"Do you want anything else?" Nicholson asks as he puts the bowl of soup away from his sister's lap who just stares at her brother silently as she had done from the moment he brought her back home from hospital.

Three weeks and she has not uttered a word and that was killing him the most, his sister's silence.

"Would you like to walk around?" he asks once more hoping to get an response but she stays quiet before silently getting inside of the covers and covering her whole body letting him know she wanted to be left alone.

Nicholson walks out of the room taking away the tray, he looks behind once more to find her lying inside of the bed.

"How is she doing?" his grandmother asks as she takes the tray away from him.

"She is not speaking"

"She has been through too much, give her some time also your mother called, she has been asking about Gracie...

It seems Nicholas has not said anything about your sister to your mother," she informs and he nods his head.

"I will tell he about Gracie once Gracie starts to respond, it will kill mom if she saw Gracie in such a condition" he sighs as he rubs his face and walks towards his office.

"Are you going to take calls from here?" Tyson asks as he follows Nicholson towards his office.

"Hold everything for a while Ty, I cannot think and it's killing me to see Gracie so quiet"

"Maybe she seeks company?" Tyson suggests but Nicholson shakes his head no.

"Have you forgotten how much she had been scared when I tried to touch her after we brought her back home?

It took a week for her to open up to granny what makes you think more company will do her help?"

"She has just now started to let me bring her food I am not risking it all. I know my energetic sister is somewhere in there and she will come out in her time...

I am not pushing her. Anyway, any news on where that fucking bastard is?" he asks.

"No, I have men around the house, no one has seen him. Damon has asked his pack to look out for him...

However, we all know the pack has limited excess. He has not left the town but the question is where he has been hiding?" Tyson informs.

"This is our fucking empire Tyson, we fucking own this city so why cannot pick one fucking bastard out?" he shouts at Tyson who nods his head in understanding.

"Listen Nick, she is as much your sister as mine and I do fucking care. I have asked everyone to stay alert, he is a wolf if he can hurt our own sister under our watch then he sure must have planned for his escape, give me some time"

"Never again am I putting my trust on a wolf, a fucking wolf destroyed what was left of my sister and never again am I giving any wolf that much control over my life" he vows as he sits in his seat.

*******

"Tristan is here?" Tyson informs as he knocks on Nicholson's office.

"Ask him to wait; I will be there in few" Nicholson states before continuing to talk in his phone.

Tyson walks towards the living area Tristan was before informing him what Nicholson told him.

"You in hurry?" Tyson asks as he nods towards him.

"Uh, not really, he just needs to sign few papers" Tristan smiles as he puts his briefcase down.

"Okay, well I have to check on few things if you need anything you know the kitchen" he informs before walking away.

Tristan sighs as he loosens his tie and takes a deep breath before he puts his head on the back of the couch and closes his eyes.

Tristan jumps a bit when someone touches his hair and he opens his eyes at once to find Gracie.

"Gracie" he calls her name in shock as it has been months that he last saw her and that memory was bittersweet for him.

The girl just keeps staring at him before she sits besides him and hugs him, Tristan nervously looks around the house to see if someone was watching them as he tries to pull Gracie away.

"Uh, Gracie, what are you doing?" he asks as he pushes her arms away from him.

She just tilts her head and stares at him before putting her hand on his hair, playing with it.

"I did not knew you were back, umm so how are things?" he stutters as he moves away from her touch before his eyes lands on her stomach.

Tristan gulps as he stares at the swell of her stomach before his eyes snaps towards her face.

"You are...you," he tries to form a word but cannot; as he was too shocked to even say a word.

"TT" she calls as he steps away from her reach.

"Fuck" Tristan curses as he feels his heart-beating fast at the sight of her pregnant belly as if something painful pierced his heart.

"TT" she calls once again as she tries to reach him but Tristan shakes his head feeling hurt seeing her pregnant with someone else's baby.

"Don't leave me," she whispers as she tries to keep reaching him.

"Don't leave me, TT, don't leave me" she starts to cry calling his name.

Nicholson starts to make his way towards his sister as soon as she starts to call for Tristan not understanding why the man was not letting her touch him.

