Michael's POV

It's the day of Faith's interview and she's been freaking out all morning.

"Just relax. It's just an interview, not and interrogation" I chuckle slightly. "It's practically the same thing! You know the guys not just gonna wanna ask me about Kylee and Alax right? Their gonna wanna talk about everything. Me, you, Precious, everything in detial! and.."

"And if they do.."

"When" she cuts me off. " WHEN they do" I correct myself "Just stick to the answers we already said"

"But what if I mess up and say the wrong thing and..."

"You won't. Just remember what I said and just give simple answers and don't go into detail and if there's a question you don't wanna answer just swerve past it like I taught you" I reassure her. "Maybe I should just cancel" she sighs heavily taking out her phone and I take it from her before she has the chance to dial. "You'll be fine. I know your nervous because it's your first interview alone, but you'll be fine. You just need to stay relax"

"But what of they start pressing me for more? Which they will! My mom's a reporter remember? These people just push and push and.. "

"And you'll be fine and if the they do get to pushy, just storm out" I Shrug casually. "And how's that gonna look?" She frowns "it'd make good TV. It's actuality pretty funny when you throw a tantrum" I chuckle. "I don NOT have tantrums" she says defensively. "Of course you don't" I pout playfully, making her giggle slightly.

She's about to speak when I get a text from Jackie.

"I'm gonna have to go. Jackie wants me to go over to his place" I say casually putting my phone back on my pocket. "You seem to be spending alot of time with my dad lately" she says skeptically. "He's working on a new album and he wants me to see some ideas he has.. see?" I say showing her my phone and she looks through my messages, which confirms what I just said. "I'll be back before your interview" I smile pecking her lips and make my way over to Jackie's house.

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Jackie's POV

I went over to my mother's house so she could watch Brandi for me since Enid is working today and for obvious reasons I can't take her with me.

As soon as I get there I notice LaToya giving me strange looks. "What's the matter with you?" I fround confused. "Nothing... going anywhere special?" She asks in a slightly suspicious tone. "Nope, michael's just helping me with some new songs I have" I shrug casually. "I that so? You and Michael seem to be spending alot of time together lately... Just the two of you" She raises an eyebrow. "What's your point?" frown at her strange attitude. "Just saying is all" she shrugs casually and looks away scrunching her face and shakes her head slightly. "Is there a problem?" I frown "just ignore her. She's been in a weird mood all day" mother rolls her eyes walking into the room and takes Brandi from me. "All I was saying is that it's strange how the two of them are spending alot of time together lately, considering he hated Michael not to long ago" she says innocently.

"That's all in the past. And their brother's, they should be spending time together!" Mother snaps at her. I'm about to speak when I get a text from Michael asking where I am.

"I'm gonna have to go. Michael's waiting at the studio for me" I turn and smile at my mother and give Brandi a kiss on the cheek and the same to my mother, before turning to leave and LaToya scrunches her face at me as I'm leaving, but I don't bother saying anything more to her.

I really don't know what LaToya's problem with me was just then, but I'm really not in the mood to deal with her attitude. I have a way bigger problem right now than whatever problem LaToya has this week.

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Michael's POV

I'm sat in my car waiting for Jackie and he finally pulls up in the drive.

"Finally! What took you so long?" I frown walking over to the front door with him and we both go inside "I had to drop Brandi off with mother. I can't take her with me can I?" He says sarcastically. "Plus LaToya was acting all weird and asking questions"

"About what?" I ask nervously "just why we're hanging out so much" he shrugs. "And that's it?"
"yeah, she's in one of those weird moods again" he shrugs.

"So what are we gonna do about this?" I ask changing the subject and he sighs heavily. "I honestly don't know. We can't just let her out. She'll go straight to the police"

"Well we can't just leave her their forever. Somebody's gonna find her eventually and how are supposed to explain that?"

"Like who? Nobody even goes around there anymore. That place is like a ghost town these days"

"Mother goes there sometimes. What if she just randomly decided to go one day and me and you aren't the only ones with keys to get in remember? The whole family does an it only takes one of them to decide to go an visit our old house and..."

"Yes I know that!" He snaps cutting me off. "Why did you take her there of all places and why did you even kidnap her!?"

"Because I panicked! How many fucking times!?" He snaps at me "Incase you forgot I had just taken a baby from her. It's not exactly something she was gonna just let go and forget about. And you can't keep only blaming me for this. Your the one that came up with the bright idea to just take her from Julie. I didn't have to do that for you. I could have left her with Julie or abandoned her at a hostpital or even kept her myself, but I didn't. I gave her to you and Faith, because I didn't want another child an I could see how desperate the two of you were to have baby!" He snaps "and we're greatful for that we truly are and Precious means the world to us, but you can't keep throwing that in my face!" I snap back. "No can't, just like you can't keep throwing this in my face!"

"Did you really consider keeping her?" I mumble and he doesn't say anything for a moment. "Honesty?" He sighs and I nod. "That night when I brought her to you, apart of me did think about it"

"What made you change your mind?"

"You know how unhappy Faith was growing up and how she was treated and I couldn't let another one of my kids go through that and I couldn't handle having to watch another kid being dragged in front of the media, which is exactly what would have happened if that baby would have stayed with Julie. And if I'd just taken her then Julie would have just called the police and got full custody and I'd have to go through all of that again" he croaks an I don't say anything for a moment, not sure if I want to know the answer to this question.

