Author's Note: Sorry about not updating sooner, my muse decided to take a break... This chapter is here mostly to show what kind of person Darina has become since the brothers last saw her. Hope you enjoy! Don't worry, I'm almost to the real story.

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Darina had convinced Connor and Murphy to help her move into her dorm room about a week before classes started and they were just getting the first load of her things unpacked when someone that looked slightly familiar came into the room.

"I know you from somewhere..."

"Yeah, you're the bitch that slapped me at the club a few weeks ago. My name's Melissa by the way"

"I'm Darina and these two are Connor and Murphy"

"Good to meet you I guess... I still say that you're not Irish. Those two may be though"

"I actually lived in Ireland for most of my life, I just never had any use for the accent since my family's American"

"Well... I'm going to need to need the room to myself on the weekends so you'll need to find somewhere else to be."

"Why?" the brothers noticed that Darina's eyes were narrowed and started turning that firey color that had always been their que to leave her alone.

"Well, my boyfriend is in a fraternity so I can't exactly go and stay there on the weekends, now can I?"

"And what if I refuse to leave on the weekends? I live here too you know"

"Then we'll have some serious problems now won't we?" the brothers decided to go back downstairs to grab some more things. They knew how Darina when she was mad and they didn't want to be around when she blew up since they could end up getting hurt.

When they finally got downstairs, they looked up to see that the upper half of Melissa's body was hanging out of the window and they heard yelling

"Look you fucking cunt! I'm going to be living here too and we need to get a few things straight. One, I was the first one here so I get my choice of what half of the room I get. Two, I asked for a room where I could smoke so I'll smoke as many fucking cigarettes as I want. And three, I don't give a shit about your boyfriend. If you want to fuck him here, all you have to do is let me know... Don't go and assume that I'll willingly find somewhere else to sleep on the weekends."

"Whatever you want! Just let me go!".

The brothers looked at each other and started laughing "I never thought that she'd actually do anythin' like that"

"No shit. I jus' thought that she'd just knock her around a bit and leave it at that... Remind me ta never piss Dar off"

"Yeah. I almost feel sorry for that girl".

As they started walking back inside, an elderly couple with a teenage boy came up to them

"Hello, have you two happened to run into Darina Cretarolo by any chance? I'm her aunt Sandra". The woman was almost as tall as Murphy and appeared to have aged gracefully. Connor couldn't help hoping that Darina would look like her in her older years.

"Aye, we're actually helping her move in... Wait, Henri? Ya grew up" the boy looked at Connor and smiled.

"I was wondering when Dar would have you guys catering to her every whim again". The boy looked exactly like Darina except for being well over six feet tall and having facial hair.

"Don' know what yer talkin' about. Me and Conn decided tha' Dar should have some help getting this shite moved"

"Right... How about we get up there and surprise her? She doesn't know that we're in town"

When all of them got up to Darina's room, they saw that she was unpacking the boxes without any regard to where she was placing her things.

"Where's your roommate?"

"Hey Auntie, I actually got rid of my roomate... She and I had a few disagreements on how things would work around here so she decided to leave". The brothers then ran to the window to make sure that Darina hadn't thrown her roommate down.

"Don't worry you guys. I wasn't actually going to toss her. I just wanted to teach her what happens when people piss me off"

"I thought we talked about that Darina..."

"Yeah, we did. I just decided that I didn't want to listen. Plus she was trying to tell me that I couldn't stay here on the weekends so she could fuck her boyfriend... and that was before she asked what my major is. Trust me Mitch, it's better that I have the room to myself. I'll actually be able to study rather than having to worry about people I don't like taking over my personal space."

"She does have a point Mitch"

"I know, but I'm still worried that you might take it too far one of these days Dar. I might be a good lawyer but there isn't much I can do if you kill someone"

At that point, Henri motioned to the brothers that it was time to go and finish unloading the truck. When they got back outside, Connor and Murphy looked at Henri. They wanted to know what was going on.

"I'm actually not surprised that she didn't mention it to you... But Darina has some serious anger issues. The last time she got into a fight, the other girl's family ended up suing because she was in the hospital for over a month"

The brothers both looked shocked.

"How bad?"

"Three broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, ruptured pancreas, and serious facial injuries... The chick ended up having to get a nose job just to be able to breath again"

"Fuck! Does she get like tha' a lot?" Connor looked concerned and more than a little scared.

