AN-Hey, this is a sequel to chapter 351, where Ashton got her heart broken when her boyfriend cheated on her and Sam said she'd make a call to Uncle Carmine to take care of it.

Poker

"-And he never even saw it coming," Sam's Uncle Carmine laughed as he sat on Sam and Freddie's couch.

"Ha! What a moron!" Sam grinned. "Who doesn't check their back seat for wasps nest, right baby?"

"Well…now I will," Freddie said, chuckling nervously.

"I'm so glad you made parole, Uncle Carmine," Sam said happily.

"So am I, my cell mate was starting to get under my skin," Carmine told her. "Guy was a computer hacker…I had to listen to him ramble on and on about computers day in and day out! Do you have any idea how annoying that is?"

"I have a pretty good idea," Sam said, looking over at Freddie.

"So where are the kids?" Carmine asked, clapping his hands together. "I want to see them!"

"Well, Jason's actually still down at Cal Tech," Sam said. "And Tyler won't be home until around dinner time because he has baseball practice right after school, but the twins should be here any minute…"

Sure enough, right on cue, Emma and Ashton walked into the house, along with Emma's boyfriend, Quincy.

"Whoa!" Ashton exclaimed, catching sight of Carmine. "Uncle Carmine!"

"No way!" Emma grinned as her and her sister ran over to their uncle and throwing their arms around him.

"There are my girls!" Carmine said, getting to his feet.

"So did you make parole?" Emma asked excitedly. "Do you have any cool prison stories for me? Did you bring brass knuckles?"

"They don't hug me when they come home from school," Freddie mumbled. "They don't even acknowledge me!"

"You're their dad; they see you every day," Sam said, rolling her eyes. "They see Uncle Carmine maybe twice a year."

"Wait, wait, wait," Carmine said, looking over at Quincy, who was standing nervously watching the scene. "Who's this guy?"

"Oh, this is my boyfriend, Quincy," Emma said.

"Yeah, you know that weird dude you met a few times, Gibby?" Sam nodded. "Well, that's one of his sons."

"Um, d-delightful to meet you, sir," Quincy squeaked, feeling very anxious, as he had heard several stories about this man from the twins. Freddie couldn't help but smile as he realized how much Quincy's scared expression matched the same one he had worn when he met Uncle Carmine for the first time so many years ago with Sam.

"Ah, the boyfriend," Carmine said, stepping towards Quincy, who gulped. "The BF…Tell me, boy, do you plan on hurting that sweet, innocent little girl over there?"

"Pfft, Emma sweet?" Ashton chuckled.

"No!" Quincy said at once. "No, I-I-"

"Because I can make people disappear," Carmine said in a scary whisper. "I can do make things happen that would make a pretty boy like you wet his pants. Like what I just got through doing to that other punk."

"What other punk?" Emma asked.

"Yeah," Ashton frowned. "What other-"

"Hey, Uncle Carmine? Didn't you say that you picked up some things for the girls?" Sam said quickly.

"Oh, right!" Carmine said. "They're out in the back of my truck. I bought you girls some real nice stuff with my poker winnings. Come and get them. You come too, pretty boy. I'm not through with you."

"Um…he's not gonna hurt Quincy is he?" Freddie asked slowly.

"Nah, he won't," Sam assured him. "He'll just scare him and tell him to treat Emma right."

"I did that already," Freddie pointed out. "I think I had Quincy pretty scared myself."

"Yeah, okay," Sam said, rolling her eyes. "But I think a guy who just did what he did to that Jessie kid for cheating on Ashton is a little more intimidating than you."

"I will say, I enjoyed that," Freddie grinned. "Serves that little punk right, hurting Ashton like that. It made the whole 'putting a wasp nests in a guy's car' thing look tame."

"I know," Sam chuckled. "I wish I could see the look on that dumb kid's face…He made Ashton all depressed for a good week; he needed to suffer."

"Well I'd say my virus I sent him did a pretty good job of that," Freddie said proudly.

"Aw, baby," Sam smiled, leaning up to kiss him. "It's so cute when you think you're tough."

…..

"Your uncle's not really gonna stab me all over is he?" Quincy asked as he paced up and down in the twins' room later that night.

"Nah," Ashton said, looking up from her textbook. "My mom wouldn't let him do that. He might just mess up your face a little bit if you ever do something."

