Goddess!

By DannyMessersGirl324iLOVEhim

Chapter2: TROUBLE IN NOT SO NICE PARADICE

a/n: chapter 1 was in normal perspective but this chapter will be seen threw different perspectives as well as normal…sooo here's chapter 2…

GOTTI'S PERSPECTIVE-

I woke to the shaking feeling of Danny moving my blankets above my covered head. I hate it when he's on wake up duty. He always wakes me annoyingly unlike when my mom would do it, she would just come in nice and quietly and sit down by where I'm lying and just gently stroke my hair and whisper good morning in my ear and tell me to rise-n-shine, but since I can't have that I have to get stuck with Danny shaking me. URGH! It's so annoying. My mom always told me not to mess with him in the morning but I find it fun so I normally just play with his mind and letting him think that I'm still asleep and just lay here on my bed while he goes and gets tired just by shaking my blanket. Although I'm sure he doesn't find it all that fun. But now the shaking is going harder and faster so now I can tell by now that he was really annoyed so I figured that I could just get up.

"Danny is there a reason why you have to wake me up like that? I'm pretty sure there's a nicer way of doing it. Have you ever tried saying 'Gotti, it's time to get up and get ready for school. Can you get up please?' See. It's not so hard." I said getting out of bed and following him into the kitchen for breakfast.

"I would say that but would you get up if I did?" he said very sleepy pouring himself a cup of coffee.

"Probably not. Alrighty, now that we have finally realized that you're really not a morning person, what's for breakfast?"

"Whatever you're willing to make." He answered with a smile while sipping his coffee.

"I can't."

"What do you mean you can't?"

"Mom always makes me breakfast the day of a really big game. It's just something that we started when I first started playing field hockey. You didn't see her doing that yesterday? Anyways, what are you making me?" I love doing these kinds of things to him. Its especially fun in the morning.

"Ok, I'll make you some pancakes."

"YES! Thank you Danny! I love your pancakes!" I got up and gave him a huge hug before I went back in my room to get dressed.

DANNY'S PERSEPECTIVE-

Sometimes I wonder if she is even related to Lindsay but as I see her running up and down the field or I see her sleeping when I have to go and wake her up I can see Lindsay in her. The way her hair is when she has it up or the way her nose scrunches in her sleep thinking the wind blew by it or something like that but I can still see her. Lindsay won't tell me much about her father or what her actual name is. I can't see Lindsay being the type of person to call her daughter Gotti. I might just have to corner Gotti when she gets out to eat. I figured that pancakes would be good for her today. They aren't too heavy and they aren't too light. They are just good to hold her until lunch. Today has to be one of the biggest days in her field hockey life. She made varsity as a freshman and the only freshmen I might add but she has to play without her mom there while playing against some of her best friends. It's hard to do that. Well she better hurry with getting ready or else I'm gonna eat her pancakes.

"Gotti are you almost done? Because if you're not out here in let's say, 5 seconds? I'm gonna eat your food!" I yelled to her through her door.

"You wouldn't?" she opened in her uniform collared blue shirt with her yellow and royal blue uniform skirt.

"I would've if you hadn't opened this door quicker." I hand her, her plate and pour myself some coffee.

"I'm sorry if I had to beautify myself. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate having only wearing a blue shirt or a yellow shirt? (I nodded towards her) well then I don't understand why we have to wear these colors." She has never stopped complaining about her uniform shirts.

"They're Gator colors."

"Not the Florida Gators. They got orange and blue. We're this blue and yellow. It's hideous." (a/n: I agree it's like mii b-ball jersey)

"Whatever. Just eat and finish getting your stuff ready while I go and get dressed." I put my cup under the faucet and rinse it out and leave in it the sink for it to be properly washed.

NORMAL PERSPECTIVE-

She finishes off the last of her pancakes and puts the plate in the sink then rushes back to her room to put the finishing touches on her hair. She grabs her bag, her money and a bottle of water while taking out one for Danny too.

"Alright Danny! Let's go! I'm pretty sure you get changed a whole lot faster than me!" she yelled to him from the front of the apartment towards the end of it near the bedrooms. And he opens the door with this look on his face like he's about to take down the first bad guy that he sees on the street. They walk out of the apartment and she hands him his water and they enter the elevator.

"So, you excited about the game today? Happy that you get to see your friends again?" Danny asked her once the elevator started moving downwards.

