A Second Chance

Going Home

That Friday, Sophia ate dinner with her little family and then showered and headed up to bed at 8:30 claiming she didn't feel too good and just wanted to sleep. JJ let her and right when Sophia got up to her room she changed and started to head out her window to catch the movie with her friends. She walked down the streets and called a cab to bring her to the movies where she met up with Danielle and some other girls from school.
"Why haven't you been at school?" Danielle asked.
"It's hard to explain. It has to do with my moms job and some potential threats to me," Sophia explained.
"Is everything okay?" Danielle wanted to know.
"Yeah. Everything is going to be just fine," Sophia said.

While they were in he theater, Sophia got a text from an unknown number that said Go home now!!!
She ignored the message and stayed for the rest of the movie. When the movie ended, the girls all went their separate ways. Sophia told them that JJ was picking her up and she was the last one left at the theater.
"Are you sure you don't need a ride?" Danielle's called from her moms car.
"I'm sure. Thank you though," Sophia said back.

After Danielle's mom pulled away, Sophia started walking to the bus station. She was almost there when a man walked out from behind a building. Sophia recognized him as someone from the sheet of bad guys Emily gave her. Instantly she went to call someone on her phone but she realized she had no signal.
"Sophia, we've been looking for you. It appears I was right. You were in DC this whole time," the man said.
"I think you have the wrong person. My name isn't Sophia," the girl said and kept walking past the man, but he grabbed her arm.
"You're coming with me," he growled and started to drag her to his car.
"Let go of me," Sophia cried.
He quickly put his hand over her mouth and kept walking her to his car in the back of an alley. She tried kicking and yelling and even tried to bite him, but the man was too big and he had power over her little body.
Sophia knew going out was risky. She should've stayed home with JJ.
Finally they reached the man's car.
"I believe the girl asked you to let her go, Lucas. You have five seconds to do so or I will put a bullet through your brain."
Standing next to the man's car was Chuck Murry or as Sophia learned, Ian Doyle. He had a gun pointed right at the man's face.
"Ian. I thought you were dead," Lucas said.
"And I thought you were loyal," Doyle said and put a bullet right between the guy's eyes.
He fell to the ground and Sophia just stood there shaking and not knowing what to do. Ian took a step towards Sophia and she took one back.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you," he said and put his gun away.
"You're not Chuck Murry," Sophia stuttered.
"You're Ian Doyle," she said.
"So you know I'd never hurt my own daughter," he pointed out.
Sophia just stood there and started to cry. Ian walked over to her and put his arms out for a hug. She instantly lunged into his arms and just cried.
"Shhhhh. It's okay. I'm here now. I'm not going to let anyone hurt you, I promise."
Sophia just kept crying and wrapped her arms around her father.
"Thank you," she said as she laid her head on his shoulder. He picked her up and carried her to his car.
"Where are you bringing me?" Sophia asked.
"Back to JJ's," he told her.
"Why?" she asked and sniffled.
After he got settled in he car, he said,
"You need to pack a bag. It's not safe for you to live with them anymore, and if you do, you put everyone in that house in danger because Lucas probably told Liam you were in DC," Doyle explained.
"I can't just leave everyone without an explanation. I can't just run away," she said back.
"It's the only way to keep everyone you care about safe until all Liam's men are caught," Doyle told her.
"Why can't I just tell them and they can hide me?" Sophia asked.
"Because everything they do has a trail. You need to come live with me and Declan off the grid. We can keep you safe. It's why Emily had to leave you at a park instead of just putting you up for adoption. There could be no paper trail," he stated.
"Plus you were safe the whole time. The man that found you was a friend of Emily's and he was with you the moment she left you. You were never alone," Doyle added.
"What about Emily now? What's going to happen to her when I go missing? She's out looking for Declan right now. This isn't right," Sophia pointed out.
"I know this doesn't make sense to you right now, but you need to trust that this is what's best for everyone, okay?"
He pulled up to JJ's house and turned his lights off.
"Sophia. I need you to promise me you won't tell anyone what happened. You need to pack and have everything you need all ready to go by tomorrow night."
"Okay, I promise."
"I love you," he told her as she got out of the car.
She just smiled and waved as she walked up to the tree near her window and started climbing.

The next day Sophia went about her normal routine. At around four o'clock there was a knock on the door. JJ answered it. It was Emily and Rossi and they brought dinner. In the next five minutes Reid, Garcia and Hotch showed up. It was a little family dinner and Sophia forgot all about it.
After dinner everyone headed home and that just left Sophia, JJ, Will, and the boys.

After putting the boys down, JJ went in to say goodnight to Sophia.
"Hey, you all good?" JJ asked.
"Yeah, why?" Sophia wanted to know.
"I don't know, you seemed off during dinner."
"I'm all good," the kid said with a smile.
"Well you should get to bed soon. It's late," JJ said and kissed the child's head.
"JJ," Sophia called out as the blonde was walking towards the door.
"I love you," the girl said and smiled.
"I love you too," JJ answered back.
Right as JJ shut the door, Sophia started packing. She shoved some clothes, shoes and books in her backpack and headed out her window.
She instantly spotted Doyle's car in the neighbors driveway and walked over to it.
"Hey," he said and opened the door for her.
"Hi," she said back and hopped in he car.
"Got everything?" He asked.
"Yup," she said.
"Good," he said and pulled away.
"Where exactly are we going?" she asked.
"We're going home," he told her.
"Where exactly is home?" she wanted to know.
"Why Ireland of course," he said with a smile.