"Hey Laurel! What's up?"I said when she came up to give me a hug, but my eyes didn't leave Damon's.

"Dad sidebar." I demanded, as I walked into the kitchen, not giving him time to protest.

"What Bailey?? Do you know how rude that was?" My Dad spat.

"Yeah, well you want to know what is rude? Beating up Nico because he exists!"

"You! You did that to Damon?"

"Yeah, I made him hit me, then I beat the crap out and threatened to show his balls down his throat! He is lucky I didn't freaking kill him!" I shot back defensively. I can't believe him!

"Calm down Lee. I'm not mad at you. I would have been mad if you hadn't had beat him up, it just sucks that Damon had to be that person, that's all." My Dad said quickly, when he noticed my tone and the look I had on my face.

"Yeah tell me about it!"

"Hey sorry to interrupt, I just wanted to say that I am sorry for what my son did to your friend." Laurel said as she walked into the kitchen. How did she know? I doubt Nico said anything about it. Then I saw Lillian and Damon out of the corner of my eye. Well that explains that!

"Hey Bay!" Dominic said as he smacked me upside the head.

"Would you stop that?"

"No."

"well at least your honest." I said as I elbowed him in the ribs, he winced when I did. Oops, I forgot that I kicked him there.

"Haha How does it feel to get kicked in the ribs while getting up?" I aid while laughing at his pain. I am so mean.

"You're so mean!" he whined, making him sound like he was four.

"Who is your friend here Bailey?" My Dad said when Jeff and Nico came over, with Lillian and Damon close behind.

"Dad, this is Jeff. Jeff, this is Dad."

"Hi Jeff! wait. The Jeff?"

"Yes Dad, The Jeff."

"Well since we are all here, me and Laurel have an announcement to make. Go ahead dear." My Dad said while gently nudging Laurel.

"Well as you know we moved all of my stuff from my house to here. Now I know this is crappy timing with Damon arriving and all but we finally sold the house today! Damon, we moved all of your stuff from your old room to here today, so that's all ready. We didn't have time to unpack it yet, so you still have to do that. One more thing as you guys already know, we are leaving for the week, and since you are both suspended, you are stuck together all week, so please don"t kill each other." She said.

" Oh, Bailey, I need you to keep Sniper outside. Damon is very allergic." My Dad added once Laurel had finished. I could tell by the way that he said it that he was expecting me to blow up.

"Hell no. That's not happening" I said immediately.

"Well that mutt isn't staying in this house with me!" Damon yelled.

"The only way he is staying outside is over my dead body and today goes to show that you aren't physically capable of doing that."

"Yeah well I know some people!"

"Damon!" Laurel shouted while everyone else burst out laughing, all except for Jeff who just looked baffled.

"Take allergy pills." Dominic suggested, but it came out as more of a demand.

"Great Idea plus we don't even know for sure if you are allergic, so this will be a great test!" Laurel chimed in.

"Perfect, dead body avoided!" I replied with a smile, everyone laughed except for Damon.

"When do you leave?" Nico asked.

"In a half an hour." My Dad replied.

"Actually, we have to leave in five minutes, because we have to stop at your brothers." Laurel reminded my Dad.

"We're sorry we have to leave you two alone together. We weren't expecting Damon to come down so soon. We hope you guys understand. Oh also, Damon your car is mine. You aren't to allowed to leave the house and I would like you to apologize to Nico and Bailey."

"Now." Laurel stated when he didn't say anything.

"Sorry. There happy?" Damon snapped, Laurel sighed but shook her head and mouthed sorry to me and Nico. Wow, I can tell he meant that.

"We have to go but it was nice getting to meet you all." Laurel said as she ran upstairs to get ready.

"Bailey come with me." I nodded then followed my Dad into his office.

"Why didn't you shoot me a text or something about the house? I said as soon as I shut the door.

"We wanted it to be a surprise. I thought you'd be happy about it."

"I am, it's just I'm not thrilled about the whole Damon thing."

"I know lee. It sucks, but can you please try not to kill him? For me please."

