Ch 6 Seoho's Matchmaking, The Dixons & Misspoken words
"Has that ever stopped the two of you before?" Lina asked as she pulled her dark hair up out of her face, the bruise now even more prominent than the night before. As the youngest of sisters turned to look at the two older twins, she shook her head. "I'm fine Dee it will heal, besides I've had worse from suspects remember. One of them was West Dixon, and No Didi you may not go after him or Merle for this." She half laughed as she turned to look at the twins "Look at both of you, I'm sorry I wasn't here but you're both glowing." Lina added as she hugged her older twin sisters. "Did you hear anything from Nova or Jinx before all of this?" She questioned, her eyes drifting between the pair. "Or our cousins, any of the guys?" She worried
Dahlia tried not to laugh at the twenty questions as she watched Lina move about the tent, it was always like her, Almost never stopping, it was one reason they always joked she could never have coffee. Both sisters glanced at each other as they listened to Li speak about how they were glowing. Dee's eyes drifted to her semi small baby bump, as she placed a hand on top of her stomach her smile faded, while Didi cradled her baby bump as she thought about Minho.
"They got called back to active duty right as this all started, you know our little Marine Nurse, and doctor in training." Dee said as she was worried about their twin sisters.
"Oh Hell, Dee, Didi...." Lina paused as she pulled her older sisters into her arms gently to hug them. "I didn't mean to break you. No crying please, I'll start crying and then we will have to call someone in here and you know how that ends." She stated as a hiccup left her lips.
It just so happened that Shane had been looking for Dahlia when he noticed that she and Didi had slipped into her sister's tent, now that Rick was back and he didn't think he could get Lori back on his side he needed to talk to his wife. However he hadn't accounted for the Grime's Cousin, or the two men that had taken to caring for his wife to be so close to the tent.
"So tell me why are you sharing a tent with Hongjoong and Seonghwa?" Lina asked as she pulled away from the hug and slipped on her shoes. However her eyes never left her Dahlia's. "Didi, I get Xion, he wants to protect her for Seoho, for me, but when we find the others, he knows that they will be taking over. Isn't that right Xi?" Lina called out.
"Yes it is." Xion called out from somewhere outside the tent. "I'd like to know how she does that?" He mumbled to himself as he walked off to do something productive.
Dahlia sighed as she placed her free hand at the small of her back and closed her eyes, she didn't know what to say to Lina. Before the accident Shane had been a wonderful doting husband, after the accident he split himself between work, going to the hospital, Lori and Carl and her. Then this happened, Dee didn't have the heart to tell her little sister that her husband had forgotten about Kenzi, Didi and herself, that it had been Seira and her sisters that had saved them from their overrun home, then the highway.
"I...I'm not ignored by them, they make me feel safe and wanted." Dahlia spoke softly. "Let's just say that Shane has changed and No Li, before you say it is not how you are thinking. He just doesn't seem to care that we are here." She offered just that.
Didi was quiet, she wondered why Dee wasn't telling Lina the truth about what happened when all of this happened, then it dawned on her. If Lina knew she would murder the man and no one could stop their sister, not even their brother. Didi stood silently as she decided to slip from the tent, what caught her off guard however was the small group that had gathered in front of her baby sister's tent. Didi was quiet as she stood behind the tallest male Seonghwa and listened to the conversion.
"Hey, can I speak with the two of you?" A male voice came from outside the tent.
"Why?" Hongjoong and Seonghwa asked in unison.
"I've come to tell you both to stay the hell away from my wife, you are ruining our marriage." Shane spoke up.
"Really now?" Adelia stepped out from behind one of the trees. "That's not the way I hear it." She chuckled as she mouthed 'I know' to Shane.
Seira, seeing the scene from where she had decided to help her sisters, shook her head before dismissing herself. As she made her way over to the small group forming, she decided to step near the two males and Didi who had nearly caught her off guard when she noticed her hiding behind Seonghwa. A sly smile appeared at the corner of her lips as she peeked around Hongjoong.
'What seems to be the problem Shane?" Seira asked innocently as she moved towards the front of the tent. "I mean you have been quite busy as of late."She offered the last part just loud enough to be heard but also enough to imply that more people thought something was going on.
