Thank you for the reviews they are helpful and keep me motivated to continue this story. A short chapter but I really wanted to update but have been pretty busy this week. This is in Roman's pov. You finally find out a little bit about Rox's past but there is still plenty to know! The memories and conversations about what she's been through will become more detailed and vivid as I go on! Review please!

Rox was crying too hard on the plane to tell us anything so eventually we all just dropped it and eventually she fell asleep again. We finally landed in Tampa late in the evening so we all decided to just go to a hotel for the night. Dean and Seth were rooming together and as always I was rooming with Rox. She was currently in the shower and I was waiting to confront her.

20 minutes later Rox came out of the bathroom with my over sized hounds of justice t shirt on and her hair in a high bun on the top of her head. She looked beautiful.

"Hey gorgeous come here." I said smiling at her while laying on her bed. She crawled under the covers and cuddled up to me. We laid there for a few moments before I took a deep breath.

"What's wrong Rome? Are you okay?" She asked, her big brown eyes staring into mine.

"We need to talk." I said. She sat up sitting cross legged looking at me curiously.

"About what?"

I mimicked her actions and sat up across from her. I reached out and grabbed her hand. "Rox..who can come back at any time?" Her face immeditely showed no emotion and she pulled her hand back from me. She was shutting down, I've seen this so many times.

"Forget about it" She said in a monotone voice.

"No. You said you were worried it could effect me getting my daughter. And if someones after you I want to know so tell me right now." Very rarely did I ever push Rox to tell me things she didn't want to but this has gone on long enough and I was going to get to the bottom of it.

"I'll leave so it doesn't." She said moving to get up. I put my hand on her thigh stopping her from getting off the bed.

"I don't want you to leave Rox I just want to know what's going on with you. Please tell me?"

"Why can't you just forget it!?" She snapped.

"Because it's hurting you!" I said back in a firm voice. I grabbed her chin and forced her to look at me. "It's hurting you and I have no idea how to fix it. Help me out here Rox."

"I'm scared." she whispered scooting closer to me.

"Of what Rox?"

"Him.."

"No one is going to hurt you okay? I'll make sure of it." I said reaching out and squeezing her hand.

"He'll find a way. He always does."

"I would lay my life on the line for you Rox. I love you. I'm in love with you girl. Let me in. Stop putting up walls to keep you safe. It's just hurting you. I promise you, telling me is going to help. Please."

After a few minutes passed her almoner changed, her shoulders slumped and she squeezed my hand back.

"When I moved to Detroit with some friends we needed a 4th roommate. Jax, he was my friend at the time, worked with this guy Aaron they worked at some night club, anyway he found out Aaron needed a place to stay so he moved in with us. It started off fine you know? But then we started stressing about money. We had too many bills and Alexa was fired from her job. She was Jax's girlfriend. Anyway we were falling really behind and Aaron said that he could get us money under the table, it would be illegal. Jax agreed and they started working with a pimp in the area. I thought they were joking but it was a real pimp. Roman...I'm not proud of any of this okay?" She said looking up to me scared.

"It's okay Rox, i'm not going to judge you. What happened?"

"Well they would go collect money I think for him. I'm not really too sure. Anyway soon our house became like the meet up place. The prostitutes would show up there to give their boss their money. Jax and Aaron started selling drugs. Not like weed but meth and cocaine stuff like that. We always had drunks, druggies, pimps and hoes in our house. There was countless times I'd come in and see people I didn't know hooking up on the couch. I wanted to get out of there so bad but I couldn't afford to." She paused and took some deep breaths. I could tell she was going to cry.

"I was working as a waitress. It was part time so I would usually work the dinner shift. 6-10. One day I came home and saw one of the guys slap a woman to the ground over money. He saw me staring and asked me if I wanted the same treatment so I ran in my room. The cops came to our house so much trying to figure things out. I saw so many women get beat.. beat to the point of unconsciousness and be covered in blood. I've seen people one week and they were just gone the next. They were always "missing" but I knew what that meant. They were killed. I was scared for Jax so one day I brought up to him that we should move and get out of the business and he told me there was no way he was going to leave because of the type of money he made. So that's when I started drinking. I was always so scared and didn't want to think about it and alcohol took that pain away.. Dean knew I wasn't in a good situation and kept asking me if I needed help but I wanted to do it on my own.." She got up and stood by the window and I watched her from the bed. Seeing her eyes, it's like she was in a far away place. Like she was right there reliving what she was telling me.

