An hour and a half later…
"Oh, it's beautiful here but Miami has a history kept off the books." Ali says as she and Brady walked down the hallway, the two stopping by Ali's locker and her opening it… finding that her locker was disheveled, her IPod was stolen and 'Lying Tramp!' was spray painted on the door of the locker. "That damn bitch!" She growled, slamming the door shut as Brady saw Britt Wheeler nearby.
But before he could stop Ali, she stormed over, snatched her IPod out of Britt's locker and slammed the door shut, Britt jumping back.
"You break into my locker again and I'll break a hell of a lot more than your nose, you stuck up, thieving bitch!" Ali says angrily, Britt feigning innocence.
"Ali, I have no idea-" Britt says, Ali looking right at her like "Shut up, I don't believe your bullshit!" and Britt walked away, Ali walking back to Brady.
"Looks like Todd didn't keep his mouth shut." Ali says, seeing that Brady had taken some hand sanitizer he kept with him and started scrubbing the spray paint off of her locker door with paper towels.
The two left and ended up taking the bus to the Miami Dade Police Department, Brady seeing Sonny's Ferrari Testarossa in the parking lot as he and Ali got off of the bus.
"I haven't seen that car here before, aside from in pictures." Ali says as she and Brady walked into the police station. "Wait, back to who you were talking about earlier… I didn't see her at school today. Where is your sister?" She says.
"Dad's… kept Amber out of school lately." Brady says, his phone ringing and him answering it. "Hey, sis." He says, Ali leaning against the wall.
Ali, deciding not to eavesdrop, snuck up behind Billy and placed her hands over his eyes, Billy smiling slightly at his cousin's antics and stood up, the two hugging.
"Crazy day, kiddo?" Billy asks as they let go.
"No more than usual." Ali says as Sonny walked over to them, Ali looking at him. "Hey, Uncle Sonny." She says before they hug.
The two let go… and Sonny could see the look in Ali's eyes, reminding him of how Amber was after her attack. It was that hesitant one, Ali thought Sonny might be scared off by what happened to her… but instead, Sonny rested his hands on Ali's slim shoulders in a reassuring manner.
"Let go of me, damn it! That bitch started it!" Everyone heard, looked and saw Stan dragging a girl of about 6'5" in, scrapes and bruises on her hands.
"What exactly happened?" Trudy asks.
"Fight broke out between this young lady and Scottie Wheeler's daughter, Britt, who's currently in the back of an ambulance headed to North Shore E.R." Stan says, forcing Amber to sit down as Sonny and Brady walked over to Amber.
"Alright Amber, what exactly did she do?" Sonny asks.
"She started mouthing off about how anyone who can't fight back against an attacker without help deserves whatever they get and it pissed me off." Amber says.
Brady looked back at Ali and could see the look in her eyes… Ali clearly felt the same way Amber did and he walked over to her.
"I'm gonna guess and say that it was around January of this year? I looked it up, there's been a string of attacks in Alaska, the midwest and recently, here in Miami." Ali says quietly, revealing a small scar on the palm of her left hand from the night of her attack. "Yeah… he attacked me too. I have nerve damage in that hand." She says, Brady noticing the bullet scar above Ali's left knee.
9/30/06, Abandoned warehouse in Miami…
"Ooh, little girl with a-" Calderone says tauntingly.
"Let go of my brother, you son of a bitch!" Ali yells, the Colt .45 Python Revolver she stole from Billy aimed at Calderone, who held Miguel at gunpoint.
Calderone threw Miguel to the floor and shot Ali, who fell to her right knee… but as soon as Calderone turned to shoot Miguel, Ali stood up and pulled the trigger.
Miguel backed away as Calderone fell dead, Ali shaken up by what she had done… and Miguel did the only thing he could think of, walking over to Ali and taking the gun out of her hands before pulling his little sister in his arms, the two hugging.
"Is it really over?" Ali asks quietly.
"It's over, kiddo… he's gone." Miguel says as they look at each other.
"Are you okay?" Ali asks, tears in her eyes.
"Don't worry about me… just a cracked elbow, I think." Miguel says.
"I think after this, our parents are gonna make sure we're never out of their sight." Ali says, Miguel chuckling slightly as the two helped each other out of the warehouse, immediately greeted by SWAT and bright lights. "Don't shoot!" She says, dropping the gun as Martin and Gina ran over and hugged their kids.
Present time…
"Hey…" Ali says, sitting across from Amber. "Don't worry… she shouldn't have been running her mouth." She says, Amber looking at her and could see the small scars on the corner of Ali's right eye, which Ali didn't bother to hide.
"Brady said he met you earlier." Amber says.
"He did… he chased off two guys who had been hassling me." Ali says.
