tainted.

Drunk.

~ 4 years ago a few months after Mrs. Archer got married ~

Third Person POV

"Go listen to your dad Sage!," Mrs. Archer walks over to Sage and trips over her own feet. She's too drunk.

"He's not my dad," Sage snaps and crosses her arms.

"Just go to your room!," she yells in Sage's face, her alcohol breath entering my nose

"You stink," Sage cries in disgust, as she stomps off to her room.

"Babe, calm down, here take a drink," Joe smirked, as he grabs a shot glass and fills it up with more vodka.

"Thanks babe." She grabs the shot glass and chugs it down her throat. She walks around the kitchen reaching for more vodka and trips and drops the glass.

"Don't worry about it, I'll clean it up later. I'm gonna go somewhere I'll be back in the morning," Joe picks her up and lays her on the sofa.

***
~ The Next Morning ~

"What the fuck Joe!" Meredith walks up to him clumsily as he comes in through the door.

"You went over to a girls house while I was drunk!," Meredith yells angrily as she punches his shoulder and paces around in anger and annoyance.

"Hey, look I'm sorry," Joe walks up to her but she turns around and slaps him in the face with all her energy she has left.

"You know what! Fuck off, how the fuck do you know where I went last night, huh?" He shouts as he grabs  her making her tumble back, hitting a table. All the bottles of vodka and shot glasses fall down as the table tilts and crashes to the ground.

"You bitch! You made me drunk on purpose!," she shouted, as she launches herself on him, throwing punches and starts pulling on his hair, screaming.

"GET THE FUCK OFF!," with one last push and Meredith falls back, losing her balance, banging her head on the wall and passes out.

"MY MOM JUST GOT HURT AND SHE'S JUST LAYING ON THE GROUND PLEASE COME AND HELP!," Sage yells and weeps into the phone, running down the stairs.

"Sage! What are you doing!?," Joe grabs the phone from her and realizes she just called 911, he quickly ends the call and scurries around the room.

"Sage, I didn't do this! Tell the cops I just got back home and mom was a bit drunk, you hear!?," Joe worriedly screams into her ear.

"Y-Yes," Sage whimpers.

***
"So she does this often?," a cop asks Sage.

"Yes, she's out of control," she lies. She bites her fingers in nervousness.

"Well I think your father- excuse me step-father is well suited to take care of you. We'll get her into therapy, see if she's acting like this because of the alcohol or just plain crazy," a man says walking up to Sage and Joe.

"Thank you, me and my daughter will be in good hands." Joe said with a smile.

((You can probably guess after this, Sage's mom goes crazy after that and she goes into a mental hospital so ya,, that's all I got for you today, next chapter will probably be Connor and his drama with Sage and Tyler,, have a gr8 day, bYe))