Mr. Ravenwood smiled a bit and patted Ariel's head and smiled. "Let's see frm what I remeber the few times she came to visit her mother was always in a designer dresses and expensive clothing but when you looked at Amy she was in old clothing that you can get at a thrift store or worst the trash can." He said with a sigh thinking back at the days he saw that. "She had no toys, books, or anything nice for the matter but when ever she visited me back then she would always run up to me smiling saying how happy she was to see me......even though she knew she was not getting nice things, seeing me at least made her the happiest child around." He said with a small laugh. "I have bought her nice stuff to have her live more comfotably but only to find out her mother takes that stuff and resells it to get more money that daughter of mine never cared about Amy...heck she would of had an abortion if I had not stopped it." Mr. Ravenwood explained and sighed. "So AMy stopped asking for stuff for she did not want to risk it being taken and sold for her mother and fathers gain, but I hope now she can live happier now that her parents will be in jail."

"I see. So Amy really has always had to struggle for her life. Her parents were...heh, I guess it makes my situation seem a bit better." Ariel glanced over at the door leading to the emergency room as more nurses walked inside to provide the care needed to revive Amy. "Mr. Ravenwood, why didn't you insist to help her? She may have not wanted it, but you could have tried...she doesn't deserve all this..."

"Yes I feel like a fool for not doing anyhting to stop it back then I actually tried to gain custody of Amy when she was little but then my daughter, her husband, and Amy vanished out of thin air they kept moving after her parents got wind that I wanted custody of Amy." Mr Ravenwood explained. "They were using Amy to get money for a few years then when she started working used her to get her money once again." He siad with a sigh and sat back thinking in deep thought before pulling out a pocket watch similar to the one Amy owns that she hide in her scrapbook. "So you see I had no clue where Amy was for a long time until finally I found her and tried to offer my hand in help but she siad she was fine, had a job and did not wanted to be a burden, I should have looked more into it." He siad sadly now regretting that he did not try to help his grandaughter when he suspected that something was not right.

"So this was your first time seeing her? After all of these years?" Ariel felt horrible now at what she had asked, putting her gaze down below in shame. "I'm sorry," she said quietly. "I should have known you'd try your best. Heh, maybe there are some good people in the world, huh? It's just...I'm not exactly used to having adults act so selfless around me. I-"

"Excuse me."

The voice came from a tall man in a white coat and plastic gloves covering his hands. "I'm one of the doctors of this hospital," he explained, looking at Amy's grandfather. "Are you Mr. Ravenwood? I'm afraid the patient is exuding critical behavior now. She'll all the same, but I recommend she not move at all from her bed space."

"It is quit alright but yes it is the first time in years since I have seen her and I do admit I wish I found her sooner." Mr. Ravenwood explained to Ariel and smiled at her before patting her head. "It's nothing to be sorry about but I am sorry that you had a bad past also no one should live a life of pain or suffering while growing up, they deserve to live a happy life where they smile everyday and enjoy life." Mr. Ravenwood said with a smile as he closed the pocket watch and place it back in his pocket before looking at the doctor and listened to him.

"Hmm that is alright from what I remember Amy does not move much when she is sick she just sleeps, like she did when she was little illnesses tend to make her body feel tired." Mr. Ravenwood explained. "Just do what you need to do to save my grandchild and do not worry about the money I have more then enough to pay for her stay at the hospital since I am sure she does not of medical insurance." He said to the doctor while Amy was in her bad sleeping again with the oxygen helping a bit with her breathing but it was not a lot of help.

The doctor only nodded in understanding as he shuffled off to perform more tests. In this small town, the hospital staff knew a fair majority of the people living resident in the neighborhood. As a technical foreigner now, Amy's illness was placed at top priority due to her lineage and the money being fed into her hospital bill. Ariel pondered all of those thoughts and sighed. "I guess everyone in the world wants money. Currency drives us, huh?"

Mr. Ravenwood nodded at what Ariel said. "yes unfortunatly that is what makes this world go round its all about money now....Just like how Philip's family lie." He sad to Ariel as he sighed a bit as he sat back down. "I hope Amy get's better soon i do not want to loose my grandchild, I have already spent so many years looking for her." He said with a big sigh and sat back in his chair.

Amy was in the hospital bed sleeping still as the doctors did their test. She could not feel the needles in her arms to give her ivs, draw blood an other stuff. But all she wanted was help and fr Philip to hold her hand.