"One day I smarted off to the wrong guy. I had a bad day at work with lousy tips and I hadn't had any alcohol that day so I was frustrated.. I walked in my room and laid down to take a nap. Maybe about 10 minutes later I heard the door open and it was the guy I smarted off to. His name was Joey.." Her voice cracked at his name. I wanted to go wrap my arms around her but I thought if I did she would stop talking so I stayed at the bed watching her.

"I sat straight up and asked him what he thought he was doing I told him to leave and he slapped me. I fell back on the bed and looked up to him..he had such a ...sinister..smile it was terrifying. He straddled me and told me I was going to figure out what happened when you don't know your place. He ripped off my shirt and when I tried to fight him he punched me..." She started crying and I got up and stood next to her. "He raped me..." she whimpered. I went to pull her in my arms but she pulled away from me and went to the other side of the room.

"I told Jax and Alexa and they told me I was making it up just because I wanted out of the house.. My own best friends didn't believe me. They told me I was a liar. That Joey wouldn't waste his time on a below average girl like me.. I told Aaron and he just told me he knew how to make me feel better. He made me go to his room with him and he put something in a needle and shot it in my arm. Every time I would start crying or thinking about what Joey did to me... Aaron would put the needle in my arm. It got to the point where I wanted it all the time. I would leave me work every 15 minutes and have Joey bring me the needle. I eventually quit my job and did drugs all day. When I wasn't doing drugs I was drinking.. One night I was in my room drinking and Joey came in and pulled at my pants..I kept telling him no but he wouldn't listen and he made me have sex with him again..He was always so rough and it was painful. I always bled and he never cared...he took my virginity.. I hated him so much Roman." She looked up at me through tear filled eyes and i felt the anger inside me. I promised myself I'd find Joey and fuck him up.

"I avoided Dean for months before he forced me to hang out with him one day. He knew something was up but didn't push it. He just told me that whenever I was ready to leave to call him. Good old Dean huh? 2 weeks later I was in the kitchen getting a beer of course.. and Joey told me to come sit on his lap. I kept ignoring him and then he said 'I own you. I own you I own all of you. You do what I want when I want. Now crawl to me and suck my cock" Her voice got angry repeating his words to her.

"I got so mad that I grabbed the bottle in my hand and..." she paused and sat on the bed.

"And what Rox..?" I said walking over kneeling in front of her.

"I walked up behind him and hit him on the back of the head with it as hard as I could.. he fell out of his seat and he was bleeding... I ran to my room and called Dean and told him to come get me and he did and I never went back. Everything was fine. Dean got me off the drugs and alcohol he got me back on my feet and I was dealing with everything that went on in that house. Everything Joey ever did to me...he did a lot to me Roman...more than just rape... I wanted to die from everything he did.. I just.. I don't want to talk about that okay?" She asked looking at me her eyes begging for me to drop it so I just nodded my head. I wanted to know what else he did but right now..this was enough. "Joey texted me 2 months after I left and said "Hey bitch did you think I would forget about you? I told you I own you and I still do. I'll get you for what you did you won't know when but I will.' He always snuck into my room I never knew when he was going to but when my door opened I just wanted to die right then and there. I hoped that whatever he did would be bad enough to kill me. Every time he came in that door I was scared. so... That's why I'm scared of doors I'm terrified that he is going to keep his word and come after me." I hand one hand resting on her thigh while the other stroked her arm.

"If the courts know about this... they'll use me as a reason you can't have Jessica and I can't deal with that Roman." She said while sniffling.

"They won't know okay? It's going to be okay babe. It's all going to work out." I pulled her into my lap and cradled her head as she cried into my shirt. "No one will ever hurt you again Rox. I swear it.

*Back in Vegas*

"About time you got here!"

"Don't rush me! I told you I would be here and I am. Did you set it up?"

"Yup Brittney knows all she needs to know about little Rox to ruin Roman's chances as long as Rox is around."

"Perfect! I told her I'd get her..thanks for the help bro."