Chon has placed his hand on Brooke's arm, his hand moving down to her wrist, his fingers wrapped around the fragile bone. "Come back with us." He asked one last time. Brooke looked up at him sadly before pulling away from him and walking to where Ophelia and Ben stood, ushering them to the back door. Jake was waiting for them out back, no one had followed him to Liam's house.
"Be safe." Brooke said before hugging on to O tightly. Ben moved forward and hugged on to both of them, kissing the top of both of their heads. His two girls.
"You be safe." Ben told Brooke. She smiled at him, letting him know that she would. She knew nothing bad would happen to her with all of Liam's men around.
Chon pulled Brooke aside one last time, "Please." He told her. He wanted her to be where he could see her, where he could keep her safe. He knew there was no way Aoibheann would leave her family, but Brooke had a choice. She could choose to leave with them.
Brooke frowned, "I'm staying, Chon." She kept her voice strong. "Liam won't let anything happen to me." She tried to assure him. But it only made Chons blood boil hearing her say those words. He wouldn't let anything happen to her – but she was choosing Liam over him. So instead he kept his expression unreadable before saying;
"Keep an eye on Aoibheann for me." He told her before leaving Liam's place.
Little did Chon and Brooke know, Liam had witnessed the whole thing. And though Brooke had chosen to stay with him, he still couldn't help but see the way Brooke looked after Chon had left the house.
Liam had one of his men contact Ryan who had been keeping close to Aoibheann's side, never too far from her, to meet him in his study. He went through his library, his fingers touching the spines of the books. He pulled out a book of poems his mother had given him and flipped to the page of the poem that had been racking his mind since he saw the look on Brookes face after Chon left. When Ryan came in, he walked forward to where his little brother was, holding up the book for him to see.
"What's this?" Ryan asked as Liam handed him the book.
"It's a book. I know you're rarely in school, Ryan, but you must know what one looks like." He mocked. Ryan glared at him only to have Liam smirk at him. "Turn to page 345." He instructed his little brother as he sat down in a chair. Ryan did as he was told, opening the book to the page. "It reminds me of the situation I find myself in."
"A Poison Tree. By William Blake." Ryan read aloud, looking at the words. But without missing a beat, Liam read the poem without even looking at the words that Ryan held in his hands.
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
"Always the tortured soul, my brother." Ryan said as he slammed the book shut. "But what does this have to do with our situation?" He cocked his brow.
"It has little to do with our situation, Ryan." Liam stood up from the chair he sat in, walking to the doors of his study and shut them. "Whilst I read this poem, I couldn't help but see a face as my foe; Chon."
Ryan smirked. "You want him dead?"
"No," Liam shook his head. "But I want him out of the picture." He looked to his phone, a picture of Brooke as his screensaver. "I made a few calls, talked to the right people – Chon always is boasting on about how he is a navy seal. I feel like it's time America needs their hero once again!" Liam clapped his hands with a smirk. "He'll be receiving a call within the next few days from his CO."
Ryan chuckled. "You're drafting him? All of this just to get him to stay away from your girlfriend? Or for your girlfriend to stay away from him?" Liam glared at Ryan. "Dear brother, Irene really did screw with your head didn't she?" He laughed. Liam did not find it amusing. Irene hadn't just messed with his head – she messed with his heart. He couldn't afford to have Brooke do the same to him.
"He'll be out of the picture, that's all that matters."
"And what about Aoibheann, she's grown fond of him for whatever reason she has. What will she do when she finds out?"
Liam glared at Ryan. "She won't."
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Brooke had woken alone, as usual of late. But she wouldn't hold it against Liam – not after what happened with one of his warehouses. There were still members of the IRA in the house, not to mention Irene showed up early that morning, sporting a nose cast which made Brooke very happy. She had been going on and on to Anna about how painful it was dealing with it after that 'little monster' as Irene had called Aoibheann, had broken it.
Brooke had simply ignored them until she heard someone moving around in the kitchen, and out of the corner of her eye saw it was Aoibheann. Brooke knew she was probably sore still or high on pain killers so she excused herself from the table.
"Soith." Irene muttered under her breath as Brooke left the room.
"Irene!" Anna hissed.
Brooke rolled her eyes. She had heard Aoibheann use that word to describe Irene – she sure it wasn't pleasant.