"I'm excited as I'll ever be and a little nervous but that's understandable and as far as getting to see my friends again I'm so happy. I haven't seen them in a while. With all of our crazy game/practice scheduele's we barley have one free day to spend with each other and if we do one of us out of the group won't have that day free. It's so annoying." They get out of the elevator and get out of the building when suddenly someone said,

"Rhiannon." A voice behind them and Gotti stopped but Danny kept going.

"Gotti? Why'd you stop? You ok?" Danny asked turning around and walking back noticing that she wasn't with him. She turns around to where to where the voice came from.

"Rhiannon. Answer me." Gotti turns around very slowly and looked at the man that was talking.

"Gotti? Do you know this man?" Danny asked.

"Yeah Danny I do. He's my father."

"And I'm the one who's gonna be leaving with her right now! So if you excuse us I think we're goin' now." He went for her arm and grabbed it rather roughly and started to make it bruise.

"OWW!! Get off me! Stay away from me!" she was yelling and starting to cry because of the force on her arm.

"Hey what do you think you're doing? Get off her! She's not going anywhere with you!" Danny yelled trying to pull her off her but all her did make the man's force on her arm go harder.

"Danny! My arm!" everybody seemed to stop what they were doing and started to stare at what was happening and the security in the building came up to the three.

"Sir you have to let go of this girls arm this minute of I'll have you removed from this building."

"Fine I'll let go. But this isn't over. And you can tell your mother that too."

"My mom's in the hospital you jackass!" she said with a sharp slap across her face. And that's when Danny lost it and punched him in the face. Gotti's right side of the face had a red hand mark on her cheek.

"Gotti, you ok? Come on let's go back upstairs and get some ice." He tried to move her but she wouldn't budge.

"No, Danny. I'm fine. Can you just take me to my mom please?" She asked in tears.

"Gotti you know I can't do that. If you miss school then you won't be able to play in the game today and your mom wouldn't want that. Alright? I'll bring you to school and go to your homeroom and ask to go to the nurse and lie down or get ice or something. Please, just don't skip any classes because of this alright? (she nods) No I wanna hear you say it."

"I won't skip any of my classes I promise."

"Will it make you feel better if I got some sort of detail outside of school?" he asked and she nods. "Alright, I'm also gonna go in and tell your principle not to let you go home with anyone else except for me, Don, Stella, Mac, or Hawkes." She nodded one final time and they finally left with his arms around her and her arms folded across her chest.

The car ride was relatively silent except for the clearing of throats. They got into the parking lot of St. Gregory's High School and went inside. Gotti went to her friends and was greeted by Amanda while Danny made his way to the principal's office.

"Hey girl! What a game last night! You were amazing!" Amanda said.

"Thanks Manda." She said in a dull voice but tried to make it sound happy.

"OK, what's the matter?" gotti and Amanda are only 2 years apart but when Gotti first moved to New York with her mom, Amanda was her first friend. So by now that they're in high school they can tell when one of them is lying. Amanda knows about all of that stuff that happened when Gotti was still in Montana. Knows about her past and most importantly, knows how her father could be.

"My dad thought it would be fun to visit me and Danny this morning. He gave me this little present." Gotti said and showed her, her arm and then closed her locker.

"Ohmigod! You ok? Wait, where was your mom during this?" she never got a chance to tell Amanda what happened the day before with her mom.

"My mom got pushed through one of the windows in the observation room by a suspect last night right before she was about to leave for the game. That's why she wasn't there." She was starting to cry and Amanda pulled her into a hug.

MEANWHILE…

"Dr. Ruck? Could I speak to you for a moment?" Danny asked coming into his office.

"Ah, Detective Messer. What could I do for you?" he asked.

"I assume that Lindsay told you about her abusive ex-husband right? (He nodded) Well he came by this morning to me and Gotti and he was gonna take her and bruised her arm a little too much and I just wanted to let you know that we would like to have detail outside the school and that she isn't to go home with anyone except for me, Det. Flack, Det. Bonasera, Det. Taylor or Dr. Hawkes. I know that's a lot but it would hurt Lindsay to see that horrible man take away one of the best things in her life."

"I will see that her 9th period teacher stays with her till she is picked up and I'll tell him to ask for a badge or ID before they take her. And for the safety of Gotti along with the rest of the students and faculty and staff I will allow for you to have the detail outside the entrance of the school until she leaves. Don't worry Gotti is in good hands. But may I ask you a question? (Danny nods) Where is her mother?" Dr. Ruck asked.

