2/15/2000, Outside the Grant-Rose Trailer Home…
Michael held onto his daughter as he can hear more cries from Blake. Her small arms were wrapped around Michael's neck, as the dark haired bank robber held her while having Blake's brown teddy bear name Kuma-chan in the grasp of his left hand. Ludendorff police were swarming the Grant-Rose trailer home as they were examining Victoria's body and even outside the home for evidence linking to her assassination.
"Uncle Mikey?" Blake questioned softly.
"It's okay, kiddo." Michael whispered, while rubbing his daughter's raven colored hair with his thumb, before placing a kiss the side of her cheek.
"Don't worry, Blakie…" Amanda said gently, having her hand covering her small ones. "Mommy and Daddy will be here soon."
Blake nodded slowly, before seeing a familiar 1990's pickup truck coming closer towards the house as her teal colored eyes widened, jumping out of Michael's grasp.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Blake cried, as Carter slammed down onto the brakes of his truck to avoid hitting his stepdaughter who ran out into the snowy trailer park road.
"Ladybug?!" Carter shouted as he climbed out the truck and pick up Blake, before hugging her. "What are you doing out here in cold?" He questioned, after noticing she was only wearing her ballerina pajamas with the pink tutu and her sky blue coat on her, before looking up at Michael and Amanda. "What's going on? Why are the pigs here?" He questioned them, before Macey and Ethan stood next to him.
"Michael, where's my mother?" Macey questioned.
"Are you two the owners of this trailer house?" Then a police officer questioned Macey and Carter as he walked towards them.
"Yeah, why? Did something happen?" Carter questioned, while looking at the officer and held Blake closed to him.
"A crime has committed here today." The Ludendorff police officer explained. "Your neighbor or family friend found your daughter running in the snow without a coat, crying that her grandmother died."
"Mother?!" Macey shouted, before running pass the officers and over the police tape and into the trailer house to see a white blanket covering Victoria's body.
"Get back, ma'am." Another police officer said while standing in front of her.
"That's my mother! Let me see! No! Mother!" Macey cried, while more officers walk towards the red haired mother and started pushing her away from the crime scene.
As Macey was pushed outside of the trailer home, Carter placed Blake into Michael's arms and Ethan hugged Amanda's legs. Carter hugged his fiancée close to him as he was devastated by the news that Victoria Rose is dead, when he only known her for a few days along with Blake, Ethan and the others. But now a death in the family has occurred in the trailer park, and now Macey has to come face to face with her father William Rose about her mother's death.
2/25/2000, Ten Days Later...
After the wake and burial of Victoria Rose, Carter and Macey had a small after funeral party at their trailer home. As the party was going on, Blake stayed in her's and Ethan's shared room while drawing a picture of her and Victoria at her coloring desk before Michael walked in to check on the dark haired child.
"Hey, peanut…" Michael greeted while having a glass of whiskey in one hand, before walking towards her. "You alright?"
Blake didn't say anything but kept on drawing as Michael was hovering over her.
"Move." Blake only said, as she stopped drawing.
"Sorry, kiddo." Michael said after moving away from Blake's light. "Blakie, I know you're feeling sad about missing Granny. But she's in a better place, baby girl."
"Daddy told me. It's my fault." Blake said, as tears started to fall onto her coloring sheet. Michael place his glass of whiskey on to Ethan's nightstand, and lifting up the dark haired child. Once she was in his arms, he hugged her as more sobs were heard from Blake while Michael was quietly shushing her and rubbing her small back. As he used his fatherly instincts against Blake, she continues to be the same until he decided to do the next thing if Blake continues to he likes this…
"You with the sad eyes. Don't be discouraged. Oh I realize, it's hard to take courage. In a world full of people. You can lose sight of it all and the darkness inside you makes you feel small…"
Blake suddenly stop crying once she heard the lyrics to True Colors once again. That song she heard when she was a baby, she was able to remember the song with only Michael sang it to her whenever she felt sad and needed to be cheer up.