While Shane watched Adelia's lips move the color drained from his face, though it was the words that the eldest Lee sister spoke that caught his attention, he thought that they had been careful. As he began to back away the tent opened and out stepped Dahlia and Lina.
"Hello Shane, I think you should leave. We will talk about how you have ignored my sister later." Lina ground out with an angry look in her eyes. Though it was Seira that had caught her attention. "Seira? To what do I owe the pleasure?" She asked as her eyes softened when she saw one of her best friends.
"I've come to check on our excepting mothers." Seira laughed a little as she pointed to Dahlia while tugging Didi out from behind Seonghwa gently.
As Shane glanced between the Dixon sister, Lina and Seira, it was then he decided that it was best to make himself scarce for the moment and took off to find Rick. Of course he was going to find a way to get Lina in trouble with Rick and get his wife back, while keeping Lori as well. He just needed a plan. As Lina's eyes moved from the place Shane had been standing they landed on Hongjoong and Seonghwa.
"Nice to see you two again, this time I'm sober and not hanging off of Wooyoung like a monkey." Lina half laughed as she started to turn a slight crimson, especially when She saw that Youngjo had just joined the small gathering.
"Wait what?" Dahlia and Seira exclaimed as they turned to look at Lina.
"Uh yeah when Kenzi and I went to South Korea last summer, we couldn't stay with Seoho or Hyunjin, Didi and Minho were out of town. So we stayed with Wooyoung." Lina retorted when she heard the soft giggle of two little children.
"Seriously Li?" Dee quipped as Lina picked up Kenzi and Youngjo picked up Kaden. "Did he forget you can't drink coffee as well?" She teased.
"Oh I remember that weekend." Didi snorted with a slight laugh as she shook her head, a few strands of hair falling around her face. " We were all on leave, so Minho and I went to see his parents." She offered.
"What were we doing?" Seoho asked Ravn, who was watching Lina.
"Hey Aylina, can I speak with you alone?" Adelia asked as the small group seemed to have forgotten she was there.
Lina looked at her daughter in her arms, then back at her sister, cousin and friends before she glanced back at Adelia and nodded to the youngest Dixon. However when she moved to follow the younger female she felt a hand land gently on her arm.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Youngjo asked. "I.. I need to talk to you as well." He added as his face started to grow warm once again, his eyes drifted towards Seoho who simply waved him on.
"Sure." Lina offered as she smiled up at him and moved Kenzi to her left hip. "Would you like me to take him as well?" She asked, nodding to Kaden.
"Nah, I'm good. Squirt hangs off of us all the time." Ravn stated as Kaden climbed from his arms to hang around Youngjo's neck. "Why do you call me Youngjo instead of Ravn?" He asked her as the four of them followed Adelia a little ways into the woods.
"Okay Spill Seoho what are you up too?" Dahlia asked as she turned to look at her cousin, Hongjoong and Seonghwa laughing as they realized how different the three sisters truly were.
"Oh you will see, if Li Li doesn't kill him first." He replied with a quick laugh.
"Why am I not surprised by any of this?" Seira giggled as she pointed to both Dee and Didi to sit down so she could check on them.
As he was speaking he watched Dee's eyebrow arch, the look in her eyes told him he better start speaking or her tiny pregnant ass was going to kick his. Seoho glanced around to make sure that Ravn and Lina were far enough away before he began to speak.
Didi on the other hand was fidgeting around wanting to go after them and keep Adelia Dixon away from her sister, and the two toddlers. She didn't like the idea of Adelia being around them especially when she decided to act like Merle and West.
"Didi, sit still please and Seoho start talking!" Dee demanded of the two of them. She didn't want something to happen to her pregnant twin and she wanted answers to what their cousin was up to.
"Alright but if you speak a word of this, you will be explaining to my boyfriend why there are two dead bodies and not one." Seoho teased as he let out a slightly dramatic sigh before he started laughing. "Ravn kissed Li Li on the check this morning and the kids saw it. He said he didn't realize he had done it until they had said something." He relayed to the six of them.
Hongjoong and Seonghwa stood there with their mouths hanging open slightly, from what they could remember Lina wasn't a light sleeper. In fact she had accidentally flipped San out of the bed when he climbed into the wrong one on her and Kenzi's stay with them.
"He..."Dahlia stopped as she let her eyes linger on the spot where both Ravn and Lina had both been standing.