"Hey," Brooke said as she walked in to the kitchen. "How are you feeling?"
"-Like I got shot." Aoibheann retorted.
"Shitty." Brooke said, which caused Aoibheann to smirk. "Do you need anything?" She asked
"Yeah I need that scab out of my house!" Aoibheann said loudly with a smirk on her face. Ever since Irene showed back up at the house, the two Irish women gave one another dirty looks. It also didn't help that Ryan would add fuel to the fire. "But, no thanks. Liam's best mate, Leo is getting me Subway."
Brooke smiled, she began to brew some tea on the stove. Ever since she met Liam she would always try and drink tea instead of coffee. She bit down on her lip, not sure if she should ask but couldn't help herself. "What does Soith mean?" She asked, curiosity getting the best of her. She knew it wasn't anything good – but she wanted to know exactly what Irene had called her.
Aoibheann frown when Brooke asked her that. "Why? Did Ryan call you that?" As the young Irish sat down on the bar stool, Leo walked into the kitchen with a big smile on his face. Leo could pass as Ryan Gosling twin, if he was a little taller and didn't have a half sleeve of black and white tattoo.
"Your subway, darling." Leo grabbed a plate for Aoibheann and sat her sandwich on top of it, still wrapped. Before exiting out of the room, Leo grabbed a few beers. The guys had a football game to watch.
"No," Brooke said once Leo was gone. "Not Ryan. Irene said it when I walked out of the room and I hear you and Ryan use it all the time," Brooke said as she took the kettle off the stove. She reached for a cup in the cupboard and poured the kettle of hot water in to the cup. "Is it slang or something?" She asked, grabbing through Liam's stash of good tea bags until she found one she wanted.
"It means bitch." Aoibheann said right before she took a bite of her sandwich. "If her nose wasn't broken already, I would punch her right now." As Aoibheann watched Brooke take a drink of her tea, she asked " Has she said anything else to you?"
Brooke laughed. "Um," Brooke tried to think of anything she had heard Irene say in passing as she left the room but she couldn't remember any of the words Irene had used aside from soith. Brooke shook her head. "Nothing that I can remember. She always says something under her breath when I walk by but I only picked up on soith." She admitted. She simply rolled her eyes and took a sip of her tea. "I'm sure she's called me worse."
But Brooke didn't really care. She would keep the peace for Brian and Anna's sake.
She heard the sound of men cheering and smiled. She heard Liam over them all. "So the wedding's at the beach." Brooke said, clarifying with Aoibheann. "Which has me contemplating making my dress a little shorter? What do you think?" She asked.
Aoibheann thought about Brooke's question. Anna and all the bride mates are going to have some type of a long dress. " I would keep the dress long. You don't wanna look out of place." Throwing her trash away she added, "There wedding is the biggest event this summer for Laguna, since both families come from old money and the fact that Anna's dad is the head football coach at the University of Texas."
Brooke was glad that Aoibheann had convinced her to go long for her dress. She nearly choked on her tea when she heard what Aoibheann had said about Anna's father being the head coach for football at the University of Texas. It seemed like such a normal job. Football coach? Hell, Brooke wished her father had been a football coach instead of a slimy business man who liked to sneak in his daughter's bedroom at night.
"Is Anna close to her parents?" She asked Aoibheann. Anna seemed to have such a normal life. She was a psychologist, good southern girl – did she have any idea what she was getting herself in to? Brooke was used to it all. She had been dating Liam for quite some time now and got the knack of things. Besides, she already knew about the drug world from Ben and Chon. It was a good thing Brian decided to become a doctor and got out of the family business.
But Brian was different from them all. He had been so calm under pressure when working on Aoibheann, he was always so calm. He called her Ms. Davis, he was formal. Liam was at times very formal, very European – but Brian was different. He was always thoughtful, kind, cool tempered. Liam lost his temper so easily. Ryan was even worse. But Brian seemed … noble.
"Oh yeah they are. Anna's has a younger sister. A year younger than me. You'll meet her in two weeks." Aoibheann told Brooke as she sat back down. Shaking her head while laughing, "I remember the first time Anna got a taste of how my family really ran. She had walked into the kitchen while we still lived in Ireland. And saw me dragging a dead body out of the house."
