So I get with this flashback, Olivia who was Tessa is like 16/17 but she's young stupid and got a tone of cash now.

-December 2002-

-Olivia-

I feel free, high on life. No more juvie walls, or cafeteria. Being cooped up with an handful of other girls. Amanda and I got some fake ID's and hit the town. Tessa Clarke is looking for a good night.

"Get off me! Get off!" I heard the familiar voice of my sister. Despite her being older than me, we both served our two year sentences and were released together.

"Shit." I mutter leaving the new friends I had made to follow after her "Hey let go, she's my sister." I protest as I grab our jackets and she is thrown out of the club. Amanda laughs

"I'll give you 10,000 for a cigarette." she bargained

"You know you really shouldn't smoke, Amanda. You'll be a bad influence on your sister." The window of a car rolled won to reveal Nolan.

"Seriously are you following us? What do you want? I groan in frustration at the older man.

"Some moo goo gai pan and maybe some wantons. Care to join?" he offers us

"No, what I want is my sister to stop being manhandled before I end up back in juvie." I snark back

"Well, I really hate to eat alone, so why don't you hop in." he opened the door and I was hauled in first followed by my sister. The ride and our time at the restaurant becomes a tv on mute as I re watch form the sidelines, my past.

-Now-

"Liv, Liv wake up! Liv!" I shoot straight up panting and breathing heavily. Daniel lists beside me full of worry. "Are you alright, you were screaming." Our door opens and Emily rushes in.

"Olivia." she grabs my arms "What happened?" I hear her question him

"I don't know I was asleep and then she started thrashing about and screaming." I push them off me as I come to my full faculties.

"I'm fine. Get off me." I get out of bed and head downstairs making myself something to drink

--3rd Person--

Emily and Daniel follow Olivia and watches as she puts the kettle on. Emily worried and Daniel confused

"What the hell was that?" he questioned his future sister in law. Emily looked back to him, she would have to let on a little to get him to leave her alone for now.

"She had one of her nightmares." she told him "After our parents car accident, she started having nightmares much like the one you saw tonight. The thing about Liv is that she struggles with her past, something small can jar her, from what she tells me, she can't tell the difference."

"I don't follow?" The kettle boiled and she poured the hot water into a teabag mug and then go to set the fire.

"Nightmares is a general term. It's memories, good, bad, generally mediocre, her brain doesn't or can't separate them, from the other. Say she's going through a rough time, you go to a happy space in your head, to calm or to sleep it off. Because of the stress brings out her flight or fight even when she sleeps. Look, it's really complicate just let her be. If you push her right now, it won't end well. Let me deal with this." Emily headed over to her sister.

-Olivia-

I sat on the beach as I had done, ten years ago, between two houses. Grayson and mine. This had been where I met him and we became friends. Our Dad's had worked together and he was my first kiss, well really it was a peck. It had happened a couple of weeks before Dad was arrested.

"Thought I'd find you here." Amanda draped her arm over my shoulder "What have I told you about wondering off?"

"Childhood scoldings lost effect 10 years ago. Just because your older doesn't mean I have to do everything you say." I retort the turned around to face our old beach home "It looks the same, like it froze itself in time."

"Come on, let's go see if that's true." Amanda pulled me over as the sun began to set and we waited till it was fully dark. Amanda broke in through the back and I followed. She pulled a torch out of her bag.

"Did you plan this? Is that why you brought a torch?" I exclaim lowly in the empty house. But memories slowly crept back for a moment I remember a time when I was happy. Amanda sat us down in what was the living room and took out the infinity box that our dad made. She began to read them as I sifted through our inheritance. Pictures, letters, a hidden compartment. When Amanda finished one she handed it to me and a extra torch. We sat there for hours reading our fathers words and reconnecting with him after all this time.

Emily and I sat together by the fire. Daniel had left us alone and Emily wasn't pushing me totally but eventually I did.

"December 2002." I stated "That's this evening's programming. I've had worse viewing but this one's actually mediocre." I comment

"Anything in particular that month?" she wondered making me sigh.

"Our beginning." I answer "Our curiosity getting the better of us, and the first chapter on the series that is our lives." she nodded in understanding.

I had joined my sister and Jack's family bar the Stowaway, managing to land a job catering a New Year Eve Party with Amanda. The two of us left for the night to see Sammy outside.

"Sammy." I breathe. I crouched down hugging and meeting him

"You got so big." Amanda laughs a little.

"Your Dad always said you had a soft spot for animals" we turn and see Nolan

"He's defiantly following us." Amanda remarks at me

"In this whether, more like tracking." He replies and I stand back up as Amanda continues to pet Sammy

"Don't you have family of your own to harass over the holidays?" the door opens up and I turn my face away.

"Sammy, come on get in here." Sammy goes inside "Hey, listen, if you guys aren't doing anything tomorrow for New Years we got two for one shots here until midnight. Tell your friends." Jack tells us the closes the door again.

"What do you think?" Nolan asks us with a smile

"We made plans and she's not even 18." Amanda pointed to me and I scoff

"Like that matters"

"Let me guess. Volunteering at a homeless shelter." he snarked and I hit his arm.

"Finding out who our father was. Now get lost Nolan, we haven't had a guardian in 10 years. We don't need one now. Let's go Tess." she guided me away

"I almost go us caught at the party, addressing Mason by his old first name." Emily commented.

"Wasn't I seeing out the place cards? I remember seeing their names, that when Roger Halsted literally walked into our lives. He asked me to switch his place. He was a mess."

Amanda shipped some bourbon and I took it into his room. He was already there half drunk.

"Mr Halstead. I had this shipped from Mr Graysons private stash." I handed it to him

"Well, the man swiped plenty more than a bottle of whiskey over the years. His portfolio can handle it." he opened the bottle as i folded my arms observing him. He stood getting to take some money out.

"I don't need your money. I want to know about my father, well we do." He sat back down. I whistled and Amanda came in as Halsted poured himself a drink.

"Who's your father?"

"David Clarke." he froze and saw that my sister was here

"Amanda and Tessa? What are you doing here?" he seemed flustered as the two of us sat down

"After our father died, he left us his journals. He claims he's innocent."

Both of us were haunted by that night. Roger Halsted was the catalyst that set things in motions.

"It still makes me lose sleep. If I had refused to leave, maybe I could have saved him." I whisper

"No, then i might have lost you as well. Look, I can't imagine what it was like when you went back." she was alluding to the fact I found him dead.

-The next evening-

I re read the letter from Roger, as I had done so many times since he was murdered. Back then revenge wasn't really idea, not until I saw what they were capable of. He made the promise that the Grayson made sure he could not keep.

" I'm home." Daniel came through the door. Thankfully, he didn't question me about my nightmare just held me when i finally came back to bed.

"Hey, Babe. You're late." I smile subtly handing the letter to my sister who would hide it

"I'm sorry. Traffic was terrible. Wow, you look stunning." He complimented as I rested my good hand on his shoulder

"And you better change. It wouldn't be right for the new face of Grayson Global to keep them waiting on New years Eve." I smile and give him a peck on the lips.

"About that why don't we duck out early and meet back up with Emily. You can show me how the two of you celebrate on New Years Eve." We look back at my sister "I can't imagine anything less than make small talk with my parens friends on New Years Eve." he ran upstairs and turned to my sister

"Actually I'm looking forward to it."