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"Joey I am your lawyer okay? You don't have to lie to me."

"What? Who's lying? I'm an open book. What do you want to know?" Joey asked leaning back in his chair.

" I want to know about Louie downtown. "

"What about him?"

"I want to know what happened to him and who was involved." His lawyer said rubbing his temples, trying to fight the oncoming headache.

"Alright, but I didn't happen the way you think…."

I changed out of my hospital gown and into the clothes Jenny brought me from my apartment. It was a couple days after I had first woken up in the hospital and I was finally being released. The doctors deemed me well enough to go back to my normal everyday life, whatever that was.

My eye was less black, it had turned to a yellow blue colour, and the swelling had gone down quite a bit. As for my ribs, it still hurt to move my torso, but they gave me pain medication so I was coping with it.

When I was done getting dressed and I had collected all my things together I went down to Sean's room to see how he was doing.

When I got to his room, Sean was alone and sleeping. I guess everyone was still at home, it was pretty early in the morning. I sat down into the Chair next to Sean's and held his hand while he slept.

Its funny how people always say you look more peaceful when you sleep, I never really thought it was true. But seeing Sean sleeping I could see it was, he looked like he didn't have a care in the world. Which I guess wasn't too far from reality since Sean was always pretty laid back.

"Whenever I watch my boys sleep I always picture them five years old in my head. Does that sound crazy?" Ms. Donnelly asked appearing behind me with Jenny standing beside her.

I shook my head as she grabbed a seat next to me. "Always five, but they're not babies anymore. But they're not little men either."

We all sat for a bit just watching Sean sleep till Jenny finally broke the silence. "Do you know what happened the other night?" She asked us. I felt Ms. Donnelly tense beside me as she looked over at Jenny.

"What do you mean?" Ms. Donnelly asked voice becoming a little bit unfriendly.

"You know what I mean." Jenny prodded not backing down from Ms. D. I could feel Jenny's gaze on my face but it didn't dare look away from Sean.

I knew what had happened; Kevin and Tommy had taken care of whoever had hurt Sean. I think Jenny knew it too; she just didn't like the thought of Tommy killing someone, no matter who they were.

"I think if you know someone's good, you know it in your belly. You can trust that if they had to do something, they had no other choice." She replied.

Jenny nodded her head slightly and looked back towards Sean, but I knew her thoughts were on Tommy, just as mine were on Kevin. I hadn't heard back from him since he first visited me in the hospital, I still didn't know if he and Tommy were okay.

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By the time the nurse came by with my discharge forms Sean was awake. I took me quite a while to fill out all the forms, who knew leaving the hospital took so much work? After I had finally finished filling and signing everything I was finally free to go. I borrowed Sean's cellphone to call Kevin to see if he still wanted to pick me up.

"Sean?" Kevin asked answering his phone on the second ring.

"Uh no, it's Jane."

"Oh, hey Jane. What's going on? Did something happen to Sean?" Kevin asked his voice full of worry.

"No, Sean is fine in fact he's having a sandwich right now." I said. Sean looked up at the mention of his name and held out his hand for the phone

I sighed and handed the phone to Sean, I sat beside Sean on his bed as he started to talk to Kevin.

"Hey, yea I'm alright. The Doctor said there's no brain damage." Sean said smiling. "Is that Tommy I hear in the background... Where are you guys going?"

I looked up at Shawn face he looked worried but more confused. "Fine don't tell me!" Sean said angrily into the phone, he then quickly tossed the phone into my lap.

"Kevin?" I asked nervously into the phone, hoping he wasn't angry.

"Yes?"

"I just got released from the hospital." There was a silence at the other end of the line. "Are you still coming to pick me up?"

Kevin cursed "Yea, we'll be right there. Tommy turn around."

"Turn around? Are you crazy?" I heard Tommy say.

"Yea, turn around. We gotta go pick up Jane at the hospital."

"Kevin, it's fine. I'll take a cab." I told him, he was obviously busy.

"Tommy, we are not going to make her take a cab, not after what she did for Sean."

It was silent for a couple minutes. "Fine, Jane we'll be there in half an hour!" I heard Tommy shout. I thanked them and hung up the phone.