"She's in the hospital. She got pushed through glass by a suspect last night. Gotti fell asleep there and I took her home so she might be a little tired by that but she said that she had a good night sleep and that she'd be good to play tonight."

"That's good. I'd also like to tell you that Gotti is one of our best players that we've ever seen play on our Varsity Field Hockey team here in years. It's good to have another player that has her kind of stamina back on that field. We're quite lucky to have her."

"Thank you. That means a lot to hear and I'm sure if Lindsay was here she would love it just as much."

"You're quite welcome."

"Enjoy the rest of your day. The detail guys should be here in about 30 minutes."

"Alright then, enjoy the rest of your day too and I'll see you at the game tonight."

They both stood up and shook hands then Danny walked out of the office and back to his car.

While Amanda is walking down the hall with Gotti quite by her side they reached the rest of the team for their morning warm ups before classes started.

"You guys ready for tonight?" their team captain, Jessica (Diesel because she's fast on the field) asked them.

"As ready as we're ever gonna be. But to let you guys know, if we don't beat them then I'll never hear the end of it with my friends." Gotti said laughingly and ever one else laughed too.

"You probably won't. But it doesn't matter because in a few hours we'll be state champs and finally be able to get some kind of recognition in this school other than football. I can't stand that sport!" the other team captain, Brianna said.

"We know Bri. We know how much you hate that sport but the guys on that team are really hot you gotta admit that."

"Yeah your right they are." They all started to laugh at her and then a loud yelp came out of Gotti's mouth as someone shoved into her and hit her arm.

"You should watch were your going. I'm walking here!" Samantha said. Samantha and Gotti used to be friends but when Gotti got interested in playing more sports for the school and travel teams they drifted apart and became the worst of friends.

"I would've if you actually did walk instead of flying around on your broomstick all the time." Gotti said and everyone started to laugh.

"Ha! You think you're SO funny don't you?"

"Actually I don't think that but I think your face is." Everyone just kept on laughing. "Oh no. do you guys see that?" Gotti asked her team.

"No what is it?" they all knew where she was going with this one.

"It looks like Samantha got kissed by the ugly fairy…on BOTH cheeks this time! (Everyone kept laughing even more even the people that stopped to watch the interaction) You should watch out next time Sam. You wouldn't want any guys to see you like that?"

Sam got a hold of Gotti's arms one hand on arm and the other on the arm right where the bruise was a shoved her into the lockers behind them. "Watch it bitch! You wouldn't wanna be able to not play and let your whole school and team down, now would you? But by the looks of your arm over here you won't be able to drive the ball even a yard tonight. You're letting your team down already." Amanda got a hold of Sam and got her off of Gotti and Bri held her back before she could get to her.

"I think it's time for you to leave Sam. (She wasn't moving) NOW!" Amanda said loudly.

"Didn't know you could do that to me Amanda. You knew me longer than her and you treat me like shit. But I'll let you in on a little secret. (They stepped closer to each other) We both know about her past and father. I know that bruise is from him and not me. But she doesn't want anyone else to know. It would suck if that news got around school. Now you either start treating me right or more than just 2 people in the school know what kind of past Rhiannon 'Goddess Gotti' Marie Monroe had back in Montana. Do we have a deal?"

Amanda stalled for a few moments before she was able to speak. "Deal." They parted and went back to their groups.

"What did you make a deal about?" Gotti asked rubbing her even more of a bruised arm.

"I'll tell you about it later." They nodded and the first bell rang. The team wasn't able to get in their morning warm ups and they knew that their coach would be pissed about that but they all have more important things to worry about than their coach getting pissed at them.

LAB…

"Hey, Danny. Everything alright?" Stella asked noticing his face.

"Yeah except for Lindsay's ex-husband came by this morning."

"Ohmigod! Is Gotti okay?"

"He tried to take her and grabbed her arm. Bruised it pretty well. Then he said something about her mom and she said that her mom was in the hospital and called him a jackass he slapped her and I punched him in the face."

"As long as she's ok right. Well I have some good news that would definitely brighten your day. (He looked up) Lindsay's doctors called. They said that she should be waking up soon." She said with a smile on her face and he had a smile on his face by the sound of someone giving him good, no, EXCELLENT news about his Montana.

"Stella, you have no idea how much you just made my day by saying that." He ran to her and hugged her then left her in the break room ran to his office to send Gotti a text message knowing she's in class.

Mom should be waking soon!

Stay in class!

Mac's picking u up!

