Matt's POV
Joe’s murmur woke me up. She hadn’t been talking in her sleep for a while, guess she had been at ease, her mind not having to process things at night anymore, but now... It was more than logical the talking would return after everything she had been through.

“I know you need to get home” her voice sounded desperate. “I don’t know how… I’m so sorry” her voice changed to a sad tone I didn’t know how to react to “I can never tell him, Jack, I can’t. He will be so disappointed”
What was going on? What was she talking about?

I pulled her to my body and hugged her tight, softly kissing her lips. She still didn’t wake up, but the words kept coming. I covered her face with soft kisses until I saw her eyes flutter open, they looked so sad. I brushed her hair out of her face and kissed her deeply before speaking again.

“Joe, what is wrong?”
“Nothing” she averted her eyes and put her face to my body. No, I wouldn’t let her avoid me now. I carefully forced her to look up to me.
“No, not nothing, tell me”
She blushed deeply.
“I… I can’t tell you… You will be so disappointed, I love you… I don’t want to lose you”
Was she referring to me in her sleep? She could never disappoint me… Never…
“Joe, that is ridiculous” I kissed her again, damn it was so good to have her with me again. Feel our love between us. “I won’t leave you any time soon, you better come prepared for happy ever after”

A small smile graced her lips, but then her face clouded again.
“You won’t be after I tell you”
My heart grew ice cold, what was going on?
“Tell me now, I can’t take this anymore, you are freaking me out”

Still she hesitated and I motioned her to talk, finally
“When we were captured, Jack was so determined to get back to Brian, she was fighting, she was looking for a way out, right away. As if nothing could stop her… But I… I was numb, I didn’t know what to do, I thought about you a lot, but that wasn’t even enough to get me fighting, I was frozen.”
I looked at her with wide eyes, was she really making this big a drama out of this?!
“I love you Matt, my reaction is not caused by me not loving you, you have to believe me!” she got a desperate look in her eyes and clung on to my body. Without really wanting it, I started to laugh. Loudly.

“Joe! You are really making a fuss about this?!” I had to regain my breath as I could barely stop laughing. Joe’s face going from embarrassed to annoyed “You seriously thought I would be disappointed about that?! Seriously?!”
She moved away from me and laid back on the bed, her posture angry.
“You can stop laughing now”

I turned her to me and looked deeply into her eyes
“Joe, listen to me, when in a situation like that, everyone reacts differently. Jack got to fighting, you froze, completely normal. I know that, I know you don’t love me any less”
I pushed her back and hovered over her “I might even believe you love me more” I pushed my body to hers a little more and let my weight push down on her, and not only my weight “I wasn’t with you and you thought you would never see me again and that made you think your world ended” I smirked down at her.
“You can quit being so full of yourself” she shot back. I enjoyed her being like this, getting my old Joe back again.
“Oh, I will show you how full of me you can get”

I let my lips crash down on hers and let her feel my arousal. Everything else could wait, it was just her and me now. I wouldn’t stop doing this.. not for the first few weeks at least….
“Joe, Matt! Get the fuck out, we are waiting for you for hours!” A loud bang on the door made me sigh deeply. Worst timing ever. But we could still ignore them. Joe smiled though, and tried to get from underneath me. “Joe.. stay… they can do without us”
She kissed me deeply once more and got up, putting on her comfy clothes and put out her hand to me.
“We can lock ourselves in here later… I want have to breakfast with everyone, come on big guy”

Brian’s POV
We all sat all around the breakfast table together, waiting for Joe and Matt to arrive. I had pulled Jacky’s chair so close that she was nearly sitting on my lap actually.
I told Jack we had more time, but no that woman couldn’t wait to go down and see everyone again, while I on the other hand would have been glad to have some more alone time with my woman.

We had talked almost all night, well and did other things in between, but the majority we talked and it felt good, just having her beside me again, being able to hold her, kiss her, touch her and never let her go again... well until we walked downstairs, then she had ripped herself from my arms and went straight into the open arms from one strong man to the other... well and Johnny.

I chuckled at that thought but better keep it to myself, or Johnny would be pissed and pouting again, right away.
She had been in Arin and Dean’s arms for the longest time, quietly talking to them, hugging and kissing their cheeks, I kept a clear view on them, especially on Dean, but everything was fine and I didn’t have to get between it, so we were still cool.

And as soon as we all sat down, Dean had pulled Liv to his lap, so that was fine with me.

“Look who finally made it? Thought we would starve before you two make it to the table!” Zacky announced and I turned around seeing Joe and Matt walking towards us, he had his arms around her hip moving in sync with her.

Matt looked so carefree and happy again and I knew I had the same look on my face, since Jacky was back and we were both fine, I couldn’t be any happier in my life if I had to be honest.

“I told you I would shut us into our room, so don’t look so surprised” Matt chuckled while he sat down on the table and pulled Joe’s chair as close to him as I had pulled Jacky’s to me.

“So will you finally share some of that precious time with your girls, so we can hear some of the stories?” Johnny asked and looked from Matt to me and back.
“Well, only as little as possible... we will just stuff our bellies with food so we have enough energy and go right away back to our room, that’s for sure.” I said grinning and earned an elbow in my side from Jacky.
“Stop it, babe.” Jacky chided me and nodded to Johnny “Of course we will... but I also wanna know what happened here and how you found us!” She looked at me and the others “I told you already-” I started but Jacky put her finger in front of my mouth silencing me.