"Gracie" he calls trying to calm his sister as this was the first time he was hearing her speak.

"Don't leave me, TT, don't leave me, oh god please don't, don't...I don't want to go, TT" she starts to scream fighting Nicholson hold as she starts to get a panic attack.

"What is wrong with her?" Tristan asks, as he does not know what was going on before Nicholson shouts for Tyson who brings an injection and puts it in Gracie's arms before she slowly looses her consciousness.

*******

"TT, TT" Gracie starts to calls as soon as she wakes up searching for the man.

Tristan looks towards Nicholson as if seeking the man's permission and he nods asking him to go towards his sister.

Tristan hurries to holds Gracie's hand as she looks around frantically and as if knowing his touch she calms down before she jumps in his arms wrapping her around him.

"Oh TT, don't leave me again, he is bad, he is so bad TT. Please do not send me back to him. I don't want to go" she starts to wail clutching him tightly.

"It's okay, I am here. I am here, no one is taking you anywhere," he whispers in her ear as he holds her to him.

Each sob coming out of her mouth kills him as he had no idea what she had gone through all these months while he was busy cutting all of his ties from her and that was the biggest mistake of is life.

"Is she calm?" Nicholson asks once Tristan walks out of the room.

"Yeah, I did not..."

"No one knew" he interrupts Tristan.

"This is the first time she talked after I brought her back," he informs Tristan stays silent in shock.

"I..."

"Can you come back and stay with her; you two always had a good bond and may be that is why she remembered you...

She may open up to you," he requests to Tristan who nods his head not knowing what else to say.

*******

"Where is TT?" Gracie asks as soon as Nicholson walks inside.

"He went back home"

"No, call him, I need him here," she orders stubbornly.

"He went to bring some clothes from his house Gracie; he will be staying with you"

"Oh okay, good" she nods her head as if in agreement.

"Do you need anything else?" he asks as he sits at the edge of the bed.

"My child will need a father's name," she states as she stares at him.

"Gracie"

"I am not giving my baby that monster's name, my baby is not his and my baby will never be his"

"Sweetheart"

"My baby is not his, my baby is not his," she keeps chanting.

"Okay, okay relax, calm down. The baby can have the Price name"

"No, no, no" she shakes her head continuously not leaving her stubbornness.

"Fine, then what name would you like to give the baby we will go with your choice?" Nicholson asks wanting her to just calm down and not have another panic attack.

"TT's, TT will not hurt me, he is so sweet and kind. He will love my baby; he will love our baby...

He is good, he will love our baby" she nods her head as she keeps muttering words to herself.

"You cannot marry him," Nicholson sighs wanting to stop this madness.

"Why? Why can I not marry him? What is wrong with it?" she asks.

"Tristan is our cousin" he tries.

"No, no. I will ask him to marry me. My baby needs him. Why don't you get it my baby needs him" she screams at once before she starts to sob clutching the bed sheet tightly in her hands.

"Shit" Nicholson runs his hands through his hair as he watches his sister's insanity.

"You will hurt the baby if you did not calm down" those words stop her crying.

"TT" she calls as he walks inside of the room.

"If you keep crying and screaming you will hurt the baby" he speaks as he walks closer to her.

"Okay, I will not cry, look I am not crying. Please don't let them hurt my baby," she begs and Tristan nods his head as he pulls her in his arms.

"No one is hurting the baby" he keeps whispers as he wraps his arms around her and she does the same.

"Will you marry me? He can never get close to my baby if my baby has a different name, you will protect my baby right and love my baby...please don't hate my baby" she begs as she clutches the front of his shirt desperately wanting him to save them both.

"Okay, okay, we will get married, now calm down" Tristan speaks as he tries to calm her.

"Trish" Nicholson calls, as he did not want the man to do something that he regrets.

"She is right, we are not cousins. I can marry her if I want and I do want to if you don't have any objection"

"She is not in her right mind," he points out the fact.

"When was she?" he smiles as he runs his hands on her head while she snuggles to him.

"If you are sure then" Nicholson sighs as he gives in wanting nothing but to see his sister the way she was before, her happy self and if marrying Tristan would bring her back to her old self then so be it.