"I'm sure she will Mr. Ravenwood," Ariel said in an attempted encouraging smile. As she said those very words, a dark presence filled their senses as Phillip had finally returned from his spot of brooding and wondering. He seemed much more stable now and less negative, though Ariel secretly feared he would show that ugly side of himself again if pushed to the edge once more. His father's side...

Mr. Ravenwood looked at Philip and stood up and walked up to the boy. "Such a shame a fine lad like you becoming like your aweful father there are times I wonder why we were friends." He said with a sigh. "It is getting late why don;t both of you come back to my place it is close by." Mr. ravenwood explained as he walked to Amy's room to see her one last time before he left. When he walked in and looked at her sleeping face it brought back some memories when her mothre an father brought her to visit.

Amy, whoe was 5 years old, had been playing in the yard trying to catch a butterfly while her mother was talking on her cellphone in a new extravagent dress while her daughter wore old looking t-shirt and overalls. Amy had tripped and fall on the ground and she skinned her arm. She got up crying and went to her mom calling her name out. "Mommy mommy I fell and hurt myself." She cried loudly and ran to her mom to hug her but her mother pushed her away. "Don't touch me with your dirty bloody body this dress cost thousands of dollars and I am not lettng you ruin it and suck it up its just a scratch, also I may have given birth to you does not mean I have to really care for you." Her mother said coldly and walked away going back to her converstatin while Amy sat on the grownd crying hard. The her grandfather comes up to her and picks her up. "Its ok Amy Grandfather will take care of you for grandfather loves you." He said and took her inside to treat her.

Mr. Ravenwood snapped out of his memory flash back and then patted Amy's head. "I am here for you now Amy like I was back then, grandfather will make it better I promise" He said to his sleeping gradchild and noticed some tears fall down her face as if she heard him.

Something...something Mr. Ravenwood had said...Phillip walked into Amy's room to see him looking after her. At this angle, just like this...she looked like a sleeping angel. Phillip watched over her as well in silence while Ariel watched them both from the cracks of the doorway.It was some minutes later before Phillip looked up at Mr. Ravenwood, unread emotion in his single eye.

"Did you know my father?"

Mr. ravenwood looked at Philip and nodded. "Yes I did when we were younger I was in college he was barely in middle school." He said as he pulled a picture of him and Philips father together in front of the middle school and his dad still look not so nice. "We were friends for a while for we both had the same beliefs back then but only difference is that your father was in an arrange marriage and I fought to end mine." Mr. Ravenwood siad to Philip and looked at Amy smiling a bit as she patted her head gentally. "Amy reminds me of my wife when she was this age and I was glad I broke off my engagement with that snob girl and married her to bad my children did not take after her but being with my wife I learned that the way I was taught and raise was not right I tried to explain it to your father only to find out that he go in an arrange engagment with the girl,that I broke it off with, was her younger sister and she brought out the worst in people all she cared about was money and power." Mr. Raenwood said to Philip and sighed. "Philip money and power can never buy you happiness it can bring joy but for a short time love and family makes that happiness and joy last forever."

Phillip remained silent for a while, trying to digest this newfound information given to him. So his father had known Mr. Ravenwood after all? He had never told him that his marriage with his mother had been forced or even predetermined. Just one more unspoken secret his family kept hidden buried. But wait...something didn't make sense.

The eye-patched boy gave Mr. Ravenwood a critical eye. "Wait...that's not right. You said you and my father shared the same beliefs? What beliefs were those exactly?"

Ariel watched the two talk in silence, wondering if they should move this to outside in the hallways. All this negative talk surely wasn't good for Amy's already delayed health.

"Back before I was married we held the same beliefs on how we should do things and run things like how he cut your eye out let me guess you asked to many questions and it got your father mad right." Mr. Ravenwood said to Philip. "If I had not married and had my daughter, before she became a spoil child, I would have done the same thing back then." He sad to Philip and patted his head. "ANd this is how you should have been treted back then not having your eye ripped out but then again your father grew up more strict then I did he could not get out of the marriage but I did and that helped change my life for the better for I meet the right girl that made me think differently." MR. Ravenwood said with a small sigh.

Soon a doctor walked in. "Forgive me but visiting hours are over and she does need a lot of rest for her to heal." The doctor siad and Mr. Ravenwood nodded. "Yes of course." She said to the doctor and had the two follow him. "Come you both can stay with me tonight my limo is out front sorry I am not allowed to drive anymore my eyesight has gotten bad over the years." He said with a smile and lead them to his limo where his driver was waiting and he let the get in frist and once in the driver took them to Mr. Ravenwoods home.

