Family Bonds: Book 2 of Sista

by Blackstar1979

Family Bonds the sequel to Sista. The the Superstars and Sistas have been through a lot that have carved out bonds where there were none. Will the past rip apart the bonds that have been forged or make them stronger? Reviews are welcomed as always.

7. Chapter 7 Misunderstanding

Chapter 7

Misunderstanding

Angel hears "Love is here to Stay." She peeks out of the bathroom Joshua wasn't in the room but he was calling. She picks up her phone watching his face dancing across her screen. The song plays all the way through. Her message alert chimes. He calls again. "What do you want? Hello? Joshua this is not funny. Hello?" He sounds scared when he asks someone not to hurt her. She hears rustling and muffed cries then silence meets her ears. "JOSHUA?" She runs out of her room down the stairs. They really had him this time. She opens the front door. Her phone rings again. She hears Joshua tell someone that killing him wouldn't help that. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Angel screams into the phone. She was thrown off when she didn't hear a voice vamp or April it was a man.

"I want you to walk outside." The driver of Joshua's car says in a calming tone. "If you do he has a chance at living. If you don't he will suffocate I heard it's really a horrible way to go. It's your choice. Live or die? If live walk to your gate get in the passenger seat of your lover's car. If die, just close the door. I'll let you hear him beg for air until he passes. Don't hang up that will action will piss me off and I'll shoot him in the gut. Also a bad way to go. "

Angel feels cold instead of hot this time she knew there wasn't a choice. She couldn't be the reason for his death. He called you his good luck charm her mind teases. "Live… Live…Live please let him live." She felt numb as her vision tunneled she steps out on the porch. When she hears screeching tires and a crash she runs towards the gate Screaming and crying LIVE…LIVE…LIVE. She runs in to Bobby and tries to get past him. He picks her up she keeps crying LIVE with the phone to her ear. His damn phone had cut off, she throws hers trying to hit Bobby he dodges the flying phone, as she begs him to put her down. When he says not yet. She starts up again screaming LIVE

Luke rammed Joshua's car into the gate. Since he'd driven his Hummer it was the first long distance Sophie had allowed him to drive her to Pittsburg, TX and back. Only because he got sleep last night and she didn't feel like waiting on the driving service. His vehicle suffered little to no damage he'd pushed in Joshua's trunk. From the inside of the hummer all he heard when he hit the car was a crunch and backed up. Sophie got out after saying she was fine. Bobby had Angel off the ground. She kept screaming Live at the top of her lungs between sobs. While trying to get down. They'd knew Joshua wouldn't be driving Luke just hoped they hadn't put him in his trunk. He gets out turns on his flash light. The driver wasn't moving. The air bag had deployed. He feels for a pulse and there was none. He shines his light in the back seat and Joshua was pinned to the floor but a balloon looking thing was surrounding him. Luke takes his nail clippers and pops the bright green thing. The pressure from the seat being moved 10 inches further into the car made a loud popping sound when he poked a hole in it. Now that Joshua wasn't face down on a balloon he had to check if he was alive. He had a pulse so the car bed hadn't suffocated him. Joshua starts to shake as he started breathing again. "Breathing on your own that's a good sign. Keep it Up" So the car bed must have not been around him the whole time he was captured just when Luke pushed his trunk into the back seat. He needed help pushing the seat far enough back so he could get Joshua out. "You're going to love and hate me." He says to Joshua as he gets in the front seat he put a foot on the backseat while holding onto the dash board and pushes the back seat back a few inches cracking can be heard. Chase comes over and asks can he help.

Joshua had a major headache but he was alive he tried to get free. He hears Angel screaming. He had to get free. His hands were tied behind his back. This was worse than being confined in your shirt. At least when Brad and Cass put him on the floor, he was able to rip the Pajama shirt, to free himself. He couldn't rip the plastic ties they secured his hands and feet with. "UN…TIE… ME" He screams near hysteria coughing. Chase tells him to hold still. Joshua tries but his muscles seemed to be jumping by themselves. He tried ripping the damn things off the moment he woke the first time. He heard the son of a bitch asking Angel to pick his fate in his head and he yelled, Don't come out! He tried to get free. When the loud noise happened Joshua's face got pushed into the mommy and me inflatable car bed, he couldn't get air, couldn't move his hands to push the damn thing away from his face, and panicked when he was passing out he thought that was it, he was gonna die in the backseat of his own fucking car wrapped in a bright green balloon, being used as a trap for his lover.

Luke hands Chase the flash light leans over the seat, moves what was left of the car bed, and snips the clear plastic holding Joshua's hands behind his back. He snips the one around his ankles and Joshua belly crawls out of the back seat, lies on the ground, breathing hard he lifts his head and sees Angel being held up in the air. Sophie comes out of the house followed by his parents. Sally tells the person to put Angel down. Joshua did something he hadn't had to do since living with his with parents and fighting with Brad. He tells himself "get up" Luke must have heard him because he helps him sit up with his back against his car. The doctor gets in front of him and shines his flashlight in his face. Joshua closes his eyes. That shit was giving his headache more fuel.

Luke stands and texts Sophie that Joshua is banged up but he'll live. Bobby puts Angel down and she takes off toward the gate. Sally who'd been arguing with him takes off after Angel. Michael hadn't stopped walking towards his son. Seeing Joshua sitting on the ground Michael tries to step quicker. Angel and his wife ran pass him. They hadn't heard anything something was up with that house. They didn't know anything was going on until Angel's sister ran in the den.

Angel gets on her knees in front of Joshua. His eyes were blood shot his hair was covering one side of his face, his wrist were bruised. She leans over taking his hand he squeezes hers. "I was such a fucking idiot. I'm sorry." He coughs turning his head. He rubs a thumb over her ring and says laying his head back "My good luck charm." Her sister's boyfriend had saved his life.

Angel swallows hard and whispers "Please stop calling me that. You wouldn't have been put in this situation if it weren't for me. Can I help you up, or can you get up?" He tells her he didn't want her pulling on his heavy ass. Candy comes running into the yard. Bobby draws his pistol telling her to back up as he ran down the hill. Angel tells him "Bobby she's a friend of ours please don't shoot her."

"Okay so now I know what happens when I don't use my card Life lesson learned. Joshua what happened?" He says long story. "You were worried about your music room, I believe this car cost you a lot more. I told you to slow down." He yells at her that he wasn't driving and starts coughing holding his head. He says shit over and over as he screws his eyes shut and grits his teeth. By the third shit he starts coughing again.

Luke asks did he want to go to the hospital. "No" Joshua just wanted to get off the ground having everyone standing over and around him was making him claustrophobic. Angel says yes telling him to please get checked out. Luke says if he's just banged up he'd be released tonight. Joshua must have looked like shit because Angel was trying to send him to the hospital. "Let me get up." His head hurt like a mother fucker but he had to get off the ground. Using the car he tries to grab onto the door Luke tells him the window was busted and grabs his hand. Michael grabs his other one he tells his father to please let go he didn't want to pull him off balance or hurt him. Luke counts to 3 and he and Michael pulls him to his feet. He got a head rush and almost face planted the ground. Angel jumped in front of him and Luke held him up. He leans back on the car but he was standing. Luke asks House or Hospital?

"Hospital, if this car wasn't behind me, I'd be on my ass again." He felt dizzy. He puts his hand out telling Angel to move back before he could get the words out he threw up. Luke holds him up Bobby comes over and grabs his other side. Michael steps back.

Angel moved out of the way quickly when she recognized that look on his face, from the time they had both caught the flu after swimming outside in November in a hotel's indoor/outdoor pool. Chase had invited him to come along on one of their vacations at a hotel in Chicago. They swam from the heated water under the wall, out into the falling snow, it was beautiful but they paid for it. Sophie was the lucky duck she didn't catch the flu, but she'd been in the water just as long as they had. Angel had fevers and shivered so much she thought she'd break to pieces. Joshua had the stomach virus and marked every waste paper basket in the hotel. Candy brings her out of her reverie waving a hand in front of her face. Angel refocuses on the here and now. "Huh" Candy asks her was she going with Joshua she looked back at the house. Joshua said no. Angel looked at Luke and says "Yes" Candy and Sally walked with her to the garage. Angel climbs up into the truck. Candy sits behind her and Sally sits in the passenger seat. Bobby gets in next to Candy behind Sally. Angel pulls through the back entrance and drives around to the front of the house. She watches as Luke gets in his Hummer and backs out into the street, parks, gets out and walks to her window. She powers it down. He tells her that his car was too high for Joshua to get into. When Angel asked why he had not called his med crew he tells her that something had went on down town and calling 911 would basically redirect Joshua to Grandville Memorial. Angel says "Not there" and gets out of the truck. Joshua looked drunk hanging on the railing of the gate. Luke steps back and grabs him preventing him from taking another nosedive into the ground. Bobby gets out and helps him to the truck. Joshua sat in the front passenger seat and pulls his legs in. "I'm just glad you're tall enough to do that." Angel says as she climbs in on the driver's side and fastens his seat belt. Bobby gets in and Candy scoots to the middle asking Angel could she still see behind her as Sally gets in the back. "You're fine."

Joshua lays his head back on the seat. Candy didn't want him go to sleep. She asks "Bro what happened after you hung up." He apologizes and calls himself an idiot. When he looks over at Angel he apologizes to her. He then tells what happened. He stops and tells Angel that the car bed was a dangerous idea. He coughs saying it may have been called mommy and me but if he'd got into a crash the damn thing could have killed her. He starts coughing again. Angel pulls into the hospital parking lot driving up to the door. Luke walks up and taps on her window she unlocks the doors. Luke asks him is he trying to get rid of a tickle in his throat. Joshua still coughs. Luke opens the door, helps Joshua out of the truck and sits him in a wheelchair. Candy was worried she hoped Angel hadn't seen his lips turning blue and he couldn't even stop coughing. Luke turns him around quickly and power walked him in the Center.

Sophie had stayed at the house to make sure the police did their fucking jobs. She wanted enough paper work on this case that the law would be pushed so far up April's ass they'd smell what she had for dinner. Joshua's little black Toyota RAV4, is now toast. When she saw the car at the gate with the lights out she knew her disabling Joshua's pass card to the house worked. She didn't even want to think about what would have happened if it hadn't gone through. When she saw Angel slowly walking out the house she told Luke to block the car in telling him that Joshua wouldn't be driving. When he saw that Angel was walking towards the gate he hit the gas and smashed into Joshua's car so hard it pressed it into the gate which didn't open until she swiped her card.

Earlier, Sophie had called Bobby and Chase informing Bobby that he had his job back and had a case already while still at Mark's house. She fills them in on how Harold wanted this done. Just before she'd gotten off the phone she told them to go to the house as soon as they landed. She called them back to see where they were after she got the message and video from April using Joshua's phone. They must have called Angel from his phone she looked like a space cadet walking through the security lights across the massive cul-de-sac with her phone up in front her face. The minute she opened the gate, after crashing into the back of Joshua's car, she saw Angel start running and screaming. When Bobby and Chase pulled up Bobby looked like he was going to tackle Angel when he ran towards her and picked her up 20 feet from the gate. Sophie hated walking past the car she didn't even know if Joshua was in the car or not. Hearing Angel scream and cry Live told her, he might be in the car. She'd just prayed he wasn't in the trunk. The car didn't have a trunk anymore and the driver was knocked out. Finding out from Luke via text that Joshua was in the car Sophie tried to calm Angel down but when Angel begged her to make Bobby let her down. Sophie made herself keep walking. Bobby wasn't hurting Angel he had her shirt mostly and was supporting her with his other arm around her thighs to prevent her from tipping them both over or her from mule kicking him in the nuts. Sophie went in the house to tell Joshua's parents what was going on.

After racing here after getting the messages from Joshua's phone Luke's messages saying that Joshua was a little banged up but he'd live became the best thing she'd heard all day. She finally had good news for Angel she walks back outside. Sally was proving to be a stable person she told Bobby to place Angel on the ground Bobby looked at Sophie "Joshua is alive sis" The minute Bobby put her down Angel ran like a track star with Sally not far behind. When the police left she had reports in hand.

Walking into the house Michael and Chase sat in the den at first she wondered why Chase would take him in there. A flash of how long it took the older man to get down the hill to his son replays itself in her head. She remembers that's why Joshua had not been present at Paula's wedding his father had been beaten up and in real danger of losing his life. He probably liked the den better than the living room because you didn't have to walk down the stairs into the sunken living room and it was the closest room to the front door without sitting in the atrium.