Brooke laughed, imagining the scenario. "Your family defiantly is different." Brooke said with a grin. "I'm sure she made a better impression on Darcie than I did, though." She knew Darcie hated her. He made it pretty clear to her that he thought she wasn't good enough for his son. "It's hard trying to impress your boyfriend's father when said father is Satan."
"He prefers Lucifer." Liam said as walked in to the kitchen, walking up to Brooke and kissing her on the temple. "How are you this morning, love?" He asked. Brooke had had a hard time getting to sleep the night before, having nightmares about her father. Liam had held her close to him, promising not to let go of her all night. Brooke hated the fact that now that her father was dead – she couldn't stop dreaming about the man.
"Tired." Brooke confessed, looking over to Liam who was raiding the fridge for more beers. "I woke up to Ryan and his lady friend going at it." Brooke said causing both Aoibheann and Liam to chuckle. "She's a screamer."
"Don't gossip too much now, ladies." Liam said as he walked out of the kitchen, heading back to the living room where all the guys were watching the game, plus Anna and Irene. Liam couldn't help but to laugh as Anna tried keep switch channels during the breaks to keep track of her dad's team.
"Have you meet April yet?" Aoibheann asked Brooke as she glanced down at her cell to see that she got a text from Chon. "I've talked to her a few times. She's very pretty, but kind of shy and Australian."
"Australian?" Brooke said in interest. She had surprisingly never been there. "I've only met a few Australians before."
"Yeah, I think she'll be good for Ryan, maybe even calm him down a bit." Aoibheann said to Brooke as she put her cell phone back down. She knew that Ben, O and Ryan were close friends now and him being around such calm people did help him a lot, but it wasn't the same. He needs to get back on his meds.
Brooke watched as Aoibheann texted on her phone. Brooke took another sip from her tea. Aoibheann looked so focused on the text that Brooke felt like she was interrupting something. "Is everything OK?" She asked in curiosity.
"Yeah, Chon just texted me telling me that Jake is stopping by to give Liam some stuff." Stretching her good arm and peaking down the hallway, Aoibheann caught Ryan throwing popcorn at Leo, who was running out of the living room, dodging pillows. Shaking her head with a small laugh, she asked "What do you wanna do? I don't like watching the game."
Just as Brooke was about to answer Aoibheann, her phone started ringing. "Just a second." She told Aoibheann, putting the phone to her ear. She had seen on her screen that it was Ophelia calling her. "Hey O!" Brooke said happily.
"Brooke I need you to come to the house right now!" O cried. But she wasn't distressed; Brooke knew the difference between O and her cries. She was simply panicking.
"-What's going on?" Brooke asked her.
"Brooke, I'm late!" O confessed. Brooke felt like her jaw could hit the ground. O thought she was pregnant? Jesus. "Now can you please come over!" O cried.
"Of course, of course." Brooke said. She looked to Aoibheann as she hung up the phone. "Come on – O needs us." Brooke said. Brooke hurried out of the kitchen with Aoibheann following behind her.
"-Liam," Brooke poked her head in to the room where Liam and everyone was watching the game. "Aoibheann and I are going out for a bit."
Liam quirked his brow. "Where?"
"Ben and Chons." Brooke answered. Liam made a face before standing up. He walked up to where Brooke and Aoibheann were standing in the doorway.
"I need to steal her for a second." Liam told his sister as he pulled Brooke aside.
Brooke looked to Aoibheann. "Wait for me outside?" She asked as Liam pulled her away. Aoibheann nodded before heading outside.
His hands found her waist, his arm wrapping around her hip as he walked them in to the other room. Brooke could see that something was bothering him that he wasn't telling her.
"What's wrong?" She asked him. Liam didn't answer; he simply pushed her up against the wall, his lips covering her own. Brooke didn't understand the sudden act of PDA. Liam, she said once she got the chance to speak without his lips assaulting her own. But he simply shushed her, kissing her neck now. "-What are you doing?" She asked him, giggling at the sensation of his whiskers tickling her skin. "What's going on with you?"
"Nothing." Liam smirked against her skin. "Just showing you how much I love you." He said, nibbling at her neck. "Showing you how much I adore you." He kissed up to her jaw. Brooke smiled and moved her hands to his face, moving him so he was looking her in the eyes.
