Their Truth

7. A little bit of home

Saorise

After a few minutes of crying in Derek's arms I relax and he leads me over to the couch to sit down next to Pheonix.

He goes to the bar and pours himself a whiskey and knocks it back, and refills the glass, walks around the bar and sits on one of the bar stools. He stays silent, so I do too.

He has to break this story down for his sons, and he will want to know everything about where I've been. Which means I have to tell them the worst parts of mine too.

I turn my head to look at Nix but he is staring into space straight a head, so I slip my hand underneath his that is resting on his lap. He snaps back to the here and now with the touch and looks down at our hands and a moment later he interlocks our fingers and give my hand a squeeze.

I'm happy because he is still here with me, the heat that spreads up my arm and into my whole body is a new feeling for me, but I like it so I squeeze his hand back. I just stare at our hands while I wait for Derek to talk because I am in no way ready to start this conversation.

Nix leans back in the couch bringing me with him, and I lay my head on his shoulder.

"You alright Little Flame?" he asks quietly.

Really I'm better than I've been in years, but this has to be hard for him to understand.

"I should maybe be asking you that, its a lot of information to take in for you, and your brothers."

He shrugs but doesn't say anything.

Derek finally speaks then.

"I don't know where to start, and I don't know the whole story, but I'll tell you what I know, and hopefully Saorise will fill in the blanks..." He takes another slug of the whiskey before he begins "4 years ago Matthew went to do a job for someone, what he did was stand in the room, and watch the meeting, it was usually over drug money or turf wars to make sure everyone was telling the truth, so going forward there would be a little violence as possible between gangs and Lords and even governments sometimes. I usually worked with Matthew on these things, because I have connections people don't want to lose and I'm known for trying to get the work done with as little violence as possible."

"Rule 2: Nobody wants to die." They all say at the same time.

Derek continues, "anyway Matthew went to this meeting with two very powerful men, and his job was to basically tell the other if one was lying. This was always done after the meeting in a different location of both parties. On the way to the first meeting point, Matthew was shot and killed, at the same time someone broke into the house and killed his wife Aoife, Saorise wasn't there."

"Yes I was..." I interup him "Mam seen a car pulling into the driveway, I was off school for some teacher training day and she told me to go and get in the hatch. There was a safe room under the upstairs bathroom. It had some food, cash, and a tap. I was always told to stay there until someone came to get me. I had been doing it for years. I heard him ask mam where I was and she said I was at a friends for the day and then he shot her. Simple as that. He searched the house and stayed for the rest of the day and night, waiting for me to come home I assumed. He left the next day, taking Mams body with him. I waited another 5 days to leave the bathroom, incase anyone was watching the house for my return.

On the 5th day the guards came and searched the house, I knew then the cost was clear so I left the next morning and caught a bus to Dublin, slept rough for a week incase they were checking the airports ports and hotels for me. Then got on a boat to Liverpool, met an old lady truck driver on the boat and she brought me to London."

"Good Girl Saorise" Derek nods, he knows I followed all the rules for disappearing that were laid out for me growing up.

Nix squeezes my hand again and lays his head on top of mine trying to comfort me, it helps but I'm not doing well right now. I wait for Derek to take over the story again because I'm not up to it. Thankfully a minute later he does.

"I got word a few days later that Matthew and Aoife were dead, and some big crime bosses wanted Saorise, they knew Matthew had thought her his trade, and they wanted to possess her, so she would only work for them. Her description was released and a bounty put on her head. I was well associated with Matthew so they were looking at me to see would she turn up here. I looked for her, even bought that apartment in France so I could send her away if I found her. But she was gone, and the whole country thought their family had just vanished. Where were you Saorise?"

"Homeless on the streets of London, met some cool people, old guy named Bernard used to feed me so I never had to sell my body when times got really hard. I couldn't really make friends because everyone had a toe in the crime world in some way, except Willow, she's like me, kinda, ran away to hide from something we didn't share pasts, it was safer that way. Actually I'd like to find her, she will be worried. She was the one who helped me the day Knox hit me with the bike."

"Knox did what?" Derek booms into the room. f**k I thought he knew.

Knox jumps in to defend himself, "s**t Dad it was a accident, she stepped out that day we took chace after someone narked on the drop of point. I was looking for Archer and she took one step out and I just clipped her and she spun and hit the footpath. We looked for her for months, Nix got damn near obsessed over her. He seen it happen and stopped to check on her, she told him to go that she was fine." his words have all came out rushed and he sounds like a bold child. I laugh and they all look at me.

"He's telling the truth Derek, and he is so scared you'll kill him, leave it go."

"Were you seriously hurt?" Derek asks me in his still angry voice. I sign and explain the extent of my injuries. He stands up, slaps Knox across the back of the head and returns to his seat, we all chuckle as Knox rubs the back of his head. Thats the end of it now.

We fill the next hour with answering questions and stories about what I've done for the last 4 years. Its about 3.30 when we hear the door open and a very drunk Bonnie and Ivy fall into the room.

