Thumping and shouting was all I heard for almost ten minutes straight. I put my head down and cried because I was terrified of our lives.

More time passed and I heard muffling coming from the living room, it soundedlike Uncle Bart. I slowly got out from under the bed, the muffling got louder for a moment. By the time I saw both Uncle Bart and Danny, he got the collar out. As Danny started walking towards Uncle Bart, he looked at me, he shook his head wanting me to go hide. It was too late, Uncle Bart turned around to see my tear stained face.

"Emma, darling...of course you live here too. All the arts in one home."

"My family happens to love it," I said softly.

"Your family? I'm your family! I'm your uncle!"

"By blood you are."

"Blood is thicker than water Em. Families have to stick up for each other at all times!"

"Blood is thicker than water? The saying is: the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. It means that they are more family than you are."

Uncle Bart looked pissed.

"I took care of you when your desert dry bitch of a mother didn't!"

"She agreed to get some help right before she collapsed and died in my arms!" I yelled.

He wanted to keep going.

"I pay for your school!"

"That was nice of you Uncle Bart but I'm afraid I won't be needing your financial help. I'm 18 and I'm graduating soon."

"I helped you because you're my fucking niece and I love you very much. I'm still going to pay because you and Danny are leaving this dump and coming back to me."

He turned around to Danny. Danny was in reach for Uncle Bart to put the collar back on.

"Welcome home Danny."

But Danny caught it in time.

"I am home."

I literally saw steam coming from Uncle Bart's bald head. He shot around and started screaming at me.

"You bitch, it's all your fucking fault, you changed him, you turned my dog against me!"

"He's a human being!"

He started slapping me.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!"

Danny started beating him up and throwing him around. Uncle Bart was bloody and on the ground when Sam and Victoria busted the door open and restrained Danny. Sam was saying what happened if he killed the bleeding man below him while he was being taunted about his dead mother. Danny forced himself from Sam's grasp and was going to punch Bart.

"You'll never escape what I made you, you're a dog, that's what you are and that's what you'll always be. Now be a good dog, and kill me. Come on, kill me!"

Sam knocked him out with a plant.

"Shut the Hell up. That man can talk some serious shit."

Uncle Bart was still alive but unconscious. Sam and Victoria consoled Danny for minute. I was still on the floor shaken up from being yelled and slapped at.

"Emma!"

Suddenly, Danny crawled to me, and held me as if I was his daughter after a broken heart.