"I love you." She told him honestly. "And I adore you." She smiled. "And I also know when something's bothering you – out with it." She smirked.
Liam moved out of Brookes touch, rubbing his jaw. "Just IRA stuff." He lied. He then moved forward and kissed her again. "Stay."
Brooke kissed him back, trying not to get too lost in his lips. "I can't." Brooke told him. "O needs me." She pulled away. "Besides, Chons guy Jake is stopping by. He has something for you." She stood on her tip toes and kissed the tip of Liam's nose. "Don't worry. I'm safe at Ben and Chons." She told him, thinking he was worried about her safety. "But I got to go." She ducked out of his arms. Brooke kissed Liam on the cheek before walking away, leaving him in silence.
"I should have grabbed my sunglasses." Aoibheann mumbled to herself as she lean against her car, knowing that it was going to be a good ten minutes before Brooke be able to break free from her brother.
"Hey I -" Chon's friend Jake started to say but stopped when he saw that he made the girl in front of him jump. Laughing a little he added with a smile, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"Be lucky, not many people do. You must be Jake. I'm -"
"Chon's girl, Aoibheann. Nice to meet you." After shaking hands, Jake asked "Liam inside?"
"Hey Jake!" Brooke called out as she walked over to the two, sporting her dimple smile.
"He's in the living room," Aoibheann told him as he started to make his way to the front door.
Before Jake entered the house, he turned back towards the two brunettes and said with a cocky smile, "Aoibheann, maybe I'll see you around."
Brooke quirked her brow in amusement. "That's Jake." Brooke said with a laugh. He was never one to not flirt with a pretty girl.
They drove to the market first, buying a pregnancy test for O, Brooke figured her best friend didn't have one and it wasn't something Ben and Chon kept laying around their home. They drove the ten minute drive from the market to Ben and Chons. Brooke wondered what O would do if she was pregnant. Would she keep the baby? She shook those thoughts away. The life they lived? A baby shouldn't be brought in to it. When they pulled up to Ben and Chons, Brooke saw that only Chons bike was in the driveway. She wondered if he was even there or if he left with Ben. Surely O wouldn't want to take a pregnancy test with Ben there. Though Brooke was sure he'd be very supportive of O.
"Let's go." Brooke said as she got out of the car, Aoibheann following her lead. O didn't even wait until they were at the front door, the young woman came running out of the house, nearly jumping Brooke with a hug as she cried.
'-Brooke, I can't be a mother!" She sobbed. "I don't know the first thing about being a mom!"
Brooke hushed O, smoothing down her wild blonde hair as she held on to her tight. "It's OK." She told her. "We'll figure this out."
They sat together, O had done her business on the stick, now they all had to wait. Aoibheann was taking it all in. Brooke wondered if she ever had to deal with this kind of thing with any of her friends.
O hadn't been upset that Brooke brought Aoibheann, O liked her. But the only thing that was on O's mind was; am I going to be a mother? She took in a deep breath, sitting in the middle of the bed with Brooke and Aoibheann on either side of her, each holding her hand.
"Ben doesn't know?" Brooke asked Ophelia.
O shook her head. "He already left this morning before I realized what was going on."
"How late are you?" Brooke questioned.
"Two weeks." O answered. Her eyes began to fill with tears. "I haven't been taking the pill regularly." She confessed. "Sometimes I forget."
"Ophelia," Brooke sighed, using her full name. The blonde groaned, shaking her head as a tear rolled down her cheek. "You know better than that."
"I know!" O cried. "I usually take it when I wake up but – you know! Sometimes I forget!"
Brooke couldn't help but smile. It wasn't the appropriate time to smile because her best friend was in a crisis. But it wasn't surprising to Brooke that O would forget to take her birth control pill when she woke up in the morning. O was barely a human when she first woke up in the morning. Mumbling and groaning as she roamed around the house. O was not a morning person.
"It's time." Aoibheann said as she looked at her watch.
They all took in a deep breath. O let go of Brooke's hand, picking up the stick in her hand. Brooke watched as O began to hyperventilate before evening looking at the results.
"-O, breathe." She instructed her friend.
"-I can't!" O panicked. She gave Brooke the stick. "You look."