Michael's phone rings he answers and says "Not now Cass I'm waiting for a call about your brother." Sophie tells him she'd tell him if she heard anything. He nods that he'd heard her, takes the phone away from his ear and thanks her. He listens to his phone and his blue eyes harden as he lets loose on her. "Cassandra Marybeth Davenport Denton my son Joshua Davenport is in the hospital. She must have said something like Joshua wasn't her brother because the next words from his mouth were. "If you don't claim him as your brother, that's your fucking loss. I'm tired of you playing the hurt little miss between you and Brad it's a wonder that boy wants anything to do with your mom and me, because you are right he is adopted he didn't have to care enough to deal with us after he turned 18. I have tried until I am blue in the face to fix your fuck up. Ever since, you moved back in, you have been dishonest with your mom and me. You told us that you wanted what we want our children to be able to get alone. I found the check-out slip from his last visit. In his wife's truck SHUT UP. I know they aren't married yet. He'd rather pay 400 big ones a night than subject his girl to your antics. Every time I turn the other cheek and see you improving I say my baby Cass is growing up. Then you go and scratch that boy across his face and beat him getting mad. You have slapped my cheek for the very last time. Cassandra you know why it seems to be so important for me that you all get along." He takes a breath. In a calmer voice he says "I'm tired Cass I'm 70 years old I've had two strokes, and my own son, Bradley Albert Davenport, your blood brother, as you like to shout from the roof tops every time Josh's name is mentioned, attacked me for money. He walked up to my door, let himself in as all of my children has always done since your teens."

Chase excuses himself gets up and walks out of the room. Cass says something. Sophie could tell it wasn't yelled. The girl only had two volumes loud and louder. "That's right when you can't go anywhere else there is always room for you at home. I was sitting in the living room watching the game as I do every Sunday. I saw him come in and I thought he was going to ask me to crash for a while. He asked me for 500 dollars saying he knew I had got paid. I told him the truth that I didn't get the mail that Saturday, to ask his mother if she'd went and cashed the checks yet. He stormed out of the room. I got up to see why he was so mad. When I went into that kitchen saw your favorite sibling had pinned my wife against that damn stove. I grabbed him pushing away from your mother and told him to leave. He walked away. I asked your mother was she okay. I'll never forget the look on my wife's face as she screamed for me to watch out. My own flesh and blood hit me in the back of my head with a baseball bat. I told your mother to run." The next thing I remember is JOSHUA my youngest son sitting by my bedside with my wife. Bradley was willing to beat the living shit out me and would have probably killed us both over the $80.00 that was in the cookie jar. I almost lost my life over the toiletry money we set aside for tissues and soap. He robbed my house and that's what he took we hadn't received the checks yet. I just don't know where I went wrong with you two." Cass said she knew Brad was on drugs, and before he makes Joshua out to be the best son she says she called Joshua and told him to help her get Brad help and he hung up on her.

"You're not listening to me, turn off your dislike Joshua radar for a minute. I told you that because your mother knows, and now you will. I wanted you all to stop the divide because the doctor said I have a growth on my brain. I didn't drive all the way down here just to return that girl's truck. Didn't you notice your mother drove for half the trip on the highway something she has never enjoyed? I'm down here on a side mission my doctor says because of my age he refuses to even try to remove it and he gave me less than 6 months to live. Cass you can't live in this world alone." Sophie gets up and walks out of the room. When she saw tears in the old man's eyes. "If I don't get this done if I'm still all there in the head, I may get to hold my only grandchild at least once. So if you want to be miserable, and or want to continue to make trouble, just stay away from me. I'll love you always, but I can't take it anymore you're all adults, I just thought if our family was closer you all would have each other to lean on. Good-bye Cassandra." Michael meant it he loved his little girl but she had some nasty ways about her. Bradly wouldn't get out of the system before Michael breathed his last breath. Bradly had hit his third strike after his rehab he was going to prison. Michael cried and prayed and cried some more.

Cassandra cried she knew it wasn't for show because there was no one in the hotel room with her for her to cry for. Two men today had told her a very important message she couldn't live in this world alone. Her daddy was vanishing. She dials the number on the back of the card Jonathon had given her. A canned message comes on the line. You have reached the Starting over general voice mail box of the Middlebrooks and Sheldon connection. If you are in need of a therapeutic session please leave a message. "My name is Cassandra Denton I mean Davenport, I'm newly divorced my husband put me out. I got the divorce papers in the mail and was told if I didn't sign he'd kill me. I signed them and now he's married to my best friend. I've started verbally abusing my family I struck my brother today. My father is dying. I don't want to be this lonely angry woman anymore. I can't just perk up, I can't do this by myself. I've tried I failed. I hope you can help me my number is 555-551-3000" By the end of her message she had to listen to see if her words came out clear enough to be heard over her crying. When asked if she wanted to delete she says no and presses the end button. She had to get out of this hotel room. If Joshua was in the hospital maybe he'd listen to her she wanted to apologize something she really didn't do much to him. She looks up Jonathon. He had a Facebook page. It was a picture of him in a face to face photo of him and Angela. An Irish subtitle was on the bottom of the picture. The page asked if she wanted a translation. She clicks yes in a side screen it read. "Me and my Baby Girl"

Cass D. D.: Jonathon I hope this is the really you.

Jonathon L McBride: Cassandra Yes you have found meh. Isn't it time to take away one of the Ds? #StartingOVERisnevereasy

It was him she could hear his Irish burr in her head as she read his words.

Cass D.D.: I just hadn't changed it yet. I have called that number you gave me and Jonathon I would never do anything to Angela. You're Baby Girl. Are you busy?

Jonathon read her message she copied his tag and pasted it. She was a very lazy girl.

Cass D.D.: Are you still there?

Cass D.D.: Please speak to me (sad face emoticon) I'm lonely and Joshua is in the hospital. I want to try to fix our relationship. I checked to see what hospital he is at he's at Sheldon Medical Center

Jonathon L McBride: I'm on my way. Do you know why he was admitted?

Cass D.D.: No my father flipped out on me when I called and he said he was waiting on word on Joshua. My dad is dying and I need to make things right for him.

Jonathon L McBride: I'm sorry to hear that about your Da

Jonathon: Honeypot is everything Okay? I got some news that my talent is in hospital.

Angel: Daddy he was abducted from his house. Luke crashed into the back of his car and killed the driver. Joshua keeps choking on something. We are at Sheldon Medical. I drove him here but now I'm out in the waiting room. He at first said he didn't want to come then that changed when he tried to get to his feet he keeps getting dizzy.

Jonathon: I'm on my way me girl. He'll be okay he's in the best place right now.

As Jonathon pulls up in front the Hotel he hoped his last text was true. The more his girl was around Joshua she was happy and that made him happy. He remembered his baby girl's first smile when she was just born. He was the first to hold her besides the doctors. His grandson would be one of the most loved beings in the world. He was already, everyone was just waiting for him to make his Grand appearance. Cassandra gets in she greets him with a smile and thanks him for coming to get her.

Sally sits in the waiting room, fills out the paper work, and was mortified that Joshua did not belong to a network. She'd written down all the things she could think of. She asked Angel out of nowhere. "What do you clean your floors with?" the girl just sat there staring at her. "Did you hear me I asked you a simple question child?" When she says she doesn't know in a hesitant tone. Sally mumbles something in Spanish. Angel excuses herself and walks in to the ladies room. Bobby gets up and sits in the chair near the door.

Candy crosses her arms and kicks her foot letting her sandal slap against her heel. She was deciding what she was going to say when Sally tells her to stop that incessant tapping. "Mrs. Davenport Not that you care, Angel knows what you said. She's not what was it oh yes you asked why you hadn't noticed how much of an un-domestic cow she really is. Wow, the Davenports are laying it on thick today, first Joshua scares the hell out of her over his damn music room, and leaves it as is, then this happens. Your stressed we all are Instead of mumbling insults. You should have asked yourself why she would know or care what is used to keep the floors in that damn mega-mansion of hers clean. Maybe you missed the fact that the house is a block wide and three stories high."

"I was very out of line. When she just stared at me it just struck me you know Joshua is allergic to ammonia. Most people know what is used in their household products. This situation is just scaring me. She was still very polite, my girl would have been screaming her head off. I thought she had sat too long she is pregnant. How did you know what I said I was very quiet?"

"When I was younger and I used to hang with Joshua he's picked up a few of your sayings. These fans were talking about my shirt being too tight and he jumped down off stage and balled them in Spanish. If I didn't know it was him speaking I would have been looking around for who was. He emulates your accent dead on even your pauses he claims he gets it from your dad. As far as how she knew what you were saying. She's toured for nine years before we got her to join our band. Between that and hanging out with Joshua she knew what you said. Plus I saw when it hit she froze and then forced herself to look anywhere but at you when she excused herself. She dose excellent screamo when she's on stage, but if you are expecting her to step into Cassandra's role and yell every time she is displeased it's not gonna happen. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check on my friend her fiancé is in the hospital after being kidnapped. Where you listening to him? If that wasn't enough to make her pull her hair out his mother who is usually the sweetest woman I know, flipped the switch to monster in law and called her a cow. She was so nervous about meeting you that she was willing to sacrifice good fashion to dress more blah. Her end result outfit for the trip was a little Librarian-ish it was way better than the long black dress she was going to where. The super tight bun she had in looked painful. Joshua told me he did get her to take it down." Candy gets up and walks into the bathroom.

Angel stares in the bathroom mirror she knew she was in here alone. She'd checked. Touching her belly she says "I'm not going to let your grandmother talk mean in our presence. Daddy's sick and momma don't know what going on." She rubs her stomach "the people that want us tried to take him away." She wipes her eyes. "I love you baby boy."

Candy pushes the door open when she walks in she really wasn't expecting to see this picture worthy image. Angel sat on the sink with her hands on her belly under her shirt with her eyes closed. She had in one earbud and was humming something. Being Jonathon's child had rubbed off on her she tells her baby boy she loves him. "No one speaks English anymore." Candy asks and ducks incase Angel had something close enough to throw. "You know I'm kidding." She tries to imitate Jonathon but she sounded more like a cartoon character. "Your Da would be so proud. Come on out, if Luke comes back don't you want to be the first to see Joshua?" Candy knew she stepped in it when Angel put her hands up to her face, turns away and splashes cold water on her face. Bracing herself for anything Candy walks closer.

Angel drives her hands through her hair some of it had got wet so she looks in her pockets for a hair tie. Candy hands her one of her rope bracelets saying since Angel had given her the new hair style after the Scott shit happened it was the closest thing she had to a hair tie. Angel takes the bracelet meeting Candy's eyes in the mirror as she put it in her hair getting it out of her face and thanks her. "What I want Is Joshua to be okay, I want to take him and his mother back to the house so she can pick up her husband and find his sister and go back to Colorado. Did you hear her?" Candy nods "How am I supposed know what the cleaning service uses. I texted Sophie and asked her she sent me back a shrug emoticon. I'm not an un-domestic cow. I know how to cook and when I lived in New York my house was clean. Who gets pissed off about cleaning supplies? This has been my longest stay at the house since Chase gave it to us in trade for the Florida house. We wash the dishes, and clean our bedrooms if she had of asked me what I use to wash dishes, I would have told her Dawn but no she asked out of the clear blue sky what I use to clean my floors like it was a fucking pop quiz. Whatever it was, I bombed the hell out of that shit." Cassandra walks in and greets them Angel looks at Candy then says "Hello Casandra, okay Candy time to go back out there."

Cassandra tilts her head to the side she hated rejection and says "Wait please Angela I have a question. So Angela Ivey is Jonathon like a stepfather, or do you and my baby brother share the being adopted card? I read somewhere on the internet that you kind of gravitate towards your own kind."

"Okay pop quiz time is so over. It's really time to go. I'd rather deal with the other one." Angel says as she walks on the other side of Candy using her as a divider between her and Cassandra.

Candy walks towards the door glaring at Cassandra. "Candy, that wasn't mean I just wanted to know. I mean it's not a hard question. Jonathon has her on his page" Candy tells her it's not what she said it is what she wrapped it in and walks out of the bathroom.

Angel walks out and sees her father, stops looks back at the bathroom door as Candy comes out. Jonathon walks to her and asks has she heard anything. She shakes her head no and walks back sitting by herself against the back wall in the middle of a row of ugly orange stuffed chairs.

He watches as Angel sat away from everyone. When Cassandra comes out of the bathroom Sally walks over and asked her why she was here. Cassandra says in a whispered tone she came to check on her baby brother. Jonathon excuses himself and walks over and sits with his girl. As they both watch Sally and Cass Jonathon puts and arm around his Angel. "So how is my baby girl and my grandson holding up?" Angel lays her head on his shoulder saying she's giving it one heck of a try. "Of that I'm sure."

