Once more apology for any spelling/grammatical errors but writing on tablet and to lazy to read back through it. Hope you enjoy though :-D

As soon as they left Vaughan and his sons, Allie pulled Tiffany and Floyd into an empty classroom. Floyd's face was coming out in bruises now and there was dried blood on his nose while Tiffany just kept glancing out of the room, worry etched on her face. "Are you alright?"

"We're fine." Floyd assured her but Allie didn't believe him. Neither of them should have to deal with this.

"I'll talk to Vaughan, see if he and the boys can move out." Both Tiffany and Floyd went to protest but Allie stopped them. "Neither of you should have to deal with this and it isn't fair to make you either."

"What about you and Vaughan?" Tiffany asked and Allie fell silent. She loved Vaughan, she really did, but his sons were making it near impossible for them to be together.

"We're not moving out." Floyd said.

"Floyd, I know you want to help but maybe Leo is better off getting better with just his Dad and brother." Allie said. From what she'd seen, Allie had noticed how Leo especially had been craving Vaughan's attention but because of Allie and her children being there probably felt ignored. And that was causing Allie to think she was part of the reason Leo had started self-harming, even though she knew Vaughan would say it wasn't true.

"You're finally happy mum and we don't think us leaving would solve anything." Tiffany started.

"if you're going to stay with Vaughan then that means we can't just avoid Leo and Justin when something happens. He's their dad, not ours, and their going to come to him with problems when where still there." Floyd continued.

"So we can't just avoid them whenever they have a problem." Tiffany finished.

"If your sure?" Allie asked, a little doubtfully.

"We are. We just want to help them." Floyd answered and Allie couldn't help the burst of pride towards her children. They were right after all. If she and Vaughan stayed together then Leo and Justin would be apart of that deal to, just like Floyd and Tiffany were. No matter what either family did, nothing could change that.

...

By the end of the school day, half of the school had heard what had happened. Vaughan had left Leo in his office with Sony keeping an eye on him but that hadn't stopped the rumours from spreading. Sometimes he forgot how much teenagers liked to gossip. Going by this, Vaughan wasn't surprised to find the staff knew as well, considering the staff could be worse gossips than the pupils.

Getting the teachers to stay behind had been easy, though Vaughan couldn't help but wonder if it was because the teachers wanted to help or were just nosy. He could guess that answer by looking at some of the faces.

"By now I'm sure you heard what happened at lunch." Vaughan started, getting nods from the staff.

"I didn't think Justin was going to get off Floyd." Hector said, sending a smile at Sue who just rolled her eyes. Two of less sympathetic members of staff, Vaughan thought as he watched the exchange.

"How is Floyd?" Audrey asked, aiming this at Allie.

"Fine now."

"I hope you've punished Justin properly. We can't have that sort of behaviour falling into classes." Sue added.

"It's being handled but I assure you it won't be happening again." Of that Vaughan was sure. "However, that wasn't why I wanted to talk to you." And here came the point were Vaughan didn't know what to say.

"we've heard what Leo's been doing and whatever we can do to help." Maggie said, seeing the way Vaughan was struggling to get the words out. Vaughan breathed a sigh of relief. Saying what Leo was doing to family was one thing, to staff was a completely other thing.

"Will you be getting a therapist in because any lessons he needs to miss is fine." Audrey said.

"Leo doesn't want to talk with a therapist however, he has agreed to talk with a member of staff if there's anyone who would like to help." Vaughan stated.

"I'd be happy to talk if that's what Leo wants." Simon said and Vaughan nodded his thanks. He would have been surprised if his deputy hadn't asked.

"I'd talk with Leo." Christine also added.

"Thank you. I'll talk to Leo and see what he says." Vaughan replied. As the staff let the staffroom, Vaughan sighed in relief. That had gone a lot better than he'd originally though it would.

...

Floyd knocked on the office door so as to alert Leo to omeone being there. When there was no answer, he just pushed it open and walked inside. Leo was sitting on one of th chairs, doing homework. He looked paler than usual and Floyd could see the way Leo's hand kept going down to the cuts on his wrists only to jerk back again before he touched them.

"Hey." Leo said quietly as Floyd sat opposite him. Leo was the youngest of all of them except Floyd had never really thought about that until now. He was only 15 but he hadn't really seemed his age until now. He was sitting on the chair, bent over with his hair covering his face so he didn't have to look at anyone.

"You okay?" Leo didn't answer but Floyd guessed it was better than him lying.

They sat in silence for a few more minutes, both wondering what to say. Floyd didn't blame Leo though, he was the guy Leo probably though had replaced him and his brother. "I'm sorry for what Justin did and for causing all this mess."

"It's not your fault. I shouldn't have said anything to the whole school. I kind of deserved this." here Floyd pointed this face, getting a small smile from Leo. Well at least that was progress. "We didn't get off on the best start though so maybe we should try again." Floyd continued, wondering if he was pushing Leo to far. Maybe Leo didn't want to get to know him or his family. Except Leo turned his head to meet floods, a small hesitant smile appearing on his lips.

"Yeah, I'd like that."

...

Tiffany didn't say anything as she followed Justin to the harbour walls after school. She'd been surprised that the older boy had asked if he could talk with her but at the same time she'd been happy that Justin had asked. They hadn't said anything, walking out of the school. Floyd had offered to sit with Leo while her mum and Vaughan talked to the staff so she'd been able to spend sometime alone with Justin without Justin worrying his brother was alone.

"I'm sorry." Tiffany went to say something but Justin held up a hand and carried on speaking. "The other night I know you were just trying to help and I kicked you out out and I'm sorry for that. And for making your mum's life hard and for beating up your brother. Twice."

"It's not your fault." Tiffany said, wondering where Justin was going with this.

"Yes it is. Getting angry is how I've been dealing with all of this and now Leo's getting help, maybe I need some to."

"What you want to talk to a therapist?" Tiffany teased, getting the first real laugh she'd ever heard from Justin.

"No, I want to talk to you." Tiffany felt a flutters in her chest. She couldn't deny she'd even attracted to Justin since first meeting the older Fitzgerald but right now she thought she might actually love him.

"Then talk to me." Tiffany said but instead of talking, Justin just leaned in and kissed her.

I don't know Leo's actual age (or anyone else's) so it's a bit of guess work here but seeing as Leo is never in the same classes as Justin, Floyd or Tiffany I guessed he was younger. Also, I just like the thought of it so sorry if it's wrong. Also, seeing as how I've been asked a few times now to out more Tiffany/Justin into this I thought I'd have a go so once more sorry if it didn't work out well but I'm not that good with writing romance stuff.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed and please review :-)