"I won't. I mean, seriously though, I just had to get stuck with him!"

"Yeah."

"I am assuming we aren't going to tell them. Or are we?"

We definitely aren't as far as they know, I place kids with Foster families to explain the leaving at random times and a car salesman to explain some of the money. I have half of it stashed away hidden though."

"Perfect. Is that all you needed?"

"Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to hurt him too badly."

"Aghhh, I wish you didn't have to leave him with me though!"

"I know lee."

"Love you dad, have fun okay."

"I will Bailey, thanks for being a good sport about it." I smiled then we both walked out of his office.

"My mom's in the car." Damon told my dad when he entered. He nodded, wave goodbye, then left.

"Where's your mom?" I asked Dominic when I saw Lillian was no longer in the kitchen or living room.

"She had to go to principal stuff."

"Okay, so what do you guys want to do, other than sit around awkwardly?" Asked Nico.

"How about the usual?" Suggested Dominic.

"Perfect. I'll get the alcohol," volunteered Nico.

"Okay, is everyone good with that?" I asked and everyone nodded.

"What exactly are we doing?" Asked Jeff.

"Truth or Dare with either a shot or two bucks for a chicken." I responded.

"Who is all playing? Hollered did Nico from the kitchen.

"Damon, Jeff you guys playing?" Nico called again when nobody answered.

"I guess" said Damon, while Jeff looked at Nico and nodded.

"Great." I said, then I went and got two hats. The first hat was for truth or dare cards, while the second was for the names of who would receive the truth or dare. We threw in a double dare card for fun, and you pick choice for both hats.

"I'll start," Nico said. He reached in and grabbed a truth, then he drew Jeff.

"Ummm, if you could only ever talk to one of us who would it be and why?"

"Probably you Nico, because I feel like you are probably the only one that would want to talk to me." when Jeff was finished I motioned for him to go next, because he was to the left of Nico.

"I got truth and Dominic. What is your relationship with Bailey?"

"Friends with benefits'" he replied after a moment of thought. It was my turn next and I drew Nico and dare.

"I dare you to tell Dominic how you feel about his sister." I had wanted to get the truth but this would have to do.

"I like her and was planning on asking her out, but haven't had the guts to do so." Nico said it very carefully as he was expecting Dominic to get mad but he didn't.

"About time." Replied Dominic.

"Dom, you're up." I reminded him.

"Okay, I dare Damon and dare. Damon I dare you to come and kiss your stepsister." Dominic said with a twisted grain.

"Oh, did I mention that I got a double dare so Bay that's your dare too." Added Dominic. I flipped him off and walked over to Damon and stood in front of him.

"I don't chicken." I said while waiting for Damon to respond.

"It has to be on the lips and at least ten seconds." Dominica added, because he forgot to specify. Sighing, Damon put his hands behind my knees and pulled me down on top of him. Then I bent down and kissed him forcefully, which he returned with just as much aggression. After about fifteen seconds, we stopped making out and broke apart, we were both out of breath.

"Happy?" I breathed as I pushed myself off of Damon's lap.

"Very," replied Dominic with a satisfied smirk. It was Damon's turn next.

"I drew Bailey and truth. Where/how did you learn how to fight?"

"Dominic, and at my house."

"You mean our house." He corrected with a smirk.

"No, I mean my house Damon." At that moment sniper came running in from inside and into the living room. Sniper immediately stuck up his back and started growling at Damon and Jeff.

"Stand down." I commanded Sniper as I pointed to jeff. Sniper stopped snarling at Jeff and growled only at damon.

"Be alert." I commanded as I pointed at Damon with a smirk. The dog instantly stopped growling but kept his eyes on damon, just waiting for him to move towards me so he could attack.

"What did you tell him to do?" Asked Jeff.

"I told him that you are okay, but that he doesn't like Damon, so he should watch him. Now if I had said D-A-N-G-E-R he would have attacked. I also have hand signals to go with all his word commands as well."

"Wow, that's cool!" Jeff explained.

"So, what do you all want for dinner?" Dominic asked suddenly.