“Blah blah.. I don’t wanna hear your version, babe. I wanna hear.... Arin’s version” She said and Arin blushed.
“Why.. I mean... we didn’t... but if you-” Arin stuttered a little getting shy, but he had no reason to, he was the one who kept everything together actually.
“Yes, Arin, please tell us.” Joe agreed with her sister and I sighed... oh no, now they would hear the embarrassing moments of Matt and me, I was pretty certain the others would make sure of that.

Arin started to tell the story of the van and how Zack got the information and how we searched and finally got a hold on our father, everything was pretty neutral and Matt and I didn’t look as bad as I thought actually until-

“Arin, you left out the best part!” Zacky roared with laughter, only at the thought and I sighed “Fucking best friend you are!” I snapped and he was already holding his belly laughing while Joe and Jacky looked confused.
“What do you mean? Which part?” Joe asked confused, looking from Zack to Matt and then to me and I shrugged, I won’t say a word.
“Well?” Jacky asked and I rolled my eyes “Nothing funny to tell, I don’t know what he means.”
“OH yes, it wasn’t funny at the time, but since they are back now, and everything is fine, it’s freaking hilarious” Johnny joined Zacky’s laughing.
“So tell us?” Jacky asked curiously.
“First these two supermen, couldn’t even get a clear thought, when they realized you two were gone. They were like frozen. We couldn’t do anything with them, they couldn’t freaking do anything. This guy here-” Zacky patted my shoulder “Was trying to deny that you were actually gone, he wouldn´t freaking believe us, while this guy here-” This time Zacky motioned towards Matt “Was only talking about how he fucked up and would never see you again... it was a freaking disaster to see those two.”

“Wait a second!” Joe turned towards Matt with and angry expression, what was now going on?
“YOU, Mister, were just soooo full of yourself, saying that when I wasn’t with you and ‘you thought you would never see me again and that made you think your world ended’” Joe mocked Matt’s deep voice and Matt actually looked a little guilty and his cheeks turned a light shade of red. I couldn’t hold the laugh escaping my lips “Now, you are fucked!” I laughed loudly and Matt flipped me off.

“I never said I handled the situation any better... I just said I love you even more because of that” Matt got his act back together and smiled at Joe before pressing a kiss to her lips and I looked at Jacky, she smiled at me and also pecked my lips “I love you” I told her and she nodded “I know.”
That woman, driving me crazy, that’s for sure.

Matt’s POV
Joe and Jack had been telling the story of their abduction to the others. All of them were shocked about the story, Dean and Olivia had a definite reality check that these kind of things could happen to people. For us it was a little more clear that there were bad guys in this world, but this one had been different…. Even for us.

“I can’t believe you didn’t call the cops on Joanne, I mean, she has to pay for what she’s done” Zack was shaking his head, not understanding why the girls and their father handled the things they did. I guess Joseph would bring us up to speed once he’d come over. If it was for me that would much rather be later than sooner.

Everyone was discussing on how the whole abduction ended, making little talks all around. Joe’s hand was rubbing my thigh under the table. She had started with my knee and crept her way up more and more. She softly let her hand grace over my crotch, nothing much, but enough for me to get everything going again. I nuzzled Joe’s neck and moaned, shit, I was done for.. I needed her now. Joe just kept chatting to Liv, as if she wasn’t seducing me on the other side of her…

I looked over the table to find Brian’s eyes. A knowing smile on his face. He briefly let his eyes fall down to his lap and then back up to me…. Guess he was in the same hot mess I was in.
“I know a better place for you to sit” I heard him groan and he pulled Jacky on his lap.

“Seriously, can’t you guys even go through breakfast without some decency towards us? Damnit! Get a room!” Johnny complained.
“Okay.” Brian and I both replied loudly, pushing our chairs back, grabbing the hands of our women.
“Don’t wait for us with dinner, we will manage” Brian shot back as he headed for the stairs, dragging Jacky behind him.
I took Joe and quickly followed after him
“If you asshat dare bother us I will kick your ass so hard, you need a tube to be fed” I pointed at all of them and tried to give them the angry face, but I couldn’t. I was just too damn happy.

Joe and I almost reached the stairs when we heard someone at the door, ringing the doorbell hard.
“Arin! Someone at the door!”
“Open it yourself fucker! You are two steps away!” Arin yelled back. Didn’t the guy have any sense of authority anymore?
I sighed and held up my finger to Joe, indicating I would only need a minute. I opened the door with a big smile
“Secured Sevenfold, how can we…..” My voice got stuck in my throat when I saw Joseph standing there.

“Hello Matthew, Josephine” He was dressed sharply and finally met the man I was used to seeing with my dad. With his back straight, his head up and eyes that could see right through you, he stepped past me and kissed Joe’s cheek as he walked towards my office.

“Get Brian, we need to talk. Alone!” He commanded and didn’t even grant us one more look. Fuck! I was in trouble!

“BRIAN!!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!” I yelled in panic. If I had to do this, I wouldn’t go down alone.

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