Part 4

Face flung the door open angrily and they both shot past Murdock who was seated against a table although he looked like he'd just moved there.

They went outside and found Amanda and BA talking. BA realised he was no longer needed, nodded to Amy and Face and departed without a word to join Murdock back in the building. Amy was wiping her eyes trying to get herself together.

"Hey babe, look there's something I have to tell you."

"Mom?" She could see that the two of them had been arguing and that her mother was upset.

"Please hun, let me speak. I really should have told you this sooner."

"Much sooner," Face added angrily.

"And you really have to believe me I thought I was doing what was best for you. But your dad didn't run out of you when you were little, honey. He didn't even know I was pregnant." Amy was still trying to wipe tears away from her eyes, but she couldn't stop them from flowing. Her daughter hugged her tightly, to comfort her.

"Mom it's OK! I sort of guessed it a little while ago, anyway."

"You did?"

"Yeah. Well sort of."

"And you're not mad at me?" Amy worried.

"No Mom, but we should have talked about this."

Face watched to two women embrace, he realised how close they were. He was trying to think what he would say to his daughter, now a young woman.

"I'm sorry, so sorry, but I should have told you the truth years ago." Amy replied. "You will forgive me, won't you?"

"Of course" Amanda looked over her mother's shoulder and stared at Face. She could see the anger in his face, but still gave him a smile. "Does he want to get to know me, Mom?" She asked her mother quietly so that he could not hear, still in their embrace. "Or is he just mad that he's a father?"

"Yes, yes, he wants to be your dad. I'm sure of that." Amy reassured her daughter, she broke the embrace and looked into her daughter's eyes. "He's mad at me, not you, sweetheart."

Amanda nodded at her mother and walked nervously over to Face. "Hi, I believe you're my dad?" and gave him a huge smile before wrapping her arms around him to hug him, she didn't know what else to do in this situation, this wasn't the way she'd ever planned in seeing her dad.

Face realised he didn't need to worry about what he was going to say, as he returned her embrace.

'Well that went better than I thought it would', Amy thought. "Look I'll leave you two to talk a minute," Amy said wiping her eyes. "I'll go find Murdock and BA." And she climbed back up the concrete stairs to the room where BA and Murdock were waiting patiently and talking quietly among themselves.

Murdock stood up and walked over to greet her. Amy put her arms around him. She really needed a hug.

"Amy, sweetheart, I always wondered whether something had gone on with you and Faceman". He was trying to reassure her. "He was acting very weird for quite a while when you left us." Murdock remembered the rate Face had gone through women after she had left, faster than his usual standard, but thought best not to share this with Amy.

"I bet Hannibal had a clue, man!" BA came towards Amy to also comfort her. "He just didn't let on!"

"I've been really bad though haven't I?" Amy let go of Murdock and turned towards BA. "I should have tried to find you guys sooner. I should have told him years ago!" Amy started to cry again. "I've really missed you guys."

"Amy, man. What's done is done. Don't beat yourself up about it now. What you did maybe ain't right. But you did it for certain reasons which were probably right to you at the time," BA tried to reassure her in his old wise ways.

"Yeah Amy, Face wasn't the commitment type and back then, we all don't know how he would have reacted." Murdock pitched in.

"And we were fugitives on the run, that ain't no way to bring up a child. So you can't blame yourself totally." BA continued.

"Thanks BA, Murdock!" Amy knew that if she had BA on her side that was always a good thing.

"He'll calm down later, you'll see!" Murdock gave her another one of his huge grins and hugged her again.

"Look, lets get down to business. As we ain't got much time. We can talk about this later. Amanda said she'd stored that bag and she told me where. So we need to get that bag and get outta here!" BA said firmly. BA had been discussing the bag with Murdock before Amy had come up into the room, and both were interested to know its contents.

"What's in the bag, Amy?" Murdock asked intrigued.

Amy wiped her tears and took a deep breath, regaining her composure.

"Well, among our personal belongings that I wanted us to take home, it's got a copy of the photos I've taken proving what's going on with our 'friends' up the road. They are only the negatives. But I knew I had to keep something just in case the originals got in the wrong hands. I was about to deliver them, when they grabbed me." Amy replied. "Basically, the local authorities here are all bought by these slimeballs, so I went to the nearest city, if you can call it that, up the road and started talking to the authorities there. They weren't going to do anything until they saw proof. Which I got, but was never able to deliver."

"So we need to get that bag then?" BA replied, punching one of his fists into his other hand.