"We should get pizza!" Nico said way too excitedly, everybody nodded in agreement. Damon cough, so he reached forward to grab his water, and when he did, Sniper shut up and growls. Damon jump back so fast, he spilled his water. Grumbling a string of curse words, demon got up and grabbed a towel from the kitchen and clean the water up. Wasn't expecting him to clean it up.

"I have to go for like 45 minutes, and then when I'm heading home I'll pick up pizza. Nico text me what everybody wants." I said as I suddenly remembered that I had to recruit Braxton today.

"Where are you going?" Damon asked nosally.

"To my friend Jeremy's house, he needs me to take a look at his computer, if you must know."

"God, he had me fix it last week." Dominic said as he laughed even though he knew that it was a cover because Jeremy didn't have a computer. He was always talking about how he needed to get one, but never actually did.

"The idiot! I'm going to run upstairs, grab a few things, then head out." Nico and Dominic made a pouty face, but I ignored them and walked upstairs, motioning for Sniper to follow me, which she did. Once I was in my room, I grabbed my gun and put it in the back of my sports bra. Walking to my closet, I grabbed the chip I needed and stuck it in the combat boot, that I was about to put on. Then I went to the mirror and made sure the bulge for my gun wasn't visible, it was, so I let my hair down and covered the bump right up. Good to go. Then I made my way downstairs. I went to grab my keys, would realize my car was blocked behind Dominic's.

"Hey Dom your car is blocking mine, so I'm taking yours." I hollered as I grabbed his keys from the table.

"Okay. Take sniper so he doesn't attack someone when you're gone. I nodded knowing that he wanted me to take him for back up, not because he thought I couldn't handle it but because Sniper was a great guard dog and added extra protection. Waving goodbye I motion for Sniper to follow me, then left. Surprisingly Braxton was only 5 minutes away, so that gave me a pretty good time window. When I pulled up I could see him through the window. According to the agency he lived alone, so that was good. I turned off the engine, then open the door to let sniper out, then went up to the front door. I knocked three times and took a step back and waited. He got to the door quickly, when he opened the door I was looking down.

"Hi, can I use your pho-" I looked up.

"Mr. Miles?" I exclaimed while pretending to be shocked that this was his house.

"Bailey? What are you doing here?" Braxton asked, while looking very confused.

"I didn't know you lived here. I was walking my dog, when I realized that I had no clue where I was and that I had left my phone at home. So I decided to go knock and ask someone if I could use their phone, so someone could come and pick me up. I guess I just got lucky that it ended up being your house rather than someone I don't know!"

"Yeah, why don't you come on in and use my phone to call your bride. He said Wallace Ray me in. The inside of his house was much like my bedroom, empty. There was the back of a couch when I walked in that was facing a tv. Straight ahead there was a kitchen, and from the looks of it he either was a clean freak or he ate a lot of frozen dinners or take out. After the looking at his trash I found out it was the second option.

"You caught me at a good time, I was about to go to the gym." He said while trying to find where he put his phone.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I can find someone else if you have someone waiting for you," I said apologetically.

"No you're fine, I can go whenever, I guess that's the advantage of having no friends. You can do whatever, whenever." Good he is alone. Sighing inwardly, I pulled out my gun as quietly as I could.

"I'm sorry." I said somberly and this time it was genuine. I was about to flip his world upside down, or end it.

"I told you it's fine." He replied with his back still turned.

"Turn around." He did, when he saw that I was holding a gun, he immediately shot his hands into the air. Typical reaction. As soon as I pulled my gun out, Sniper started growling.

"Bailey is a some kind of game?"

"Unfortunately not. Take a seat. Please don't try anything, I just want to talk." He sat, when he did I motioned for Sniper to be on high alert and put my gun in my lap.

"Do you remember me yet Braxton?" He thought for a moment, but shook his head.

"Last night, ring any bells yet?" I asked, then it dawned on him.

"You're the girl I slipped in the bar last night!"

"Yes, now keep going."

"You be up that guy, then disappeared."