Brooke took in a deep breath before looking at the pregnancy stick. O's eyes were still closed so she couldn't see the smile on Brookes lips when she saw the results. "It's negative." Brooke told O causing her eyes to snap open.
Aoibheann smiled and squeezed O's hand. "Congrats!" She didn't know what to say. O didn't want a baby so this was a good thing, right? Of course it was.
"I'm not pregnant?" O asked, sounding so innocent.
Brooke smiled. "No you're not."
O clapped her hands, letting out a squeal. "Thank you, God!" She yelled. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She jumped up on the bed, grabbing Brooke and Aoibheann up, making them bounce with her. Brooke laughed as she the stick on the ground, bouncing with O and Aoibheann.
"You guys are crazy!" Aoibheann laughed as Brooke and O bounced her.
Chon and Ben had arrived home, hearing the sound of squealing coming from upstairs. "O high again?" Chon asked Ben causing him to chuckle. They then both heard Brooke laugh, followed by another round of laughter from someone else. "That's Aoibheann," Chon recognized her laugh. They both walked up stairs, following the laughter.
The two men both smiled when they saw Aoibheann, Brooke, and O jumping on the bed like children. When Ben stepped forward, his heard a crack. He looked down to see what he had stepped on only to go wide eyed. A pregnancy test? He picked up the broken stick.
Ben looked down at it, his eyes scanning the results. Negative. But who did it belong to? He looked to Chon and then back to the three girls who were bouncing on the bed, unaware that the two men were even in the room. He cleared his throat causing the three girls to stop jumping, looking in the direction of the door.
O's face dropped when she saw Ben holding the stick.
"Who thought they were pregnant?" Ben asked, still holding the stick.
O's face grew ghostly pale. She didn't want to scare Ben – even though the test was negative. She knew it would still freak him out if he found out she thought she was pregnant. Brooke saw the panic in O's eyes.
"I did." Brooke lied, getting down off the bed and taking the stick away from Ben. She looked to see that Chons face fell upon hearing her say that she thought she was pregnant. "But as you can see – I'm not." She showed the negative result to both of them. She looked back to Chon who expression was that of disappointment now.
"You thought you were pregnant?" He finally spoke up.
Brooke bit the inside of her cheek. "Yes.' She lied. "But I'm not." She said once again. She felt her phone buzzing in her pocket. Brooke pulled the phone out and put it to her ear. "Hi," She said quietly, seeing that it was Liam. She avoided Chons gaze. "You OK?" She asked, knowing he was upset when she left.
"I need you to come home." He told her.
Brooke was so anxious to get away from Chons look of disappointment she agreed that she'd come home. "OK." She told him. "I'll see you in a bit."
"I love you." Liam told her.
"Me too." She said before hanging up and looking to Aoibheann. "Liam needs me to come home, do you want to come?" She asked.
Aoibheann shook her head. "I'm going to stay." She looked to Chon. "Do you mind?" He looked away from Brooke and to Aoibheann and shook his head.
"Stay." He told her.
Brooke bit the inner of her cheek and walked back to where O was, gathering her things up. "I'll walk you out." O said to Brooke. They walked past Ben and Chon, out of the room, down the hall, down the stairs and to the front door. Once they were finally outside and at Brookes car, O hugged Brooke tightly. "Thank you." She said.
"It's no problem." Brooke shrugged her shoulders.
"You didn't have to do it, you know. Tell them it was your test." O said quietly, still scared that Ben and Chon were listening. That was the exact reason Brooke said that the pregnancy test was hers. O wasn't ready to have that kind of talk with Ben. "But I love you for it." O said with a smile. Brooke rolled her eyes with a laugh.
She hugged her friend once more before telling her; "Make sure Aoibheann gets some of the new stuff. It will help with the pain." It was the stuff Brooke had been willing to risk her life to go get for Aoibheann when she was shot. O nodded her head, telling Brooke she would. They said their goodbyes and O watched as Brooke drove out of the long driveway.
She really missed her. She barely saw her anymore and when she did it was only for a short while before Liam would call her asking her to come home. O missed her best friend. She wished that Brooke had never moved in with Liam. Better yet – never met him. She wasn't the biggest Liam fan. Not since she watched his men slaughter all of Brooke's father's friends, some men that O knew from her mother's former husbands. And when she saw him pull the trigger on Brooke's dad? She knew Richard was a horrible, and she hadn't known all the details on Brooke's relationship that eventually came out after he was dead, but Liam didn't have to kill him. They could have taken him to the police or something.
