Chapter Five- Secrets

It had been six months since Jason finally met his daughter. He found a house near Tommy's for him, Sam, and Tami to live in. He hasn't talked to Kat since then though. Kimberly had another baby girl and they named her Rikki.

Jason was sitting at the kitchen table when Sam walked in the door. She nodded at him and walked to Tami's nursery. Jason didn't say anything, he just walked her walk by. He was tempted to ask her questions, but he didn't want to hear the answers. Every other week Sam goes to visit her mom in jail. Jason was dying to know how she was doing, but he wouldn't let himself ask because he knew if she were doing badly he rush over to help.

He heard Sam talk to Tami quietly. He tried to listen to what she was saying, but he couldn't make out anything. Giving up on the listening he walked over to the couch to take a nap. Before he could drift off into sleep Sam walked out with Tami. She had a diaper bag on her shoulder and appeared to be leaving.

"I'm going over to Kira's." she said as she walked past the couch "I'm taking Tami with me and I'll probably sleep over there."

"Ok." Jason said half in a daze.

After trying to fall asleep for half an hour Jason decided that it was impossible. He left the house and got into the car. A few minutes later Jason pulled into the Oliver's driveway. From outside he could hear the cries of baby Rikki. He didn't bother knocking on the door, he just walked in. Tiffany was lying on the floor in the living room when he walked in. Tommy was over in the kitchen reading a book to Natasha.

"Kids got your hands full?" Jason joked

Tommy looked. "Hey Jason, where's Sam?"

"Kira's. Can I talk to Kim or is this a bad time?"

"Um… it may be a bad time."

"Rikki?"

"Well sort of. Have you talked to Sam since she came back from visiting Kat?"

"Not really. She knows I don't really like hearing about it so she doesn't say much. Why?"

"You may want to talk to her as soon as possible." Tommy said and started to read again. Jason knew he wouldn't be able to get any more information out of him so he just left.

As he drove home Jason tried to think of any possible things that were going on. He had no idea what Tommy was talking about. Sam didn't look upset when she had came home, but was she? Jason didn't know whether to be mad at Tommy for not telling him anything or scared that he didn't know anything. In any case he had to figure out what was going on. He didn't want to go to Kira's and get Sam, but he wasn't sure how long he could wait before his confusion ate him alive.

When he arrived home Tami was sitting in a high chair with Sam feeding her some green baby food. Jason put his keys down and looked at Sam confused.

"Hey Dad." She said her face completely blank. Jason may have only known her for six months, but he knew her well enough to know that when there was no expression on her face it always meant something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Jason asked sitting at the table

"Does it look like anything is wrong?"

"No, and that's why I know something is wrong."

"You probably don't want to hear about it."

"Is this about Kat?"

"Yeah."

"Just tell me."

"Not right now. I have to give Tami a bath and put her to bed."

Sam stood up and pulled Tami out of the high chair before walking down the hall to the bathroom. Now Jason was just scared. If Sam wouldn't come out and just tell him what was going on then it must be very very bad. Jason cleaned off the table and started to make some soup for dinner. It wasn't much, but he didn't want to have to make Sam make dinner tonight.

By the time Sam was done with Tami the soup was done. Jason poured it into two bowls and set them on the table. Sam sat down and ate a spoonful of soup. Jason sat, but didn't even begin to touch his soup. He just watched Sam. She just ate her soup never looking up. When Jason took a bite Sam was already done and as if on cue Tami started crying from her room.

"Thanks Dad." Sam said as she brushed past him. Jason finished his soup by himself very slowly.

He needed to know what was going on. He could tell how careful Sam was being to avoid the subject even though she knew that's what he wanted to know. When Jason was done eating he cleared the table and went to go check on Sam and Tami. Sam was asleep on her be with Tami asleep in her arms. Jason couldn't help, but smile. It was such a cute scene. He knew that Kat would have loved to see it.

In his mind her cursed at Kat's name. No matter how hard he tried her name always somehow came up in his mind. He wanted to erase that liar completely out of his mind, but for some reason he couldn't. Though he hated Kat at the moment he was glad that they had met because if they hadn't he never would have gotten Sam or Tami.

Not going to wake Sam up and make her answer his question he went to bed. The one problem with going to be when you need to know something is you can't sleep. You just toss and turn all night and get little or no sleep whatsoever. Jason needed to know what was going on with Kat or he would never get another once of sleep again.

(A/N: Not the best chapter, but I hope you think it's decent. Please review!)