Luke walks out, and looks at the personal divide in the room. He asks Sally and Angel into his office. Cassandra gets loud and says that Joshua is her brother and if he was taking anyone to his office it should be his family not his current bounce toy. Bobby looks up at her. Luke puts up a hand before she could get louder and piss him off. One he didn't like public displays of rudeness and number two he thought of Angel as his sister whether he ever married Sophie or not. Both of those girls was the closest thing he had to a sibling growing up. He was an only child. Sally tells her to mind her manners. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Jonathon surge to his feet. Angel walks pass them waiting at the door hugging her self. He sighs great, just what he needed an all-out family brawl in his waiting room on his day off. "Young lady stand down. His emergency contact is Angela Ivey the person that filled out his paperwork. Thank you by the way, is his mother. Angel is the mother of his child so I really would appreciate it if you refrain for using loud negative language. Mrs. Davenport?"

Sally walks ahead of him over to the door standing by Angel. She tells Angel if she was going to be any kind of mother to her child she'd understand why she'd asked what would be around her child, and was mad when she couldn't answer. Angel just stood there staring at the people on the other side of the door.

Luke tells the group that Joshua was in recovery and after he spoke to Angel and Mrs. Davenport. He'd be back. He turns to walk back to put his card up to the scanner and Cassandra tells him not so fast grabbing his lab coat. Luke stops before he is pulled backwards was the bitch kidding? Closing his eyes. He says in a slow and deadly tone. "You have until the count of 3 to remove your hand from my person or I'll remove it and have you taken out of here. I, 2, th…"Candy slaps her hand away and tells her hall. Luke walks toward the back pressing his keycard to the scanner. The door opens, Angel power walks into his office. Sally sedately follows. Walking in and closing the door he thinks to himself he and the Ivey family really had to stop meeting this way. He personally did not want to see any of them in this setting until Angel let Jr out into the world. Okay Sheldon let's get this out of the way. He skirts his desk facing the mother and the soon to be wife of his patient.

In his practiced detached tone he says "I called you both in here because as I said out there he's in recovery. Whoever decided to knock him out did it with a substance like chloroform, from his on description of what happened he was forced to breathe in harshly. We don't know what it was I've sent it to the lab, a foreign body with the substance on it, lodged itself in his throat. It wasn't large enough to completely block his airway which is why he seized in the car when I popped the car bed. Once again he breathed in harshly. When he was sitting up and taking controlled breaths the coughing and the vomiting while standing, was his body trying to remove the foreign body. His dizziness was due to the fact that he was still inhaling small amounts of the substance. Between that and the concussion when he laid his head back in the truck it opened his airway but it also allowed the object to sink" Angel says Candy got him talking but before they got to the door he just stopped speaking and mostly started coughing or choking. "He was lucky he wasn't on his back in the car or this could have been much worse. When I rushed him away from the truck he'd stopped breathing the substance can slow breathing or stop it all together. He started convulsing we had to hold him down. When I saw the rash around his nose and mouth I checked his air way and that's when I saw this. He shows them a small shiny piece of something in a jar. It was the size of a dime but it had cloth or something around it.

Angel put one hand on her stomach and the other over her mouth. Sally asked did they have to give him a tracheotomy. Angel looks horrified until Luke told them no they put him on oxygen to open his airway and went in after the foreign body with (MCE) microscopic computerized equipment. He asked who wanted to go in to the recovery room with Joshua first since the area was small he could only let one of them back there at a time until he moved him into a proper room. Sally says she wouldn't be long but she had to see her son for herself so she could tell Michael what was going on and that she saw him. Angel lowers her gaze to the floor, springs up and into his in-suite bathroom. Luke tells Joshua's mother which room and she leaves his office.

He runs a hand through his hair. Angel had left the door ajar. He sees her by the mirror and knocks on the door as not to startle her. She looks up and runs to him hugging him crying her thanks for him saving Joshua. He pats her shoulder she disengages quickly wiping at his coat apologizing for getting him wet. Losing his professionally crafted detached tone. He says "Please don't apologize to me. Or thank me I did my job." She looks up at him he couldn't look her in the eye. "If anyone deserves thanks and apology it would be from me to you. Your family is very powerful thank you for not closing me down after Barns. I'm so sorry that it happened at all." She shivered he was making her uncomfortable. Sighing he says "Angel for his stay here I'm having Joshua placed in the room Chase was in. Considering this all started with someone kidnapping him. I gambled enough tonight by hitting that car I could have made matters worse. I'm not taking any more chances."

Angel stops him with a hand over his mouth which reminded him of them as children. She removes her hand. "Luke please stop. As far as I am concerned Barns isn't part of your network." She looks at his fading bruise over his right eye from his fight with Barns "I would be shooting myself in the foot if I got you closed down. Who would have saved Joshua? Call it laziness on my part who would deliver my baby boy I don't want to have to find another doctor. My doctor was rendered unconscious by that filth. Call it what you want, you said you took a gamble. I think of it as you making a snap decision to save three people Joshua, myself, and my child. Without you there Joshua would have died. I was heading to that car to save his life. From what you just told us in there, there wouldn't have been anything I could have done. I almost didn't answer the phone. I could have killed him." She trembled she'd been about to let the second call go to voice mail. Why because she was mad that he had scared her and left. Luke tells her to calm down as he reaches over and grabs a bag cracks it on the counter and presses it into her hand. Telling her she looked flush. She put the now cold pack on her neck and sits down on chair near the shower.

"Looks like we both saved him. He's a little lethargic right now but that's because of the med we had to administer to numb the area. He's going to be okay. Are you?" She nods her head and takes deep breathes. Luke didn't leave that bathroom until her color went back to normal and she asked him for privacy. He leaves telling her if she felt sick or anything pull the cord.

Joshua wakes in recovery to the feel of someone holding his hand. They'd put an oxygen mask on him. He turns his head slowly and is first disappointed that it wasn't Angel but then grateful someone was here for him. His mother, her eyes tear up as she runs her hand down the side of his face. "Hey" he quickly found out, talking was a BIG no-no. It suddenly felt like he'd swallowed a pack of needles all at once. He gagged in pain rising his head off the bed with eyes screwed shut. He opens his eyes at his mother's abrupt command for him to do so. He knew she was scared because she said it in Spanish. A language she only used around her parents or when she was upset. Most of the time her accent wasn't even noticeable. His chest hurt after that movement. Okay don't talk, check. Don't move, also check. He thinks to himself.

She had seen his fleeting disappointment when he first saw her. "Don't worry son she's here. I love you so much my baby boy. I just had to see you for myself. We are going to be in town for a few more days. I wanted me to be the first person you saw. I heard we are three of a kind I didn't know your girl knows Spanish or could hear so well." Sally sighs when he turns his head away from her touch he was now looking at the ceiling. "Your sister is here to see her baby brother." Sally says wistfully "She said it just like that. She didn't call you anything but her baby brother. Joshua you don't have to speak to me aloud I can read lips."

He turns back to his mother and mouths. "I don't want her anywhere near me when I can't defend myself." Sally tells him Cassandra wanted to come back here first. She speaks on how his sister went as far as to say that her and her mother should be the first to see her baby brother. He mouths "I don't trust her she is up to something." She tells him not to be like that. He mouths "What'd you say to Angel in Spanish?" She tries to explain it away saying she wasn't talking to Angela and that she was looking out for her baby boy. When she told of how she said Angel should understand if she was going to be any kind of parent. Joshua tugs his hand out of hers. He mouths slowly "She is already worried about being a good wife and mother. Look at her mother. This stuff is because of her mother. It's bad enough. You called her out of her name. What did she say to you when she heard you?"

"That's just it honey I didn't know she knew what I was saying. Hell I didn't know she was upset. I just thought she had to pee or something. She hasn't said anything to me and I hope she gets over her mad. I don't need her bringing any negativity back with you. If she's mad at me, I wish she'd just speak up and get it all out. I want us to be able to move on. I'm still mad that she didn't tell us you were kidnapped. Her sister came in we didn't even know you had left the house. Until you were back and then this happens. There's something about that house as bad as that car looks you would have thought we would have heard something."

Joshua smiles and mouths "Musician's dream house Soundproofing." His smile fades. "Angel didn't know I had been abducted until the guy called her wanting to trade herself for my life. They were going to take her and when she got to a point that they thought they could take the baby they would have tried then killed her." He yarns and controls the exhale so it wouldn't hurt as much. Sally says that Angel could visit after he got some sleep and moved to a different room. "Not your call." She stands then bends down and kisses his forehead after moving his bangs out of his face. She tells him goodnight. "Goodnight mom love you"

Luke had went out in the waiting room and told them an abbreviated version of what he told Angel and Sally. Bobby asks where Angel is. "She's safe she in my office. After she visits with Joshua she'll come back out or go up to the room with him. I'll send someone to come and get you all. I ask that there not be more than three of you in the room at a time. To Bobby and Jonathon it's the same room that Chase had."

Sally walks out into the hall and thanks a higher power that her son made it through this. She sees Angela exit the doctor's office. She didn't want her upsetting Joshua over her comments. One wasn't even meant for her to hear or understand. The other statement about knowing what your child would be around was a legitimate statement that she could have worded better at another time. She didn't like the fact that Angel ignored her and stared off into space. "Angela may I have a quick word with you?" The girl was not even looking at her. As she was about to walk around her Sally stepped in her path. Angel steps back.

Since she didn't have her sunglasses, Sally was now blocking the damn door. She didn't like conflict and wasn't here in this hallway to do anything but get to Joshua. She stayed in Luke's office texting Candy and Sophie 30 minutes. Now what was it going to take to get pass this Sphinx? Angel meets her gaze as she's seen Sophie do when in a meeting with the partners. "Sure." Sally says she didn't even know Angel had understood her statement until Candy told her.

"Look, I have an answer for you. I don't mop my floors. Therefore I didn't know what the cleaning service used. Since you want to slam my parenting before my boy even comes out. I made it my mission to find out what Ivey Cleanup uses when cleaning homes." Angel smiles at the mildly surprised look on Sally's face. "Since you were so concerned with what is on my floor." Angel pulls up an invoice on her phone. "Let's see the kitchen is steam cleaned and waxed everyone two weeks." Angel reads off everything from walls to windows and what is purchased and used where. "I hope this has been as much of a learning exercise for you as it has for me. You know what this tells me. This tells me that most of the stuff I read off is branded by Ivey Cleanup and all of their products contain stuff like vinegar or extremely hot water. So I may not clean my own home but my husband and my child will be safe." Sophie had given her the idea about the invoice and also told her to tell Sally how she felt saying that if the woman was as stable as she appeared it would show her that Angel could speak up for herself just chose not to scream it to the roof tops as she was probably accustomed to by Cassandra's loud ass. "One more thing. It really shocked and pissed me off that you, called me and un-domestic cow. I'm not a cow. I'm not totally un-domestic either. I know how to do light house work and I can cook ask Joshua. So we stand at a crossroads. My sister calls you stable, before your comment, I called you kind. Candy worded it best she says please be one or the other. If you are totally flipping the switch to monster in law, we live in two different states. Let me know so I can stay out of your way. If you were just tired and stressed as we all are and you will soon return to normal Sally Lu Davenport. Then welcome back to the land of the sane."

Sally eyes narrow. "Your mad, well so am I. They were after you. They should have kidnapped you and left my baby alone. At least they wouldn't have tried to kill you tonight. They ALMOST TOOK MY BOY FROM ME OVER YOU. Joshua heard the man offer you a choice. LIVE or DIe" When Angel tells her what happen from her point of view. Cold water is thrown on Sally's anger. Sally put it together as Angel picked live, and started out to get in the car but the man that saved her Joshua's life was the same that took Angel's choice from her. His intervention saved them all. "That is why you were screaming live?" Sally says in a subdued tone. Angel hugs herself and nods. So we both lost our mind tonight. It just took me longer to get back on the sane train. She thinks to herself. When she sees Angel shiver she holds her arms out. Angel steps another 3 feet away. "I'm Sally Lu Davenport I don't want the stigma of being a monster –in-law from what you just told me we both lost it a little tonight. I'm older so it took me longer to hop back in to sanity. Come here I'm so sorry. Will you ever forgive me?" When Angel doesn't walk towards her, Sally drops her arms as she asks "What can I do to make it up to you?" Sally steps forward and wipes a tear off her face Angel flinches away from her touch.

This was too soon and too familiar like with Sophia in the hotel when she set her up. Taking a deep breath Angel says "I forgive you, I'm not trying to be mean but please don't touch me. As far as what you can do for me. Can you please stop blocking my path to Joshua?" Sally moves out of the way.

Angel slowly walks closer to the bed. His eyes were closed. When she sits in the seat next to his bed she laid her hand on his. He turns his head and looks at her surprise played over his features. The rash had spread since she last seen him, it was on his cheek bones and went clear down over his chin into his chin strap. The oxygen mask covers his lips and nose. "If I hug you, will I hurt you?"