"Kissed her!" Didi exclaimed.
"And you think this is a good idea?" Dee asked as she thought about it.
A small smile graced the older sisters lips.
"Alright but if she gets hurt..."They retorted in unison.
"Trust me he won't hurt her, I hate it when you two do that freaky in unison stuff." Seoho groaned.
"It was funnier when Lina, Nova and Jinx did it to Minho when he married Didi." Dee giggled.
"No, that was far creepier because they had already planned something." He stated as he shook his head. "Alright time to get you two off your feet for a while." Seoho retorted as he nodded to Hongjoong and Seonghwa quickly changed the subject.
"We're pregnant, not breakable." The sisters growled as they were led to the middle of the camp, to rest.
"He's right, let's go find a place where you two can relax." Seonghwa offered as he took her arm gently.
"Away from any stress and drama." Hongjoong added as he rushed to Dee's other side.
"I agree with the boys ,you both need to rest away from all the stress and besides we all know Li can handle her own and then some." Seira laughed as she glanced at where Lina, Youngjo and the kids had disappeared to. "Besides she also has all of us as well." She added as she moved to see if anyone needed her help today.
Lina and Youngjo had followed Adelia, they five of them stopped in a little clearing. It was close enough for them to still need help but far enough that no one could hear what was being said.
"Did Merle really do that?" Adelia asked as she pointed at Lina's face.
Lina sighed as she glanced at Kenzi, here she thought that Adelia wanted to talk about her niece, as her eyes moved from the young female Dixon, to the little girl in her arms. She nodded her head.
"Yeah, I guess so." Lina retorted as she noticed Youngjo move out of the corner of her eye. "I woke up in the back of the truck and was told, '' Your lovely older brother decided my face needed to kiss the concrete rooftop." She quipped, slightly irritated with the question.
Youngjo stayed silent as he watched the two women speak, clearly this was about what had happened in Atlanta and the Dixon sibling that was left behind there. As he placed Kaden on his feet, he took Kenzi from Lina so that she wouldn't be in between them.
"And you just left him behind!" Adelia half yelled.
"No! I didn't leave anyone behind, They did!" Lina hissed between clenched teeth as she pointed back to camp. "If I had been conscious, I would have beat him and dragged his sniveling ass back here." She stated her voice getting dangerously low as she spoke. " Lina growled out as she stepped back from Adelia. "You know me better than that Dixon!" She yelled at the young woman.
"Yeah well now you have to tell Daryl and Wyatt why Merle didn't come back." Adelia stated, taking a step closer to Lina, knowing full well it would piss her off. "Oh and you better pray that West doesn't come back with them. He will definitely have a few choice words for his adoring sister in law! I'm starting to wonder what my dearly departed brother ever saw in you!" She taunted Lina, not angry at the woman, more angry at her older brother and his dumb ass.
Once the words had left Adelia's lips she knew she should have backed off especially when Lina lunged for her, however as Adelia waited for some type of contact from the female Grimes it never came. Adelia opened her eyes, she saw that Youngjo had his arms around Lina, as her niece held onto his leg and the little boy glared up at her. She had regretted the words the moment they had left her lips, as her eyes fell to Kenzi who refused to look at her Adelia moved forward.
"Lina, Ken .."Adelia spoke but was cut off by an angry Youngjo.
"I think you have said and done enough don't you!" He told her as he kept Lina in his arms. Seoho had told him about Lina's late husband, but he didn't know that he was related to the Dixon family. "I think you should leave, Now!" Youngjo ordered.
"I.." Adelia tried to say but realized that she needed to let them cool down before trying to apologize.
Youngjo waited till Adelia was far from them before he let Lina go, as he glanced down at the kids he gave them a reassuring nod. Kenzi and Kaden both rushed into Lina who had dropped to the ground once his arms had slipped from her body. The anger had slightly drained her as she felt two pairs of tiny arms wrap around her neck. A sweet yet gentle smile appeared to grace her lips.
"Mommy are you okay?" Kenzi asked as played with a strand of Lina's hair that had fallen loose.
"Mommy?" Kaden tried out as Kenzi and Lina looked at him with a reassuring smile.
