As the sun rose the Mercer house was as it always was, the boys fussing around while Evelyn cooks breakfast. She looks to the clock with a smile then over to the four boys scoffing away "Angel, will you go and wake Mattie please?"

He groans, not wanting to leave his food but still walks to the bottom of the stairs "Mattie! Come on girl!"

He waits for a long moment before taking the steps two at a time and knocks on her door "yo Mattie, girl if you don't want us eating all your breakfast then you…" his words stop dead in his tracks as the door creeks open slightly, he can feel the cold winter breeze rush past him as he pushes open the door "Mattie?"

His eyes widened at the sight before him, the unmade bed is normal, but the window opened wide with the lamp and picture frame knocked to the floor "Bobby!"

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Mattie's P.O.V

I can smell something sweet and sickly, taste it in the back of my mouth and it makes me want to gag hard but my mouths to dry. My eyes blink open and the light burns, it's like right in my fucking face and my head, holy shit if this is a dizzy spell it sucks ass "Morning Mattie-cakes."

The familiar nickname makes me snap my head around to meet my father's smiling face, it's only then that I realize the bed I'm in is far too hard to be my bed, looking around I realize I'm in some dive motel that hasn't been redecorated since the eighties "what the fuck is going on here Nick?"

"I did what I had to do, for you honey." I look at him for a long moment before realization sets in and memories of the night before flash over my memory "you fucking kidnapped me!"

He quickly stands as I scurry away from him, my dad "I can't kidnap you, you're my daughter. I'm doing this for you don't you see?"

"Oh I see, you're a fucking psycho piece of shit and I'm outta here, I'm going back." I jump up, barefoot in my damn pj's, and make a beeline for the door, not that I make it that far before the blonde man grabs my arm and pulls me around to meet his manic glare as I struggle and fight to get away from this nut-job

He shakes me to a still before screaming in my face "Stop it! Do you think those people care about you? They are not your family, I am! You are my fucking daughter, I am your father and I'm trying to protect you…"

I look at him, noticing how his gaze flickered across and mine follow, finding a 45 glock behind him on the dresser and I feel like a fucking helpless little girl again, so swallowing hard I nod "your right, your right. I'm sorry Daddy."

This makes him smile, wide and relived as he pulls me in close like he used to do when I was little and scared, but I'm not little anymore so as I hug him back I think to myself 'how the fuck am I getting out of this one?'

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Third Person P.O.V

The Mercer house has never had so many police without one of them getting arrested before. They were crawling all over the house, but mostly in Mattie's room. Gina had turned up with two other social workers jabbering on about how Mattie was nothing but trouble and ran away, well Evelyn was having none of that and politely stood walked over the fizzy haired woman and screamed "get out of my house you ignorant bitch."

Pretty much everyone in the room was shocked; Evelyn was the sweetest woman in the world and swore only when she thought it necessary and never lost her soft spoken manner even when she was telling you off.

The brothers would have laughed their ass off at any other time but not now. Evelyn had insisted to the police that Mattiline would never leave the picture of her mother, let alone leave it smashed and forgotten on the floor. Bobby had rushed around to every neighbor and contact he had, no luck, so now he's sat seeming calm and collected but just under that surface was a boiling volcano. Jerry had taking to biting his nails and pacing while Angel yelled at the cops to do their damn job and find their sister and then there was Jack, who sat in the corner holding a picture of Mattie and the boys, all with their hockey gear on. It was Mattie's first real game where she hadn't fallen over, taken just a few weeks back.

Jack just kept staring at it.

"Let me through!" a voice suddenly calls from the outside.

Jack snaps out of his trance and races to the door "Daisy! Daisy where is she?"

The police holing back the blonde girl quickly release her as the rest of the Mercers rally around. Daisy looks up at them all and shrugs "I, I don't know… their saying she ran away but she didn't run away, I know she didn't!"