He slowly moves his head from side to side. She stands and hugs him gently he found out that he could move without pain just not quickly, talking was still a no. He didn't know how much he needed this contact until now. He slowly places his hand on her back. He soon lets her go and she sits next to the bed. He'd heard his mother outside his door giving her a hard time. When she went quiet he thought she had left at that point he felt so alone. He just knew his mother had run her off and when he heard the door open he didn't want to see his mother he'd closed his eyes. When he smelled Angel's jasmine he opened his eyes and his good luck charm was right by his side. Her shirt was stretched to hell. She softly hesitantly trails his cheek. She was afraid of hurting him.

Angel puts her hand in his and with her other hand she runs a feather like touch down his cheek. He moves his face into her touch closing his eyes. She whispers "I love you so much. Joshua, Luke is going to move you tonight into the room Chase was in. You'll be safe." He opens his eyes wide squeezing her hand and mouthed please don't leave me. If it was anyone else she wouldn't know what he said. Over the years they'd had whole vid chat conversations with his phone messing the sound up and she hadn't missed a beat. She knew his trait of how he pronounced words. When he got super excited he slowed his rhythm or would stop to let his mind catch up with his words to prevent from stuttering, an issue that haunted him from childhood. Putting his hand up to her face she says "I'm not going anywhere without you."

Luke knocks on the door and enters. "Hello Mr. Davenport your mother wanted me to know it was painful for you to speak. That will subside soon." They look at him like he'd come from out of space. He walks further into the room closing the door behind him. "Okay so you can both stop looking at me like my face slid off. Mrs. Davenport warned me about being too familiar with her son Mr. Davenport. Truth is I'll call you what you prefer, as long as you get well enough to the heck out of here." Joshua rolls his eyes. "Hey I get it she's just looking out for her kid. She's on auto-pilot and needs to go home before she crashes." Luke sighs "So what to call you. 1, finger for yes no fingers, for no. Mr. Davenport?" Joshua makes a fist. "Okay Josh?" He looks at Angel then makes a fist. "Yeah I get it, there's only so many people I'll let call me Luke. Joshua?" Joshua put up a finger. "Great now that it has been established that I call you what I've been calling you. I'm ready to move you into the other room. That way Angel will know where you are and go home and get some sleep, and Robert can stop pacing my waiting room scaring small children and your sister." Joshua makes a fist. The look of alarm that crossed both of their faces when he suggested she go home reminded him of another Ivey woman that flat out told him that wasn't going to happen.

Joshua squeezed her hand. She runs her thumb over the back of his. "Lucas I'm not leaving him here by himself. He doesn't want me to go and I simply don't want to. I've waited in that waiting room for two hours. Another 30 minutes for his mom to come out of here. Then I get cornered into a conversation with her. No I'm not leaving. Bobby can take his mother back in my truck. My father can take Cassandra back to where ever she was, since she wasn't at Joshua's house. "

Luke hadn't missed their unspoken action. "Okay, ok look I'll have you moved, Angel can come with me to tell everyone how this is going to go down. You'll both be safe here." Angel asks can't she go up to the room when they take him. "No, and here is why. That room has no ground access and we are taking this whole set up through the hall and in to another room on another floor you won't fit in the elevator. I don't need you getting lost either. I am going to give three cards to that room. You, his mother, and his big sister"

Joshua makes a fist as Angel says "no please don't give Cassandra one because if she started slapping him or upsetting him I'd have to break my promise to him about no pregnant fighting." Luke asked her was her anger about Cassandra's bounce toy comment. "No I don't care what she calls me, I know what and who I am. I don't want her up there with him. With that card she can get in at any time." Angel runs her finger over the now uncovered two inch scar on Joshua's cheek. "She did this to his face after you guys left." Luke says he thought it was from his abductors getting rough with him. Joshua makes a fist. Luke asked his patient did he think his older sister would do it again. When Joshua put up a finger, Luke asks was there anyone else Joshua did not want to have card access to him. Joshua makes a fist. He asks about Candy having the last card Joshua smiles and put up a finger. Angel says "Candy is another person that I think you'd have a hard time getting rid of but she would come back tomorrow if I asked."

"Okay I'm going to get this show on the road. So I can get you settled in and I'll give you something for pain. It's topical because I don't want to put you to sleep I'd rather your sleep be natural. I believe your system has had way more than its share of chemical induced sleep."

Bobby takes Mrs. Davenport, Cassandra, and Candy back to Ivey Mansion. Cassandra is not let back on the property. She throws a fit but when her father comes outside she quiets down and asks Bobby to take her to Joshua's house saying that is where she was supposed to be. He shrugs and takes to her to Pyramid. He waits in the driveway until she got in, then drives to his home. As long as his little sister Angel was up there with his future littler brother-in-law no one would get access to that wing. He got a list of the staff anyone that he didn't like got removed from the rotation.

Cassandra had spoken with her mother and Candy tonight in the Cafeteria. Joshua hadn't been taken because of Angel. That's what she would have loved to tell herself. All the pieces lined up and because of when her mother said it and then told what Angel had told her. Cassandra had tried to put it back on Angel but Candy shed some light on why he was out in the first place. The whole reason he left the safety and top notch security of that damn house was to come save his music room from her. Jonathon had brought her there but said because of her letting her feelings fire her mouth with the bounce toy comment and later getting in his girl's face, that he thought it better if someone else drove her around.

She walks through the house when she gets up to Joshua's bedroom. She didn't even want to walk in. This was the same bedroom that he had when he first came to stay with them. He'd told them that the change to the house that he'd made was he'd turned her old room into his music room. Saying that his parents room was his only guest room and said that since he'd turned her old bedroom into a non-bedroom she could sleep in his bed in the room he and Bradly used to share. She walked in and memories of her 16 year old self standing in this doorway being look out for their parents, while watching Bradley hit and kick the scared, thin, long haired 10 year old Boy Smyth now known as Joshua Davenport invaded her mind. She wondered was this part of the reason he couldn't get over their behavior. Did Joshua come to this room every night haunted by memories of what went on in here? She walks beyond the threshold. Now there was only one bed, there had been two. Joshua had been by the window. Bradley had been by the door. Cass remembered how funny it was to watch her big brother make Joshua retreat to his side of the room. Bradley would jump at him and Joshua would run as fast as he could to his side of the room. Suddenly looking at the window it wasn't so funny anymore. She'd watched Bradley get his first taste of Joshua's anger, boy did he have plenty of that. Brad knew what to say to get him to cry. He wasn't expecting the fist that came out of nowhere and clocked him in the eye. Joshua had taken Brad down with a head butt to the midsection and sat on him hammering him in the face while crying. It was one of the most confusing fights she had ever seen. This little skinny Chad looking kid beat the living shit out Brad while crying. The real Chad couldn't even beat Brad.

She'd ran and told, and her daddy had set the little 12 year old kid straight. For months Joshua didn't say anything to anyone. Then when he turned 13 they wanted him to stop scaring their mother so they cooked up a plan to scare him into talking. They'd made sure to sing happy birthday and throw in his trigger, calling him by his original name. They should have known something was up when it didn't make him cry. That was the first time that the thought that this was too far ran through her head. Dangling him out the window they'd got him to talk. What he said to her out on the roof was so without feeling like he didn't care anymore. They'd put him back almost under his bed tied up in his pajama top and went downstairs to eat his birthday breakfast. Cassandra wasn't that great at lying when her mother asked her where her brother was Cassandra shoved a whole sausage in her mouth and pointed to Brad. Brad was much better at it he said Joshua was up there doing drugs. Her mother ran up the stairs and stayed for too long and then called their dad up in an earsplitting shrill of Spanish. Her and Brad looked at each other. Bradley was so wrong when he said that the little pipsqueak wasn't going to rat on them. They thought their parents were taking him back to the adoption agency when they walked down the stairs with said pipsqueak he was shirtless. 21 days later they were given two choices to leave or go to jail.

Cassandra's phone rang. Amber, Cass's ex BFF was calling. WHAT?"

"Cass I'm sorry can you come get your husband? He hit me in my face I can't go to my photo shoot like this. We were downtown for the concert he started a mob fight so he could rob a jewelry store while the police were trying to control the crowd. When I told him to put it back he hit me in the face with his fist and walked off. He's ruined my career please come get him sis."

Cassandra walked around Joshua room's speaking in a bored tone. "So you're the reason my baby brother couldn't get ambulanced to the hospital. Chadwick hit you and ruined your pretty face. Don't worry he'll apologize and take you to the store and buy you shit whatever your thing is? Amber I have wanted to tell you this ever since you smiled at me from my sofa while Chad threw me out of my house. While you were sneaking around living my life without the violence, you should have paid more attention to my missed days of working on the set. It's kind of hard to run a camera with a busted eye or a broken hand. I hope you can hear me. I shared too many of our good times with you and tried not to talk bad publicly about my husband. You stole my life. He's your god now. He will make sure you never leave him until he is ready to replace you. With a thinner, younger you. I was lucky at the time I didn't have any female siblings. Your little sister will be of age in about 2 years. Good-bye Amber Denton." Cassandra hits end and takes a seat on Joshua's bed and sighs. Finally she had placed some of her bitterness where it was deserved. She later lays down across his bed with the scent of Jasmine all around her she falls asleep.

Hours later Luke grabs the phone and tells Sophie that she might want to add what was given to Joshua to her mound of paper work. She said she was going to ask him anyway. Luke told her the test results were back on the substance they'd put him out with. "It was oil based paint thinner. The object turned out to be a piece of clothing decoration. The cloth was what kept getting trapped in his throat. His toxicity level was already through the roof if he had of fully swallowed the object. It would have poisoned his system beyond repair. There are only so many reactions that could be reversed with internal medicine. I wouldn't have known what was wrong in time."

"But you did, you sound tired since our house is closer you want to come over and crash here tonight?" He tells her that sounded great but he was going to grab a nap in his office. He still didn't believe in driving when he wasn't all the way awake. "Yeah I rather you have one crash that you mean to do not one where you wrap that monster truck around a tree." He mumbles that it's a Hummer. "Sure dear, I see you got Joshua's mother and sister to leave. I told you you're a wizard. "

"Not me your sister went into protect mode and told them they could come back when her man had got some sleep. She told me not to give either of them a card tonight. So the big one that tried to pull me off balance After I had been staring at a small screen for two hours trying to use equipment that I don't usually have to. She decided to get in Angel's face the next thing I know Jonathon has her up and out of the waiting room. The mother demanded I give her a key to her boy's room and to take Angel's key away. Angel told her since she was the only one among them that knew where the room was they would have to wait until Joshua got some sleep. With that, she used said key card to pass her to the back the mother tried to power walk in behind her Bobby stopped her and turned her around towards the exit even before my security could approach her. Well Sophie dear I think your doctor is going to sleep for a bit is everything okay there? She says yes. Try not to fall asleep on your laptop." He knew he wasn't the only workaholic in this relationship especially when things turned as personal as they were.

Lucas walks in to his office pulls up Joshua's room checks the stats and closes the screen. A lot of the females he'd tried to date didn't understand him or his work ethic. He admitted to himself a long time ago that social interaction wasn't one of his strong suits. His last girlfriend had wanted to be his number one priority that wasn't possible with his lifestyle. He smiles at the memory of having a conversation with Sophie. She understood him. She told him that she was hella busy most of the time herself, and that he better be busy he ran a whole network or at least 5 or 6 states worth. They both appreciated the little things like he'd send her lunch and vid chat while having lunch if one of them, were out of the state. She had to go to D.C. and finish a project he'd looked up her location and had lunch sent to her office. He went to sleep in his recliner thinking of his girl.

In Pittsburg, TX Mark is getting ready to go back on the road. Nat and Ian were going to stay at the house since Harold was in on vacation turned to business saying he didn't like the fact that his wife would be traveling far away with this kind of case brewing. Mark didn't like it either but he was setting up a WWE School branded under his ring name The Undertaker. When Sophie went in Vince's office with him to pitch the idea first Vince tried to flirt with her she wasn't having any of that. His Cousin's little sister turned Vincent Kennedy into a puddle of yes at her feet by the end of the meeting. Not only would WWE use his school for training but also retraining and first pick. Instead of the 60% profit Vince wanted because they were using a trademark and intellectual property (Mark's ring Name) Sophie talked him down to 40% for 10 years and if the business was still thriving the amount would drop to 25%. Mark had hired Logan's company to build the School. He heard about how Angel helped with hiring the computer techs that worked for Sophie and was going to Grandville to ask Angel for help before Harold told him what had happened. Now he was going to Grandville for two reasons. If this case was getting this serious he wanted to keep close to his kin. His house was protected. Natalie was an army brat and a government company man's wife. If anybody dared come through that gate that wasn't kin or friend they might have the parting gift of lead. It also put it his mind at ease that Harold was running his operation mostly from his guest room. He'd asked Paula if she wanted to go with him to Grandville. She told him not this time. He could tell she was nervous. He didn't blame her one damn bit. She hired a male bartender to work nights with Tracy the girl she had managing her bar. Hank was one of Logan's kin that rode with them. Giving her a choice since it was summer vacation he asked Janet did she want to visit with her aunt Megan. She said no she wasn't ready. Janet never claimed to take sides but after seeing Megan's melt down she just wasn't too enthusiastic to be around her aunt right now. After he'd asked he spoke to Megan who said something about Jonathon having a conversation with her. When he first saw the bruise on her forehead he'd got pissed until she told him what happened.

