shoulder turning him back around. Angel curiously followed her leaning against the kitchen doorway.

"Laundry?" Angel asked.

"This is one of your chores in this house Angel. We have a list of chores the boys and I alternate on. This week is my week to do laundry. Next will be yours. I don't know it gives this house a sense of organization amongst those two knuckleheads upstairs. Evelyn winked at Angel as if she was sharing a secret, and Angel smiled.

"So do you have any clothes I need to laundry?" Evelyn asked turning to face the boy dumping the last of the colored in the machine.

Angel looked down, and Evelyn immediately regretted the question seeing the boy tense up.

"My uh…Ralph, my old foster dad, kind of threw my clothes into the river a while back, after he got mad at me. These are just hand me downs from the other kids I used to live with…" Angel said his voice quiet and unsure.

Evelyn took a good look at Angel and frowned. "Hmm…you and I need to go shopping for some new clothes for you. Well never mind, you take your clothes off and go upstairs and tell those two that you need to borrow some clothes. Those are filthy. Change into their clothes and throw those out. No use doing the laundry with that."

Angel smiled relaxing immensely as he ran upstairs to join his two brothers.

"Uh, can I borrow some clothes," Angel asked Jerry and Bobby who were on the floor cleaning the last of the broken clock on the floor.

"Yeah, lower drawer," Jerry said not bothering to look up.

"Mine's in the upper right drawer," Bobby said emptying the dust pan into the garbage.

Angel opened the drawers to see old clothes, which looked new in comparison to what he was wearing. It must have at one time fit either boys, but they both grew out of it but never threw it out. There was a wardrobe of clothes in the drawers. Angel grabbed the crappiest looking ones from the pile.

"What are you doing?" Bobby asked taking the clothes from Angel's hands.

Angel looked up confused. Bobby threw the clothes he picked out the window to land on the ground. "Those were shit." Bobby explained.

Bobby dug through the drawers a bit before coming out with a completely different outfit. Angel looked at Jerry and Bobby uncertainly. It was the newest thing in the drawers. It looked like it had only been worn once.

"Here you go little brother. It's the best we got in the house, so sorry if it's a little crappy," Bobby said throwing the clothes over to Angel.

"But these are new," Angel said surprised.

"Whatever, their yours," Jerry waved his surprised off dropping to his bed.

"How?" Angel asked not being able to completely comprehend what just happened.

"Well what's mine is yours," Jerry said easily.

"Yeah, same here little brother," Bobby said looking down at Angel flashing a grin.

"What's that called?" Angel asked.

"One of the two golden rules in this house," Bobby told Angel.


A/N: Its about that time again to break out the rhythym and the rhyme! lol ok im done trying the marky mark songs. which by the way i prolly didn't get right anyways. Ok here's another chapter for all you crazy fans out there D jp jp..hope you guys liked it i loved the feed back! u guys are too good to me. but seriously the reviews kept me sane and kept me writing. i have a lot of this story prewritten, but im surprised because this is the most ive ever written for a fanfic. I have A LOT written up already im just putting it in pieces because I like the reviews cuz im a review whore. yes i know, i'm sorry. Well Angel's in this one. Jack's coming in the next one again, a small appearance, a teaser if you may...

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