"How do you know that? Who are you?" one of the detectives quickly asks, narrowing in on the young girl.

"Daisy Richards, I'm Mattie's friend and I know that because I know her. Yeah she's mean and tough but she's happy, she likes being here… even with her dad on stalker mode." She tries to explain to them all, they had to understand that this wasn't Mattiline; she didn't run away, she fought tooth and nail, that's just who she was.

Evelyn takes a step closer to the girl wanting to know more as she says in her soft soothing voice "Nick Crown? But he left weeks ago dear… didn't he?"

With a wave of her arms the blond girl signs in frustration "That's what I've been trying to tell these stupid police, he's been sneaking around, following her and stuff, she been telling him to get lost but yesterday… well Mattie told me he showed up at school, spewing all this crap about them being a family and going away together, she blew him off."

They all look at each other, the detectives sharing a concerned glance before Daisy groans "don't you get it? He took her, that bastard took Mattiline!"

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Mattie's P.O.V

I'm watching him, pretending to flick through the TV like I actually care what's flicking away on screen as I do, discreetly as I can, not that he's paying much attention because he keeps looking out the window, anxious.

"Daddy what are you doing?" I ask with a light chuckle, I don't want him thinking I'm nervous about the gun in his waist line or the fact that he fucking kidnapped me.

With a bite of his lip he looks at me, seeming so innocent in my pj's, sitting cross legged on the bed with my best 'it wasn't me' smile. He walks over with a rub of his neck as he explains "I got a guy coming, he's going to give us new papers and stuff… from now on you'll be Rosie Snow; after your mom."

He looks down at me, prideful and fingers the diamond dusted snowflake around my neck with a sadness that almost makes me want to comfort him, almost "thanks, I think she'd have liked that."

"Me to." he smiles, pulling me to him in a one armed hug and I think to myself 'yeah right, if mom knew about all this shit she'd have beat the crap out of him, husband or not; fucking crazy bastard.'

Both our head snap to the TV as the program I'd left on is cut off by a demanding voice "We interrupting this broadcast to issue an AMBER alert. Between ten last night and the early hours of this morning fourteen year old Mattiline Mercer was abducted from her home shared with her adoptive mother Evelyn and her four adoptive brothers. Suspect's name is Nickolas Crown, a white male in his mid-thirties with blonde hair, driving a red pickup truck. Detectives say…"

I can feel my heart pounding in my chest as the image of my face disappears from the screen, Nick all but ripping the damn cable out of the wall "Fuck!"

"Their looking for me…" I mutter aloud without realizing and Nick freezes before our eyes meet and he groans "Don't worry Mattie-cakes; daddy will take care of this. I promise. Wait here, you hear me?"

I nod mutely because this fucker has a gun and I don't even have any damn shoes, but the second that door closes I bolt for door, waiting until my dad's out of site before I split, because shoes or not I got to get out of here. I make my way into the reception and get a good eyeballing from the greasy haired fat guy behind the counter "you lost kid?"

"I need to use your phone, man, now!" I pretty much yell and he calmly hands me over the receptionist's phone as I look over my shoulder for my whack job father.

Quickly I plug in the first number that comes to mind "Hello?"

I let out a relieved giggle at the voice "Never thought I'd be so happy to hear your voice dipshit. Listen I don't have much time, I'm at some dive motel called the Viking and Nick, my dad; he's gone nuts man. He's got..."

*BANG*

"AAHH!"

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Third Person P.O.V

Jack's sat on the car, a small pile of buds surrounding his feet as Daisy comes to stand beside him "she'll be ok you know, I mean she's Mattie."

He takes a long drag from the smoke in his mouth before breathing it into the air "why didn't she tell me? Me and Mattie we talk every day and she never once said a fucking word about her dad."

Daisy just looks at him for a long moment before shrugging "I don't know, I guess she didn't want you to worry. She figured he'd get the message and leave or something."