"Close. I walked to the control room, knocked out the guards, and took the security feed. Then I went to the back and killed that rapist, changed my appearance, and left my burner phone in the back playing gunshot sounds with a built-in speaker."

"Why are you telling me this? I wouldn't have known it was you."

"Well you may have or may not have, but my boss didn't want to bet my life on the fact that you wouldn't, hence why I'm sitting in your living room."

"So you're going to kill me because I might have figured out that you were at the club, and that I might have peace together that you killed that guy." He said, while making it sound like I was a psychopath.

"Who said I was going to kill you? See I don't know why, but I happen to like you. I don't want to kill you, but I will do it, and I won't think twice about sending a bullet flying through your brain. So I need you to make a choice, join the agency and be the killer or I have to kill you. The choice is yours."

"That is messed up!"

"I know. Imagine a 13-year-old having to make that decision." Braxton looked shocked.

"I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I've come to terms with it."

"Ughhh" He said while slamming his fists down on the couch. Sniper instantly ran next to him growling.

"Sniper high alert." I commanded as a patted the floor next to me, so he would come back over.

"Charming dog." Braxton said while raising his hands back up in the air, but I motioned for him to put his hands down.

"Do you only kill rapists and such?"

"No. We take up contracts with anyone who is willing to pay. I recruited you, so if you choose to be an assassin, I will assign your cases. Most of them will be criminals but some won't be and I would expect you to kill them as quickly and as pain-free as possible."

"So I either kill people or I die?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I will kill people." He said matter of factly.

"Why?"

"Well for starters I don't want to die, and I want your help to kill my father. So I kill people for you and your company, then you guys help me find my father and kill him. Painfully."

"Done." Reaching down in my boot I pulled out the giant syringe.

"What is that!?"

"A tracker, also if you go rogue and try to go to the cops or anything we have guys at The Agency that will explode the chip, which releases a poison, killing you within seconds. You swallow this, then it attaches itself to your stomach, it doesn't hurt. Don't try throwing it up or anything, it won't come up. We also have someone who tried to surgically remove it, but if you tamper with it, it explodes also, so don't try that."

"Do I have to? I mean what if I accidentally explodes?"

"It won't." I said we'll tossing him the syringe. Reluctantly he took it and squeezed the chip along with the liquid in the syringe into his mouth.

"How do you feel?" I asked.

"I thought you said this didn't hurt! It feels like someone is tearing my stomach!"

"Good, that means you swallowed it." A lot of people want swallowing it, so the agency made it hurt to swallow so we would know if they did or not.

"Okay, so what next?"

"Nothing. You wait until I contact you with what you need to do next. Go to work and carry on with your normal life."

"Okay? What about finding my Dad?"

"We'll find him." With that I turned around and went for the door. Then I heard it, a gun cocking. Slowly I turned around. This is going to be fun.

"What are you going to do? Shoot me?" I challenged, when I was fully turned around.

"Put your hands up!" Braxton said we're trying to find his phone to call caps. First mistake.

"No," I replied while looking over Braxton's shoulder. Then I started to move my eyes, to make it seem as though there was another person behind him.

"Now " I shouted, he immediately turned around to look at the person who wasn't there. Then I quickly signaled for Sniper to jump, he did which sent Braxton flying backwards. When he hit the ground the gun came out of his hands. That was too easy. Laughing, I pulled out my gun and cocked it.

"You know, I'm really sorry you did that." Bending down I reached into my boot and pulled out a needle, I pulled the needle back releasing air into it, then walked over to Braxton. Wait! The Agencies report on him said he had a daughter. Now this I can work with!

"Well, I was going to kill you but I just remembered that you have a daughter!"

"Don't you dare touch her!" Braxton screamed.

"Then don't do that again."

"You wouldn't kill a child!"

"No I wouldn't, not a young child anyways, but I will let my boss do it, and trust me that is not something you want. He would tear her apart but don't worry he wouldn't kill her, just make her suffer and then turn her into himself, a monster."

"I'll do whatever you want, but please don't hurt her." God he's a predictable idiot!

