Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Four Brothers. Only my own. :)

Author's Note: This story is based 4 years before the movie, however this story will go through the movie as well. Unknown Strangers is basically about Evelyn's niece coming to visit her during her Christmas break and during that week plenty of odd instances happen during her time of visit. I hope you all will enjoy this story and please Read and Review. Just so I know if I should continue on with this story or not.

Warning: Basically for Language... We all know what kind of foul mouth Bobby has. ;)

Ch. 5

Once they all made it to their seats, Mark and Bobby decided that they were going to grab some snacks for the game. So they both walked back up the steps and headed towards the concession stand, Mark then looked over at Bobby and gave him a sincere smile. "Bobby I just wanted to say that I'm glad that you were able to come with us tonight. You're an ok guy." Bobby smiled over at Mark and slapped his hand onto Mark's shoulder.

"It's no problem man. Thank you for inviting me I really appreciate it."

Mark nodded as they started to move up in the line. "No problem. Listen Bobby, I'm kinda glad that you and I are away from the girls because I wanted to talk to ya." Bobby moved his hand off of Mark's shoulder and placed his hands into his pockets. "Yeah? And what about?" Mark sighed, he knew he really should've stayed out of this but he just couldn't.

"Look Bobby… Alex has been through a lot. And the last thing she needs is some guy to screw with her. I mean she's had that for 4 years now with David and I just want to make sure that if you really care for her it's going to be genuine and not just to have your shits and giggles."

Bobby looked over at Mark seriously, sure Mark had the right as Alex's friend to be defensive of her but the fact of the matter was that in all honesty he was starting to really care for her and for the first time he's met her two friends he was now suddenly nervous.

"Look Mark, it's cool that you are being protective over her but we're just friends for right now. I don't want her to get hurt, I won't let her get hurt and I would never hurt her. I just feel this ongoing protectiveness when it comes to Alex and I don't really know what it means to me. All I know is if this David guy shows up at her doorstep then he's going to have to answer to me."

Mark gave Bobby a small smile and slowly nodded. "That's cool man but all that you just fed me is a load of shit." Bobby looked over at Mark completely surprised, he really was being honest with him but he noticed the smirk that was morphing on Mark's lips as he looked back over at him.

"You're nuts about her. She hasn't even been at your place for two days and you're already falling."

Bobby glared at him and was about to get on the defense until Mark continued to speak.

"Look Bobby I'm glad that you want to protect Alex but before you decide to throw yourself into the lion's den you may want to know what kind of lion you're going against."

Bobby arched his brow at Mark, this was starting to become more of a pain in the ass then what he wanted but Mark was right he needed to know what kind of guy David was and what he really was going against here. If he really wanted to look out for Alex he was going to have to learn what his opponent was all about and in all honesty he was glad that Mark was offering to help him out. "Alright… tell me what this David guy is all about then." Mark sighed, as they continued to move up from the long line.

"David was actually an ok guy when he and Alex first started going out. And man was he in love with her… That is until his brother died in a car accident which he was also in and ever since then he just changed. It just seemed like he turned into a completely different person. He started drinking, doing drugs, cheated on Alex continuously… And after awhile he just started hitting her. For the longest time Alex kept it quiet until Marli noticed the bruises on Alex's abdomen one evening. And sure Alex had tried to leave him numerous times but he'd always kept coming back begging her to take him back and promised that he would change and she would. And for awhile he would stay straight and get the help he needed but he would just revert back to his same old habits. He even threatened to kill Alex if she ever tried to leave him again. And to be honest he tried to go at me once because he thought that Alex and I were sleeping together. I think that after his brother died that he was so fearful of losing the only other person he really loved and tried every way which possible to make sure that she would never leave him. However, it didn't excuse his threatening behavior, it didn't excuse him cheating on her or the drugs and alcohol. And it certainly did not excuse the abuse he bestowed on her. He was just very possessive and jealous and if any guy looked at Alex a certain way or touched her a certain way he'd beat the shit out or them or tried to."

Mark then sarcastically laughed, noticing the death glare Bobby was now giving.

"Fucker even locked her into a closet for two days straight as fucking punishment for giving an old high school friend a hug! Marli called the cops and everything and then ended up arresting David for it but he got out and since then he's been trying to get after her again. I think Alex is worried about you telling him that you are her boyfriend because David is very unstable and she's worried that you might get hurt."

