Matt
To say I’ve been on a rampage since I went over to Hannah’s apartment and she wasn’t there, would be an understatement, I don’t remember the last time I was this angry.

“Where the fuck is she?!” I roared… again.
“Calm the fuck down, Hulk.” Erin groaned from the sofa “She’s on her way over here, she’ll be five fucking minutes,”

“If she’s not here in the next-“ I stopped talking when the front door opened and closed a few second later, followed by something falling over and a string of profanities from Hannah’s mouth.

“Alright!” She yelled, clapping her hands together once as she entered the room “You found me, what’s the big fucking problem?” She asked, no one said anything, we just looked at her
“What?” Nobody wants to be the one to cause any more problems for me?”

“Where the fuck were you?” I asked, closing the space between us so that we were face to face.

“Out,” She laughed and started to lose her balance, I grabbed her roughly and stood her up straight.

“Where the fuck were you?” I repeated “Answer me, right now!” I snapped.

“Johnny’s,” She smirked “Where else would I be?”

“You’re drunk,” I stated.

“No shit, Sherlock,” She laughed.

“Erin, take her to your room and get her washed and changed, get that smell off of her and bring her back to Johnny so that he can check her over, make sure she isn’t hurt and then send her to my office,” I stalked away up the stairs to my room, which would only be mine for two more days, soon, Hannah’s things would be invading my space.

“I don’t need this,” I groaned to myself, running my hands over my face as I dropped onto the bed with a heavy sigh.
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Hannah
Erin had washed my face to remove the tear streaked eyeliner, dressed me in a pair of Zack’s sweats for comfort and one of her t-shirts and was now brushing my hair.

“If I’d married Sam none of this would be happening,” I admitted, having sobered up a little bit with the coffee I was being given, I could think a bit clearer now.

“I can’t believe it either,” She sighed sympathetically, taking my hand in hers and wiping the blood off of my knuckles, I don’t even remember hitting anything “I’m so sorry,” She whispered, gently kissing my wounded hand “If I could make it all go away, I would,”

“It’s not your fault,” I sighed “There isn’t anything anyone can do to stop this,”
Before she said anything else, Johnny came back with the bandages he had gone to get upon seeing my wounded hand a few minutes ago.

“I’m just going to wrap this quickly,” He told me “Matt’s getting impatient,”
I groaned and dropped my head onto the dressing table and let Johnny do his thing.

“Let’s go,” He said when he was finished “I’ll walk you down there,” I nodded.

“Thanks, Erin.” I smiled weakly at her.

“No problem,” She smiled back at me, giving me a small wave as Johnny guided me out of her room.

Johnny left me standing outside the large doors of Matt’s office, I knocked three times with my good hand.

“Matt?” I asked, poking my head through the door.

“Come in,” He said softly, closing the lid of his laptop “I guess I have some explaining to do,” He smiled as I crossed the large room and gently dropped myself into the big chair on the other side of the desk from him.

“You do,” I smirked.

“Look, Hannah,” He sighed, scratching the back of his neck “This is business,” He told me “I got the idea from my dad, he did it with my mom,” I looked down, I’d already heard this part
“Anyway, he married her to gain respect from other ganfs, and that’s what we need, to be seen as mature,” He sighed and looked at me “Once they see that this gang is led by a man who is ready to get married and face a family – not that we’ll have kids – we’ll be respected a lot more, we need that, we need the business partners, the jobs, the money…” My heart was pounding against my chest with every word. Kids? Family?

He rounded the desk and sat in the chair beside me, turning the chairs so that we were facing each other.

“I need a badass wife to be seen as a badass gang leader,” He smiled a dimpled smile.

“Matt,” I sighed “Maybe if you’d gone about this differently, told me the plan and justified it to me, just like you’re doing now, maybe this would have been easier, I might have been more… willing,” his jaw tightened and he made his hands into fists “I’m not saying that I won’t do this, I will, but for all of us, not you,” I look at my hands and picked at the chipped nail polish “I want to be taken seriously as a part of this gang, just because I’m going to be your wife doesn’t mean
I’m going to sit at home and wait for you to come home alive or in a body bag, I want in on the action,”

He smiled widely at me and let out a quick breath before leaning forward, grabbing me around the waist – innocently – and pulling me into his lap, I pressed my forehead against his chest and he buried his face in my hair and took a deep breath,

“I will marry you, Matt.” I whispered “But I’m going to make this whole thing a living nightmare for
you,”

“You know…” He said softly “I never saw myself getting married, but now that I am… I’m glad it’s with you,”
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Matt drove me home, and the whole drive went by peacefully in a comfortable silence between the two of us and the radio playing quietly.

“Thanks, Matt.” I smiled as I dropped myself out of his SUV.

“You sure you don’t want me to come in?” He asked.

“I’m sure, I gotta take Jack out anyway,”

“Alright, well, I’ll see you tomorrow, alright?” I just nodded, closed the door and walked away from the car.
~~~~
Jack and I returned from our walk, I know it’s probably not the best idea to walk around outside at night when you’re the daughter of one gang leader, and now the fiancé of another, but that’s the reason I got Jack anyway.

“Go lie down,” I ordered Jack once he finished his dinner, he looked up at me and whined a little, I had to laugh and crouch down in front of him so I could pet him at eye level “Everything changes tomorrow, Jack.” I told him “We’re going to move to a new home, but at least over there you’ll have a couple of friends, but you gotta stay loyal to me, okay buddy? I need you over there,” His response was to give me a huge, slobbery kiss and pad his way over to the sofa
“You can sleep in the bed tonight,” I told him. I swear, this dog understands every word I say, because he jumped off the sofa and into the bedroom where I soon heard the sound of my bedsprings protesting under his weight.

I walked through the bedroom and into my bathroom, washed my face and brushed my teeth, brushed out my hair and tied it up in a long, blonde ponytail and stripped down to my underwear.

As I left the bathroom and shut off the light, I heard something from the living room, suddenly Jack and I were both on alert and he let out a growl. I shushed him and patted him on the head, grabbed my silk navy blue robe and shrugged it on.

I slowly and quietly left my room, shutting the door to keep the dog in, the last thing I needed was for Matt or someone to be coming into the apartment for whatever reason, only to be savaged
by my animal.

“Hello?” I whispered “Matt, is that you?” I asked into the dark.
I was met by silence, so I walked further into the apartment and turned on the lamp at the end of the sofa.

“Weird,” I whispered to myself.

Suddenly, I felt like someone was watching me, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, my whole body tensed the second I knew that I wasn’t alone, but this person wasn’t here with good intentions either.

“Boo,”

I screamed as the word was whispered in my ear, jumping off of the sofa, grabbing the baseball bat I keep under it and whacking the person as hard as I could, making them cry out in pain, but he knocked the weapon out of my hands and pushed me to the ground, and moved to pin me down, but I kicked my leg up and swung it, hitting the back of his knees and sending him to the ground before rolling over and landing on top of him. I grabbed the bat off the ground and pinned him there by the neck.

“Hannah?” The man beneath me choked. I looked down, and my eyes adjusted to the dim lighting and I noticed who he was.

“Sammy?”

Notes

I know this chapter is short, but I'm leaving you all with a cliffhanger. What's Sam doing in Hannah's apartment? What's going to happen?

- LMV