"Or maybe he didn't want to get out of the marriage," Phillip said darkly, not really feeling all too positive being around Mr. Ravenwood anymore. Hearing the doctor's orders to give Amy a little more rest, Phillip nodded and motioned for Ariel to follow both him and Mr. Ravenwood out of the hospital. The maid nodded, already forming a list of things to do once they reached Mr. Ravenwood's establishment. Even if the man offered, she would still have to provide for Phillip as his servant; he was her responsibility after all. "Lead the way then," Phillip told Mr. Ravenwood.

"Hmmm no he was not fond of your mother at all if I remember correctly your grandfather whipped your father when he would not obey." Mr. Ravenwood said as he lead the way inside and the place was light and filled with cheer and joy. But one area looked like it was never used anymore aong with a small shrine there with a picutre of a woman in there. "Let me show you were you two will be staying." He said as his servant. "Oh no you don't sir its time for your medicine and you need to take it let the other servants take them." She said and Charles shook his head. 'I will take it after I show them the rooms its good for my heart to walk around." He laughed and the servant sighed a bit. "Alright but come to the kitchen after for your medicine sir." She said and left and Charle laughed more. 'COme along you too." He said as He took Philip to a room that his son grew up in but was not only had a bed and some art work Amy did when she was little for CHarles hanged those anywhere. "You can stay in here pilip and Ariel your room is right next to his which is also next to mine." He said as he opened the door which used to be his daughters room. THe room acrossed them was the room he had designed for Amy. "Dinner will be soon." He siad with a smile and left to the kitchen.

Phillip only nodded to his words while Ariel took the motion of actually bowing. Minutes later, and they had already adjusted to life inside the Ravenwood Manor. Of course, Ariel took the liberty of adjusting herself within the other servants rather quickly. In fact, one could say that she even became their leader in a sense, keeping them on track and getting the rest of the dinner preparations done in no time. Phillip entered into the massive dining room hall and took a seat at a long, mahogany table.

Charles was impressed with Ariel's abilities to take leadership it was very impressive indeed. In the dinning room there were many pictures on the wall and one of them was of Charles and Philips father and another was of Charles Hold Amy when she was five showing off she lost her two front teeth, in fact there were multiple pictures of Amy in his home from when she was young and all in old donation clothes. Soon Mr. Ravenwood walked in the room and smiled at Philip. "Well hope you brought your appetite Philip." He said with a smile as he sat down and asked him to set next to him. The servants came out and served the food and Charles looked at Ariel. "Ariel please sit and eat with us you are my guest not a servant here." He said with a smile.

"Only after I've helped prepare desert," Ariel huffed in response to Mr. Ravenwood's words. With a bow and a smile, she gave her best regards to Phillip before going off her way. Seeing her happy again in her element...Phillip couldn't help but give off a small smile himself. Something about the way she did things with a staff she barely knew...it almost made him laugh. Almost. A smile would have to suffice for now.

"Apologies for her rudeness," he said to Mr. Ravenwood, losing some of the dark edge to his voice. "She loves her job almost as much as she love my family. Sometimes I think she even worships us, but who can say?"

Mr. Ravenwood laughed at Ariel a bit for her great sense of duty. "My such a hard worker must spend all her time engross in her work over anything else." He said with a smile and looked at Philip with a smile. "Do not worry about her I just wish she lighten up a little I may have strict rules but I like my staff to feel like family." He sad to him as the staff came and served dinner. "Go ahead and enjoy it." He said as his servant came with the phone. "Sorry sir its the hospital." She said and Ravenwood answered. "Yes.....no sh can't have that she is allergic to that....yes that is right.....no its normal for her to sleep long peirods when she is hit with a virus or any kind of illness." He said on the phone and said to tae car of Amy and hung up. "Sorry hospital wanted to know if Amy was allergic to anythign and was worried at howong she was sleeping."

"She's awake then?" Phillip leaned forward as he heard those words. With Amy slowly recovering, he honestly didn't know what was to happen next after she'd be discharged from the hospital. Probably nothing good, though that was just the pessimist within him feeding him those words. Something good had to come out of all this, right? "What's the news on Amy's parents? Your son?" he asked cooly, turning his one-eyed gaze onto Mr. Ravenwood. Some of the servants had whispered behind his back about his eye-patch, though Phillip simply ignored them.