"That was actually about two years ago and even though Uncle Mitch and Aunt Sandra don't want to admit it, Dar had every reason to flip out on her... This chick was trying to get Dar to join a gang and told her that she was as good as dead once Dar said no"

"So it was self defense?"

"Kind of... Dar didn't mean for things to get so out of hand but she snapped once the chick told her that she she had killed Sheila"

Now Connor and Murphy understood. Sheila was the wolf that they had saved up for over a year as a present to Darina.

Flashback

"Conn! Murph! Let's go look at the wolves!" Darina had convinced the brothers to take her to the zoo. Now the exuberant nine year old was running around them in a dizzying display of energy. Connor and Murphy had been expecting this: Every time that they took her to the zoo, Darina would insist on going to see the wolves and trying to convince the zoo keeper to let her play with the cubs.

"Ya plannin' on trying to keep one o' them for yerself?"

"No, I know better than to think that I could keep one... But it would be great if I could adopt a cub"

"Well, come on then, maybe we can talk to the zoo keeper about tha"

When they got to the wolf sanctuary, the zoo keeper appeared to be waiting for them.

"Hey there Dar! I was wonderin' when ye'd be coming in! I've got somethin' special for ya"

"Really?"

"Aye. We've got a litter here tha's been orphaned. The ma died durin' labor an' none o' the other females are wantin' ta care for 'em"

"Are they still getting fed?" Darina looked like she was about to cry.

"O course they are. I've been feedin' 'em meself an' even though thier less than a month old, I'm startin' ta wean 'em"

"What's going to happen once that happens?"

"Ta be honest, I don' know. They've had too much human contact ta be livin' with other wolves an' the zoo won' let me give 'em away ta anyone... Those damn greedy bastards. Their actually askin' for five hundred pounds for each one... An' tha's before the cost o' gettin' 'em fixed"

"Why would they need to get fixed? I actually think that half wolves are beautiful"

"Aye, but they can get nasty durin' matin' season and possibly kill someone an' I sure wouldn't want ta have tha' hangin' on me conscience"

"Can I see them?"

"O' course. Why would I have told ya about 'em in the firs' place?"

He then led Darina and the brothers into a seperate part of the wolf exhibit where the cubs were and pointed out the orphaned litter before handing Darina a few scraps of raw meat for her to give them. After a few minutes, one of the cubs went up to her and started licking her face.

"Tha's strange. Tha' one is the only one tha' I was thinkin' o' keepin' here. An' now she's actin' like a little puppy"

The brothers looked at Darina playing with the wolf that had taken a liking to her and decided that even though her birthday wasn't going to be for another month, they were going to be leaving with the wolf.

"I'll go an' call her da so he won't be too shocked"

"Right, I'll take care o' everything else"

When it was time for them to leave, Darina hugged the little wolf.

"I have to leave now but I promise I'll come and visit you as much as I can before you leave"

"The fuck ya talkin' about? She's comin' with us!" Connor came up to Darina holding a collar and leash with a big smile on his face.

"You're kidding! You guys can't afford that!"

"Which is why ye'd better be grateful that we saved up so we could afford th' perfect birthday present for ya. But don' expect us ta be payin' for the food or doctor visits"

Darina then grabbed the leash and collar out of Connor's hands while sticking her tongue out at Murphy.

"I don't expect you to pay for anything else Murph. My dad's a vet and I can feed her the guts from the slaughtered pigs. Maybe some of the stuff from the cows and goats too if my dad will let me"

"Good ta know we've got a smart girl. Right Murph?"

"Aye, now let's get this smart girl an' her wolf home before we spend any more money"

End Flashback

Now Connor and Murphy felt disgusted with themselves. They hadn't even bothered to ask Darina about how Sheila was: They had just assumed that she was in California, happy and healthy. They also now realized that even though Darina was mostly still the girl they once known, so much had happened in her life while they had been apart that they weren't the large part of her life that they had been back in Ireland.

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Author's Note: I was thinking about giving more background before getting to the major plotline... But if I did that, this would end up being at least 50 chapters. So I'm just going to jump ahead to the time of the movie after this, if you have any questions about the background that haven't been answered yet, ask if you don't get your answers in flashbacks that have yet to be written.