Joshua had finally got comfortable enough 3 hours ago to go to sleep after being moved. He gave her the signal she gave him when he got heavy handed when the nurse was applying the cream. The nurse had let Angel apply the topical cream when he kept stopping her. It was now 6 in the morning Angel sent Bobby the transmission since he'd taught her how. She sent him a text saying even though the call came from Joshua's phone he wasn't using it at the time. Bobby made her smile when he sent back "Angel I maybe your older brother but I'm not your slower brother."

Angel now sits looking at Joshua's profile on her phone. She didn't want to be reminded of the call that was a part of what landed him here, every time he called, so she found another picture. It was one from his Band Facebook Page it depicted Joshua standing on stage with his guitar slung across him, pointing at the camera with that smirk on his face. Whoever had taken the picture had cropped her out of it. In the original picture you could only see half of her face anyway. With the picture selected now for the song. She liked (Love is Here to Stay) but April tried to take her lover away last night. The song had to go. They had been playing around in the studio and Candy had got the woman in the booth to record it. Angel didn't rap she rocked and she had to read the words fast enough to keep up with the beat. Candy played keyboard and did backup vocals and Joshua played his violin. Vash played the drums this whole thing started because they were waiting on Deon to arrive. They had done a cover of Nicki Minaj's Your Love. Her finger hovered over their play session and hits accept. The song started playing. Quickly she tries to at the very least get the sound down it was supposed to go through ear buds. Since she was editing a profile it played aloud. She gets it to shut up but it was too late Joshua was staring at her. "I'm sorry, I was messing with my phone and it retaliated." He smiled "Do you need anything? He shakes his head. Are you okay?" he nods

She hadn't been to sleep. He could tell she hadn't even set the chair back. He'd have heard when she open or closed it. His skin didn't feel like it was on fire anymore that was good. They switched the clear oxygen mask out for the nose cannula, which was why he could nod his head without poking himself in the bridge of the nose. Feeling Angel take over for Broom-Hilda the heavy handed nurse, that was applying the medical cream to his neck, chest, and his face felt so much better. He'd tapped Angel's hand when the nurse pressed him into the damn bed like she was trying to make him a part of it. He'd franticly tapped Angel's hand and she told the nurse she was hurting him. The nurse kind of gets an attitude and tells her if she didn't want her touching her man just say so. Angel told the woman fine she didn't want her touching him because she was clearly hurting him, and that she might want to calm the attitude as she points to the camera. The woman handed Angel the cream saying she had more people to see and left the room. He'd got comfortable as she sat on the side of his bed and rubbed the cream on him he'd fallen asleep. He wanted her to sleep she'd been up from the time she'd woke yesterday morning. He quietly whispers "Babe" she looked at him and told him not to try to speak. He waved off her comment. It didn't hurt as bad as in recovery. "Get some sleep."

She didn't want him trying to rush to speak and hurting his throat. "If I go to sleep will you please stop trying to talk?" he gives her a look. "I know, I know if I am asleep then you won't have anyone to talk to." She gets up and pulls the chair open. He points to the closet she walks over and there are blankets and a pillow inside. "These are for you not me." He shakes his head and points at the stuff and then at the chair. "Ok Bossy" He smirks at her. She makes up the chair set her phone on silent and lies down. She reaches up through the bed rail and takes his hand. He turns the light out with the remote on his bed. She soon snuggles further into the cushion and falls sleep.

Hours later Joshua felt movement. Remembering where he is he turns on the light on it lowest setting. Angel was having a nightmare her eyes were wide open but he could tell she was asleep. The movement was her swinging at the covers she was mumbling something when she says "Why are you doing this? I know you're not real. You're dead." he wanted to wake her. He couldn't speak loud enough to her. He really wanted to wake her when she suddenly stopped moving, the tears remained but she'd stopped speaking. He reached through the bedrail and tried to shake her she'd broke out into a cold sweat and was as still as a doll she closes her eyes. He shakes her harder he was about to hit the damn button so someone could wake her up. She was scaring the shit out of him. She suddenly bolts into a sitting position hugging herself around her middle. She looks down at her stomach, rubs it sighing.

She looks around and spots him watching her. Wiping her eyes she gets up and sets the chair back up into a sitting position. He mouthed tell me about your dream. She pinched herself saying "I'm awake now, I'm ok, and I don't want to think about it." He looks angry and turns his face to the ceiling. "I'm sorry I woke you up." He doesn't look at her just glares at the ceiling. She gets up and walks over by the window. "I'll be quiet but I can't sleep right now" she looks at her watch wow she'd got 2 hours of sleep. She didn't want him pissed off. She tried to just stay up, but she had woke him up with her damn phone. She'd only agreed to go to sleep because she didn't want him trying to talk. Now she'd broken his sleep again. He turns on the TV and lets the bed up a little.

Hearing the sound shut off but the screen was still on she walks from under the TV and looks up. He was on Facebook on the 27 inch TV. The remote had a keyboard. When he entered Facebook messenger she turned away from the screen. He points back up to the TV. She looks back up he'd clicked on her name he was leaving her a message. She grabbed her phone, and turned the alerts back on. She sits in the chair holding her phone. At least he wasn't glaring at the ceiling anymore and he wasn't talking or trying to. Her phone chimes she reads his words.

Joshua: You scared the hell out of me, and you won't tell me what's giving you nightmares so powerful you break into a cold sweat and cry in your sleep. I felt so fucking helpless. I knew I couldn't talk you down and hug you this time. Please tell me maybe if you get it out it won't bother you as much. What happened to no secrets? I feel like you're shutting me out.

She looks over at him "I don't know where to start. I don't like talking about it." She explains that ever since before Vivian kissed him her nightmares kept getting worse. "Tonight it started with the same fight when Braden drugged me in my Manhattan apartment. I wasn't able to move. The only thing different is I can speak to him. I ask him why he is doing this because I know what will come next. I even tell him that he's dead but it doesn't seem to matter. I'll never know whether this actually happened or not he said I couldn't move for days. I've dreamt it so much he and Alice my old keyboardist had sex on the bed next to me, before Vivian kissed you on your birthday. My dream replaced them with…" She looks away wiping her eyes.

Joshua: Tell me I think I know but I don't want to assume. No secrets. No keeping shit bottled up because of what you think my reaction will be.

Angel reads his message. She rubs her stomach "In my dream Braden and Alice are replaced by you and Vivian. Tonight must have scared me more than I thought because usually I'm not noticed just forced to watch, forced to be silent while you make sounds that I associate with us making love." Angel closes her eyes she couldn't look at the angry look on his face. "Tonight Vivian sees me, as she says you won't need this." She points to herself, and takes a shuttering breath "She stabs me as she rides you. Both of you smile at me, that's when you woke me up." She opens her eyes the look of angry disgust on his face was the reason she tried to not think about it or talk about it while awake. She goes onto say she knew the truth and when awake if she could smack her subconscious she would, but tonight scared her. Most of the time the dream gave her sorrow but last night she could have lost everything him her baby and her own life.

He puts down the remote and holds his arms out to her. The dream minus the stabbing was what had her crying in the truck on their way to Colorado holding on to his jacket. She gets up and hugs him. He hugs her to him as he closes his eyes. She had kept that to herself for too damn long. She pulls to get up saying her back hurt standing like this the bed was above her waist. He let her go. His breakfast comes soft food as to not upset his throat. He offers her some she shakes her head after breakfast is done, he picks up the remote and he types to her and she talks to him, curled up in the chair. Until her words starts slurring and she falls asleep. He takes her phone out of her hand and turns it off. He turned the TV off and his door opens with a click and a hiss. Luke must have given Candy her key when she returned this morning.

She starts to speak but he draws his finger across his mouth with intensity in his gaze. Candy looks over at Angel sleep curled in on herself. He turns on the TV and logs into Facebook. She looked at him like he was crazy. He types something on the remote he'd picked up. She jumped when she got a buzzing in her back pocket. Drawing her phone she walks to the window.

Joshua: Please let her sleep she probably won't be sleep for long because it's becoming bright in here. She went to sleep at 6ish then woke up two hours later from a nightmare that's been really messing with her sleep. Tonight it just got worse. Now that I know what she was dreaming I'm glad I woke her up.

Candy looked at Angel tucked in on herself. Angel had told her not to tell about the dream and since Angel was one of the only female friends she had, she'd kept the secret. Angel thought it was probably a bad idea to go back to Manhattan at all. When she'd called Candy in the middle of the night and told her the dream she'd said she was in the bathroom of the hotel and Joshua was asleep. To see over and over your lover fucking another with you right there in the fucking bed just sent chills down her spine. Angel had sworn her to secrecy because she didn't want to make Joshua mad especially after the Vivian shit really hit the fan. Seeing Vivian on him kissing him just made her think her dream was a sign of what was to come. Candy was so glad when she was right about the Davenport having cameras with audio. Joshua was staring at her.

He typed something on the remote and she really didn't want to look at the message.

Joshua could read his friend like a book she knew something.

Joshua: You knew about the dream? How long Candy, how long have you known?

Candy: (sad face emoticon) Joshua I don't know if I can tell you that since I don't know what she told you. If she left that part out then I'm breaking a promise."

Joshua: She said she's been having this dream since before Vivian kissed me. How long Candy please me tell it wasn't ever since I took Viv's ass home was it? I regret doing that shit. I called my self being nice to the new person that was having issues but she flipped the switch on my ass. I'm glad Deon was in the car. The next day she already insinuated that I had been at her house. Luckily Angel wasn't in the hall when she said it. That's another reason I wanted to make it clear if she didn't have a ride she was on her own. The next time I appear to be bringing personal business into the work place I give you permission to slap me up side my fucking head.

Candy: Yeah I heard her little comment about you leaving her house with no marks. If I had not of known that you just dropped her off with Deon in the car I would have thought along those lines. If I tell you this please don't repeat it to her and please delete this thread.

Joshua: Deal my lips are sealed and I delete messenger threads anyway

Candy: Apparently when she went back to Manhattan to clean out her home there. That day she said she found the pictures of when Braden drugged her. Side note he was a sick fuck. End note. She didn't keep them she shredded them all but one. She says she doesn't know if he was still mad at her and did it to prank her. She took a picture of the picture and sent it to me. I deleted it and told her to throw it away. In the picture Braden's hairy ass is laying in the bed with some chick riding him. Next to them is Angel she's really pale and her eyes are open her face is turned towards them and the chick looks at the ceiling Braden is looking at her. She calls it the replacement dream because you and Vivian are the stars of this sordid porno. (Green puke Face emoticon) She called me that night after you guys went to the hotel. She felt if she told you it would make you mad. She said the dream was so real she had to force herself to get up, her body hurt, I think she woke up in the middle of REM sleep and forced herself to move. She'd called me in the middle of the night crying in the bathroom saying she wouldn't leave the hotel room by herself but she couldn't sleep. When she walked out and saw what looked like you kissing Vivian it just drove it home that much more. A few days after your birthday I asked her if she still had the damn pic. She pulled it out and I told her to burn it. We did and I thought the dreams had stopped. Please delete this message.

Joshua read her response he goes to the top of the page and deletes the thread. Angel had been afraid to bring up Vivian's name like if she said her name something was going to happen. He watches as Candy walks over and looks up at the screen she whispers thank you for deleting it. She then shows him her phone and deletes the message thread.

Joshua: New topic I want to ask you something and please don't tell me what you think I want to hear. Or start hitting me."(Devilish grin emoticon) A yes or a hell no will do just fine as a reply. Will you be my Best Groom's Woman? As far as people I trust. I've pushed so many people away that I wouldn't be comfortable letting someone plan something like this for me. I know this is an odd request but I never said I was normal. A yes would be great, but a Hell no would be understood.