"But I see your true colors. Shining through, I see your true colors and that's why I love you. So don't be afraid to let them show your true colors. True colors like a rainbow." Michael and Blake sang simultaneously the melody part as they both smile, before the dark haired bank robber place multiple kisses on her forehead and poke the tip of her nose with his index finger while Blake giggled happily.
"All better, kiddo?" Michael questioned.
Blake nodded. "Yeah."
As soon as Michael and Blake came back into the living room with everyone else, Michael grab a sugar cookie from the table platter and gave it to Blake. He decided to give a cold sippy cup full of milk, before they heard a knock at the door as Macey went to go answer.
"Hello, Marcelline."
"Ahh!" Macey screamed in shock before slamming the door in the person's face from outside.
"Who was that?" Carter questioned, while holding a beer bottle and taken a quick sip.
"It was Trevor, acting like the drunk he is today." Macey lied.
"He's right there with Ethan." Carter said pointing Trevor out, who was playing on Ethan's Gameboy as the eldest Grant kid was teaching him. "Who is really at the door? Is it someone we know?" He questioned once more as Macey move away from the door, while pushing Carter away until the door opens once again.
"You still don't lock your doors, don't you?" The elderly man's voice questioned, and was heard as everyone turn their attention towards the front door of the Grant-Rose trailer home.
There was an elderly man who had a few streaks of grey in his ginger hair, with dark green eyes who was wearing a expensive black suit with a wooden black cane underneath his left hand. The two who were behind the elderly man had the same matching ginger red hair. The woman on the left who had shoulder length red hair with chocolate brown eyes and the man on the right had a messy but slick back hairdo along with the older man's green eye with yellow color frame glasses.
"Who invited rich scum?" Trevor questioned after putting down Ethan's Gameboy then Carter stomp onto his left foot making the psychopath yelp in pain.
"You fuckin' bastard!" Trevor retorted.
"Father?" Macey said surprised, before looking at the two people who were behind him. "Cali, Christopher."
"Marcelline." Cali said, before hugging her youngest sister after so long until she caught Brad's attention, and walked towards him.
"Ah, I just came for the mom's burial and the booze." Christopher said, before walking towards the kitchen and started pouring himself a glass of Grey Goose Vodka.
After that, everyone went back to the way they were before the three walked into the trailer home. Tracey and Jimmy were looking at them, as they looked like they came from outside the trailer park and the small snowy town with the way they dressed.
"Don't look, it's impolite." Amanda said, while pushing her kids away from them. "Go play tag with Blake and Ethan." She said to them, before they ran off to play with their cousins.
"Marcelline…" William said, while looking at his youngest daughter.
"It's good to see you again. How did you track me down?" Macey questioned.
"Somehow I have found an extra plane ticket in my bedroom underneath my expensive bed next to my hidden scotch collection and I found a one way ticket to Ludendorff North Yankton." William explained. "So you decided to leave Liberty City after four years and started somewhere new instead of taking a job over at our company?"
"I didn't want to be shackled into a office all my life." Macey explained.
"Now, now, Marcelline. I didn't come here to be insulted by you." William explained, before opening the door. "I came by after so long and I even brought some people with me if you don't mind."
"I'm not your honey after so long, father." Macey replied with her arms crossed. "If you are here after what happened to mother, then you can stay."
As a smile was placed on William's face, he whistle loudly while facing the front door that was wide open. "I had to go by the candy store for my sweet tooth."
A woman with caramel colored skin with long black hair and blonde streaks walked in, wearing a black body dress with long sleeve and expensive winter black boots, as she stood next to William. "This here is Caramel Candy…" William introduced, before the next woman showed up. The second one was a dark skinned woman with short black hair and brown tips at the end of her hair, wearing a short white dress and a fur coat. "This is Spice, cause sugar and spice makes everything nice… And lastly." He explained, before the last woman walked in with light skin and blonde hair, wearing a hot pink dress and black fishnets underneath. "Meet White Chocolate."
"Hello, gorgeous women." Trevor greeted while looking at the way they were dressed and shaped, before they joined him on the couch.