But Brooke had wanted him dead. So he was dead. Thanks to Liam.
Also, O still hadn't fully recovered from Brooke overdosing. It was one of Liam's men, Lucca, who had given Brooke the heroin. And O knew Brooke had been doing other drugs with Liam too. Coke, ecstasy, a bunch of psychedelic drugs that Brooke had said made their sex 'mind blowing'. But O knew that Brooke had stopped doing that kind of stuff after the overdose. "Strictly weed," Brooke had promised O.
When O walked back inside the house, she saw that Chon, Aoibheann and Ben were all in the living room. "Hey Ben," O said as she walked in to the room. "Brooke wants you to give Aoibheann some of the new grow." She said as she sat down on the couch. She looked to Aoibheann. "She said it will help numb the pain."
Aoibheann smirked. "I'm down."
"I'll go get some." Ben said, walking out of the room.
"I'll go with you." Chon walked out of the room as well. Once they were down in the grow room, Chon spoke up again. "So Brooke thought she was pregnant."
Ben nodded, grabbing a bag of rolled out joints that he had hidden away. He liked to smoke as she watched the plants grow. "Glad she's not." He replied.
Chon nodded. He wanted to talk about it – but he didn't know what to say. It shouldn't bother him so much that Brooke thought she was pregnant, she wasn't his. She had never been his. But it all made it so clear. Brooke belonged to someone now or however you want to put it. And if she had been pregnant with Liam? She'd be with him forever. Or as long as Liam kept her around. His balled his hands into fists to try and keep calm. "Me too." He tried to stay calm. "If she was; she'd be stuck with that asshole forever."
Ben liked Aoibheann and he liked Ryan, but he wasn't a fan of Liam. Neither was O. And of course he knew that Chon hated Liam. Chon didn't talk about it with him, but Ben knew he still had some feelings for Brooke, even while he was hooking up with Aoibheann. And, as he knew Brooke better than anyone, he knew that she had feelings for Chon as well. Ben never understood why Chon never made a move on Brooke. He looked at him, finally ready to ask the question. "Why did you ever try anything with Brooke?"
Chon looked to Ben with a raised brow. "Excuse me?"
Ben gave Chon a knowing look. "Don't try and bullshit me, man. I know you have feelings for her – or had. Whatever, the real question is why you can pick up hundreds of chicks at bars but always came home to Brooke and never tried anything with her?"
Chon shook his head. "It's not like that." He lied. Ben laughed at his response. "Brooke is too good for all of the shit we do, Ben." Chon said. "She's … fragile. She was already mixed up in the business because of her relationship with you – she didn't need to be even more of a target because of me."
"So you're protecting her?" Ben asked only to have Chon glare at him. "What about Aoibheann?"
Chon shrugged his shoulders. "She can take care of herself." He told him. "Besides, she grew up in the IRA, she's already a part of the drug world." He reminded Ben.
"So because she can handle this shit, you're with her?" Ben asked. Chon didn't answer. "You and her need to have a serious talk about where you guys are going because it's pretty fucked up that you're with this girl when you're in love with Brooke." Ben said, surprising Chon.
"I didn't say I was in love with-"
"Spare me the lie, Chon." Ben chuckled. "I know it, O knows it, and Aoibheann probably even knows it. Which is fucked up. Aoibheann is a cool chick and you guys need to figure out what you are to each other."
Chon raised a brow. "When did you become such an expert on relationships?"
"When Brooke introduced me to the love of my life." He smirked. Chon rolled his eyes. "Come on; let's get back upstairs before the girls start complaining that we're taking too long."
Chon chuckled and followed him upstairs where O and Aoibheann were waiting in the living room. "Took you long enough!" O huffed.
"Were you guys braiding Ben's hair?" Aoibheann asked with a smirk. Ben laughed and shook his head. Smart ass. He continued to laugh.
"Come on, time to light up." Ben said as he handed her a joint. "By orders of Dr. Brooke." He took out his lighter and lit the joint as she put it to her lips. "Enjoy the ride, Aoibheann." Ben said with a grin as he watched inhale.