Bobby scoffed, he was more pissed off about this guy then he originally was and in all honesty if he ever did see this guy it was him who's going to be worried after he meets up with The Bobby Mercer. "Trust me after I'm finished with that fucker he's going to be more scared of me than I am of him. Fucker doesn't even know who he's dealing with. If he so much as touches Alex I will kill him and I'm not lying Mark I will fucking kill that son of a bitch!" Mark couldn't help but smile once they finally made it up to the counter.

"As strange as it sounds Bobby I'm actually kinda relieved to hear that."

Bobby chuckled, slapping his hand on Mark's shoulder once again. "Good! But honestly man I'm going to take good care of her alright? I'm not going to let anything happen to her." Mark smiled over at Bobby and nodded. "I'm glad." The two men made their orders and started to carry their food back to their seats.

Once they had gotten back Bobby then sat down next Alex and gave her a small smile. "I got you a soda and some popcorn because I didn't really know what you like. I hope its ok." Alex smiled and took the popcorn from his hands and kissed him on the cheek.

"Popcorn is just fine."

Bobby's smile then grew larger as he looked over at her. "I take it I did good then?" Alex laughed as she started to eat her popcorn. "You did really good. I love popcorn." Bobby chuckled.

"So does that mean that every time I get something you really like I'm gonna get a kiss on the cheek?"

Alex shrugged, giving him a small smirk. "Guess you'll just have to try and see." Bobby smirked at her and shook his head. "Still a tease." Alex scoffed and elbowed him. "I am not a tease! I'm just playing around with you." Bobby shrugged, leaning back into his seat, placing his hands behind his head.

"Is that what they're calling it now baby girl? Because you pulled that shit on me the other night and I did let that slide but who knows if I will the next time."

Alex smiled as she placed her popcorn down and turned her body towards him. "Honestly… That kiss on the cheek was my thank you to you." Bobby arched his brow and then looked over at her. "Thank you for what?" Alex then bowed her head and slightly shrugged her shoulders.

"For being there for me. You were right… If you didn't intervene I'd probably would've gave into him again."

Bobby gave her a serious look as he started to sit straight up; he placed his hand upon her cheek and leaned towards her to place a kiss on her forehead. "You will never have to worry about him again ok? I know you're scared but he will never touch you Alex. I will never let him. I'll be there for you sweetheart, I promise." Alex's eyes started to water up, causing a small tear to roll down her cheeks.

Bobby smiled and wiped that tear away. "Ah come on now baby girl none of that… We're supposed to have fun tonight alright? And just remember when you go back to school I'm always going to be just a call away." Alex nodded, and fixed her composure. She really didn't want people to see her become all vulnerable but Bobby was really hitting home on her.

However, in all honesty it was really nice to have him as a friend. Sure, she was very attracted to him that was undeniable but he has been so good to her so far that she really didn't want to risk anything to ruin their friendship.

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As the game went on Alex and Bobby were shouting at the top of their lungs with every penalty against the wings or every goal they had made. "COME ON YOU JACKASS THAT WAS NOT A FUCKING FOUL!!" Bobby shouted, Alex burst out into laughter while Mark and Marli were watching them completely amused. A man in their row was then trying to edge his way through the crowd and tripped over his feet and spilled his drink over Alex.

Alex reactively gasped, while Bobby glared at him. "Oh shit I'm so sorry!" He smirked as if he did that completely on purpose. "Here let me help!" He said quickly and took out a napkin and went immediately towards her chest. Bobby then instantly grabbed the guys arm and roughly yanked it away.

"Hey fucker, keep your fucking hands off my girl!"

He growled, the man then looked over at Bobby and glared at him. "Get your fucking hands off me!" he yelled, Bobby sneered at him. "Well if you weren't going to pull the spill the drink cop a feel move then I fucking wouldn't have my hands on you right now." Alex worriedly looked over at Bobby and placed her hand on his arm. "Bobby it's ok." Bobby then glared over at her and shook his head.

"No it's not ok! I know what this jackass was trying to do and he's going to apologize for it!"

He then looked back over at the man and gave him a steely death glare. "Now you're going to apologize to my girl here or we're going to have a fucking problem you understand me?" The man slowly nodded and then looked over at Alex. "I'm sorry." Bobby then shook his head and roughly pushed him. "No. tell her what you're apologizing for!" The man sighed and slowly looked back over at Alex. "I'm sorry I spilled the drink on you. My buddies dared me to spill a drink on you so I could touch your chest I'm sorry." Alex looked at him for a moment and slowly nodded.

