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Teddy was sore all over and she was still a little dizzy. She walked into the Firecracker, grabbed some clothes out of the back room, (she knew that her brothers kept a change there for emergencies as they called them) and went into the bathroom. She looked in the mirror, "I really look like shit. How am I suppose to hide this from the guys, they're gonna think that Eddie did this." Teddy shook her head, "I can't worry about them right now. The only thing that I need to worry about in Sean."

She cleaned her face as best she could, changed her clothes and went up to the hospital.

When she got to the fifth floor, Teddy looked around feverishly for her brothers. She saw Tommy and Kevin walking down the hall, "Tommy, where's Sean?"

Tommy and Kevin rushed to her side, "What happened to you?" What the two of them saw was a severe black eye and some dried blood around her nose and mouth.

"Where's Sean? You did get to him in time right?"

"Yea, he's in a room and safe." Kevin touched her face gently, "Did Eddie do this to you?"

She shook her head, "I want to see Sean." She pushed past them and went into Sean's room. She sat down next to him, "Seanie, what did they do to you?" Teddy ran her fingers through the hair on top of his head, "You're going to be fine."

Kevin walked in and sat in the chair next to Teddy, "The doctor says he'll be fine." He tried to put his hand on her shoulder and she flinched, "Are you ok?"

Teddy continued to stare at Sean, "There were two of them. I saw them hit him with a club. I couldn't help, Kevin, I couldn't get to him."

"Sweetie, if you want to let it out. Go ahead. I'm here for you."

She looked at him and what he saw shocked him, he saw nothing. It seemed to Kevin like the lights in her eyes had gone out, "Are you sure you're ok?"

Teddy spoke low, "Where's Jimmy?"

"What did you say?"

She hadn't stopped looking at him, "Where is Jimmy?" She said it slower because she really didn't want to say it again.

"I'm not really sure."

Teddy shook her head, "What do you mean, you're not sure? He should be here with his family."

Kevin looked at her and shrugged, "Your guess is as good as mine."

She scowled at Kevin, kissed Sean's cheek gently and left the room.

Tommy looked at her, "Are you ok?"

Teddy looked at him, Tommy saw the same thing Kevin saw, "Where's Jimmy?"

"I'm not sure, but we'll find him."

Teddy started to walk away, but before she could get far she collapsed.

Tommy moved quick enough to grab her before she hit her head on the floor, "Teddy! Teddy!"

Teddy opened her eyes slowly and saw Tommy hovering over her.

"Come on, Teddy." When he noticed her eyes were open he smiled, "That's my girl, don't scare me like that again."

She tried to stand up on her own, but had to grab Tommy to steady herself. She thought, 'Charlie did more damage then I thought.'

Just then Kevin came out of Sean's room, "He's awake."

Teddy let go of Tommy and went into the room. She stood on the opposite side of the bed from everyone else.

Teddy touched the side of his face lightly, "I'm sorry, Seanie, I'm so sorry."

Sean looked at her out of his left eye because the right one was swollen shut, "Did Eddie do that to you?"

She shook her head and looked down, "You worry about getting better, don't worry about me." She kissed her cheek, "I'll be back I promise."

After Teddy left, Sean looked at Tommy, "She doesn't look good, is she ok?"

Tommy shrugged, "I don't know. She's not talking."

"Do you think Eddie did that to her? Did he try to…?"

Tommy shook his head, "I think if he tried to do anything and she didn't want him to she would kick his ass and he would definitely look worse then she does. Plus, Eddie doesn't seem like the type of guy to hit another guy, let alone, a woman."

Sean nodded slowly, "You're right. We've known Eddie for a long time and I think he is so afraid of all of us that he wouldn't dare try anything with Teddy." He looked out the window of his room to the hallway, "But we need to figure out what happened to her."

Tommy touched his brother's arm, "I know, but for right now you let Kevin and I work on that. You do what she said and work on getting better yourself."

Teddy paced in the hallway for at least an hour until she had to sit down. She couldn't handle being in that room with all of her brothers. After what she has been doing, Teddy knew that if they found out the truth they would be disappointed and she couldn't handle that. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes.

Teddy only rested for a few minutes, because she saw Charlie's face and felt him hitting her all over again. Her eyes flew open and she looked around thinking that he would be standing there waiting for her. She shook her head and began berating herself, 'Damn it, Teddy. Get a grip, it's not like you haven't ever been in a fight before. Granted you have never been beaten up by a guy before. Just get it together. If they find out what you've been hiding you will be in for a worse beating then what Charlie gave you.'

Teddy got up and walked out of the hospital, "I need to get home before this gets any worse."

As she was walking home she ran into Kevin and Joey Ice Cream. She looked at her brother, "Have you found Jimmy yet?"

"He's in jail. He was picked up for boosting a truckload of shirts. We're trying to get the money for his bail."

Joey had been eyeing Teddy since she stopped them, "You look like shit."

"Fuck you, Joey! Why don't you just go away?"

"Well, I…"

Kevin told him to shut up.

Teddy focused on her brother, "How much is his bail?"

"$1,800."

Kevin expected her to be in shock, but Teddy nodded, "I know where I can get the money. Promise me that if I get the money you will bring me to get him out."

"Tommy doesn't want us to bail him out, he wants Jimmy to go to rehab and get cleaned up."

"He's got to what?"