Candy: Umm did you speak with Angel about this? I'd like to keep both of you as friends. Yeah you know I won't do anything too crazy with your bachelor party. I'm really touched that you would think of this. I just don't know. I know your wedding date is in September and it is fast approaching but bro honestly, standing here looking at my favorite couple. Seeing you last night and then hearing about how she's still having bad dreams. As you know I was a fan and she let me in and we are friends but if I get married I think Deon would have a problem if I picked you as my man of honor. I'm sorry but the more I think about it. I'd have to say thanks but no unless you speak with Angel about it.

The lunch person hits the door with the cart and the beeps sounds that he pushed the wrong code. It clicks and the door opens on his second try. "Sorry about that I wasn't supposed to do this floor but my manger got replaced. I guess I looked at the code wrong. Did you want to order dinner now?"

Candy was trying to tell the guy to be quiet, but it was too late Angel looks at him gets up and moves closer to Joshua. They both look at her then at the guy with the tray he walks closer Angel says "just put it by the door Clyde" Joshua puts a hand on her arm. Clyde walks over and places it on the tray by the bed and hands Joshua the menus for dinner. Candy asks Clyde how they knew each other.

"Angie here used to be my girlfriend in the 2nd grade. She gave me a valentine card." Angel frowns at him "What it's true? I used to go over to her little house. She was the only person that didn't tease me for being different."

"Clyde you can't believe that we went together. That was over 20 years ago. My mother wrote out the cards. We were required to give them to everyone. So yes I gave you a valentine along with 32 other boys and girls. As far as you coming to my house your mother Tessa Black was part of my mother's group. I wasn't mean to anyone" Candy asked how was he different saying he looked like a normal guy. Angel didn't like to believe gossip but with everything that was going on Clyde had none of his parent's features. For the second time in a matter of minutes fear ran up her back as she pushed the rolling tray away from the bed. Clyde tells her he sees she is just as mean as the others, she only hid it better, and walks out of the room. Joshua and Candy stare at her.

Angel sighs, walks over to the tray, lifts up the plastic covering, and starts mixing the potato soup, sniffs it, looks at the cup of liquid. This morning his apple juice was in a closed container. With a cup lying face down on the napkin. She looks at what she'd circled for his lunch from the choices for a soft food diet. Luke had told her to order her something as well. All she'd wanted was apple juice and a pack of peanuts. Joshua's orange juice was in a small closed container her apple juice was labeled guest and it was in a cup. Her 2 and half ounces of cashews were also in a Styrofoam cup with a lid. Guest was written on it as well. She opens the lid and sniffs the nuts. "Candy, how did you get here this morning?"

"I got a ride from your cousin Mark. I'm still slow what the hell just happened?" Angel picks up the soup and tells her to smell it. "I don't have to smell it, that's potato, that's not." She looks at Joshua then back at the soup and at Angel. Dips the spoon in and grabs what wasn't smashed potato, and squashes the little red orbs. "Oh I'm sure this would have sent you crying into the bathroom." Joshua looks alarmed. "These aren't cherries which would be gross in potato soup by the way. They're cherry peppers. "Angel, what gave him away besides the fact that he woke you up?"

Angel looks around for her phone "His name tag. Unfortunately for him I know who the fuck he is. Where the hell is my phone?" She'd prayed and promised herself she would keep her man safe and asked for god's help. She believed he made Clyde make enough noise to wake her when coming into the room. She didn't trust the nuts and the cup of drink. She shakes his drink container and little squirts of it zip out of unseen holes in the top of the plastic professionally closed container. Clyde was either one of the stolen children or he worked for April or both. Joshua hands her phone to her. She thanks him. "Luke we have a problem. There is a guy walking around this hospital he was wearing a food prep uniform. The name on his suit is Tim. You might want to check to see if Tim the food service worker is on shift today because Clyde Black is walking around on this floor and he delivered lunch it has peppers in it. No Not pepper, Peppers red cherry peppers. His drink has holes in the top I can't see them but when I shook the drink, liquid shot out of the top. No he hasn't had anything since breakfast. Okay bye." Seconds later an all call goes over the sound system with Luke's voice saying this hospital was in lock down.

Sophie was standing at the front desk to the hospital to bring Angel a change of clothing and Luke a surprise. The surprise was on her when a guard asked her for ID and told her to have a seat in the lobby. She heard the All Call and called Angel. Luke must have meant business because her signal dropped and would not come back. She shut off her phone so the technology wouldn't kill her battery. Luke walks by her he hadn't seen her. "Luke what's going on?"

Luke put up a hand and touched his ear piece "Yeah call the police and keep him down here. No, he doesn't work here. Did you find the real Tim?" Luke sighs and says "Good" he touches his ear piece and his voice is heard all over the hospital as he lifts the lock down. Taking the device out of his ear and loosening his tie he turns to Sophie. "Nobody was hurt I'm just glad Angel recognized the guy. Follow me I'm going up to the room."

Up in the room Angel calls Mark and ask him to please go get something Joshua can eat. When Mark asked her why was the hospital food that bad? She told him about the soup. He agrees to bring something that wouldn't light that boy's throat on fire. He asks her what she wanted to eat and tells her if she says nothing he's hanging up. She tells him vegetables steamed if he can get them. If not that a bottle of v8 and a packet of sugar. He asks her is she sure she's having a boy saying that Paula is supposed to be having a girl and she's been Hoovering up steak as fast as he can barbeque. She says right now her little guy wanted cashews and steamed or sweet vegetables. He offers to bring her some she says sure.

Later that day after Luke and Sophie leave the room taking the lunch tray with them and Mark comes bearing food, they eat and he and Candy leave. Angel had done some hoovering herself with the bowl of steamed veggies. Joshua had cream of chicken. Mark had found him and Candy a nice steak sandwich. Joshua was finally resting. She got a text from Sally saying she was on her way up there. When she asked how many people were in the room. Angel tensed and said as far visitors one. She let Sally know he was sleeping.

Sally and Cassandra walk in she'd went to pick her daughter up. They had both pledged to be nice. When Sally gets her key Luke makes sure to tell them both that if he saw that anything was upsetting his patient he would be in there and Sally's key would be turned off and they would be asked to leave.

Angel was putting some of the cream on Joshua he'd awakened in pain. She kisses him on the lips before she does his face. The door hisses and clicks open when Cassandra walked in after Sally, Joshua eyes went wide. Angel mouths that she would protect him. She also points to the camera. His gaze went back to normal.

"Good evening Angela" Cassandra says Angel greets her and Sally as she turns around wiping the left over cream from her hands. "What were you doing just now?" Angel tells her the truth. "So all of a sudden you're a nurse?" Sally smiles and pokes her daughter. Angel says the nurse was hurting him and he had the same woman tonight. Cassandra walks closer Joshua put up a hand. She had to tell herself this wasn't about proving anything but that she could be nice to him she steps back. "Is this far enough baby brother." he nods his head. The look of shock that was on his face was almost tangible. "Last night I said something very mean and uncalled for to your fiancé. I'd rather not tell you what I said but Angela I'm sorry for disrespecting you. You don't even know me and I have given you such a great impression how bitchy I can be. I know it's going to take more than words to prove that I can be a nice person to both of you, but mostly to myself and to my. To our daddy before... I'll be in the hall." She had to get out of this room. She power walks to the door and starts pulling on it.

Angel had tried herself to get out of this room in a hurry when Chase told her how he manipulated her triggers to make her run. She walks over slowly and pushes the release and pulls the door open. Cassandra thanks her. "You're welcome" Sally asks Angel to please step out of the room. Angel looks at Joshua he nods at her. At least it wasn't Cassandra asking. "See you soon." Angel smiles and closes the door after making sure she had her card on her. She waves at him through the window and turns into Cassandra. Controlling her usual trigger of retreating she looks the woman in the eye. "I understand if you said all that for his benefit I'm sorry I didn't see you there excuse me."

Cassandra looked at Angela then backed up. Something about the way she was standing gave Cassandra pause. "I wasn't doing it just for his benefit Angela, I don't know if my dad told Joshua but he's dying. He says he wants us to be a close family." Angel's eyes widen, Thinking Angel had misunderstood her "My dad is dying not Joshua." the look remained.

Angel couldn't imagine her father sick let alone dying. She felt sick for Joshua. Looking at Cassandra stare at her she makes up her mind that she would try to be nice to his sister, but only if she continued to be nice to Joshua, if it only lasted until their father breathed his last, at least he wouldn't go into the ground with his family fighting. Angel blinks rapidly "I don't think Joshua knows. I'm so sorry to hear that. It has to be ripping you to shreds, and it's going to do him the same." Was this the other driving force behind Sally's insanity slip last night her husband was leaving forever and she'd almost lost her son? Angel places her hand in her hoodie pocket and strokes her tummy thinking of her own son.

Her baby brother's girl was either a very good actress or she really cared. Cassandra had to stop the negative thoughts about a person she had never even met until yesterday. "I couldn't tell him, if he accused me of lying or fell apart, I couldn't take it. It's bad enough I'm holding myself in check for my mother. My resolve when it comes to my daddy is about the density of rubber cement." She was leaking again. She wipes her eyes with her hands. Angel grabs a fist full of tissues from the box in the hall and hands them to her. That unselfish action made it that much worse. Angel tells her to please stop crying before she gets her started. Cassandra temporally forgot herself reached over and hugged Angela. She came back to sanity really quick when she felt Angela trying to pull away. Begging her to please let go the girl sounded near panic-stricken. Letting go she tries to steady her before she stumbles. "I'm sorry I had no Idea I was going to do that. You seem really upset." Angela walks to the end of the hall and hugs herself. The jade owl eyed expression still had not left her face. Cassandra walks towards her the girl was shaking.

Angel was two seconds from pissing the girl off she was going to drop move her ass if she didn't let go. When she noticed Cassandra walking towards her with a concerned look on her face, Angel puts up a hand and looked to see if she had given herself a visual escape. Cassandra looked confused "I swear I'm not trying to be mean. I would prefer it if you didn't do that again."

Inside Joshua's room Sally had just told him about Michael. He mouthed "no not him. Not the only man I have ever dared call father" she tells him she thought he deserved to know. When she told him she believed Bradley hitting Michael in the head was to blame, Joshua pushed the tray at the wall. He puts his hands up to his face. He tried to speak but it came out in a horse whisper "Brad is literally going to be the death of my father." She walks over and tells him to calm down. He tries to bring himself under some veneer control.

Then she messed up. "Cassandra was at the house last night." He looks up in anger and mouths how much of his house is still standing. "That is it, this childish attitude you have towards Cassandra has to stop now. She is trying her best to try to get along with you. She didn't do anything to our house or your fucking music room want to charge out of the hospital and check for yourself? Cassandra said you must have made it inside because her old bedroom was locked so mission accomplished it almost cost you your life but you locked what was dear to you. She said you knew Bradley was on drugs. Is that true that your funky little band was more important than your family? Cass says she begged you on many different occasions and you hung up each time." He mouthed she called him once and he let her speak then hung up. "You could have saved my husband's life." She started slapping him he grabs her wrist she yanked her wrist out of his grip and slapped him even harder repeating that it was his fault. She stopped hitting him and screaming at him looking at the angry marks she made on his face and she'd tagged him in the chest a few times. What made her stop was fear he'd stopped trying to defend himself he'd been crying and trying to cover his face he'd passed out. "Joshua Oh my god I'm sorry."

She was about to say something else when security charged in and grabbed her Luke ran in the room. "Get her and that Fucking Tank she calls a Daughter out of my hospital." He snatches the badge around her neck so harshly that the leather strap snapped.

Joshua felt alone sitting in his room. He reflected on what the hell happened. It wasn't Sally's blows only that sent him out, trying to restrain her hurt like a son of a bitch. The strain of that and him trying to yell for her to please stop was just too much. He saw spots before his eyes when she hit him in his chest. The next thing Joshua knew he was waking up. Luke had turned up his oxygen and put him back on the face mask. Sally the woman that saved him from that shit when he was a kid had made fun of him for going home the night he was kidnapped. Just because Cassandra hadn't did anything in less than 7 hours and put it her head that he could have saved Michael. Sally called him on the hospital phone he texted Angel what he wanted to say. He told her they could have the fucking house back. Just when he got out let him get his shit. He balled Angel out for trying to not curse at Sally. Angel said she wasn't going to curse out his mother saying she was angry too. She felt like it was a set-up that Sally asked her out of the room, tells him about Michael, blames it on him and then starts beating on him. He'd texted for Angel to leave and she'd left. After he calmed back down and was sitting there in the room alone. 5 hours later he asked Angel on Facebook messenger if she could come back.