"Uh, those girls can't stay here, we got kids." Carter rejected.
"Yeah, there are four kids running around here and they don't want to be talking to strange woman." Amanda explained, before looking at Michael who has Caramel Candy's attention away from Trevor. "Michael Townley?!" She said his name with a hint of anger.
"Huh, what?" Michael questioned confused, before looking at an enraged Amanda. "Sorry, baby." He apologized.
Then Caramel Candy look away from him as she realized that he was a married man.
"Kids?! All you trailer trash scum have kids?!" William questioned, before he was accidentally pushed back by Blake who had her sippy cup full of milk in her hands and spilled it onto the elderly man's left pants leg.
"Sorry, sir." Blake apologized, while looking at up at William.
"Who the hell is this?" William questioned.
"Father, there are kids here!" Macey retorted.
"Well, I don't give a damn, Marcelline! Who's kid is this?" William scolded, while holding up Blake's left arm as the dark haired child started crying. "This one needs to have a whooping. For messing up my $5,000 suit that I got from Perseus!"
"You get your fucking hands off your granddaughter!" Michael said angrily, snatching William's hand off Blake's wrist and lifting up his daughter.
"Uncle Mikey…" Blake sobbed quietly, hiding her face in the crook of his neck.
"Marcelline Elizabeth Rose! Please don't tell me you had a bebah?!" William questioned.
"Yeah, she did and she's my daughter…" Carter replied, standing in front of the elderly man pointing towards Michael. "And that man over there is her uncle and godfather, if something bad happens to one or both of us, ya old fart!"
"A daughter, eh? Well, I must see her. Does she have the Rose ginger hair look?" William questioned.
Then Michael walked towards them, before handing Blake to her mother as the dark haired child rested on her mother's left hip. "Father, this is my little girl or my little black rose. Blakesleigh Victoria Rose Grant. Or Blake for short."
"Hm… This child shall not carry the Rose's last name. She was born out of wedlock, and she doesn't carry any Rose genetics. And why in hell does she have your mother's name as her middle name?" William disagreed, before looking at Carter. "I would say she looks more like you, somehow I believe that you're not her real father."
"Hey, old buzzard, why in the hell would you say that?" Carter retorted.
"That child does have a hint of green in her eyes, which I never noticed. She probably got it from me. And somehow her hair is black like a crow or raven. Somehow in this room I only see one person with the same matching hair color as this child…" William explained, before looking at Michael. "And it's him… Marcelline, you are still the same like you were in Liberty City High School." He said, while looking at Macey, before the red haired mother places her daughter down as she ran back to Michael.
"You know what, father?" Macey said.
"What is it, child?" William questioned.
"I have had it ever since I left Liberty City. I didn't even want to work with you and I didn't even want to live in the same house with you!" Macey shouted with anger. "Now, you coming to my home. Our home in a trailer park after mother's burial! And start insulting the way I live with my friends who stood by my side as a family and also my three year old daughter that I gave birth too?! Not in my fucking house!"
"You have the nerve to be angry at me, after all I did was brought in three women to help me enjoy my new life without your mother who is nothing but a fly on the wall to me?!" William questioned as he got angry back at her.
"Father, Marcelline, calm down." Cali said, getting between them, before Christopher walked towards the three.
"No, it's alright… sister… Keep going, father!" Christopher slurred, while holding the Grey Goose Vodka.
"If I brought my special whipping belt that I use with your mother in the bedroom, I would turn your little ass cherry red right about now." William retorted.
"I can't believe you you never cared about mother in the beginning… Wait… I have something to ask you… Did you hire someone to kill mother?"
"Why do you think that, honey?" William questioned. "I've been married to your mother for almost 30 years, and now you saying that our strand relationship is me causing her to die. Find then you want to know the truth. Yes, I did hire someone to kill her. Are you happy now?!"
Everybody was silent in the room now knowing that William was the one who wanted to get rid of Victoria after being in a marriage for almost 30 years.