Jack eyes this little girl for a long moment and wonders what's so special about her that Mattie had chosen her to confide in. He can't really see it.

"Mrs. Evelyn!" the pair look up and see a man rushing to get out of his car and to the house, police in his way as the elderly woman comes outside and over to the boy "Billy, dear what is it?"

"Mattie called me, she's in serious trouble!" he looks scared, and for a big guy like Billy to look scared you know something is very wrong.

One of the detectives rushes over and asks in a pleading voice "What did she say?"

"That she's at the Viking motel and that her dads lost it then… then I heard a shot and screaming, then the line went dead." He looks at the Mercer family who had rallied around with fear and concern in his voice.

"Oh my god Mattie…" Evelyn cries into Jerry's shoulder as the others try to reassure her, Bobby and Angel already racing over to the car as the detectives quickly set up a rout to the Viking Motel.

The moment before Bobby drives off Jack and daisy climb into the backseat "get out of the car!"

"Not a chance in hell, she's my best friend damn it and I'm going!" Daisy screams

Jack shakes his head and Bobby has never seen his little brother looked so determined "Drive Bobby!"

So he does because they don't have time for this shit… their sister need's them.

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Mattie P.O.V

I can feel the blood on me, still fresh and wet and warm. How the fuck is this happening?

He's angry at me, like seriously angry and he keeps yelling but I can't hear him, the ring of the shot still echoing in my ears. It's not even until he's shaking me, screaming in my face that I can tear my eyes away from the dead clerk, he let me use the phone…

"Why would you do this? How could you? I'm trying to make it right here Mattiline and you're fucking it all up!" he just screams at me, blaming me. Well fuck that!

I start to struggle; really struggle and I knee him right in the nuts, scratching his face as he crumbles to the floor "Fuck you! I was happy! Living with the Mercers and having a real life, my life and you stole me! You're the one fucking up it all up Nick, not me, you and your fucking insane if you think I'd ever go with you."

I go to climb over him, to get away from the dead body hanging over the counter and my kidnapper on the floor, but he grips my bear ankle pulling me to the floor as he yells "Mattie don't leave me!"

I try to kick him away but my head hit the floor kind of hard and it fucking hurts so as the sound of sirens echo through the streets. Yeah I'm a little fuzzy right now so when my dad gets up and picks me up I can only groan in protest. Shit do I have concussion?

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Third Person P.O.V

Bobby arrived less than a minute before the police, burner in hand as he and the others climb out of the car "what's the plan Bobby?"

"Getting Mattie back, that's the fucking plan!" he says before looking over the place, there was a room door that was left wide open and as they neared you could see the Clerks body left hanging through the check in window.

Suddenly a shot comes from one of the window in the clerk's office, forcing the small group to take cover behind Bobby's car "Fuck! I'm going to kill this fucker!"

"Bobby no, if you go out there he'll kill you, then where does that leave Mattie?" Angel tries to reason with his anger, fear fueled brother.

"He's right; your sister doesn't need you dead." Daisy grumbles, not looking at them but over the hood ever so lightly, searching for any sign of her friend just as the police cover the Motel, informing all the residence to stay in the safety of their rooms and lock the doors.

Evelyn and Jerry get out of the police car and she looks to her children as well as the girl she had come to know "what do you think you're doing?"

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Mattie's P.O.V

He'd carried me into the back office, sat me down on a chair before I heard him mutter under his breath before firing a shot out the window and I grab my head in pain with the dizziness "for fucks sake, like my head isn't killing enough."

I watch him, a shell of the man my mother loved, wild and totally cracked "so, what now Nick? Keep shooting until you run out of bullets and then bludgeon them all to death?"

"Shut up! Just let me think… we can make this work, we can." He's sat by the window, trying to get himself out of this and the thing is he fucking cant.

I stand slowly and carefully because he's still got a gun and I'm covered in some dead guys blood "Daddy listen to me, we can't get out of this. Just let me go, I'll back you up with some shit about the clerk but you can't win here."