"Do you regret adopting Precious to us?" I mumble nervously and he shakes his head and I sigh, relieved he didn't yes. "You and Faith had to grow up being dragged through the media and just like we had with Joesph, Faith had to suffer with Julie and I knew the two of you would never put your child through that. You keep her protected from all that and you show her nothing, but love and affection just like parents should do.

"And we always will" I say softly and he nods "I know you will and I know you'd do anything to keep those girls from any harm"

"Of course I would. I'd do anything for my girls" I smile slightly "I know me an you have had issues in the past, but I know you'll always love her, just like you do Faith and I know you'll always be there and be the father Precious needs and she'll grow with both parents" he smiles slightly through pursed lips an I smiles back the same way.

"Does it ever bother you seeing me with Precious?" I ask and he shakes his head. "I thought it would, but it honestly doesn't. It actually makes me happy and you and Faith kept your promise to me and said I could always be in her life and I could see her as much or as little as I wanted and that means so much to me, because even though YOUR her daddy, I still get to watch her grow up and I get to be there for all those milestones. Walking, talking and all that stuff and even though she'll only ever know me as grandpa, I still get to hold her and see her everyday. I never got to do any of that with Faith. I held her for like five minutes and then I had to wait almost 18 years to hold her in my arms again" he croaks. "You met Faith when she was a baby?" I frown confused and he nods "only once.. you met her too" he smiles slightly"

"I didn't meet Faith, until that day at the studio" I frown confused "you were really young and she was only a few months old and Elise, Faith's grandma was baby sitting. She was a really sweet lady and she knew how badly I wanted to meet Faith so one day she called me out of the blue and said I she was in a café and I could meet her. I was taking you for icecream at the time I got the call so I took you with me"

"I don't remember that" frown "You were only about five or six when we moved away from Gary. There's probably alot you don't remember" he explains "How come you never said this before?"

"Because it really hurt me. Even though I was happy I got to meet her. It hurt because I had to sneak around and only got to be apart of her life for just a moment. You were to young to remember, but i'll never forget that day" he sniffles "I'll never forget what you said either" he chuckles slightly. "Why? what did I say?"

"As soon as we got into the café you ran straight over the Faith and you smiled and said you loved her and that you was gonna marry her when your both big" he chuckles.

"I did!?" I smile and he nods, chuckling slightly, then looks at the ground. "Things were going great until Julie showed up and started flipping out and she said that was the first and last time I'd ever see her"

"Well she was wrong" I say softly "and you was right" he smiles through pursed lips trying not to cry.

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Jackie's POV

We're on our way over the our old house and I'm still thinking about the conversation I had with Michael .

I've never told anybody about that day before and I'm not sure why I told Michael, but it actually felt good to tell somebody. I know it sounds strange that I told somebody that was actually there, but Michael doesn't remember alot from back in Gary, not that it's a bad thing.

"We still need to decide what we're gonna do" Michael says as we're driving to the house.

"Nobody knows she's there or even missing"

"Not yet, you texting Faith is one thing, but eventually she's gonna start asking questions and so will other people"

"Like I said nobody knows she's here so we're fine"

"For now! Are you even trying to think of something?" He frowns still keeping his eyes on the road. "Somebody's gonna come by eventually an when they do, how are we supposed to explain Julie being tied up in the basement?"

"Not if there's nothing to go there for" I mumble. "What the fuck are you talking about?" He frowns confused. "We could burn the house down" I mumble. "And how does that help us?" He shrugs, rolling his eyes. "Nobody's looking for her" I mumble and Michael slams the breaks on the car. "ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?" He snaps turning to me. "It's not like anybody's gonna miss her"

"Jackie, we can't kill her! That's sick! What the fuck is wrong with you!?"

"Why not? She's caused people nothing but misery and..."

"That's not the point. You can't murder someone!" He widens his eyes. "It's not exactly murder. More like what Joesph did to Sophie"

"Sophie was a dog and was sick and in pain! Joesph only did that to so she wouldn't have suffer anymore pain and miserery! What he did was for good reason. Your talking about burning someone to death because you don't like them!"

"And what do you think Julie's gonna do if she gets out, huh? You think she's just gonna let it go and let by gones be by gones? No! And it wont be us she'll be coming for it'll be Faith "

"But Faith had nothing to do with her being there. She doesn't even know about it"

"No, but she knew about me taking Precious" I point out and he doesn't say anything. "That woman has caused nothing but, pain and miserery to everyone around her and the second she leaves she's gonna go straight after Faith and she'll be after Precious too"

"But they haven't done anything!"

"Don't you get it yet!? I snap and sigh heavily. "Do you know why Julie was so hell bent on destroying your career for all these years?" I ask and he shakes his head. "It's because Julie knew that if she destroyed your career and everything you've work hard you whole life for, it would hurt me"

"That doesn't even make sense. Why wouldn't she just come after you since clearly your the one she had a problem with" he frowns confused. "Because that's what Julie does! She plays all these fucked up little games and she never goes after the person she wants because she knows going after the people they care about will hurt them most... and who are two people you care more than anything about?"

"Faith and Precious" he mumbles "and do you really wanna risk something happening to them?"

"No"

"Then the choice is yours"