She told him if it was time to talk fine. If he was just going to put her out again she wasn't going through that again. She asked him a question that got him to thinking. She asked what if the roles were reversed how he would feel. She said Family ties were sticky at best then she reminded him of the time he thought his interference was what she wanted and how badly their relationship with Jonathon would have tanked if when Jonathon shook her because of a comment she made that scared him, if Joshua had of intervened the day he proposed to her. He'd saw her point he Facebooked her to please come back to the room. When she came back in the room 10 minutes later he messaged her asking where she was.

Angel reads his message and then looks back at him "You told me to leave the room. I left the room, the night tech and I had lots of conversations." She points back to the camera set up. "I've been in Luke's observation room. You were pissed and if I had of stayed you would have either shut me out, or got more pissed. I figured I'd leave before you said something out of anger that you couldn't take back. I'm not here to fight with you. I understand you were or are sad, angry and a little confused. The reason behind me not leaving the hospital is because I came here with you because I love you, and I told you I would not leave you here alone."

Joshua felt about 2 inches tall right about now. He thought she went home. She'd been still near in the next room in fact. Now she stood by the door. He texted something to her, she read his message. "I'm fine he's fine" she then walks over and sits in the seat next to his bed. She could not look at his face. His family had to be one of the most physical bunch, she had witnessed. If they weren't scratching people, they were slapping and hitting each other. Not to mention the overwhelming amount of throwing out the words I'm sorry like Frisbees then wanting instant acceptance or trust returned Cassandra hugging her while Sally was in here beating on him made her feel used. He wanted her to cuss his mother if they ever made up she didn't want to be something his mother could hold over him saying she curse me out. When he told her to leave something snapped and she just walked out of his room. She turned off her phone and walked into the hall. That's when the night tech a college student working there to help pay back her school loans invited her into the observation room. They chatted and when she was accepting the girl on Facebook on to the band page she got his message. It was 3 in the morning and she responded because one he was still up and two she wanted to go back in there. She didn't do conflict well and she really didn't want to fight with him. More than a few times she watched him stare off into space. Luke had gave him a breathing treatment to make sure his pathways stayed clear. That morning he texted and she spoke to him.

5 days later Luke took the mask back off. The cream was starting to take away the chemical reaction on his skin so the rash that had turned half of his face from to chin to cheekbone red, was returning to his coloring. The bruising from Cass scratching him and his mother hitting him started to fade as well. Beside texting her he really hadn't texted or said anything to anyone. Vash had come up to visit told him Michael had come by the club saying he did really well with the place and that he liked that Joshua hadn't changed the layout. Joshua said nothing. Vash told him that his mother and father were now staying at his place. Joshua shrugged. Vash walks in the hall and waited on Angel since now unless they had a key or were a nurse who knew the code the only people allowed to come up were signed in and escorted to the room by Angel mostly or Candy. Since the hall locked from both sides if she brought someone up she had to be the one to bring them back down. Luke didn't want anyone wandering around on this floor anymore. Angel walked into the hall. Vash stood by the door with his arms crossed over his chest. He falls in to step with Angel they get in the first elevator to take them to the floor he could get to the ground from. He hit the brakes on the car. "Little Lady, You mind on telling me why he looks worse than when he fucking went in?"

Angel hits the release and folds her arms across her chest. "First of all don't do that anymore unless you want cops waiting on you when we get to the ground level. Second, I don't know what you know but 5 days ago his mother attacked him while in the hospital. Michael is dying and for some reason Cassandra has Sally believing that since she called Joshua there was so much he could have done to prevent Brad from attacking Michael."

"That's Horse shit, I've had the miss pleasure of meeting Brad he's an egomaniac that gets high and when he's flying there isn't a move that Joshua could have done short of killing him that would stop him. Little girl, thank you for being honest with me." They land "I've known this family for most of my life. I think since Sally is so open to suggestion I might have to swing by and talk to her and her little girl. I can't tell the old man what went on here between his wife and his son. He was just saying how his wife and daughter are getting along so well. Last Christmas I had to verbally put my foot in Joshua's ass to make him go visit his parents. He was hesitant as usual about being around his "siblings" I told him he didn't have to sleep under the same roof just go visit with his parents and by Christmas night after dinner he could head back to the hotel or back home if he caught a plane. His sole reason for not telling me to fuck off was because he loves that woman for her to do this shit to him. Her of all people knew what he went through we hear from him and I don't know how much you've heard, but she saw it they met in a hospital, because she wanted to check on the little boy she called the police for. When she found out her own kids were doing the same shit she removed them not him." Angel tells him to just leave them alone. "I will not she jumped over the line with both feet. I will not stand by and watch my friend, my boss, and my band lead, withdraw into his self. You never saw him low, I have and believe me doll face it's not pretty. You go on back up there, with him. At least he has you this time."

"I hope whatever your planning goes your way, and you're right he does have me." He put out his hand she shakes it, he steps back and walks out the entrance as the doors close.

Jonathon, Mark, and Logan are busting up Jonathan's kitchen for the remodel. "So what are you going to do with this place once you get it the way you want it? Flip it or what?" Logan asks as he grabs his drill Instead of ripping the cabinets down. He wasn't 100% but he was getting there when Megan landed on him she popped his arm out of socket. Mark was having too much fun smashing the shit out of the counter. Jonathon had said he didn't want any of the old materials he wanted a hole where this kitchen used to be. Logan was there mainly to make sure they didn't damage the structure of the house and have it collapse on their ass. Demolition was big fun unless the roof fell in.

Jonathon didn't want to walk in this house and be reminded of his failed marriage. He was doing well in his Starting over classes. "When it is complete I'm going to live in it." Logan's men had already redid the porch. The columns weren't just for show two were but he couldn't remember which two that's when he figured he would hire some help. Jonathon gets a call and the doorbell rings. He walks out of the kitchen with his phone to his ear Mark and Logan look at each other when they hear Jonathon screaming into his phone. He walks back in grabs a sledge hammer and just starts wildly swinging it he stops when the end of it flies off and out the window. He looks around still holding the stick he throws it down. Mark and Logan are now standing on the back porch staring at him.

Mark is the first to walk back in the kitchen "So you mind on telling me what the hell. I'm no doctor but I'm willing to bet having a sledge hammer fall on your head isn't the most pleasant feeling in the world. This is supposed to be controlled demolition not just trash the house and hope for the best."

Breathing hard Jonathon wipes his face with a towel "I have to go their messing with my livelihood I have to get this settled once and for all. I'm not a fucking puppet on a string either follow the contract, or no, not all this in between." Mark tells him to go ahead and he and Logan would finish at the very least the kitchen area.

Jonathon drives into the cul-de-sac as Sophie is coming out of the house. "Sophie I know you're on your way but this is about business." She feigned confusion well he almost believed her baffled expression. As she asked him where did he want to meet and was this something concerning personal business. "My vehicle should be sufficient."

That was fine with Sophie that way she could just get out and into her car. She gets in Jonathon's car. "So what's wrong Jonathon?"

"I'd like to know why your bank put a lock on my current building. My equipment is in there the Grandville South location still needs to be cleared and built. We agreed I'd pay off whatever the portion of the 2 year lease is when I move to the new location." Sophie tells him to please drop the volume. He sighs and in a more business like tone he asks. "What kind of game are you playing with meh? This afternoon I get a knock on my door from one of your business to business carriers I look inside and the jokes on me I guess. Inside were Documents with Sharp Banking a financial partner of Ivey Enterprises saying I have less than 24 hours to remove my belongings from 4545 Parried Road Dallas, TX. Why are you doing this? I can't log in because someone told Supervisor Interactive an Ivey surveillance service, that I was no longer leasing the building. One of my bands showed for session and I was informed that there is a lock placed on my doors already. Couldn't wait the 24 hours even? With a metal tag that says no tampering." She continued to look shocked. "According to one of the documents you are accusing me of breaking the contract. Sophie after I paid the lease up for 6 months. I've agreed to move my business into Grandville but I need time. There isn't even a building here yet. What am I supposed to do run it from my home?"

Sophie says "Jonathon, number one Sharp Banking isn't our partner. We just own the building they use. I'll be contacting them after all. If their using our trademark not only is it false advertising but their jeopardizing our reputation. If they want us to take over their accounts I can do that. Do you have a copy of the documents you have received from them?" He hands her the paper work saying that's why he originally put the business under its name and left his off of any documents. "I'll speak to Supervisor Interactive. That I can clear up quickly. Are you doing a session? He says that was the plan but he'll contact his talent and see if he can hold the session at the Davenport. He apologizes for coming off rude. "Jonathon, your life will go so much smoother when you figure out that my dad and I aren't out to get you."

Five more days pass today Luke walked into the room and checked Joshua's vitals asked him a few questions and said he could go home as early as this evening. Joshua can speak but his voice is deeper with a little rasp in it. That worried him he hadn't tried to sing he'd always song tenor not baritone. After Luke left the room Angel asked him about moving into Ivey Mansion. At first he thought she meant until he got this situation under control. When she asks where he envisioned them living after the wedding he asked her a question. "I think I know but I don't want to guess wrong. Why are you asking me to move in? If it's for the protection against the crazy chick or the fact that my house isn't mine then yeah temporality. I can find another Pyramid place? I just don't want to assume the wrong thing and stay past my welcome." She said she didn't feel safe going to Pyramid anymore. It was a place to go ghost and just be with him, now it just didn't hold a very safe image for her anymore. Where she'd once drive there at any time, living there would mean driving there after dark. She had asked because they had not spoken about it at all. She said once they got married she'd have his name added to the ownership of the house. Ivey Mansion wasn't what it once represented. She wanted to stay closer to Sophie she'd missed so much of her sister's adult life that she didn't even know about Julius breaking off the engagement. She wanted Joshua there but she wanted him to be comfortable with the idea. Angel made it harder and harder to say no. When she told him that with him there it made it feel that much more like home not just a house from her childhood. With just her and Sophie there when Sophie went on business trips, it just seemed empty and she'd find reasons to just stay in her room. When he came over she'd noticed that she came out of her room more. As for the memory of her mother Sophie and she had already started making plans to redo parts of the house. The den would be first. "Bade if me being there makes it feel like home then how I could say no I want you to be comfortable." She asked but would he be comfortable with living in Grandville South saying she didn't want him to regret or resent his decision later. "Five months ago if you had of asked me to move to Grandville South I would have blown it off. Now I don't care what the area code is as long as I'm with you and you feel safe that's my number one goal."

"I'm so glad you didn't blow this off. Candy told me that I should bring up the fact that now you'd be closer to her as well." Angel smiles "Something about us ruling this area code" He told her she played dirty and laughs. She was so happy he was smiling and he had his voice back. When she left after the talk with Vash she had tried her best to keep his mind on other stuff. She'd wake and he would be just staring off into space. She would engage him in conversation about their baby or about the wedding and sometimes he'd veer off in to talking about the massive confusion he felt at his mother's actions. She knew it was never far from his mind but she didn't want him slipping from confused to depression. Vash had said that he'd seen Joshua low and that it wasn't pretty she didn't know what that meant and she didn't want to see it either. She must have been quiet too long because he waves his hand in front of her face breaking her reverie. "Hmm?"

"I said what were you thinking just now? You were out to lunch there for minute just staring at me." She smiles and walks over tugs him to her kissing him. It felt good to kiss her back while standing for a change. He was up out of that bed the minute Luke told him he was getting released. Luke had told him not to overdo it since he hadn't been able to get up for 8 of the 12 days he was here. Now was as good of time as any to bring up getting his stuff out of the house. He takes her hand that she laid on his chest after pulling him down to kiss him and he guides her over so they could both sit in the recliner. 3 days after his mother attacked him he'd started getting out of the bed and just walking around the room then getting back in the bed. He would get winded because after near total asphyxiation Luke told him your lungs take a while to be able to perform back to the level they were at to support your daily routine. He was lucky for two reasons since he was in shape the amount of steroids he was given to strengthen his lungs within the breathing treatments wasn't as high as for someone that hadn't swam as part of their workout routine. The second reason he called himself lucky was his mother could have did more while he was unconscious, once again his good luck charm's family friend had probably saved him, it was who he had saved him from that saddened and pissed him off. As he sits down and pulls for her to sit on him she tries to sit mostly on the arm of the chair. Saying she'd hurt him. So he pulls her off the arm of the chair onto his lap, and tells her "You're fine, just don't wiggle" when she asked did he regret pulling her heavy butt into his lap. "No you're not that damn heavy. Babe, please don't get mad, I want, not need, but want to go get my stuff out of my house. They can have the beds and the other furniture they left there, I just want my shit."

"I'll drive you over there but Joshua if anybody grabs that door handle but you, they'll be a weird smell under my tire." She says through clenched teeth. He asked her was she pissed that he asked. "No I understand, I'm not comfortable with the idea of going," He sighs looking away from her. She tilts his face back once again meeting his gaze. "I should have not tried to hold you back from going that night. It was Important to you but I should have went with you but I was afraid." She sees the anger riding in her lover's blue eyes and goes to stand up. He holds her in place. "I'm sorry for not supporting you. Chase always says there is strength in numbers. I won't let you down."

