Warnings: Violence and bad words...Joey laying hands on Melina.

Joey had packed his stuff and went to the airport to catch his flight. He knew that Melina never wanted to see him again so why would he even bother seeing her again? She'd probably yell at him. Joey did feel bad about not being in Sierra's life but he was young and he wasn't ready to be a father. Maybe she will forgive me and give me another chance? He had asked himself a endless amount of questions at what Melina might do when she see's him. Getting onto the plane and sitting down he had closed his eyes and fell into a horrible nightmare.

John sitting on the couch sipping some soup. It was midnight and he couldn't sleep, he thought he was getting ready to get sick or something. A warm blanket was wrapped around his shoulders as he started to grow tried but of course he didn't want to risk Melina getting sick because he thought he is getting ready to get a cold. Finishing the last of his soup, he put away the bowl and sat back on the sofa. Rubbing his eyes' because he knew they were red. He slowly got of the sofa and went upstairs to a very comfortable bed in which him and Melina shared.

Before John could go to bed he did what any other parent would do; he checked on Sierra making sure she was okay. Silently opening the door, Sierra's soft snores rang through out the room as John smiled to himself. Shutting the door with a silent click he continued to walk towards his bedroom to go to bed.

3:30 pm.

John was still asleep but Melina was woke and her and Sierra was downstairs. Sierra was playing with her Barbie dolls and Melina was on the phone with Jillian. Melina tried not to be loud though, she had no idea why John was still asleep; he'd normally be up around 1 o'clock.

"Melina guess what?"

"What?"

"I saw Joey coming out of the airport" Jillian said

Melina's face hardened. Why would Joey come to Los Angeles? I moved here to get away from him in the first place.

"Did he see you?" Melina asked

"Yeah and he asked me where you lived at"

"And what did you say to him…?"

"I told him…" Jillian said quietly

"WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU-" Melina stopped yelling for that moment; she didn't want to wake John and she didn't want Sierra to hear what's going on. Taking a deep breath she started again "Why would you tell him where I live knowing that we have problems"

"He said that he wanted to apologize and he wanted to help you rise Sierra…"

"Bullshit" Melina said rolling her eyes at the comment "He said before that he wanted everything with me that he was going to be there for me when no one else was" she said teary eyed but blinked away the tears. She refused to cry over Joey again. "But John was there for me even thought when have been together for a couple of months"

"I think…you need some time to cool off" Jillian said from her best friends reaction "Call me back and tell me everything that happened and don't leave any detail out!"

"This is serious and you worrying about what going to happen when John meets Joey?" Melina exclaimed "Ugh…later"

"Later…"

And with that conversation ending John had just woke up and came downstairs. He had heard Melina yell about something.

"Melina is everything okay?" John asked her worriedly

Sierra's face just about it up with she heard John's voice "Daddy!"

"Hey princess" John said with a slight smile but then soon after he had turned his attention back to Melina.

"Melina…?"

As much as John had called her name she refused to face him.

"Is everything okay? Are you mad at me?" he asked

"No…I'm not mad at you" she choked out "And everything is not okay…"

"Why?-" before John could finish there was a knock at the door.

John had stared at the door for a second before going to open it and came face to face with a guy.

"Um…is this where Melina Perez lives?" he had asked

"It depends…who's asking"

"I'm Joey Mercury…" Joey said clearing his throat "I need to speak with her"

John looked back at Melina and saw that she quickly carried Sierra to upstairs and came back down.

"Melina do you know this guy?" John asked

Melina rubbed her arm nervously as she shook her head slightly.

"May I come in" Joey asked

Shooting him a dirty look before moving out of the way to let him in. I don't trust this guy.

Joey stepped in Melina's house while hiding some flowers behind his back in a attempt to give her.

John was right behind Joey so if he tried anything stupid to hurt Mel…he'd hurt him.

"I brought you some flowers" Joey said giving her the flowers.

"I don't want your flowers" Melina said with a hint of anger in her voice "And I don't want anything to do with you"

Joey had looked like he had been burnt "Can you at least give me a chance?"

"I gave you a chance when I first gave birth to your child and I asked you to help me rise it" Melina said angrily "I gave you a chance when you went out with your 'friends' when you was really cheating on me with a other woman while I had to sit home and take your child"

"I wasn't ready Mel-"

"Don't you dare care me that" she said in a threatening voice "Don't you dare"

"You know what…" Joey said walking up to Melina in a dangerous way and getting up in her face "I regret having this child with you" he said tilting her chin up so they made eye contact "You just wanted a strong, handsome man like me to take care of that child" he said roughly grabbing her forearm earning a slight cry of pain from Melina. "You're coming with me…"

As Joey turned around John had punched him square in the nose as Joey stumbled back holding his nose. Throwing Melina to the side like she was trash. As Joey and John had a fight and from Melina's vision it was getting to blurry from the tears to see what was going on; she was almost crying on the floor.

Joey had punched John in the gut and throwing him face first into the glass table. The glass broke and John had felt blood pouring for his forehead but nobody laid their hands on Melina and got away from it. Getting of the floor fast John had caught Joey with a spear and taking them both back onto the floor as John caught Joey with a punch to the jaw before grabbing the spare piece of glass that had cut his forehead in a attempt to stab him.

Melina vision was finally coming back into focus as she saw John on top of Joey with a crazed look in his eyes and a piece of glass in his hand. Melina had to react fast so she grabbed the arm that John had the glass in and tried to stop him.

"John stop…please" she begged trying her best to pull John off of him.

John finally gave in after a while, putting the sharp piece of glass down and got off of Joey. Grabbing Joey's shirt he whispered one thing to him.

"If you ever lay your hands on her again…you're going to wish you had never met me"

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