I was in the waiting room with Jenny when Kevin walked through the door. He looked extremely anxious, he was so focused on his thoughts that he walked right past where me and Jenny where sitting.

"Kevin!" Jenny called standing up. Kevin turned around and gave us half a smile.

"Sorry didn't see you, ready Jane?" He asked hurriedly. He grabbed my hand and led my out of the hospital.

Kevin was walking so fast I felt like soon he'd be dragging me along. "Kev, mind not walking so fast, got bruised ribs over here." I said making him slow down to a nice walking pace. "Why'd you guys park so far away?"

"Just couldn't find a spot." He said absent mindedly.

"Right." I said looking at all the empty parking spaces. I could tell something was going on, but I didn't really care because I was smiling like a fool because Kevin was still holding my hand. Finally we reached a large gray truck Tommy was sitting in the drivers sit.

"I didn't know you guys owned a truck."

"We don't," Kevin said putting his arm around my waist leading me to the passenger side.

Tommy hopped out of the truck when he saw us approaching. "Jane how are you?" Tommy asked looking around us.

"Fine. Thanks for coming to pick me up."

"Yea, no problem. We should get going." Tommy said jumping back into the truck. Kevin ushered me to the passenger side and opened to door for me. As soon as he opened the door a horrible stench hit my nose.

"What the hell? What died in there?" I asked trying to make a joke. But when I looked at their faces I saw they weren't laughing. A realization hit me. "Oh." Was all I could manage to say.

"I think I'll take a cab after all." I said turning away.

"No." Kevin said grabbing me waist and turning me back around. "I don't want you taking a cab." A look of worry in his eyes, I nodded my head and got into the truck.

Since there were only two seats in the truck I stuck sitting in between Tommy and Kevin on the floor. I refused to look behind me at the dead body.

"So does anyone want to explain why I'm currently three feet away from a dead guy?" I asked breaking the silence. No one had said anything since we had left the hospital parking lot.

Tommy and Kevin exchanged a glance then went back to looking out the window.

"You guys can't expect me to be okay with being a couple feet away from a dead guy." Demanding some answers.

"Now is not really the time." Tommy told me still avoiding my gaze.

"When is the time?" I asked I sighed as they continued to keep quiet.

Kevin helped me out of the truck once we reached my apartment. Kevin put his arm around my waist again and started to help me up the stairs to my building.

"Kevin! We need to get going." Tommy called from the truck.

"It's alright Kevin I can make it the rest of the way." I assured him. He looked from Tommy back to me and sighed.

"Kevin?" I called as he started to walk down the steps.

"Yeah?" He asked turning around.

"Maybe I'll stop by the Fire Cracker later tonight?" Kevin's face lit up and he nodded his head. I smiled at him, turned and walked into my building.

I walked up the stairs lost in my thoughts. I wasn't use to the attention Kevin was giving me, the hand holding and him touching my waist. When we were younger I had the biggest crush on Kevin. I was hung up on him for years, but realized he didn't feel the same when I saw him making out Janice Holloway. I finally got over all those feeling pushed them aside, I moved on, I even went on a couple dates. Now I could feel all those feeling coming back. I wasn't entirely sure what to make of all these feelings.

What I was sure of is that I had a maybe date for tonight. The thought kind of scared me.

I was still wondering if it was an actual date or just two friends hanging out when Sophie came running out of the kitchen and jumped on me.

"Jane! Thank god you're alive!" Sophie shouted giving me a bear hug.

"Sophie, get off me!" I yelled at her. Normally I would be happy she even noticed my absence, but I still had bruised ribs and her squeezing me wasn't exactly what I needed.

"Sorry, for being glad to see you're alive. God next ti- Whoa what happened to your face?" Sophie asked looking grossed out my still bruised face.

I rolled my eyes at her and walked past her in the kitchen. I heard her slam the door and come in behind me.

"You know I had to take all your shifts at the restaurant. I had to cancel my plans!" Sophie yelled at me. I seriously couldn't believe this is what she was mad about.

"Do you want to know where I was?" I yelled at her. Sophie stood in front of me mouth open, shocked. I usually never yelled back at her when she was mad at me, I was always the calm one.