D. :)

He clicked send on his phone and the message had gone through successfully. He was thankful that the team was only on paperwork and the swing shift was working any new cases that came in that day. They all begged to have the night off along with Adam so that they could watch the game. Sinclair had no problem with it seeing as his daughter was playing in that game too but for the other team which was also gonna be difficult for Gotti and Amanda.

As he signed his name the office phone rang but it wasn't his it was Lindsay's. He contemplated answering it but did it anyway.

"Monroe and Messer's office." He said

"I'm looking for a Lindsay Monroe. Can I speak to her?" the woman asked.

"She's not in today; can I take a message and ask who's speaking to let her know you called?"

"She told me she was in today and when we landed to call her office. It's her mother who are you?"

"Oh, Mrs. Monroe, it's Danny. It didn't sound like you on the phone. Yeah see something happened last night and Lindsay isn't here. Why are you in New York? She didn't mention that you were coming." He said sitting in her chair.

"Well we wanted to surprise you, me and Mr. Monroe. Lindsay told us about Gotti getting to play in the semi-finals for her school team and we wanted to watch her play. We were able to see the game last night on the TV. and she won the game."

"Oh well I'm sure Gotti would greatly appreciate it, I know Lindsay would but she won't be able to make it tonight."

"Why what had happened?"

"It's a long story, but, long story short, she got a shard of glass in her back and now she's in the hospital but they said that she should be waking up soon."

"Oh my! Well at least she's waking up soon, right? But it must be hard on Gotti."

"Yeah she took it kind of hard last night, but what I'd actually like to ask you about is who her father is. He came by the apartment building today and tried taking Gotti and bruised her arm rather badly but she's ok. I'd just like to know more about him. And don't worry if you think I should hear it from Lindsay. I can totally understand that." He finished.

"Oh. I was wondering when I was gonna get asked that. You see Lindsay was married to a man named Ryan Nardulli and he was the love of her life for about 5 years. As the same for his. Well, he started to drink, a lot, and Lindsay didn't like it, especially when it could be in Gotti's reach. After a while, when Lindsay wouldn't let him get anymore beers he would get abusive towards here and Gotti. We called the cops a couple of times but Lindsay would just say that her and the baby are just accident prone and the cops let it go. But, once when Gotti was about, 6, I believe it was, he had a little too much to drink before he came home from work and he knew he was about to get fired. He took that anger out on the two of them. He bruised Lindsay's arms up pretty well and broke her wrist. He pulled Gotti a little too hard and bruised her wrist along with braking it too. Lindsay finally had enough of it after he hurt Gotti that bad and finally reported him. She divorced him and changed her name back to Monroe along with Gotti's being Monroe. Gotti rather go by Gotti, instead of Rhiannon because if she thinks if she uses that name it will be easier for him to find them considering not a lot of people have that name."

"Oh, I see. But where did the name Gotti come from?" he asked.

"Rhiannon is a song by Fleetwood Mac based upon a Welsh Goddess. She didn't want Goddess to be her nickname and thought Gotti sounded prettier. Lindsay insisted on her using her middle name but she didn't want to." She finished.

"Oh, okay then. If you want I can pick you and Mr. Monroe up and either take you back to the apartment or the lab. Gotti's coming home after school and then has to be back there for 5:30, I'm sure it would be a nice surprise for her if you were there. Mac will be picking her up and then walking her upstairs."

"Ok then. We would love it if you could pick us up. And we'd like to go back to your place if that's not too much."

"No don't worry about it. I'll just tell Mac that I have to pick you guys up and I'll be right there."

After they hung up, Danny went to find Mac and told him about Lindsay's parents coming to visit and watch Gotti play. He left and went to the airport and surprisingly there wasn't that much traffic so the pickup and drop off to the apartment didn't take as long as Danny thought it would be.

BACK AT SCHOOL!

Gotti is sitting in her Earth Science class staring off into space (literally…they were in the astronomy room with the big projector showing the stars.) not noticing it but rubbing her soar and bruised arm.