"He's quick to do that. He'll protect anyone but wrong him once… well, you'd find that those two guys wouldn't be your only worry and trust me, Brady doesn't mess around, as I'm sure you saw." Amber says.
"Yeah, he bounced the football off of Todd's face… so what brought you all to Miami? I haven't seen your father since I was about 5." Ali says.
"It's a long story… things got bad up there. Actually… they got very bad… we're actually here because we're sort of… running away and hiding." Amber says.
"There are times I wish I could leave what happened behind… it's not always easy." Ali says, her and Amber seeing Caroline walk in. "Oh, for fuck's sake." She mutters, Amber lightly swatting her right arm as Sonny walked over to Caroline.
"Sonny… I didn't think I'd ever see you again." Caroline says. "Look, I need to file a police report, someone attacked my goddaughter Britt." She says.
"Caroline, there are extenuating-" Sonny starts to say, Caroline cutting him off.
"Britt said something that was taken out of context! Kids her age do that!" Caroline snapped, Ali about to stand up when Amber stopped her and stood up, walking over to Caroline. "Can I help you?!" She asks angrily.
"Someone attacked your goddaughter… hi." Amber says.
"You? Look, Britt didn't-" Caroline says.
"Britt didn't what, mean to insult and mouth off?! Rip the scab off of a healing wound in my life?!" Amber shouts before stepping right up to Caroline. "Let me ask you something… how would you like to be raped, huh?! Oh, and it wouldn't stop there either, oh no… there'd be guns too, a revolver shot right through your chest, cutting an artery and letting you bleed out across freezing snow! You die three times and the blood loss puts you in a coma for four days, and you want to know the final part about it?!" She says before cracking her hand across Caroline's face. "THAT HAPPENED TO ME!" She yells.
Ali stood up and carefully pulled Amber away before turning to Caroline.
"Britt deliberately pissed Amber off… ripping open wounds carelessly and thinking she didn't deserve any repercussions… how would you feel if that did happen to you, Caroline?!" Ali says, Caroline walking away.
"Has she always been like that, Dad?" Amber asks as she and Sonny hugged.
"There was a time that things were different, Amber… I was married to Caroline for a time, you and Brady have an older brother named Billy." Sonny says as they let go.
"I know… I found out in the archives before all hell broke loose." Amber says.
Ali walked into Martin's office and closed the doors, briefly closing her eyes.
"That got chaotic in a hurry." Ali says after turning to Martin. "Did anyone say how badly Amber beat Britt up?" She asks.
"It's not the full story but I know that Britt's got a couple of rods in her left leg and a pin in her left arm. Not sure about the injuries themselves." Martin says.
"Damn… hopefully, she realises after this that acting how she is won't let her walk away without any actions." Ali says.
A while later, North Shore…
"Ow! Jake, watch that arm!" Britt screamed painfully as Jake accidentally brushed against her broken arm.
"Sorry. My mom just told me… did you see who did this?" Jake says after sitting down.
"All she said was to call her Air Con… no idea where that came from." Britt says.
"Damn… you remember anything before that?" Jake says.
"Well… her accent sounded from the north… very north, as in Canada or Alaska, that area… she was damn tall as well." Britt says.
"Taller than me? I think Todd and I might've met her brother." Jake says, Britt sitting up carefully.
"Bullshit… what did he do to you?" Britt says.
"Nothing to me… but he slammed a football into Todd's face and nailed him down on the table." Jake says.
"That's going too far!" Britt growls.
"Actually, Todd provoked him… tried to hit Ali." Jake says, Britt scowling slightly.
"Well in that case… Todd deserves a medal of honor." Britt says.
"Okay, one more whack to the head hasn't changed your attitude towards Ali. Let it go, she didn't deserve what that monster did to her." Jake says, Britt turning enraged.
"Are you fucking high?! She caused Alicia and Ryan to break up!" Britt yells.
"That wasn't Ali's fault, couples tend to break up! Ali was just being a good friend to Ryan, trying to help him!" Jake says before leaving.
Jake reached the police station to see that Ali, now in a white sundress and dark red leather sandals and her hair out of it's ponytail, was outside.
"You look stressed. She still mouthing off?" Ali says after Jake walked over to her. It wasn't uncommon to see Ali wearing a dress in early autumn, Miami could get so damn humid.
"Yeah… hey, I'm not gonna cause any trouble." Jake says after seeing Brady walk outside.
"You better not… keep it that way and I'll say no more on it." Brady says.
"I just want to apologize… Britt can be a bitch at times. I don't ever remember her being nice to anyone aside from me and Alicia." Jake says.
"Hopefully, she backs off…" Brady says.
'Same here.' Jake thought before Brady left to find Ali.