She got her daddy's tongue and temper
Sometimes her mouth could use a filter
God shook his head the day he built her
Oh, but I bet he smiled.
Lee Brice, She Ain't Right

The phone ringing in the middle of the night had Alexis sitting up. As soon as the feeling hit her she knew.. Something, somewhere was not right with one of her kids.. She rolled over and answered the phone in a state of sleepy panic and Sam's voice filled the other end of the line, the static was so bad that Alexis couldn't understand it.

"She had a wreck tonight, Mom." Sam said as she paced the parking lot of the small hospital in the small town of Beaumont, Georgia. She bit her fingernails even more than she had been already and as soon as her mother was fully awake and began with her questions, Sam answered them all as best as she could explaining how apparently her daughter was a bit of a speed demon.. She'd taken a curve on a gravel road near her house too fast and then went through a guard rail, flipping down a ravine with the car landing upside down in the gulley below the ravine.

"Is she..."

"No, mom, she's one of us, she's too tough to die. She's mad as hell right now at the doctors because they won't just let her call one of her adopted sisters and get them to come and pick her up, but.. She tried to lose consciousness on me twice on the way in." Sam said in a rush as one of the blondes that had arrived at the hospital about ten minutes after the ambulance carrying Sam and Adriana had arrived ran over and said "Ms. Morgan.. She's in a room.. Doctor says she's got a concussion, few bruised ribs and she had to have sixty fives stitches. Thought we should tell you.. Seeing as how you found her and all. How did you find her?" Anna Harper asked the woman (who resembled her sister if one were to be quite honest about it) as she looked down at her with curious eyes.

"I was coming to her house, I.. I had to talk to her about something." Sam said quietly as she bit the edge of her thumb and went back to pacing. Judging by what Adriana's adoptive sisters seemed to act like, either Adriana didn't know the full story, or she didn't know she'd been adopted at all. And suddenly, that made the situation Sam stood in presently, wanting more than anything to tell her daughter who she was and explain why she'd had to do what she'd done all those years ago..

"About what?" Anna asked curtly as Sam said "That's personal. It's a private matter between Adriana and I." just as curtly as Anna. Anna looked at her a few moments then asked, "You're the P.I she hired to find her birth mother and confront her.. Aren't you?"

Sam filed that away for later.. So Adriana somehow did know she'd been adopted.. But she most likely didn't know the whole story and just judging the way Anna, her oldest sister was acting, neither did either of her sisters.

She hated doing it but she nodded and lied as best as she could. She'd tell Adriana the truth, all of it, as soon as Adriana was able and willing to hear it. For now though, her main focus was making absolutely sure that beyond the injuries Anna came out to inform Sam that Adriana sustained during the accident, Adriana wasn't hurt any more seriously.

She winced as she thought about the almost tin can sized hunk of scrap metal that was left of Adriana's car. Her daughter (and her if she really had to be honest about things) had been truly blessed tonight that Adriana was even still alive. And this just convinced Sam farther that talking to her daughter, telling the whole truth and letting the chips fall where they may was the best thing to do in this case.

"If you wanna come up and talk to her, Ms. Morgan.. She's in a room now. Having a damn fit because the doctors won't just let her go home, insisting she's not that badly hurt but yeah.. She's alive and kickin.. It'd take more than a car wreck to take out her stubborn ass." Anna mused as she looked at the woman a few moments.. It was on the tip of her tongue to just blurt it out, to just ask what she really wanted to know, about maybe Sam being Adriana's birth mother because the woman did look awfully familiar, but..

It wasn't Anna's place.. And this whole mess, since it'd began shortly after their parents funeral was hard enough on her little sister anyway without all this coming out right now. If the woman had any decency (which she suspected the woman did) she'd wait a few days before springing anything she might know about Adri's birth mother, or the fact that she was Adri's birth mother, on Adri.