"Alright you apologized…"

The man immediately smiled, thinking that was it until the look on her face morphed into a grim expression. "And since your nothing but a Chauvinistic perverted bastard you can go and buy myself and all my friends here a beer before I call security on your ass!" The man gave her a deer in the headlights look and immediately nodded his head. "Ok, Ok just don't call security on me will ya? I'll get you all a beer you just need to tell your boyfriend to let me go!" Alex nodded and looked over at Bobby.

"Baby let him go I don't think he's going to be a problem anymore."

Bobby smirked over at her and released his iron grip on the guy and shoved him back onto the steps. "Make sure they're nice and cold too while you're at it." The man glared at Bobby but then started to climb up the stairs muttering to himself about how much of a Jackass Bobby was. Once the man was out of sight Bobby started to burst out into laughter and then looked back at Alex who was glaring at him. "What?!" Alex shook her head and sighed.

"You overreacted big time."

Bobby frowned over at her. "No I didn't that asshole was gonna grope you and I was trying to look out for you ok?" Alex looked at him for a second and started to laugh. "Well aren't you my knight and shining armor." Bobby smirked over at her as she continued to speak.

"Just don't get to crazy on me ok?"

Bobby's smirk slowly turned into a smile, realizing that he probably acted just like her Ex for a moment but instead of it being an act of jealousy it was an act of protection. He didn't like seeing some jerk try to take advantage of her and the last thing he would ever allow is some idiot, have a feel on his Alex. No one would ever take that sort of advance on her while he was around… No one.

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The game had turned out to be an amazing win and the guy ended up buying all of them their drinks and apologized to Alex once again. As they were all heading out Bobby saw a guy selling purple little Al the Octopus dolls that were wearing a Wing's jersey and since everyone was in the restroom he decided to buy one for Alex. Bobby then walked over to the man and bought the plush octopus and waited for them all to come out. He stood around for a moment and saw Mark, Marli and Alex walking towards him all talking animatedly about the game.

Bobby smiled as he watched Alex interact with her friends and in all honesty he really liked them as well. Mark seemed to be a real decent guy and Marli wasn't to wild or crazy she was definitely down to earth like Alex, it really was no wonder why those two had gotten along so well with one another. They finally made it up to him and Alex looked over at Bobby who was smiling at her and hiding something behind his back. "Bobby you ok?" She asked somewhat concerned as to why he was smiling at her.

Bobby shrugged and started to shift his body weight side to side. "Yeah sweetheart I'm fine. I just figured that this was such an amazing game that you would like a little memento to remember it by." Alex arched her brow at him while he pulled the plush purple octopus out from behind his back. Alex's jaw dropped, while Bobby was grinning from ear to ear.

"Figured Al needed a home and what better home to give him too?"

Alex couldn't help but smile and took the octopus from Bobby's hands and gave him a large, warm bear hug. "Awww Bobby that is so sweet!" Bobby smiled, hugging her tighter to him while he looked up at Marli who was smiling at him and Mark who was behind her giving him the thumbs up. Bobby chuckled as he released Alex and placed his hands into his pockets.

"You like it?"

Alex scoffed at him, her large smile still on her lips. "Like it!? I love it! Thank you so much Bobby!" Bobby shrugged, happy that he could make her happy. Sure this was far from the usual, in all honesty he never done this for a girl ever! His brothers were actually right on the dot about him. He could care or less what the girl he was with wanted or would like but with Alex he just really wanted to make her happy. In a way she could understand what he and his brothers went through and the fact that she practically came from nothing and worked so hard to get to where she is made him respect her even more.

No… she wasn't the typical type of girls he hung around with she was different and for some reason he wanted to do everything he could to get her to give him that sweet smile that she was giving him right now. "No problem sweetheart now come on let's get home it's been a really long night." Alex nodded, as Bobby wrapped his arm around her shoulder and walked with her towards the car. Mark looked over at Marli and was giving him a smug grin.

"How come you never did stuff like that for me?!"

Mark then shrugged as he placed his arm around her waist and followed Alex and Bobby. "Because I know you don't like octopuses." Marli scoffed and playfully hit him. "Jerk!" Mark then started to laugh. "Bitch!" Marli then glared over at him and Mark immediately looked over at her apologetically. "Baby I'm sorry you're not a bitch you're the most amazing person in the whole world and I am so damn lucky that you're going to marry me. I'm the luckiest guy in the whole world!" Marli scoffed. "Nice save sweetheart nice save."

Mark chuckled and gave Marli a kiss.

