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

"I warn you now, in advance.. There are a lot of us." Sam said gently as she helped her daughter up the stairs to the town house that Alexis was living in while their lakefront cabin was being rebuilt. Adriana shivered against the chill in the air and nodded as she told her birth mother, "I can walk, Sam."

"It's slippery and you've almost fallen on those crutches at least five times in the two hours since we've gotten off the plane and landed. So I think that as your mother, kiddo, I'll just keep my arm around you." Sam said as she eyed Adriana in concern, smiling as Adriana nodded and looked like she wanted to say something but after a few moments thought, apparently the stubborn as all hell girl Georgia native decided against.

Sam knocked and within seconds, Molly and Kristina, with Ethan standing behind her, his arms around her, of course, threw the door open and Adriana had a split seconds terrified look as the masses that made up the Davis women descended on her. "Whoa, hang on y'all." Adriana coaxed playfully, waving her hands a little, wincing as the movement hurt her bruised ribs like hell.

"I hope you're going to slow that car of yours down." Alexis told her granddaughter firmly as Adriana waved her hands and said "Gonna tell you like I tell Sam.. Not makin any promises.. Wide open is kinda the only speed I really know, I mean that's the way us girls were taught to drive." which made Molly giggle and demand, "Say something else. It's cute, the way you talk.. You have the thickest accent."

"Do not." Adriana said as she studied her aunt intently and finally said with a laugh, "Sic 'em dogs." which made Kristina and Molly exchange glances, Adriana shake her head and point to the baseball cap she wore currently and point out "An SEC football team, girls.. The Georgia Bulldogs?"

"We don't really watch much sports around here." Alexis pointed out with a chuckle as she asked, "So, how was your flight? And how long will you be staying?"

"My flight was good.. Sam kept lettin me fall asleep after I told her not to, I mean I've never flown.. I wanted to see the stuff I was flying over.. As far as how long I'm staying.. I'm actually not sure yet.. Maybe a little while.. I wanna get to know my real family." Adriana explained as Sam (who'd disappeared into the kitchen with a glass) handed a glass full of water to her daughter, then the prescribed pain pills that Adriana was supposed to take to keep her injuries from hurting as Sam said with a small and hopeful smile, "I'm hoping she loves it here so much she moves here permanently."

"Like I said on the plane, Sam.. We'll see.. I mean this.. It's a lot to get used to." Adriana mused as she thought about it.. She'd only been here five minutes and already this small townhouse on the main street in Port Charles felt more homelike than her adoptive parent's Georgian ranch had in nearly all the years she'd actually lived there while not knowing the whole truth about what happened and why she felt different than her sisters.

"It is." Sam said as she looked at her daughter and then nodded to the pills and said "Oh no.. You're taking those.. I mean unless you just want to hurt so much that it makes you nauseous again."

Adriana poked her tongue out playfully but shoved the pain medicine into her mouth and chugged the water in her hands down before looking around the room at her extended family.. All of them, she noticed, except her grandfather and her half uncle Lucas, of course, were brunette.. And fairly short.. And for the most part, they were hands down, almost as good at sarcasm and dry humor as she was known to be.

Maybe this coming to meet them hadn't been a bad idea.. maybe she'd finally find the one place she fit in at.

The doorbell rang and Sam opened it, let Nickolas in as he smiled and asked "You two had a safe trip, right?"

"We did, yes.. Other than my daughter almost killing herself in a car wreck.. You were out of town with Spencer on vacation, I couldn't get in touch to tell you about it." Sam told Nickolas who chuckled and then looked at Sam's daughter and mused aloud, "Well, there's no question she's one of us, huh?" which made Sam laugh and shake her head no then point out, "She's just a little feistier.. And that worries me.. I mean I thought I was a big time risk taker, Nick.. My daughter has done things that scare me even.."

"Like what?"

"She's base jumped, for one.. And she locked herself out of her parents house once and didn't even hesitate in climbing up a very old and unsteady drain pipe on the side of the house, breaking a window in the attic and going into the house that way." Sam admitted as Nickolas chuckled and then nodded to his little son Spencer, who was apparently quite taken with the newest member of the family, currently, he was sitting on her lap, talking to her about any and everything he could ask her.

Adriana laughed at the little boy who was so full of questions and said "I'll get my photo albums out and show you pictures.. And we'll have to work on you not being able to throw a ball, huh?" as she let the boy down, took her half brother Danny from her aunt Kristina, held him on her lap, smiling as Danny reached for her Georgia baseball cap. "I'll have to get you one too. Maybe I can make ya a Georgia football fan.. that way I won't be such an oddball." Adriana said softly as her lips brushed the top of her little brother's head. He laid back against her and smiled, twisting a little finger in her long dark hair which made her laugh.

She finally felt like for once in her entire life, she was exactly where she needed to be... And the more she considered it, the more she wondered what exactly was keeping her in Georgia that she couldn't do here while bonding with her real family.. She could always go back and visit her adoptive sisters.. And her parents graves.. But it just.. She felt like this was home..

But she planned to give it a week or two, maybe a little longer, before she made any permanent decisions..