Tayleigh and our 3 problems

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"Kiddo do want to go grab an ice pack from the kitchen and CHeryl and I will search up more about bee stings," Toni says

Tayleigh walks away and nods.

"Well at-least we know the why now," Toni says
"I'll text Kev,"
"Good idea, and I'll text Dr. Pralice,"

Kevin speeds over here in his sherif cruiser, just as the boys are getting in the door.

"What's the problem?" Kev asks
"Tayleigh was bugged just like kait but hers is bigger, makes noises and she seems to think there is a camera."
"Oh shit," Hé says
"We dont know what to do," Toni admits
"Bring her to the hospital. Right now,"
"Ok, we will,"
"And only her, we dont know what this thing is I dont want any of your other kids around it,"
"Good plan," I say nodding
"TAYLEIGH WE'RE LEAVING," Toni yells upstairs
We all rush out of the door, and all three boys start going to the hospital.
"Babysitter." I say to Toni
"MADI ALEX WATCH KAIT AND USE YOUR BURNER IF SOMETHING HAPPENS," Toni yells up
"OK,"
"You didnt take away the burner?" I say shaking my head
"It came in handy Cheryl," Toni shrugs
"We seriously need to talk about this,"
"Later,"
We drive to the hospital and go right to Dr. Pralice.
"What seems to be the problem today Kait?" He asks
He doesnt know this is Tayleigh.
"This isn't Kait, its her twin sister Tayleigh, and she is-" Jughead starts before being cut off by Toni
"We think she might be allergic to bees, and she got stung ," Toni says glaring at Jug
"Right, thats what I was saying," He says a little confused
Toni lifts up Tay's shirt to expose the large red blinking
"Ya I definitely think the stinger is still in there, I'll take it out. But this is going to hurt a lot," Dr. Pralice says
"Its fine, It hurt a lot going in so it wont hurt any worse coming out," Tayleigh shrugs
"I dont want to put drugs in her system because of last time," Dr. Pralice whispers to me
"Perfect," I nod
He lies Tayleigh down on her stomach and Toni grabs her hand.
"Its going to hurt ok? But squeeze my hand as hard as you want Tay,"
"Ok,"
Dr. Pralice makes an incision into Tay's back. She doesnt even flinch. He scopes out the area once it bleeds less and lifts the bug out of her back. He puts it in a dish and covers it up fast. The bug starts squirting some sort of liquid- probably a similar one to the unknown one in KT's bug. Tayleigh shifts a little bit. Dr. Pralice stitches her up and then tells us to stay here while he gets the bug checked out.
"I'm sorry I didnt tell you sooner, I knew about it, I was really scared about Ms. Veronica," Tayleigh says playing with her hands
"It's ok Tay, but thats why you always left when we started talking about important stuff right?" Toni asks
She nods.
"Why did you avoid Toni more than me?"
"Ms. Veronica talked more about Toni than you. At first I was scared of Toni because Ms. Veronica told me she was violent and showed me pictures of Taylor and her wrists and back were all marked up. She said Toni abused Taylor and Cheryl knew but didnt know anything. I didn't really believe her because i didnt think Taylor would stay if she was getting abused but when you became the leader of a gang Ms. Veronica told a story about you threatening her. But once I lived with you for a while I saw nothing happening, you never even touch any of the girls so, I didn't want to give Ms. Veronica any ammunition to ruin your life more than she already has." Tayleigh explains starting to cry
"Kiddo, its ok. I understand. Veronica is very manipulative," Toni says hugging Tayleigh
"Ok, so this device is a lot different than the one we found in kait, for one it wasn't inserted in a needle it was surgically inserted, for two it actually tracked where she was we need to run more tests but it. Igbo have even been able to track what rooms she was in. thirdly, the drugs were not meant to just knock her out and give her amnesia like KT's was, it was a synthetic mix of pure cyanide and Penicillin that would have been fatal to her within minutes. Lastly, it had an xray vision camera, something we have never seen before so she might need to undergo treatment for radiation treatment," Dr. Pralice says walking back in
"Ah Lodge at it again," Toni says rolling her eyes
"I can assure you 100% this time that she cannot push back her court date, she will go to jail," Kevin assures us
"Thanks Kevin,"
"Can we go home now?" Tayleigh asks
"For sure kiddo," Toni says rustling her hair
We walk out and get into the car.
"Kiddo you didnt even flinch when her started taking out the machine," Toni says
"Didn't hurt any worse than everything before," She shrugs
The therapist had told us about the abuse she suffered with Veronica, but Tay doesnt talk about it with us.
We go the rest of the ride in silence before I turn into Thornhill. We get out and make it to the front door.
