"If you guys don't wanna help me plan Jakes's surprise party them I'm gonna get someone who will. I'll just go wake Lexi up and-"

"Johnny no," Charlie stated, "Leave that poor girl to sleep. She hasn't had a good nights sleep in almost a week."

"Who hasn't had a good nights sleep?" Lexi said coming down the stairs.

"Apparently you miss Tie-Die" Johnny said, throwing her an apple.

Lexi caught it and took a bite before calling out, "Mike!"

Everyone turned to see Mike coming in the door.

"Yo Mikey! Good to have you back!" Johnny said.

Charlie was the first one to hug Mike and Lexi was the second.

Paige came down and saw Mike standing there. It was quite an interesting experience between the two of them Lexi noted and she wondered what that was about especially since they really had been starting to like each other lately.

Lexi decided to get her turn of washing the cars on the chore wheel done before the day got started. She finished with her breakfast and went outside.

"Hey kid! Hold up a second!" Briggs called as Lexi walked out into the yard.

He jogged up to meet her. "Why don't you let me wash the cars today."

Lexi cocked her head, "You.. wanna do my chore?"

"Yeah why not... I was driving around the beach last night and got my car extra dirty so why don't you let me do it." Briggs said.

"Since when do you like washing your own car?" Lexi said with a slight laugh.

"Hey Lexi! Come on girl you can do that later! We got some party planing to do!" Johnny yelled fro the doorway.

Lexi smiled and handed Briggs the washing supplies and went in the house, but as she and Johnny were planing should couldn't help wonder about Briggs...

Lexi spent most of the day with Johnny running around and organizing party that was taking place tonight. It had been an interesting past couple of days. Mike spent the night in jail and it looked like Bello was going to cough up Odin's identity when BAM! no literally BAM... Mike had been made and punched out by Bello in a matter of minutes.

Lexi and Johnny stood in the living room and filled up the bouncy castle. Lexi didn't really like the idea of strippers but doing something fun and together as a house did appeal to her. Charlie was going over the prison's call logs, Paige and Mike were hanging out on the couch, Briggs was upstairs and Jakes was well.. avoiding.

"Yo Tie-Die, you wanna go for a round in there before the girls show up?" Johnny said with a dorky smile.

"Hell yeah!" Lexi said and jumped in.

Johnny and Lexi bounced around, filling king's castle with laughter.

"It feels good to hear you laugh my little Russian flower." Charlie called from the couch.

"Wanna come in?" Lexi said as Johnny gave her a playful shove.

"Na kiddo I'm work'n." Charlie said.

"Come on Charlie it's a party. Oh look the girls are here!" Johnny said as he and Lexi jumped out of the bounce house.

Just then Briggs came down stairs and he and Charlie got into an argument. Following that, Paige and Mike went up to have some sort of talk, and to top the whole night off... Jakes and Johnny came to blows...

Lexi found herself being the only one standing beside Johnny when he gave his we're a family speech.

Lexi went down to the beach, laid down on the still warm sand and cried. Through her tears she looked up at the stars and though back to one of the first times Donnie had brought her down to the beach. She remember laying on her back beside Donnie as he showed her the consultations. She remembered Briggs teaching her and Paige to surf. Collecting shells and looking for pearls with Lauren. What had happened to her family? What had changed?

Paige woke up in the middle of the night to screaming, and not just any screaming.. blood murder screaming mixed with Russian shouting. It was Lexi. Paige leaped out of bed and dashed into Lexi's room. The girl was crying and screaming and thrashing around in her sleep.

"Hey Lex! Lex.. shh, hey wake up. Lex, Lex" Paige said, pulling the girl into her lap and holding her close. She was drenched with sweat.

Lexi stirred awake. "I'm bleeding!"

"Shhh no Lexi, no you're not. Hey, hey.." Paige soothed.

"Paige" Lexi said through tears.

"I'm here baby girl, I'm here."

"Paige everything is falling apart... this house, this family... me.." Lexi cried into Paige.

"Lexi, please talk to me... I can't help you if you don't talk to me.. please let me in..." Paige said ever so gentle as she stroked Lexi's hair.

Lexi was slight for a few moments, and then she began to speak... "My father had gone mad... he was so paranoid that someone was going to over throw him or betray him... He had a little chip of all these secret off shore accounts and dealings and stuff... and he had a doctor insert it into my back... The night he killed my mother he had gone past the point of no return... the next day he got wind that the cops were coming and he knew someone had sold him out... he thought it was me... so he beat me and tied me to a table... got out a box cutter and began slicing open my back..."

Tears streamed down Lexi's face as she sobbed. Paige held her to her as she continued... "He was slicing and slicing... looking for his chip. I could feel the blood pouring out of me... and the pain... he kept saying he was going to kill me... Me! His daughter... he was going to make me pay for whatever sins his mind told him I had committed. He kept cutting me and burning me with his cigar until the door was kicked open and he was shot... it was Donnie.. Donnie shot him...He stopped most of the bleeding untied me and threw his DEA windbreaker over me and pulled me out of there..."

Paige hummed and soothed as Lexi cried and shook in her lap. After a long, long time, Lexi was silent. She had relived her memory.. and the pain had finally passed...

"Paige.." Lexi said softly, looking up at her with her tie-dyed eyes.

Paige looked down and met her gaze with her own.

"Will you stay with me?" Lexi asked.

"Of course sweetie" Paige said and climbed into the bed. She pulled the covers over her and Lexi and within moments.. they both were asleep.

In the morning Paige decided to tell Lexi what was going down with her and Mike and how she going to help him investigate what was going on with Briggs. She thought that Lexi would be mad or upset... but It was the opposite..

"I'm in" Lexi said, "I'll help you."

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