"Yeah I thought so too."

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While Alex and Bobby made it back home everyone was now asleep. So Bobby walked Alex up to her door and smiled while she turned around hugging the plush octopus against her chest. "So here we are." Bobby nodded giving her a slow smile. "Yup… here we are." Alex nervously bit her lip and looked down at the stuffed toy. "Thank you for the little souvenir it's really wonderful." Bobby shrugged.

"It's no problem hopefully he'll be able to help you sleep at night."

Alex laughed and slowly nodded her head. "Yeah because Lord knows I'm going to need it… I haven't been sleeping very well lately." Bobby smiled at her and leaned down towards the purple octopus and gave it a serious look. "Now you listen here Al… This is a very special lady and she's having a very difficult time sleeping. Now you need to do this for me Al you need to make sure that she's going to start sleeping alright and make sure that she doesn't have a bad dreams do you understand?" Alex laughed, while Bobby moved the plush toys head up and down.

"Good! I'm counting on you Al… Don't let me down ok?"

Alex laughed even more while Bobby stood straight up to look at her; she slowly wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly to her. "You're so silly Bobby…" she whispered, as Bobby hugged her even tighter to him.

"You know that's funny because a lot of people would disagree with you, ya know that?" Alex giggled and placed soft kiss on his cheek. "Well that's just because they don't know the real you."

Bobby scoffed. "Trust me Alex this isn't the real me. I'm honestly not the good guy… I've been arrested more than 5 times for stealing, assaulting, having possession of a deadly weapon. I'm not the type of guy that nice premed girls go for. I'm too much trouble with not much of a future; I could never amount to those sorts of expectations. I could never meet up to anything but what I am now." Alex shook her head and gave him a serious look.

"Hasn't my Aunt taught you anything? You have so much potential Bobby! You're incredibly smart, and very talented you can go places you just need to try. You need to push yourself and I know it's hard when you come from a very bad place but trust me Bobby you could be worth so much more than just a typical badass."

Bobby smiled and leaned down to kiss her forehead. "I think you're the only one other than Ma that truly believes that." Alex shrugged and gave him a small smile. "Everyone deserves a second chance." Bobby looked down at her seriously and nodded. "Yeah… everyone does deserve a second chance." He whispered, he then leaned down and gave Alex a soft kiss.

Alex was surprised at first but immediately responded by kissing him back. Bobby then deepened the kiss and pushed her against her door, making the kiss much more deeper. Alex gasped against his lips causing his tongue to now fight for dominance with hers.

Alex moaned as Bobby pulled her tightly against him, but then the alarms both went off in their heads and they immediately pulled away from one another. Bobby looked up at Alex to see her surprised expression and sighed. "Alex I'm…" Alex then shook her head. "It's ok…" Bobby then shook his head.

"No it's not you just got out of a relationship and here I am kissing you I'm sorry Alex."

Alex shook her head and gave him a small smile. "Bobby it's really ok… It didn't bother me." Bobby allowed out a small laugh and slowly looked up at her.

"It didn't bother me either… But you just got out of that relationship and I'm not going to take advantage of you alright?"

Alex slowly nodded giving him a small smile. "Alright… But really Bobby I want to thank you for coming with tonight it was a lot of fun." Bobby smiled and bowed his head. "I had a great time too, thank you for inviting me. Even though I should've beaten the shit out of that asshole." Alex laughed. "And have you arrested for assault I don't think so." Bobby shrugged, placing his hands into his jacket pockets.

"Wouldn't be the first time… I didn't like what he was going to do it was rude and he shouldn't have tried to put his fucking hands on you."

Alex chuckled and slowly shook her head. "We really need to work on that mouth of yours." Bobby then slowly smirked at her. "I can think of a couple things we can do with my mouth." Alex scoffed and playfully slapped him. "Perv!" Bobby chuckled and went to kiss her forehead. "Goodnight Alex." Alex smiled up at him, hugging the toy to her once again. "Good Night Bobby." Bobby then smiled at her and started to walk back towards his room. Once he was gone Alex sighed to herself.

'Man I am in real big trouble now…'

She thought to herself with a small smile morphing onto her lips.

Thanks for reading! I hope you all enjoyed the fifth chapter and I promise more will be on it's way! :) Oh! Also don't forget to review! :) (Sorry if Bobby was very much out of character in this one but I wanted to try and add some chemistry between he and Alex. I promise he'll be more in character in the next chapter though! Once again thanks for reading and giving the reviews I really do appreciate them!)