In the arms of family

[David Meeks]

David and Mia had returned to his room finished the movie with the others. Because Mia was there, nobody had stayed in the room except for David's guards. The other wolves had went to their own rooms to sleep and let David and Mia have the bed. Mia had fell asleep in his arms almost instantly. He'd fell a sleep about twenty minutes later. Around 3:45 am he awake to someone banging on the front door and his guards trying to quiet the person. He untangled from Mia and sat up.

[Josh Patton]

Josh banged for what seemed like five minutes but was only a minute. A guard told him to go sleep it off. They could smell the whiskey on him. He stopped banging for a second then started again.
"I know Mia's in there....I need to talk to her. I'm a fuckup and I need to apologize to her." He yelled throught the door as he waited for someone to open the door. He was leaning against the door frame, swaying slightly.

[Mia Andreson]

Mia woke up when David pulled away from her arms. "What the..." Her voice was thick from sleep. Then she felt Josh's presence. She bolted up straight in the bed and put a hand on Davids arm "David?..." She asked, her voice small and scared. She swung her legs over the side of his gigantic bed and hopped off. She tugged on one of his tshirts that was lying on the ground. "We can't just leave him outside...if he was any other member of the pack in this condition, what would you do?"

[David Meeks]

David nodded.
"I can't leave him out there." He said. He stood up, slid on a pair of sleep pants. He'd heard fear in her voice which he didn't think she was scare of Josh but that made him wonder.
"Don't be afraid of him...he won't hurt you, you know that." He said. They left the bedroom and went to the living room where the guards were trying to reason with Josh at the door. David could smell the whiskey and someone else was with Josh.
"He's been drinking and he's not alone." David said to Mia. He looked over at the guards. "Let him in...but I don't want him hurt."

[Jordana Dane]

Jordana just wanted to hand over his keys to one of the guards and leave. She understand that the Ulfric's safety had to be taken care of first before they let Josh in.

[Josh Patton]

When the guards let Josh in whatever he'd been plannning on doing he forgot once he saw Mia. The fact that she was wearing David's shirt and had most likely been in bed with David when he arrived didn't mean a whole lot to him. She looked so sweet and pretty standing there and he'd been a complete jerk to her. He went to her.
"I'm sorry...I know I've been an ass..." As soon as he touched her everyone else seemed to disappear.
"I love you....you know that right? I mean that's what this all really is....I love you....people keep hurting you but you act like you think I'm not bothered by it or I shouldn't be bothered by it....how could I not be." He put his arms around her.
"Is that why you come to David....he doesn't argue with you....and he's not screwed up like I am."

[Mia Andreson]

Mia pulled herself from his embrace but held on to his forarms still, mostly to keep him on his feet. Her voice was soft but still stern when she spoke to him. "Josh, it's three-thirty in the morning and you are drunk. It's not the time for this situation. What I need you to do is lay down and sleep it off. We can talk later, I promise, but what you are doing right now is not okay. But stay here tonight, you can sleep in my room, and we will talk in the morning."

She stepped away from Josh then and back next to David. The person in front of her, he was not the Josh she knew. She touched Davids hand, just to feel something familiar.

[Josh Patton]

Josh watched Mia go back to David and drunk or not he knew where this was going. He just stood there and stared at her for a minute.
"I would ask you to come in there with me...just till I fall asleep....but nevermind. Don't worry about it. I'll be out of here tomorrow." He started down the hall and turned back and looked at Mia and David.
"You two say you care...you love me....you'd never hurt me." He shook his head. "You two are just like Hayden and Dad were...you don't."
He let himself in Mia's room and locked the door.

[Mia Andreson]

Mia knew that he would not be saying those things if he were sober but it still broke her heart. "Josh..." But the door closed and locked behind him. Mia stepped aside from David and looked from him back to the locked door. What had she just done?

[David Meeks]

David heard the door when it clicked again. He unlocked it. He took a step toward Mia.
"Do what you need to help him....I'm gonna call Hayden. He probably knows something."
The guards had given David the keys and he put them in his pocket.

[Josh Patton]

Josh had stepped in the room and took his clothes off and looked in one of the dresser drawers and found some sleep pants. He'd sleep some then before everyone else woke up he'd leave. He'd go back home and he'd leave Mia, David and the whole Dallas Star Pack alone. They really were just like his father and Hayden. As long as he did exactly what they wanted and acted the way they wanted...everything was fine. He wasn't gonna live that way because when he left the following morning he was done.
Mia had picked David, he didn't understand why she'd told him she didn't...it was clear she had. Thinking about it made his chest hurt. He unlocked the door so they wouldn't be knocking on it later. He crawled in bed with his back to the door and the comfort pulled up over him. It wasn't cold but he felt better with it.

[Mia Andreson]

Mia nodded and stepped toward the door, pausing in front of it. She was torn but in the end decided to open the door and stepped inside, closing it softly behind her. "Josh..." She whispered. She saw his form lying on the bed under the blankets. She walked up over to him and sat down. "Josh...we are just worried about you. What you are doing isn't healthy; its dangerous. I am scared for you. I understand that what has happened to me has affected you, both loosing Lorelie and what happened with George but drinking doesn't make it better. It wont fix things on either end of our problems."

[Josh Patton]

Josh heard Mia when she opened the door. He started to just pretend he was asleep but he didn't figure she'd believe that. He listened to what she said about the drinking and about Lorelie and about George. He didn't say anything for a minute. She had said they'd talk about it in the morning and he'd just assume that be what she thought. Then he'd be gone and it won't matter.
"Are you really worried or you just want me to hang around until you and David figure out what to do about me?" He asked. His voice was slurred from the drinking and the lack of sleep.

[Mia Andreson]

"I am really worried. First thing you do when you wake up is drink and now the last thing you do is drink. I think you have a problem with drinking." She looked over at him.

[David Meeks]

David called Hayden at the police station and told him he wanted to talk to him. He didn't mention Josh or the drinking. Hayden agreed to be there by 6 am.