Sometimes I wonder why things like this always happen to my family. First I get these amazing parents but when I got older one became a drunk and got abusive and started to hit my mom. But the final straw that my mom had was when he pulled my wrist too hard and broke it. I'm sure he didn't mean it because he always said I was his little girl and that he loved me. But if he really did love me, why would he hurt me. But then me and my mom got away from him and moved to New York. There she found Danny. If Danny was my actual father I would have no problem right now. Danny is the person who would care for someone's child even if he isn't the father. But because I play field hockey for my school and we were in the semi-finals last night she had to rush in interrogation and get pushed through a window. I just feel like it's my fault. Then how come leaving the building this morning HE has to come back and ruin everything. He hurt me again TWICE within like 5 minutes. First my arm and then my face. I just want everything to be okay again but with Danny as my biological father. Gotti was thinking to herself. She was brought out of it by a tapping on her shoulder. She turned to the person next to her who passed her a note on a piece of folded up paper.

Hey. R u ok? Ur arm doesn't seem 2 b looking ok. U should go 2 the nurse. Get some ice

~Lucas

She responded.

Hey. Don't worry bout it. I'm fine. I just don't no how good I'll b 4 2nite. I need 2 practice b4 the game to see.

~Gotti

Well, if you need someone's help I'm always here for u Gotti. I got ur back, just not on the field…l0l…:]

~Lucas

Thnxs Luke. I'll keep that in mind. Actually u wanna help me during lunch today. We'll go 2 ganzel and ask him if we could take 2 sticks and a ball…DON'T EVN THINK BOUT SAYING WAT I NO UR GONNA SAY! GET UR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!

~Gotti

Sure and I wasn't gonna say anything like that…l0l…cough cough maybe cough cough…l0l

~Lucas

The bell rang but the two kids didn't get up to leave they just kept on staring at each other. As they finally got up to leave at the same time, Gotti got called to the principal's office.

"I'll see you lata Luke. Tell the teacher where I am for me?" she asked.

"Sure. No probs." And with that they went their separate ways. She made her way down to the principal's office in less time then she thought she would. The entire way there, she was thinking how it would be if her mom didn't get pushed through the window the night before. She can't help but think that it's her fault for it. If Gotti didn't play field hockey then her mom would be with her right now, well not right now because she's at school but still. As she entered the office he was on the phone with someone so she was just motioned to sit down in a chair just like Danny was earlier that morning. He hung up the phone and turned towards Gotti.

"Hello Ms. Monroe." He started.

"Hello Dr. Ruck." She said back.

"So Det. Messer came in this morning and told me about your mother. I'm very sorry to hear about that."

"Thank you. Danny said that he was going to come in and talk to you but he didn't tell me what it was going to be about. Do you mind if I know what you spoke about?" she asked.

"He just told me what had happened last night with your mom and how your father came by this morning and gave you a bruise on your arm which I can tell by looking at it that it must hurt a lot." He said motioning towards her arm.

"Yes sir. It does a lot. But why did you need to call me down?"

"Well I just wanted to make sure that you were ok and that you're not to hurt to play tonight. I know that when you find something out like your mother being in the hospital it may be hard for you to play. I've been there before when my brother was in the hospital the day before my state football game."

"Well to be honest with you Dr. Ruck, it is kinda hard to play knowing that this is one of the most important games in my life and that my mother can't be there to see it but I've learned over the years that even if a person isn't there with you then you have nothing to worry about because that person is always there right beside you cheering you on. My mom told me that after my cousin was killed in a car crash. She was always at my games and it was hard playing the first one without her there but I knew that she was right beside me 100% percent of the time." She smiled as the memory came back to her.

"Well I'm glad to hear that." Gotti looked up at him all confused. "Well not about your cousin because that dear, is a tragedy. But what I'm glad about is that you were able to play knowing that your cousin was there with you."

"Thank you. Could I go back to class now?"

"Absolutely. Just tell your teacher where you were." She nodded and left the room.

Walking down the hall without a definite destination; going to class was at the bottom of her list right now but she made a promise to Danny that she wasn't gonna skip any classes today. She was gonna play that game for her mother, with her mother there by her side the entire 60 minutes of the game. The entire time walking down that hall, she saw posters and signs all over the walls saying various things from "GO GET'EM GATORS!" with all of the players numbers on it or "WE LOVE YOU!" or even the from the students who were stupid enough to say, "YOU SCORE A GOAL AND YOU'LL GET A FREE DATE!" everyone at the school was pumped for the game. There was no way that Gotti could back out now from it and turn away from everything that she has worked so hard for to finally fall into place. She was gonna win that game. For her school, for Danny, for Mac, Stella, Hawkes, Flack, Jess, Adam and Sid. But most importantly she was gonna win it for her mom.

A/N- so I hope that you liked it…review plzz…

Remember…

PEACE

LOVE

and DANTANA

~DannyMessersGirl324iLOVEhim