Fighter

16

We were only sitting at the table for an hour when Amanda came home. Looked at the four of us and went to take a shower. When Amanda sat at the table Spencer handed Alicia over to her and held her hand out in front of me. After Sophia stitched up my hand we didn't clean up the mess in the bathroom. I held my hand out and Amanda peaked under the bandage and sighed.

            "I told you those knifes were too sharp." Amanda said and moved Alicia in her arms.

            "I know you did, now we have proof of that." I said and slid my damaged hand under the table.

            "So do you have a have plan yet for how we do this?" Amanda asked and slipped a bottle into Alicia's mouth.

            "John and Luke are going to be arriving in the morning to take you Alicia and Santana to the coast where you will stay until Joe in in custody. Before I left I personally went to your mother's house with the US Marshalls to remove her to safe house. She didn't call me but I wasn't going to take a chance. When she saw me Isabella already had a bag packed ready to go and we left in under ten minutes." Sophia said and some tension I had left my shoulders.

            "Thank you for that but I also think that we should move Kim and Amelia with Amanda. I think that Tomas can take care of himself and I don't think he would want to uproot his family." I said

            "Amelia lives with Kim right?" Sophia said and opened her notebook.

            "Mostly, she has a girlfriend that she sleeps with some nights but mainly she is with my mom." Amanda offered.

            "Okay, do they know about what's going on?" Was Sophia next question.

            "They know pieces, not everything. But they know that the last time a sister of Veronica's turned up I got stabbed so needless to say they are going to willing leave with me for a little until this all clams down." Amanda said and I bite my lip.

            I don't think that Spencer knew what happened between Tess and the family from the way sadness slipped into her eyes and the tension left her jaw. I saw her eyes well with tears and she tried her hardest to keep them away but it was getting harder the longer the silence lasted.

            "What do you have that Joe wants Spencer?" Sophia asked not noticing her discomfort.

            Spencer didn't like the attention she currently had so she got up from the table rather quickly and stormed off to her bedroom. I sighed and gave her five minutes before getting up from the table and walked to the bedroom. I didn't say anything to the two woman I left behind as I walked to the bedroom down the hall. The door was slightly open when I got there and I pushed it open the rest of the way.

            Spencer is sitting on the floor at the end of the bed, Santana looked up from her book when she saw me walk in. I didn't say anything and just nodded at her to leave me with her sister. Santana got the hint and grabbed her book and left the room. I took a seat on the edge of the bed and put my hand on Spencer's head.

            "You didn't need to know that and I'm sorry you had to find out like that." I said.

            "What happened?" Spencer asked.

            "My, our father was not a good man. He had a lot of problems, when my mother died he stepped up and was there for me but it was too late. He had to many debts to pay. Tess is our paternal sister from Ireland. Her uncle was in charge of the mafia in Chicago and my, our father had a large debt to them. When he died the debt was given to me to pay. Dante and Isabella took me in in New York and I worked for Dante. I fought in the underground fight scene during college for Dante and I was really good at it.