"Hey Tay, look at me," Toni says kneeling to Tayleigh's level. "You know you can talk to us right?"
"Ya I know, I'm just getting used to it, you know? I wasn't aloud to talk to Ms. Veronica,"
"I know, and I get it. Just wanted you to know that ok?"
"Thank you Toni," She says hugging her
"No problem kid, now go play with your sisters,"
Tayleigh runs up the stairs and we make our way to the living area and turn on the TV.
"I'll go get some chips," Toni says getting up from her chair
"Barbe que?" I ask
"Of course princess,"
She comes back a couple minutes later with a bag of chips and sodas.
"Now lemme guess Cherry Cola for Cheryl Bombshell," She says handing me the bottle
I laugh and open the bottle and put the bag of chips on the coffee table. Toni sits across from me and she's obviously cold because she balled herself up like a child and I had the only blanket.
"Babe come here," I say opening up my blanket
She walks over and cuddles up to me.
"Why are you freezing?" I laugh
"I'm just cold, not everyone is burning up all the time," She says defensively
"It's the blossom in me," I sigh
She laughs and puts her head right under my chin.
"Why do all of our kids think they need to protect us?" She says half laughing
"Because they grew up protecting the people they were closest to, and to be honest I dont know if any of them would survive another tragedy," I say playing with her hair
"All of them are too tough for their own good,"
"That's what I'm worried about, what if the become like pre Toni-Cheryl," I say
"Well I never met this pre Toni Cheryl, but from what I've heard, no one loved her or showed that they love her and thats why she was such a bitch, they have 3 siblings and 2 parents to fall back on. So I dont think we are raising a PTC,"
"I guess you're right,"
"Cher I'm always right,"
"Uh huh," I say rolling my eyes
We watch TV for a while until all the girls start running down the stairs- except Madi.
"MOMS SOMEONE JUST BROKE A WINDOW!" Alex yelled running into the room
"Which one of you?" Toni says getting up
"I meant with a brick, someone threw it,"
"Where is Mads?" I ask standing up
"In the shower I told her to stay there so she doesnt step on glass,"
"Ok good, Cher, girls stay here I'll go upstairs," Toni says kissing my forehead and grabbing her jacket off the chair and her blade from the table.
"Are any of you hurt?" I ask looking for any obvious wounds
"Alex got in the way of all the glass," Tay says
"I just got cut on my fore arm and the brick hit my hip," She says pointing to a small cut on her arm and then lifting her shirt to reveal a large bruise forming
"Are you ok?" I ask looking at the bruise
She nods.
"And neither of you got hit?"
"Nope, we're good,"
"People keep throwing bricks at me and they're not very good at it," Kait says
"There's been 2 bricks," I laugh
"3," she replies "One in Montreal when you were getting chemo,"
"WHy does Toni tell me absolutely nothing," I laugh
"Madi, lock the bathroom door and dont come out for a bit ok?" I hear Toni say before she practically jumps down the stairs
"It's fine there wasn't anyone there, probably just a sick joke some kids wanted to play," Toni says
I can tell she's lying I'm not dumb.
"Lex, you and Madi can sleep in a different room tonight and we will get the window replaced tomorrow. For now go play or watch TV in the other room I need to talk to Cher,"
"Ok!" They all say leaving the room
"Tones what was it actually?"
"A note strapped to the brick," She says unraveling a peice of paper from her pocket "Serpent queen actin' all high and mighty with her perfect ass family, to bad gang life ain't perfect. Why dont you come by yourself so your kids dont get hurt. PS if red shows up with her bow and arrow, we will snap her neck. 11:45, Down by the river 1 v 1- PP"
"So she hasn't gotten any smarter because that was probably the worst execution of a threat I've ever seen." I joke
"Its a real threat though Cheryl,"
"I know just a poor one,"
"What if Jughead and Fangs come with me but Sweetpea and FP stay here with you and the girls- just in case,"
"Ok I guess but I'd rather come with you,"
"Ya well personally I dont want Penny to slit your throat,"
"Fine,"
It was 11:15 now, so Toni called the boys and told them the plan.
"Be back soon babe," She says kissing my cheek
"Better be." I say wrapping my arms around her neck "Nothing like last time Tones, no more gun shot or stab wounds, ok?" 
"Agreed," She says putting her hands on my waist "But I really have to get going Cher,"
She kisses me and then walks away and hops on her bike.
"Helmet Topaz!" I yell
"Yes babe I know,"
And she meets the boys at the bottom of the driveway.
Oh what have we gotten ourselves into

A/N: SORRY ABOUT THE MAJOR TIME JUMP BUT NOTHING HAPPENED AND I DONT WANT TO END THE BOOK YET

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