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Jeza got up and made it correctly and nodding she finished hers quickly and moving over she picked up her bill of sale, and moving for the door she opened it and stepped out closing it for the night

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Toole opened his eyes as Jezabelle snuck in quietly with morning tea. She set it down in the normal place and left without saying a word closing the door quietly. He looked down to see Ailes laying close to him with an arm over his chest. He bent his other arm over and ran his hand through her hair. "You look so pretty while you sleep." Toole gently moved the arm that crossed his chest, and moving his legss of the side of the bed he stood up. He put some pressure on the leg and it felt fine, but to be ont he safe side he put all his weight on his good leg.

Hobbling over to the tea he poured two glasses and opened the curtains blocking the window. The sun was just starting to come over the hills, as he sat down on the bench.

Jezabelle turned around and left to go do as asked.

Lisa came in through the back and noticed Ive finishing up; "Whew at least someone was up early, I'm late, but then again I had to clear rubble away from my front door last night. Was praying that everyone was going to sleep in just so I could catch up."

Jezabelle woke Isabella first, and got her moving before waking Tolly. She Came into Toole's room and noting they were in the window simply left a note on the bed.

"Breakfast is ready."

She left without doing anything else and closed the door behind her.

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Toole eyes droppd and he looked out the window at the question. "I don't know what caused that episode, but after it happened i was fine. Now all i can remember of that is a child, men, and a dagger in my hand."

Toole put his arm around her; "I know, but it just scared me to the bone that i could have hurt you really bad, and then to wake up to a scene like that atop that nightmare would........lets not think of it. As to my leg, i'll be fine till after breakfast, i can put weight on it, but i'm waiting for doctors orders before going all out on it."

Toole looked at his tea cup; "Jezabelle seems a bit off, did something happen after I went to bed?"

"I already signed those papers..." Toole was confused, but setting the cup aside he stood up to make his way downstairs.

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Lisa was just inside the door Ailes would need to come through in order to enter the dinning room. Jezabelle had her oven mitts in place on her hands. Tolly was rather confused at the scene and Isabella still looked half asleep.

Lisa smiled; "Alright ready Jezabelle..."

Jezabelle seemed to brighten up.

Lisa counted the steps and stood up straight to look innocent as Ailes came through the door to be suddenly hugged by a pair of checkerd oven mits attached to a smiling Jezabelle.

Tolly finally understood, and Isabella was no change.

Toole came hobbling by them; "Well now that's a beautiful sight, and allot on the unexpected side." Toole slid out Ailes chair waiting for her to sit on it.

Jezabelle let go so she could go sit down, Her old chair from the table off to the side was pulled up to the main table considering it was modified specifically for her needs since it was a hard bottomed chair. However she returned from the ktichen with the document and set down in her chair.

Toole slid Ailes into place and sat down at his place. "Jezabelle, I already signed that once remember?" Jezabelle looked at Ailes for help as the others began dishing themselves.

Toole looked at the contract; "You really serious about this Jezabelle?" Jezabelle nodded and sat patiently waiting; Toole looked at everyone else who signed it; "So the rest of you have taken it upon yourselves by signing this document to ensure that no matter where you be if she falls victim to her old life you are going to help her back?" Tolly nodded, Isabella nodded, Lisa set her cup down; "Toole what are you getting at, just sign the thing and be done with it, and eat for crying out loud."

Toole looked at Jezabelle and tore the contract to pieces right before her very eyes. "By going this far you throwing away the shield of an old life. You've commited to being part of our family, and of that family you will recieve protection. You must also return that protection should any other in this household should fall victim to violence or persecution as well. Those contracts don't exists on paper, they are by word of mouth, and trust."

Jezabelle broke from her stunned stance and wrote furiously and held up the slanted words.

"What about the slavers, what about my mark, couldn't I be taken back without that paper?"

Toole shook his head; "Everyone in this town knows you, they know better, and if someone tried to take you back into slavery. I will convince them otherwise, or I will stomp them into the ground. I expect no less from the others who signed that paper."

Jezabelle lookd at the pieces of the paper still sitting in a pile beside Toole's plate. She wrote out on a new sheet.

"May i have those pieces?" Toole nodded; "After breakfast, i try not to mix business into meals unless unavoidable or required."

Toole reached for the smaller waffles, and set two on his plate. He set to eating as if the matter was done and over with. Isabella kept glancing at the pieces near Toole's plate.

Jezabelle sat quietly, she had lost all appetite, and Isabella turned to her. "Jezabelle I left my glasses in my room, can you be a dear and get them for me?" Jezabelle got up and disappered through the door heading for the steps. Tolly locked the door to the kitchen and Lisa got the other door barred.

Even with a sound dampening field you could hear shouting through the door. Jezabelle couldn't find Isabella's glasses, and when she heard the shouting she understood. There was one place in the house she could go that it would take people awhile to find her.

She turned the lights up in the room and it was orderly, but congested as things were set on chairs where there was no place left in the closets to put it. Jezabelle sat on the bed and looked at the hundreds of pictures, but that lasted only so long before the guilt set in. This was all her fault, she was trying to be something she wasn't because it would have made Ailes happy; and now because of it everyone was fighting.

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Toole spent an hour reconstructing and transcribing the document. It took allot of talking but he got all the signatures again, and the only way he got Isabella's was she owed him a favor. His father was angry, but he signed it anyways seeing the good faith in Toole's attempt. Lisa signed it, but punched Toole in the stomach.

Toole paused in his search for Ailes and sat down on a bench in what remained of the square. After the brief rest he resumed his search.