"But I'm not!" Quincy exclaimed. "I told him that a million times, and he still kept threatening me!"

"I know, it was really funny," Emma said, playing on her laptop.

"Well I'm glad you get your jollies from my misery!" Quincy snapped.

"Jollies?" Emma repeated.

"Dude, stop repeating everything you hear your dad say," Ashton said, turning back to her homework. "And do you know how to do the math homework? I got most of it, but this last problem sort of has me-"

"Whoa!" Emma said, looking at her laptop screen. "Come check out this video someone from school just posted online!"

"What video?" Quincy asked as him and Ashton went over and huddled around the laptop. "Kid Gets Attacked By Mimes?"

"Hey," Ashton frowned. "Is that kid getting attacked by the mimes…Jessie?"

"Your ex-boyfriend?" Quincy asked.

"No, Jessie the Hot Dog!" Emma said, rolling her eyes. "Yes her ex-boyfriend. Wow, this is great!"

The three teens watched the video, where Jessie was chased hopelessly by a group of mimes, all hurling tomatoes and sardines at him while Jessie screamed in terror. The best part was when one of the mimes finally caught him and pulled out a live ferret and put it in Jessie's pants.

"Okay, this is officially the best thing I've ever seen," Ashton said happily. "Look how freaked out he is! I've got to send this to Clarissa."

"What was a group of mimes doing in Seattle though?" Quincy asked.

"What? Mimes can't come see the Space Needle?" Emma shrugged.

"It is sort of weird," Ashton said. "Funny, yeah, but weird. I mean, why would the mimes just target Jessie and-no!"

"What?" Emma frowned.

"That's why Uncle Carmine was visiting us today!" Ashton said.

"This is what he does to people?" Quincy exclaimed. "I'd rather take the stabbing! This looks horrible!"

"Oh man up," Emma said. "Do you plan on cheating on me?"

"What? No!"

"Well then Uncle Carmine won't bother you," Emma said. "So stop freaking out! And Ash, you don't know for sure he did this. It would be awesome if he did, but-"

"I'm gonna go ask mom," Ashton said slowly.

"Fine," Emma said. "And we'll stay here and watch this video five million more times."

"You're just gonna make out," Ashton said, rolling her eyes.

"Yeah, probably," Emma shrugged. "So get out."

Ashton hurried downstairs, where her mom was busy cooking meatloaf for dinner.

"Hey mom," Ashton said. "Um, where's Uncle Carmine? Isn't he staying for dinner?"

"Yeah, but he decided to go with your dad to pick Tyler up from practice," Sam replied.

"Oh, I bet dad was happy about that…"

"Nah, he was completely miserable," Sam smirked. "So what's up kid?"

"Um, well, Emma just found this video online," Ashton started. "Of-Of Jessie sort of getting attacked by mimes…"

"Uh-huh," Sam said, avoiding her daughter's gaze as she slid the meatloaf in the oven.

"Yeah, and-and I was just sort of wondering…did-did Uncle Carmine have anything to do with it?" Ashton asked.

Sam sighed. "Okay, yes. Your Uncle Carmine found out about what happened between you and Jessie, and he decided he wanted to teach Jessie a lesson himself. So he arranged for some of his old prison buddies to dress up like mimes and freak him out a little…And stuff a ferret down his pants."

"Why'd he do that?" Ashton asked.

"Because, sweetie, he loves you," Sam said. "He didn't like thinking of how hurt you were when Jessie…you know. He's protective of his family."

"He sure has Quincy freaked out," Ashton grinned. "But he'll never hurt Emma, so he won't have to worry…And I guess the whole mime thing was sort of nice, well, really nice. Not for Jessie, but you know what I mean."

"I know," Sam chuckled. "And you know, your dad may not be as…resourceful as Uncle Carmine, but he did send Jessie a pretty nasty virus a few days ago."

"That was him?" Ashton laughed. "He was complaining about that in school the other day! Apparently he lost his entire hard drive with all his stupid games and all his papers for school on it! He was so angry!"

"Well that was the work of you dad," Sam said.

"Wow, who knew dad would do something like that," Ashton said.

"You'd be surprised what he'd do for you guys," Sam smiled. "He loves you all more than anything."