Always and forever.

Katie POV I stood outside my brothers gigantic house for the first time in years. I hadn't been able to visit or get in contact for a long time and I was dreading how he would react to seeing me. I sighed loudly..'Come on Katie, go inside, you can do this.' I knocked on the door and stepped inside. I heard voices coming from the living room so I followed the spund. There he was chatting to who I assume were some of his friends. 'Hey Tony, long time no see.' He froze upon hearing your voice and turned to facr you. The room filled with a deathly silence until he finally spoke. 'What are you doing here? You need something?..Money?' 'Wow so your opinion of me has really dropped so low huh?' He sighed and I could hear the anger in his voice as he spoke 'I haven't seen or heard from you in seven years and you turn up unannounced out of the blue! Of course I assume you want something from me!' I noticed that one of his friends hadn't taken his eyes off me since I walked in, he looked familiar, but that wasn't important right now. 'Look Tony, I have no other motive, I just wanted to see my brother.' 'Well you've seen me so see ya again in another seven years.' I sighed and rolled my eyes and turned to his friends, introducing myself. 'Hi everyone, i'm Katie, Tonys baby sister.' A woman who was sitting amongst them stood in front of me 'Ohh my gosh Katie, it's me Grace, I was friends with Tony growing up, you were a little girl the last time I saw you!' and she pulled me into a tight hug. 'Of course, Grace how are you?' She smiled sweetly at me 'So where are you staying? We have some catching up to do.' 'Umm actually I hadn't planned that far ahead I still need to find somewhere.' 'There are spare rooms here, you have to stay!...Right Tony!' She glared at him. 'Sure, can't see that ending badly at all, please do stay with us.' Grace took me upstairs and showed me to my room. 'You need any help u packing?' 'Not really, I don't have a lot of stuff, you could keep me company though, it's been a long time since I had someone nice to talk to.' She smiled at me reassuringly. **A few days later** I woke up dripping in sweat, short of breath after yet another nightmare. I looked at the time and it was 3am. I tossed and turned for a while and eventually realised I wasn't getting any more sleep so I headed downstairs. I was in the kitchen getting myself a drink when I heard someone else coming down the stairs. I turned around and saw one of Tonys friends, 'Ohh hi, I didn't expect to see anyone else up at this time.' I smiled kindly at him. 'Yeah I don't get a lot of sleep, I'm usually up long before anyone else. I haven't had the chance to introduce myself yet, my names James.' 'Yeah sorry about that, i've been avoiding my brother, i'm Katie.' and I held out my hand for him to shake. I couldn't shake the feeling that you knew him from somewhere, but that couldn't be possible considering where I had been during the last seven years. I cleared my throat 'Well since i'm up in going to head along to Tonys workout room.' 'Ohh thats actually where i'm headed too, we can do some sparring if you like?' I couldn't help but smile 'Yeah sounds good.' and off we headed towards Tonys in-house gym. **A couple of hours later** 'Come on is that all you've got?' I taunted James. 'I hope you're not just going easy on me.' 'I'm not, you're a strong woman, you definitely know how to hold your own, i'm impressed.' I smirked at him..'What, you're not used to getting your butt kicked by a lady?' 'You definitely didn't kick my butt, however you certainly put up a good fight.' I giggled, 'well im gonna head up and get showered, see you later on.' I waved as I headed out of the room. On my way to my room I bumped into Grace, 'Hey hun where you off to?' 'Ohh i've just been training in the gym so i'm heading for a shower. I'll be down soon and we cam have breakfast together?' 'Sure, sounds good.' Once showered I get dressed and head down to meet Grace. I walk into the kitchen and she's making breakfast. As we sit down to eat Tony walks into the room with some of the other guys. 'So Katie, not that it isn't an absolute delight having you here, but how much longer are you planning on staying here?' Grace looked up at him 'Tony...' I stopped her before she said anything else 'It's okay Grace. Look Tony I get that you don't like me and that I'm not welcome here so I'll pack up my things and get going.' I stood up from the table and headed to my room to pack. I stepped into my room and shut the door and I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. *Everyone elses POV* 'Tony you better go up there and apologise to your sister for being such an ass.' 'No Grace, she's overstayed her welcome. In fact she was never welcome in the first place. If she can't be honest about why she's really here then I have no reason to keep her under my roof.' Grace looks at the others for help and David another friend steps forward. 'She's right Tony. You may be mad at your sister but you dont want any harm to come to her, you can't just kick her out on the street. Atleast try and talk to her. If you show her that you care she might open up about where she's been and why she's here.' Tony stood in silence for a while, then he sighed..'Fine i'll go talk to her, you know sometimes I hate you guys, ganging up on me like that.' *Katies POV* Sitting on the edge of my bed with tears streaming down my face, I wonder where I'm going to go and what I'm going to do. I have nothing and I have no one. Someone knocks on the door 'Come in' I say while trying to wipe away the tears. Tony walks in and sits next to me. 'Look Katie, I may have over reacted and I'm sorry, but I'm mad at you, I've spent seven years mad at you, you disappeared from my life, never to be seen or heard from and then you just turn up a few days ago with no reasoning or explaination as to where you've been all this time. I didn't handle things right and for that I'm sorry. Just know that you can talk to me, I'm here.' Your tears start streaming again and you wrap your brother in a hug. 'Tony I've missed you so much, you have no idea, the last seven years have been hell and all I wanted when it was all over was my big brother.' I explained everything to Tony about where I had been and what I had gone through and he promised not to tell anyone else and to look after me. I finally had my brother back, and it felt amazing. *One week later* I had been training with James each morning as we both struggle to sleep we uaually meet early in the gym to train together, although the last couple of days he's seemed different. It felt like all of a sudden he didn't want to be my friend and that I was more pf a burden than anything else. 'Hey James can I talk to you about something?' 'I'd rather just keep training.' 'Did I do something to upset you? I feel like you're mad at me but I have no idea why.' 'Forget about it Katie.' 'No! If i've done something to upset you then i'd like to know what!' 'DAMN IT KATIE! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU!' and he stormed out of the room, I followed after him determined to see what the problem was. 'James come back here! What's going on?! Why are you being so cold and distand all of a sudden?!' 'BECAUSE BEING FRIENDS WITH YOU, KNOWING THAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME KILLS ME!' He stopped when he realised what he said and turned away from me 'Just forget it Katie.' 'What do you mean don't remember you? Where should I remember you from? I don't understand!' 'FROM THE BASE KATIE! I was held captive and tortured there for years, ond day when they tried to strap me up to the electrotherapy machine and wipe some of my memories you ran in and asked them to stop. You said I should recieve some human kindness and what was the big deal if they planned on wiping my memory after anyways. You sat with me and we talked you were so beautiful and brave and I was so happy to have met you. I finally broke out of that place a few years back and after a short while I regained all of my memories. I kept looking for you but they stayed on the down low and kept moving bases. I had finally given up hope of seeing you again and then as if it was fate you turned up at Tony's door, only you didn't remember who I was and honestly it killed me I thought I could try and be friends with you anyways but it's too difficult, clearly I did't make as much of an impact on you as you did on me.' My head started spinning and I felt dizzy, I started having flashes of memories, one of which being me and James, I knew he was familiar, I just didn't know why. I stumbled and almost fell but James caught me. 'James..it's you, it's really you, I remember, Ohh my gosh I remember you!'