"I was at the hospital and so was Sean!" I yelled at her shoving past her to go to my room. I heard her hurry after me.

"The hospital? Jane what happened?" Sophie asked. I turned around to see her standing in the door way with her arms crossed giving me her famous you-better-tell-me-right-now look.

"Sean was attacked by the Italians." I replied like that explained everything.

"What does that have to do with you?"

"Help my take off my shirt." I told her ignoring her question.

"What?" she asked looking confused. I shot her a look of my own. "Fine." She said walking over to me and lifting my top off me. "Jane oh my god. What the hell happened to you?" she asked once she saw my torso.

I explained to her the less harsh version of what happened. Sophie could never really handle difficult things; she was always more of a good time girl, never focusing on the bad thing always the good.

After I told her everything that happened she went in to this weird mother hen mode. She got me dinner, read to me, she even fluffed my pillows. To say the least I had never seen this behavior from her in my life.

"Soph I'm happy you are so worried about me, but I actually have plans for tonight so I need to get ready." I told her getting up from all the blankets she piled on me.

"What? No you shouldn't be going anywhere, not in your condition!" She said gently pushing me back onto the bed.

"No, Kevin is expecting me." I protested.

"Kevin? Kevin who? Kevin Donnelly?" Sophie asked a strange grin appearing on her face.

"Yea, that Kevin. Which is why I need to go get ready."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Sophie demanded. "Go get in the shower now. I'll get your outfit ready."

"What's with the sudden interest in my maybe love life?"

"Because Kevin's brother is Sean and I don't want Kevin saying you looked bad on your date. Your appearance reflects the whole family, I am –unfortunately- a part of this family."

Sophie's logic didn't make much sense but I knew better to argue, I was just happy she was letting me actually go and not demand that I stay here and rest. Who knew it would probably even help if she picked out my outfit too. I stepped into the shower letting the hot water work its wonders on my body.

I took my time in the shower, mostly because it was pretty hard to shampoo my hair when it hurt so much to lift my arms. But I managed to get the hospital smell off my body. As soon as I shut off the water I heard Sophie enter the bathroom.

"Need some help getting dressed?" She asked from behind the curtain.

After I got dressed Sophie did my hair and makeup. Which we of coursed fought about. She wanted to go all out. I wanted more of natural route and by natural I didn't want to wear any mostly because it hurt to touch my face because of my black eyes. Oddly enough that was the reason Sophie wanted me to wear some.

As usual Sophie got her way, so I sat there in pain as she did her best to cover up my various bruises. Though when she was finished you could only notice the bruises if you really looked closely at my face.

Sophie still in part of her mother hen phase insisted walking me to the bar, but decided not to come in claiming she didn't want to intrude on my 'special' time with Kevin.

I pushed open the bar door and was a little surprised to see it completely empty and pitch dark. I entered and called out a quiet hello. As I walked farther into the bar I noticed a light coming from the basement. Kevin must be downstairs.

"Kevin?" I called out a little louder. I walked over the basement stairs but stopped once I saw Jenny at the bottom with a brush and a tub of water. Then I finally noticed what she was cleaning up.

"Jenny?" I called out to her breaking the sort of trance she was in.

"Jane, what are you doing here?" She asked standing up.

"I was supposed to meet Kevin here." I said walking down the stairs careful of the last couple steps that were wet.

"Jane, you shouldn't be doing this not in your condition." Jenny said taking the brush from my hands.

I snorted. "Please Jenny I have some bruised ribs I'm not a cripple. Besides I won't let you do this by yourself."

Jenny finally agreed to let me help her, but refused to let me bend down or reach anywhere. This left me basically useless but I refilled the buckets of water and cleaned everything at eye level.

By the time we finished cleaning up the basement I had given up hope on Kevin coming to meet me at the Fire Cracker. Part of me was kind of glad because my outfit was dirty and my make-up was smudged and mostly because I was tired and just wanted to go home and sleep.

A/N

Hey I hope you all like the story. I finished all my exams so hopefully I'll be able to update on a regular basis but I'm not making any promises. I'm actually having trouble with the next chapter, I just can't seem to get it the way I want so it might be a bit till I publish it.

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