"Get clean." Kevin walked toward her and she took a step back, "Jimmy does heroin. Tommy wants him to get clean and he says keeping him in jail will be good for him."

Teddy could see from Kevin's face and tone in his voice that he didn't like what he was saying any more then she did, "Fuck Tommy, I'm going to get the money. Meet me at the Lounge in an hour."

Teddy took off running; she went to the Firecracker and grabbed the small handgun that Jimmy kept under the counter.

She ran to the apartment and directly to her room.

Teddy moved the mattress away from the wall and reached in a make-shift pocket in the side. She pulled out a wad of cash and a small bag of pills.

She opened the bag, pulled out two pills and swallowed them. Then she counted out $1,800, put everything back and pushed the mattress back.

Teddy ran to the Firecracker and found Kevin sitting there. She was out of breath, but managed to say, "Let's go."

They went to the jail, but before going in Teddy handed Kevin the money he needed, "You go get him. I couldn't handle seeing him in there."

After Teddy had waited about twenty minutes, Jimmy and Kevin finally came out. Jimmy had a huge smile on his face when he saw her, "Hey girl!"

Teddy turned and looked at him. He took a step back, "What in hell happened to you, I thought Seanie was the one who got pounded?"

"He was, now let's go." Teddy began walking away at a fast pace.

Jimmy turned to Kevin, "What happened?"

Kevin shrugged, "She won't tell us. She is mostly thinking of Sean, she keeps telling him how sorry she is like she's the one who did it." Kevin looked at Jimmy, "And when she heard you had been locked up she came up with the money to get you out and she thought Tommy should go fuck himself."

"Where did she get the money?"

"Don't know, didn't ask."

Jimmy caught up to Teddy, "Are you going to tell me what happened?"

She stopped and looked at him, "No, it's not your business." She walked away without looking back.

Jimmy looked at Kevin, "What the hell?"

"I told you I didn't know and she isn't talking."

They got to the hospital and Teddy went right into Sean's room. She sat down and waited for Kevin and Jimmy.

Sean put his hand out to her, "Teddy, what happened to you?"

"Nothing, you just worry about getting better." She took his hand.

"If I remember correctly you owe me one."

"Not now, you get better and then maybe we'll talk."

Sean squeezed her hand slightly, "You know you can tell me what happened."

"I know I can. You'll be happy to know that Jimmy is coming up too."

When Teddy said it she didn't know Tommy had walked in, "Who's coming up?"

Teddy sighed, "I'm not going to fight with you in front of Sean. I got the money so Kevin could bail Jimmy out." She turned and looked at him, "Word on the street is he was arrested for boosting a truck of shirts. You guys taught me family above all, so I bailed him out figuring he'd want to be here for Sean."

"Where'd you get the money?"

"My business, not your."

Kevin came in, "Am I interrupting something?"

Teddy turned back toward Sean, "No."

Kevin looked at Tommy, "Jimmy wants to talk to you."

Kevin sat down and Tommy went into the hallway, "What do ya need?"

Jimmy was looking in at Sean, "I'm sorry."

He walked toward Tommy and Tommy embraced him, "I know."

Jimmy calmed down and backed away from Tommy. Tommy looked at him and then stared into the glass of their brother's room, "Now we figure out what happened to Teddy."

"She hasn't told you either?"

"She hasn't told anyone."

They both noticed that Teddy had laid her head on the bed. She was asleep in no time. It was only a few minutes and Teddy sat right up in the chair. She was sweating profusely.

She looked around the room, realized where she was and calmed down.

Teddy looked at Sean, "I'm gonna go home and change, I need to get the stench of jail off of me. Plus I need to get my own clothes on. Do you need anything?"

Sean nodded, "You to tell me what happened to you and why you look as bad as I do?"

"I fell, I mean, I got into a fight, but they work worse then I do."

"I believe the fight thing, but with who?"

Before Teddy could answer her other brothers walked into the room, "So what are you two talking about?" Jimmy inquired looking concerned.

"Nothing." Teddy and Sean answered in unison.

The door opened and they all expected to see a nurse, but it was Nikky Caterro.

Sean stared sweating and Teddy just stared at him.

"I came to talk to you."

No one moved, not knowing which one of them he was talking about.

Sean, who was still holding Teddy's hand, squeezed. She looked at him and she knew.

Teddy let go of Sean's hand and before anyone knew what was going on she pulled the gun out from her back, "You son of a bitch, you did this to him."

Nikky pulled a gun out of his waistband and pointed it at Sean, "Put it down, little girl, or I'll finish what I started."

"No, you put yours down."

Nikky shook his head, "You don't scare me."

Teddy smiled wickedly, "You need to remember that I'm a Donnelly. You fuckers beat my father to death and I won't let you take anymore of us."

Nikky moved closer to the bed and Sean tried to move up the bed higher to get away from the gun, "I'll kill him, you know I will."

Teddy moved with him, keeping the gun steady, "You pull that trigger and I'll blow your fuckin' brains all over that wall."

"You're not that good."

"Do you really want to find out?"

Nikky put his gun away, but Teddy held her sights, "My brothers taught me to never trust an Italian, especially you. I guess I learned to late, I should have listened to them"

"You may be big now that your brothers are all here, but you and I will meet again." Nikky walked out of the room.

Teddy followed him with the gun, but never moved a step, "Promises, promises."