"Mhmm, I'm okay. Come here." Lina told them both as she pulled them into her arms, as she glanced up at Ravn, her smile widened. "Thank you Youngjo, I appreciated that." She told him.
"Why do you call me Youngjo instead of Ravn?" He asked as he sat down next to her. "You know like your cousins and my friends?" Youngjo questioned curiously.
"Hmm It's different and I like being different." Lina giggled as she leaned back from the weight of both toddlers trying to push her over playfully. "What did you want to talk about?" She prodded gently.
Youngjo gulped as his eyes shifted back and forth, a sigh left his lips before he turned to Lina. He couldn't help the smile that spread across his lips.
"Okay so please don't kill me..."Youngjo began.
"It's okay I know about the kiss on the cheek, I was slightly awake." Lina stated before Youngjo could rat himself out. "You don't need to apologize." She told him as she reached up and pulled Youngjo down to lay in the grass with her and the kids. It had only taken about five minutes for Kenzi and Kaden to fall asleep.
As the Youngjo and Lina headed back to camp, Lina stopped Youngjo, she'd got an idea and couldn't help herself. Lina turned on her feet as she gave Youngjo a sweet yet mischievous smile, she leaned up on her toes and kissed him.
"Now you have no need to apologize at all, since I kissed you too." Lina offered as she headed towards their tent. Youngjo stood there momentarily shocked before he shook his head and followed after the young woman.
After they laid the toddlers down they moved about the camp, Lina talked with Didi as she was waiting for the other Dixon siblings to show up, Youngjo was being harassed by Seoho and their friends. Shane watched how they interacted with Dahlia from far away, his eyes never leaving the three of them, or how they were so gentle with her. As a growl slipped from his lips he let his eyes move from them to Rick and Lori, he had lost both of them all because Rick had come back alive. Lina he could handle after all she wouldn't get in the way with two children to take care of or so Shane thought, but in his eyes Rick and the two men that cared for Dahlia had to go.
Little did Shane know that he was being watched as well, not just by Dale, but by Lina and Adelia. He hadn't noticed that they had returned from their little venture into the woods. Nonetheless Shane's plotting was cut short when Carl and Sophia's screams could be heard throughout the camp. Lina stayed back to keep an eye on her sisters and her own children as she watched her nephew and the little girl come running towards them. She stayed on alert while she watched Adelia move towards her. Lina shook her head as she leaned down and whispered something to Didi and Dee, by now even Lina's older twin sisters and their cousin knew the truth about who her late husband was. Adelia sighed as she watched Daryl and Wyatt walk out of the trees where the kids had come from followed by Rick, Shane and a few others. As Shane called out to Daryl, Adelia rushed forward stopping her brothers in their tracks, as she glanced back at Lina she decided to speak before anyone else could.
"Merle didn't make it back." Adelia stated as she tried to keep their attention on her.
"What do you mean didn't make it back?" Wyatt asked, speaking up as he noticed his little sister trying to distract them.
"Is he dead?" Daryl asked, his anger starting to show as his eyes landed on where Adelia was looking and narrowed. "Thought she was dead!" He growled out as he stalked forward.
"Daryl, don't Merle did this to himself!" Adelia called out as she was able to stop Wyatt from doing just what Daryl was doing now.
Rick, Shane and the others had started to rush to Lina's aid when she held out her hand stopping them. She wasn't some damsel in distress, if Daryl thought she was afraid of him then he had another thing coming.
"Dixon, nice to see you again." Lina quipped as Daryl neared her.
Daryl was thrown for a loop at first when he saw the bruise on her face, but when Adelia's words reached him his anger flared once again.
"Thought you died, where is the kid dead too?" Daryl retorted, not realizing that Kenzi was his niece.
"Daryl!" Adelia yelled at her older brother, she knew when he found out he was going to feel like an ass.
"It's fine Adelia, No she has been here the whole time." Lina stated matter of fact, as she pointed to the tent in which the kids were still sleeping. "Kenzi is her name, perhaps you've talked to her? And sorry to disappoint you Daryl but I don't die that easily, not even when your brother tries to knock me out." She retorted as she walked away.
Daryl was stunned to say the least when the words left Lina's lips, as he turned around he looked at his sister who was looking away from him. It was then that both he and Wyatt realized that Adelia had known Kenzi was their niece the whole time.
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