Tim was sitting in the living room waiting for Savannah to come out of her room so he could take her out to dinner. "I ready Uncle Tim, where we go?" she asked looking at Tim. He laughed at how innocent she sounded. "Wherever you want princess, I'll even take you to the toy store after" he said picking her up. He grabbed her jacket from the hall closet and headed for the door. "I'll be at Alamo Freeze, what car do you want me to take?" he asked Mindy knowing that she would never let Savannah ride in his beat up pickup truck. "Take the station wagon" Said Mindy throwing him the keys. Tim walked out the front door and headed for the station wagon parked in the driveway. He couldn't believe that he, Tim Riggins, would be taking a kid out for dinner much less a little girl. Everyone in high school except for Lyla had thought he would never go anywhere. He had proven them wrong by actually getting his college degree. All he was missing now was a family of his own or at least a more stable relationship with a girl. Ever since Christmas he and Lyla had barely talked or when he called she would say she was busy or just hang up on him. He wondered if it was more than just being busy, he was trying to forget that she may not be back in Dillon at all this summer if she had gotten the internship at the Nashville Hospital. He tried to put that at the back of his mind and focus on his niece, she was an important part of rebuilding his family. He was really starting to envy Billy for having this. "Earth to Riggins, you want to order or just stand there all day" said the voice. Tim shook himself out of his thoughts and looked up. What he saw surprised him JD McCoy was standing behind the Alamo Freeze counter. "1 Chicken kid's meal, 2 Double cheese Burgers, Fries and two chocolate shakes" he said. He wasn't really sure what was more stunning seeing JD McCoy behind the counter or the fact that he was out and proud to be with his niece. He sat down at a table and they waited for their food. JD walked around the counter and gave Tim the food. "So JD McCoy start quarterback of the Dillon Panthers, rich guy that thinks his daddy can buy him or get him out of anything. Fancy seeing you in a fast food joint" said Tim a little sourly. He had taken JD under his wing during his freshman year on the team but after what his father had done to the coach just as Tim was graduating from high school. "My dad kicked me out when I chose to date Madison, and then she dumped me and left me with all the bills so I had to get two jobs to make it work" Said JD. "Glad to see that you could join us in the real world. I grew up with nothing and I made it. This is your turn to figure it out and be a man" said Tim. JD just stood there and starred at him, he wasn't sure what to answer Tim but in a way he knew his old teammate was right. "You ready princess?" asked Tim watching his niece across the table play with her doll and happily still slurping her shake. "Is she yours?" asked JD "Nah I wish she was, she's Billy's little girl" he said, Savannah reached over the table and grabbed Tim's hand "we go?"She asked "of course, we'll go to the toy store and maybe by the time we get home your daddy will be there" Said Tim. He picked her up and put her in the car. He started driving toward Midland which is where the closest toy store was. Once he was there he noticed that Savannah was asleep. He wondered what to do with her and decided that he could just hold her in his arms and go and pick something out for her. He walked into the store; he was amazed at how much toys were actually available for kids. He looked around and was absolutely at a loss of what to get her, so he was once he saw a sales girl he cornered her to ask her if she could help him. "Hi how can I help you" she asked Tim "I'm not sure what I should get for my niece here she's 3" said Tim "Follow me I'll show you a few things that she could like" said the sales girl. Tim followed her down several aisles and they settled on 3 presents. He thanked the sales girl, paid, and put the stuff in the car before letting Savannah settle in her car seat for the drive home. He had to admit hanging out with Savannah was cool, it really made him part of a family. The family was definitely starting to have fewer gaps in it but some parts of the puzzle were still missing.

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Kaelyn looked at her receipts for the night and stopped at the receipt of the gentleman he had served. She looked at the signature at the bottom of the receipt, it read Timothy Riggins. She wondered if it was her brother. She put things away and checked things over again before locking up her station and leaving the store. She wondered why so many things reminded her of the family she had left in Dillon. She stopped at the grocery store to pick up some food and head home. Tomorrow was her day off and she planned on enjoying it. Maybe tomorrow she could look through her old things and sort them out to see if she could remember what it was like to have a family. Her aunt who she had been living with had left Midland with the rest of the family two years ago and she hadn't wanted to go with them so they had found her the trailer she now lived in. She felt fairly alone most of the days she spent there and wondered if that was one of the reasons she worked two jobs. She was being forced to become a grown up a little quicker than she had ever anticipated. She sat down and started eating pizza that had just come out of her oven.

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Tim brought Savannah home and handed her over to Billy who seemed to have finally made an appearance from work. Once he had walked through the front door he headed towards the back of the house. There was a door in the back that leads to a room he had not opened since the day his younger sister had left their house. He, more than Billy had refused to go into it since their father had left when he was still a teenager, but after all of the memories Savannah was bringing back he felt like he owed it to the both of them to start dealing with all of the memories . He unlocked the door and walked in. The room looked exactly as it had 8 years earlier, before his sister had been forced to leave them. He sat down on the edge of the single bed.

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Tim was 9 years old, his parents always argued now and all you ever heard in the Riggins house was screaming and arguing. At night, he would often try to sneak out of his and Billy's bedroom to go and check on his sister. She was only 5 at the time and was often hiding in their closets because she was afraid either Walt or Jeanne would find her and beat the crap out of her. He was always worried and often managed to get her out of the closet and back into bed. Billy on the other hand couldn't have been bothered by it because he was always out with his friends. Tim really had wanted to be brave for his sister but the truth was that he was definitely as sacred as she was of their parents fighting and arguing.

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"Kae, I am so sorry we did this to you. We should have better protected you" he said quietly looking around the room. He got up from the bed and walked out of the room, locking it behind him. "Billy, we need to talk".....