"Nickolas Crown? We know you're in there, release the girl and come out with your hands up." A loud voice comes over a megaphone and I fight the urge to laugh.

"Wow you are so fucked!" I mutter more to myself than anything.

"You're not taking my daughter away from me!" he screams out the window without actually sticking his head out, because that would be too easy.

He turns back to me gun in hand and I swallow hard because he looks fucking crazy "Daddy… don't do anything stupid."

The next thing I know he's pulling me close, I think he's going to hug me, it feels like he's going to hug me then he's spinning me around with the barrel against the side of my head "what the fuck are you doing?"

"We are getting out of here, you and me." he says, pushing me past the corpse and into the parking lot.

"Mattie!" I look around and see the Mercer's standing near Bobby's banged up car, Jack behind held back by Angel as Daisy looks on in fear and Jerry tries to talk Bobby out of showing off his own gun, Evelyn taking a step forward before a police officer stops her dead in her tracks.

"Don't come any closer!" Nick screams down my ear and for the first time I'm genuinely fucking scared here.

I watch as Evelyn pushes past the officer "Mr. Crown, do you remember me? I'm Evelyn Mercer… please, you don't want to do this; you don't want to hurt Mattiline."

I can feel my mouth instantly dry as my eyes lock with hers. I can feel Nick's grip on my shoulders tighten "she's my daughter… she belongs with me!"

I can feel my heart smashing against my ribcage because yeah my dad's holding a fucking gun to my head "Daddy, please listen to her."

My eyes flash over the crowd, the people I had come to care for and I seriously don't want to die is a damn motel lot "Mr. Crown look at what you're doing, look at your daughter, look at her."

The surprising thing is he does, he looks at me and I can't bring myself to look back, plus there's still the matter of the gun pressing into my skull. But nevertheless he can see that I'm freaking out and scared of him, mostly about the gun he had as my head.

By the way did I tell you my Dad. Has. A. Fucking. Gun. To. My. Head!

His green eyes lighten, looking down to me in horror, like he'd do after mom died and he'd wake up to a hangover and find me with a split lip and a fractured jaw "Oh god Mattiline. My little girl…"

He buries his face in my hair with a light sob and I can feel the muzzle move slightly away "I'm sorry honey, I'm so fucking sorry… I love you Mattie-cakes, I do."

Slowly I feel both his arms drop and look up at him for like half a second before I bolt, not giving a damn about the stones digging into my feet. Evelyn meets me half way, our arms clinging to the other as everyone else surrounds me, the boys circling me into one giant hug and I am pretty sure I've never been hugged so much in my life. Hell I even hug Daisy.

I can see out of the corner of my eye as the police zero in on Nick, the shot ringing through the air causing everyone to come to a standstill. Turning around I see his dead body lying on the ground, looking at me and I do the only thing I'm able to; I crumble to my knees and sob with a scream "Daddy!"

FIVE DAY'S LATER

So here we are, at my mother's grave burying the man she loved beside her, my dad. It seems right that they should be together; mom always did light up when he walked into the room and the part of him that counted died with her.

The Mercer's are here with me, the Richards girl's to, supporting me. They know I need to say goodbye to my dad.

A hand slips into mine and I don't need to look up to know who it is, so I squeeze it as I let a tear fall "he wasn't all bad you know and despite all the fucked up shit he did I still love him, what does that say about me?"

"Love well; we never really stop loving someone, even if we want to and he was still your father Mattie, there's no shame in that." I look up to the old woman and nod, because she's right.

We turn to find my little gang of misfits, each one of them smiling over at me with nothing but love and I can happily say I love them to…

"Come on Ma, let's go home…and someone give me a freaking cigarette!"

Hey everyone so what did you think? I'm so sorry about the wait but this chapter nearly killed me! So I'm moving onto the movie in the next chapter. Let me know what you think and I hope you loved it!

JJ X x