"Amanda. Take your kids. And leave." Macey said slowly as her anger starting to build up without looking at the brown haired mother.
"Come on, kids." Amanda said, knowing that her friend was getting angrier as she escorted Tracey and Jimmy outside along with Michael. Then Blake started whining for him to be in his arms once more, after when he placed his secret daughter down on the floor.
"Michael. You stay here." Macey requested, as he nodded knowing that he probably had to watch the kids along with Carter and Brad.
"Father, how could you? Mother loved you." Cali questioned, before William turn to face his eldest daughter and slapped her in the face.
"You will never talk about Victoria once again. Do you hear me Cali?!" William said, shouting the last part as Cali was looking away after getting slapped.
"I knew from the beginning that mother was starting to grow old of you. She married you and turn you into a old bullshitting ass frog!" Macey said angrily. "That's it! I had it! I'm tired of you treating me, mother and also Cali like this. But you treated Christopher alright." She said pointing towards him who was still drinking the rest of the vodka as he finished the whole bottle. "Get out of here father! Get to jumpin'!" She shouted, before walking towards the master bedroom of the Grant-Rose trailer home.
"Marceline Elizabeth Rose! I'm glad you left home and look what you've turned out to be turned out to be. Trailer trash, just like your friends and your children!" William shouted, before Macey came back out the room.
"This Louisville Slugger will knock the old fuck out of you!" Macey said angrily, holding up a baseball bat while waving it up in the air, before pointing it at Christopher who was now downing the Scotch bottle. "Take this damn wino brother of mine! He should be put in rehab again for the way he's been drinking! And take these fucking hoochies with you, this ain't no damn strip joint in a trailer park!"
When the three strippers were mentioned, they immediately left Trevor as they ran out outside and back into the limousine, knowing that there was going to be violence involving Macey with the baseball bat.
"Way the fucking go, Macey!" Trevor said.
"Shut up, ugly bastard!" Macey retorted.
"Come here, boy!" William retorted, grabbing on to Christopher's white collar and taking his son with him, as he taken the Scotch bottle with him. "Cali Sue Rose, come with me. We're taking the next flight back to Liberty City." He explained.
"Actually… No father." Cali rejected after recovering from her slap. "You taking over my life long enough. This year I will be leaving home, and I'm pursuing my dream as a cop. And you can't stop me from making my dreams come true. Go back to Liberty City without me because I won't be needing you no more. Christopher can take over the whole Rose Electronics Company. Is that what you wanted if I messed up or screw around? Then go ahead, he'll be dead by alcohol poisoning while you are still alive and bedridden."
William abruptly leave the two Rose sisters behind in that trailer park taking his alcoholic son and three strippers with him. Then Carter hugged his fiance and she started to cry, as Brad did the same thing to Cali but she stay strong. Trevor on the other hand was watching a whole thing while drinking the rest of his beer bottle.
"Well that was a good fucking show to watch." Trevor said, before taking a small swig his beer bottle. "I was expecting blood and more violence."
"T, Blake and Ethan are too young to see that. They're just kids, like my own." Michael explained. "They already lost their grandmother and Blakie Bear nearly got her arm popped off her small body. Give it a rest."
"Whatever, Porkchop." Trevor replied.
"Uncle M… Will everything change after what happened?" Ethan questioned, while hugging Michael's legs.
"No, everything will be the same. Always, buddy as long as you and your sister stick together." Michael replied, before rubbing Ethan's brown hair with his left hand, lovingly like a parent figure.
"Uncle Mikey… is Mommy going to be angry forever?" Blake questioned, after removing her head from the crook of Michael's neck.
"I hope not, baby girl. She loves you too much to let you go. And if something bad has happened, don't be afraid to come to me or Auntie Mandy, peanut." Michael whispered, holding Blake close to him.
"I promise, Uncle Mikey." Blake whispered back.
What will happen now in the next chapter of Broken and Healed? Will Blake keep her promise and tell Michael if something bad will happen? Or will Michael find out himself before it's too late?