They hadn't spoken about their fight or disagreement. He apologized because he was a fucking idiot. "Angel you were right. I shouldn't have gone. When I got to my house I felt like a total ass because I'd scared you to the point you ran from me in your own house. I'm going to come back to that in a minute." He sighs. "Angel, if you came with me and something happened to you or they took you, I'd never forgive myself. So please don't apologize for having enough sense not to follow me into danger, before Luke hit my car, I heard what choices the driver gave you. In my head I kept screaming for you to go back in the house don't come out." She tells him that wasn't even a choice. "Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm very thankful that Luke was able to save my life and I will have a second chance, but if the last thing I heard was the driver being pissed off that you closed the door or hung up, I would have died knowing that you and my son would have stayed safe." She asks him to please never say that again, as she taps his arm for him to let her up. He lets her up and she goes in the bathroom. When she returns, the front of her hair is wet. He knew she was upset but he didn't ever want her to think that he wanted her to sacrifice herself and their child for him there was no guarantee that they would have waited to steal his son. If they all were dead what the fuck was the point? "We don't have to go in alone." He asks for her phone. She hands it to him. He calls Candy and asks her did she think she could get to Pyramid after 5pm. He thanks her and tells her his plan of getting his stuff.

Angel could hear their friend revving up to chew him out. She reaches for the phone. "Candy, Candy it's me. No if you could get him to help that would move this along so much faster. I don't have his number in my phone. I've never called him, just spoke in person." Joshua gives her a look and asks who. "Hold on Candy before Joshua's head explodes. Vash, I don't have his number, and the police still have your phone. He'd be perfect to break down or help you breakdown your music room at the very least he would know what comes apart and what stays whole." She puts the phone back to her ear. "Okay if you can't, let me know." Joshua makes a walking motion saying he was going to go walk the hall and come back. She nods. Candy asks her was she comfortable with going to Pyramid at night. "No I'm not, but I don't need him getting pissed off and just taking off in a cab or anything. He scared the hell out of me in two completely different ways that night. I couldn't go through that again. I've already told him that if someone that's not one of us come and grab that handle they better learn to run real fast." Then she noticed she didn't hear the door hiss and click to open. She looks around and he's standing by the door looking at her. "Call my dad he knows how to put that stuff together, and ask him to come to pick you guys up. He will already bring that. I've been thinking about it. Okay let me get off here we have to get packed up." Joshua looked so tired. "Have a seat and I'll just get this stuff together. Are you okay?"

Joshua walks back over and sits down. He should have rested up longer before trying to get out of the room. "Yeah" driving his hands through his hair in frustration with himself, he leans back in the chair. "I'm just tired," She put the rest of the stuff in the suit case Sophie had brought up. "Babe I wasn't going to go by myself I can't get over 20 steps without taking a breather it would take me all night. I have one more thing to say about that night. I saw the look on your face when I dropped my hand to grab the doorknob. I expected to see your anger I wasn't wanting or expecting the look in your eyes before you cleared the door and ran in the bathroom. I had almost squished you into the door and that plus just opening my mouth and inserting my foot I was pissed at myself mostly. I heard the door lock, please tell me what was going through your mind?" She told him what he didn't want to be true. She says she'd knew she'd pissed him off and thought he was going to hit her. "I guess we scared each other. I swear on everything I love that I was reaching for the doorknob. I have never hit you and I'm not going to start, will we argue sure, I'm loud and that doesn't make it right but babe you are my lover, the mother of my child, there is nothing you could do in this world that would make me strike you. Please don't fear me." She'd stopped moving all together holding her stomach. "What's wrong?" He starts to rise. She waves for him stay seated. Telling him their son just kicked her. He grins as she walks over and places his hand on her stomach. He felt nothing then his world was set on fire when he felt it. "Hey there little man this is your daddy. I know I haven't been talking to you lately, but believe me you'll hear me more now." He looked up at the sniffle he heard. Angel wipes her eyes, steps closer, bends down hugs him kissing him in his hair line. He wraps his arms around her waist.

Hours later he sits in her truck while she drives him home to pick up his stuff. She says that something about what he said had a question running through her head she asked him what would have happened if she had not of got out of his way. Closing his eyes and sighing. "I was going to grab the doorknob and if you didn't move." She gripped the steering wheel. "I planned on picking you up and walking out the door if you weren't going to move I was going to take you with me. Stupid, I know you probably would have clobbered my ass for pulling a stunt like that." They pull up to the house. She looks in the overhead for her sunglasses. He puts a hand on her arm. "I'd fight for you, but I'd never physically fight you. Restrain you yes. I do need to work on not yelling and that foot in mouth affliction as Jonathon calls it. Everything that comes up in anger shouldn't pass my lips. I don't want you or my son to ever fear me like I feared my parents. She leans over and kisses him saying she's glad they talked this out. "I'm glad we did too." She points towards the house saying they had an audience. He gets out Sally comes rushing towards him. He put out both hands and opens his stance to defend himself. "I just came to get my shit" hearing Angel's door open he says "Angel, stay in the truck. Until they get here please." The door closes.

"I'm not going to hit you or her Joshua" He was so guarded her baby boy. Someone had agreed to give her husband a second look. The same man that put them out of her boy's room had called Michael in to get some test done. He found the growth and said it was treatable it was a buildup of nerve tissue and protein. Apparently it wasn't caused by blunt trauma. Vash had asked her to lunch and verbally but respectfully tore her new a one. He was right about so many things she really had no come back. "Joshua I'm happy to see you up and around." She steps out of his way waving her hand for him to go in the house. A car pulls up behind his. "I see you brought back up; don't you think that's a bit melodramatic?"

"Well you know me and my funky little band." He didn't want her behind him. "After you" He felt angry and edgy he felt the need to tell her they weren't back up. Candy gets out and asked where Angel is while not taking his eyes off his mother he points to the truck. Vash, Deon, and Jonathan gets out of his Range Rover. They walk up and greet Sally she walks into the house ahead of them not saying anything else.

Candy gets in the truck with Angel "So have you and Joshua talked about him moving in to Ivey Mansion? I mean that would be so great I would have both of my friends, right down the street. Then all I would have to do is find out if Deon is serious about taking it further than dating and then we all could live close together."

"I asked him and he said yes. He thought at first I was asking on a temporary basis saying he didn't want to outstay his welcome. He heard me about the fact that I wasn't comfortable coming here tonight. We also talked about the night all this started." Candy tells her if he didn't go upside Cassandra's head when she scratched him, or try to knock Sally on her ass for hitting him Angel had nothing to worry about in that department. "I guess you have a point. He was so loud and I just saw movement out of the corner of my eye and ran. I don't want to start shit but I don't want him in there, I don't know if Sally has some crazy left or what."

Candy tells her "Angel don't worry Jonathon said to tell you he'd watch his kin's back. I'm so excited girl, I'll be right down the street from my favorite couple and my godson." Candy brings a smile to Angel's face as she does her happy dance. "If you're ever unsure or you're having a Prego moment just think, I've been trying for years to get him to move and he'd joke with me saying that Grandville wasn't ready for the both us in one zip code or something silly to blow me off. He really loves you."

"I know and I love him too. Let's go get this over with or at least try to. He needs to go home and lay down he's been really pushing himself today ever since Luke told him he would be released this evening." Angel gets out of the truck. Candy gets out and Angel hits the door lock setting the alarm she didn't want any visitors in the truck when they returned to it.

Joshua hears her truck horn signal that the alarm was engaged. He walks into the entry way and as he thought she got out of the truck. Candy walks behind her as she powers walk towards him. She'd found her sunglasses he noticed when she comes in and greets Michael who is sitting in the living room. Turning back to him she asks where he wanted her. "Come with me." Cassandra comes in the front door closing it behind her. She walks over and hugs her dad and glares at him. He didn't want to know or care what was on her fucking mind. Candy walks behind him Angel was in front of him. He felt like a sandwich his lover and his best friend. They head into his bedroom and Candy closes the door behind them. He was tired again. He sits on the bed. "Deon and Vash are taking the music room apart they put me out of my own room."

Candy says "Then they were following orders for yours truly. I told them if you started getting too winded to have you stop and do something else but mostly stop." He put his hands in his hair and makes a face saying he needed to get this over with so he could take a real shower. "Great so now that we're on the same page. What are you taking from in here besides the commonsense stuff like clothing." he gets up and looks around. He points to his TV. "Um okay if that can ride in Angel's truck." When Angel walks over in front of him telling him she had it. He told her he could do it. "Joshua how about you unhook it, and I have someone that isn't just getting out of the hospital, or pregnant come take it to the truck when you're done? Hmm it looks like we won't need to do that anyway. A moving truck just pulled up. Here comes Bobby."

In 2 hours flat they had everything Joshua had bought was given or wanted from his old house with the exception of one item. Cassandra told him she wanted his dream catcher he told her, he didn't care. His father wanted to know if he was feeling alright Joshua hugged his dad and told him fine. Cassandra had insisted on helping saying she just wanted what was best for her baby brother. Joshua had thanked her. She told him he didn't have to leave. "No offense but I still wouldn't feel comfortable sleeping here with you or her here." She plays dumb and says in a too sweet tone for him to ask Angel to leave if he didn't feel comfortable with her here. "Please don't start. Dad is in the next room." He whispers. She smiles at him walks away and says Oops before knocking over the 3 foot tall ceramic bust of him and Angel standing together with the words MY FAV COUPLE that Candy had made from a photo she took of them on stage when Angel first came to the club. She'd told him that since he was such a hard person to shop for birthday gifts for she wanted something he wouldn't just sit in his closet and not wear or not use saying she'd added the writing after he'd proposed. Candy came running in looks at it broken in pieces and it was Angel that grabbed her and him and said it was time to go home. He'd saw the look on his best friend's face that mirrored his own.

Everyone loaded into the vehicles and rode to Ivey Mansion. Candy had opted to ride with them. Since the things they didn't put in the moving truck had spilled over into her seat in Jonathan's Rover. Angel had asked the security team to help get the stuff in the house. She went in the kitchen after making sure Joshua got up to the room okay he had fallen asleep in the truck. He sat on the couch and said he just needed to rest from the trip up the stairs. One hour later Deon walks over and sits at the raised breakfast bar. "I got his prescription filled. We're almost done setting up the sound room. In the bedroom you showed us. Jonathon says Joshua is going to need longer cord if he wants it set up just like at the other place."

Angel takes the take and bake pizzas out of the oven. Joshua had wanted pizzas and Candy had taken her truck once they got the stuff in the house and grabbed a few. "Not my call. He's upstairs probably still on the couch in our room. Let me get this, Ouch shit." Deon walks around the counter and tells her to go treat her burn and he'd cut up dinner. Angel walks into their room with her finger in her mouth. Grabbing some ointment she put on a bandage and comes out. Joshua lay on the couch watching her. "Are you still hungry the pizza is done?" They soon eat and he goes to takes a shower. While she's downstairs putting the dishes in the dishwasher she grabbed his prescription the cream and an antibiotic and steroid mix to keep strengthening his lungs. The prescription was so strong that he could only use it once daily for the next 5 days. When he comes out he looked more like himself. He sat on the bed and dried his hair. When he started getting winded doing something that usually took such little energy to do. He got frustrated and holds the towel on his head with his hands balled into fist in the towel. Angel walks over she knew some of how he felt, after the gym attack by Scott she felt like shit when she got to Mark's house and she hadn't even did all the stuff he did today. "Give me the towel please, you helped me, let me do this for you." He drops his hands from the towel and mumbled maybe he could just cut his hair. "This tiredness will pass babe. Now get in bed and let me give you a nice massage and then you can get some sleep." She rubs the cream all the way in until his skin is dry. When she gets up to grab him a shirt he shakes his head. Saying he'd be warm enough. The hospital gown stayed open most of the time when he started feeling better. He didn't like sleeping in shirts. He told her once that it felt restrictive. "I'll keep you warm" she smiles at him and climbs in bed.

"You always do. Thank you for dinner and helping me out today." She turns on her side he pulls her back against him with his hand on her belly. Kissing her on her nape he says in a sleepy tone. "Now maybe we all can get some sleep. Love you my Angel. Daddy loves you son." He was then rewarded with something that shocked them both movements. His son must have heard him because he kicked. "Get your soccer mom outfit ready." He yarns "I think we have a pro on our hands." They both soon drift off to sleep.

Author note: Thanks to my betas and my new readers I hope you enjoyed this chapter there is more to come soon. I had some CPU issues but I will be posting more frequently. Please read and review: End Note