"Get up. Don't do anything stupid or it will be your little girl that pays. You got it?" He frantically nodded then got up.

"Come on Sniper." I called as I walked out the door. According to the agency Braxton had no security cameras, so there was nothing to erase. That went well! Once I was in the car I picked up the phone to dial Nico but decided it was too early for dinner. As I pulled into the driveway I realized that Jeremy's car was there. Crap. When I walked into the house I didn't see anybody in the living room.

As I threw Dominic's keys in the kitchen counter I heard grunting coming from the gym. Well I can't say I'm surprised. Sniper bolted into the gym when he heard the noise, ready to attack if need be. When I made it to the gym I saw Dominic handing Damon his usual 200 lb barbell.

"That's probably not a good idea Dom!" Nico said as Damon reached up to grab the barbell.

"The idiot said he could do it," countered Jeremy. Jeremy didn't like anyone and apparently Damon wasn't an exception. Nico sighed then shot a look towards me, asking silently for me to help, but I waved him off.

"Let him do it if he wants to. I said to nico, reluctantly he nodded. Dominic's at the barbell down in the slots. Then Damon picked it up. You could tell he was struggling to pick it up all the way, from the looks of it he couldn't even lift it up let alone bench it. After a lot of grunting the barbell still had it moved, but an inch.

"Set it down, take off 40 then try." I said when it was clear he couldn't do it. Damon shook his head but Dominic pushed down making the barbell return to their slots.

"What was that for! I could have done it!" Exclaimed Damon.

"Yeah, and pigs can fly!" Jeremy said snapily. Laughing, I walked over and took twenty off one side of the barbell while Dominic unloaded the other side.

"Hey Lee. I totally forgot about you coming over to help fix my computer. I actually bought a new one this morning." Jeremy said while we were twisting the sleeves on the end of the weights.

"Its fine Jeremy."

"You sure? I mean you were coming over 'to help me but I wasn't there, you can hit me if you want."

"You're fine Jeremy! If you keep asking me if I am sure, I am going hit you."He nodded then came up and hugged me from behind, and burying hid face in the crook of my neck.

"Go ahead." Domininc said once his sleeve was on all of the way.Damon nodded, then got up and tried to lift the barbell, he was able to lift it straight up. Then he lowered it down, it was almost touching his chest. He tried to lift it up but he was obviously struggling. Sighing, I nudge Jeremy off me and went to help him up because Dominic was busy playing with sniper.

"I got it!" Damon breathed when I went to lift it up. Why do I even bother? He almost made it to the slots but he couldn't and it quickly came down again. I caught it right as it was about to hit his chest.

"I said I had it!" Damon yelled at me.

"You're an idiot! It almost crushed you. So clearly you didn't have it!" Jeremy yelled right back at Damon.

"Yeah, well let's see you do better!"

"He does 210 regularly and I don't recall you being able to even do 200, so I wouldn't go there," I countered.

"Whatever. I bet you can't bench that much either!" He spat back at me.

"What do you want to bet?" Jeremy asked.

"If she can't bench it, then that stupid must have to stay outside."

"And if I can bench it you have to break into the school and graffiti the lockers, saying Damon was here." I finished while smirking because I knew he would lose. I usually benched 140 lb multiple times so doing 160 one time shouldn't be too difficult.

"Bet." Damon said is he got up and motion for me to lay down. This should be fun. Saying I laid down and grabbed the barbell. It was very hard but I managed to get it straight up, then brought it down almost touching my chest.

"Told you she couldn't do it!" Damon's sneered, as he said that I let my barbell go down further than with all my strength I drove it forward. Once I did that I was an inch over the slot, then I moved it backwards and put it in.

"No way! Let me check the thingy. There is no way she could lift that when I couldn't!"

"She's just stronger than you." Jeremy shot back.

"Looks like Sniper stays and Damon gets to piss off my mother!" Dominic said as he went to the kitchen to get his set of keys to the school.

"Now this, this is going to be fun!" Jeremy said as we all nodded in agreement, well everyone except for Damon who was busy inspecting the barbell to see if I had somehow cheated.

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