Miranda could do nothing but cry while Brettly laid into her.  This was the Brettly that she knew all too well.  The one who never had patience for her.  He wanted everything to go perfectly in a straight line without any speed bumps.  He would always go out of his way to avoid them.<br/><br/>If Miranda would have been thinking she would have known better and she hated it when she got like this and she really would not blame Brettly if he would just leave her.  Granted she put up with things like this from him all the time. It may not have looked like she was listening to him because she refused to look at him but he was right.  The fiery woman that once was, was long gone now and Miranda was afraid she was never going to come back.<br/><br/>Miranda would never be glad for the phone ringing than she was at that moment because Bre finally quit yelling at her.  She heard him slip out of the door and all she wanted to do was get in her chair and move on out of the room and get as far away from him as possible.  But she knew that would just make him madder.  She knew whom was on the phone and sometimes she thought that Thomas had their house bugged for their own protection.  Every time their arguments started to escalate Thomas always seemed to call and diffuse the situation.<br/><br/>When Brettly finally came back into the room she just laid there and watched him go into the bathroom and sighed because she knew what he was going to get.  Those damn pills that made her tired and sometimes she woke up and didn't remember anything until she read her book which was right next to her.  She went ahead and sat up in the bed and waited for him to come back and she placed her hand out waiting for him to place the pills in it.  She took the pills with no fuss, even though she was tempted not to swallow them and throw them away when he left.<br/><br/>When he told her what to do she just looked at him and saluted him, "Yes SIR!" she said then laid back down, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."  Miranda shout as she heard him leaving.  Something that she would always say to him when he walked away from a argument.  She just started crying all over again as she grabbed the package and opened it only to find the movies she had wanted and couldn't wait to have.<br/><br/>Alfred had been quietly waiting in the adjacent room to come in and clean up the breakfst mess.  It had been a little while since he had heard a fight of this magitude from the two of them.  Master Bre had been doing so well at being patient with his wife and Alfred knew it was so hard for Master.  Not that he would ever tell a sole but there had been many times he had heard Master Bre crying about his wife wishing he could make her better.  He had been spending a lot of time comforting Master as of late and now it was his turn to comfort the Mistress.<br/><br/>Alfred had watched Mistress grow up like he had the Master and had disagreed when their parents choose to make them marry, but after a while it did end up being the best thing for the best of them.  The major downfall for them was they were both too stubborn to listen to each other.  He placed the tray he was carrying down on the dresser and walked over and sat on the bed next to the Mistress.  Alfred smiled down at her and pushed some hair out of her face, "Oh Mistress, it will be ok.  He really does love you."<br/><br/>Miranda had heard what Alfred was saying to her and sighed a little, "What if that fiery girl he loves so much is gone?"  Miranda asked quietly thru her sobs.  "Will he still want me."<br/><br/>It broke his heart to hear her say those things about herself he could not help but lean down and kiss her forehead, "Oh Miranda, you are is world.  It is just so hard on him because he can't fix you simple and fast like he fixes all those companies."<br/><br/>Miranda knew he was right and  went to say something only to discover he mouth didn't want to work because the pills had kicked in and she had fallen asleep.  They worked really fast with her and sometimes that was something she was glad of.  Alfred smiled a little when he realized she had fallen asleep on him so he quickly.  He leaned down and kissed her forehead once more and cleaned up their mess.<br/><br/>It had been a  few hours since she had fallen asleep and she had the sudden urge to pee.  She stretched a little then went to sit up and call for Alfred because she didn't want anything to do with Brettly at the moment.  She was just glad she remembered what had happened.  When she sat up she had expected it to be Brettly sitting on her bed, only to find Thomas sitting on the bed.  She sighed, laid back down and pulled the blanket over her head.  "Go away, I don't want a lecture from you too."