"Mr. D what are you doing here?" Bonnie asks, her words so slurred you can barley make out what she is saying.

"Hi Bonnie, you're drunk go to bed. Now."

She sulks, but grabs a bottle of water from the kitchen and off she goes. Ivy slumps down into the chair next to Knox. He rolls his eyes but I see the tug of a smile at the corner of his lips and he puts his arm around her and pulls her into him.

"So what's up Mr. D, why are you here?" Ivy asks, slurring her words too but not half as bad as Bonnie. Knox leans over and whispers something in her ear and her eyes go wide, then she nods and then she gives him a coy smile and jumps up and strolls off to her bedroom. "Goodnight"

I look at Knox and as I open my mouth, he cuts me off, "ask no questions, and I shall tell no lies. Just because you can know everything doesn't mean you need too." I snap my mouth closed again and give him a nod, i respect that statement. Archer stands up, stretches out his limbs and yawns.

"Right everyone, I'm wrecked, I'm sure you all are too. I think we call it a night, don't you." There is no question, only direction in his words, its sleep time, clear off.

River stands too, "I'll check on Bonnie, Knox you check on Ivy. Goodnight Dad."

"Goodnight boys" And with that all 3 of them leave the room.

Derek stands and readies himself to leave, I cross the room to him and hug him one more time. I'm so happy he is here, that I'm here. He steps back but holds my shoulders, " if you need anything just call me. anything at all. I haven't found out who took you yet but i will and ill handle it..." he looks at Pheonix and continues ".. you mind her, take care of her."

"I promise Dad" Pheonix replies and they have a silent conversation with their eyes. Derek nods once tells us goodnight and heads for the door.

Pheonix takes my hand again and leads me down the hall, we are standing between the two doors when he asks,"do you wanna sleep in with me? Incase of the nightmares?"

"Yeah, please if you don't mind."

He nods and opens to door to his room and leads me inside, silently shutting the door behind him. I head to the bathroom, take my hair down, replace the buns with a pony tail and wash up, when I come out, he has a t-shirt in his hands and he holds it out to me. Without conversation I know what he means, I take it and he heads into the bathroom. I change quickly, the t-shirt falls to my mid thigh, I really am tiny compared to him.

I slip into the bed under the covers and wait for him. He comes out of the bathroom in just a baggy pair of shorts. I instantly get tingles thinking about his shirtless body pressed up against mine. I try to ignore it as he walks around the other side of the bed and gets in. My back is too him and I'm just about to roll over then arm comes over my stomach and pulls me backwards. I'm not flush along his body, it takes a minute but I relax into him. As we lay there in comfortable silence, I can feel my body heating up and I wiggle a bit to try and release some of the pressure between my thighs.

He grabs my hip to stop me moving, "Little Flame you can't do that." his voice is like gravel and he moves his hips further back from mine. I can feel his breath on my neck and I move my head so I can feel it more.

I just want to feel him and not the last man who touched me. He makes me feel better when its just us, like I'm not some broken girl.

I feel his lips touch my neck, but they don't kiss or move. "You don't really want this right now, you need time." but then I feel him kiss my neck, I'm sure it's just meant to be one, but he continues for a few more slowly laying soft kisses from underneath my ear all the way down to the crook of my neck. When he stops again, a let out a little whimper.

"its too soon baby, i don't want to hurt you, or make you scared of me" I can hear the barley there restraint in his voice.

"I want a new memory Nix, I need a something good to replace the bad."

After a long moment he nods against my neck, "okay baby, i can give you that."

He slides left arm underneath my neck and over my shoulder, his right hand is still my hip, I'm cocooned in a perfect spoon. He starts to kiss my neck again and left hand goes in the neck of the t-shirt and starts to search for my n*****s, with one finger he slowly circles one, and then the other moving back and forth, until they are hard pebbles beneath his fingers. He pinches them next and then soothes the pain away as he rubs them between his tump and finger, back and forth until I'm actually moaning and rubbing my tight together to find some release.

He pulls my body back again and I can feel his hard c**k pressed against my ass.

His hand then slips from my hip across my belly, as he teases the top line of my panties with two fingers.

"you sure you want me to do this baby?"

"yes" the word comes out of me breathlessly because he hasn't stopped his assault my now rock hard n*****s. His hand drops beneath my panties and rub all the way along my slit, back up to my c**t.

I hear what can only be described as a growl come from his chest, "f**k baby, your so wet. Is this for me?"

I groan as he starts to moved his fingers in tight circular movements over my c**t.

He licks all the way up my neck and kisses back down. I can feel my whole body start to shudder as the coiling in my stomach gets so tight I know its about to snap.

He moves his mouth to the shell of my ear, licks it, and whispers in my ear, "come for me, I want to watch you fall apart." and I do, I have the longest orgasm of my life, and his name tears from my throat. he continues to play with me until I come completely back down to earth. Panting unable to speak, I lay there while he removes his hands, moves my clothes back to where they are meant to be and cradles me as close to him and he can get me.

"you okay Little Flame?"

I just hum in response as I fall into a deep sleep.