Disclaimer- I dont own DOA, just the fic, but even some of the dialogs belongs to my remarkable beta reader.

Kurai Yume's note- Konnichi'wa! Sorry that i lied about how i was going to updated in a week or so. It was truly my own fault, I had it half way done and then i wanted to add more, but i couldn't figure where to go with it until now...

~*~Do I know you?~*~

Fay hopped out of the bus as her friend, Melin waited for her on the sidewalk. The two girls remain patiently on the corner waiting for the bus driver to pull out the big red stop sign and signaled them to cross. Holding each others hand they glanced both way before crossing, just to be sure. When they reached safely to the other side of the road they let go of their hands and started home.

"Why were your eyes all red this morning?" Melin asked as she balanced walking on the curve with her arms out. Fay looked down as she remembered the gloomy morning.

"I was just upset," Fay replied.

"Oh," Melin added not really paying attention to what Fay said even though she asked why. Fay let out a sigh. "Hey, what was that thing Ms. Kryu gave you?" Melin questioned.

"It's a letter for my mommy," Fay replied as she pulled out the envelope from her school uniform jacket.

"Ooo, lets open it!" Melin urged.

"No, I don't want to get in trouble," Fay protested. Melin grabbed the envelope from Fay's hand and looked at it.

"Yeah, we shouldn't open it. It says right here," Melin pointed, "To the pa pa-parents," Melin sounded out as her eyes widen with pride. "It says: To the parents of Fay Fang" Melin repeated as she handed it back to Fay.

"Yeah, to my parents," Fay repeated quietly to herself. Melin jumped off the curb.

"Well, I guess I'll see you later," Melin said as she started to her house.

"Oh yeah, I forgot! My party! Bye Melin!" Fay said full of excitement.

Fay dashed down the side walk as fastest as she could. The wind blew briskly across her face moving her pigtails. Finally she stopped in front of her house as she breathed in heavily to catch her breath. Tiredly, she dragged her backpack up the steps behind her. She looked up and there was a man facing the door. She glanced at her mother's car on the driveway and back at man's back with a puzzled face.

"Um, hi sir," Fay greeted moving her chestnut hair to the side, out of her face. The stranger turned around a little startled. He looked at her with astonishment and didn't replied. "Why are you standing out here? Is there no one answering the door?" she questioned in a gentle tone.

"Uh, no," he finally replied as he squat down to her height.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't suppose to talk with you. I'm not allowed to talk to strangers," Fay replied as she glanced away towards the ground. The man ignored her remark.

"Is your name by any chance Fay?" the stranger asked as he lifted her chin up with his index finger. Fay stood still as she starred into the man's eyes. She tilted her head to the side with a suspicious look.

"Do I know you?" she asked politely as she studied his face.

"Yeah, I'm your-"

"Uncle," a sharp voice interrupted. Fay and the stranger's eyes both met Lei Fang's. She stood in the now opened door with her arms crossed, as a small frown upon her lips.

"Wow, an uncle?" Fay's face lit up with joy.

"Fay, please get inside and put away your things," Lei Fang ordered. Fay picked up her backpack and went inside the house and to her room. Lei Fang stepped out side closing the door half way.

"Lei Fang, long time no see-"

"What are you doing here?" Lei Fang cut him off again in a whispered but in a fierce tone as her eyes were pierced on his.

"Is it a crime that I want to see my daughter?" Jann Lee replied as he broke her stare.

"DON'T….even call her your daughter. You don't deserved to call her that," Lei Fang's brown eyes burned with anger.

"She is my daughter. Either way, you like it or not," Jann Lee disputed back in a deep whisper. Not wanting to start an argument as well as trying to be quiet, that way Fay wouldn't hear.

"Fay is not -"

"I'm not what mommy?" Fay peer over the door.

"Umm.…your not going to be happy if your uncle, Leedon't stay for your birthday party," Lei Fang blurted out and after a second of thought she wanted to kick herself for inviting Jann Lee to stay.

"Please stay uncle, Lee," Fay pleaded. "And after the party you should stay here until you have to go home," Fay's face was filled with enjoyment.

"If you insist," Jann Lee agreed as he ran his finger messily through Fay's hair and gave Lei Fang a cheesy smirk. Lei Fang scowled at the site. Fay held onto Jann Lee's wrist with her petite hand leading him into the living room as Lei Fang closed the door behind her.

~A couple of hours after the party~

Lei Fang neatly stacked all of Fay's gift in the corner of the living room. The party went perfect, except for the intruding guess. She vacuumed up the different colored shape confetti off of the floor. Lei Fang walked to the closet pulling out an extra blanket and pillow for Jann Lee. She laid it on the couch, despising that he's walked back into her life. Lei Fang always loved him, but now it was only buried deep down in her heart. She sadly grew hatred for him overcoming her old feelings that she had for him.

Lei Fang walked to her daughter's room. The door was opened. She stopped as she heard laughter coming from it. She glanced in and saw Fay giggling as Jann Lee read her a story. Fay sat up on her bed all ears in her little lavender silk Chinese pajamas. Lei Fang watched on at the scene. 'This is how it was suppose to be,' she thought to herself, forgetting about her anger.

"...And they lived happily ever after," Jann Lee finished as he closed the book. Fay clapped happily. She stood up on her knees and walked over to Jann Lee on the edge of her bed.

"Thank you uncle for the story," Fay gave him a hug. Jann Lee return the small embrace. He felt a warm emotion that he'd never felt before. The love between a father and daughter.

"Anytime," Jann Lee added as they broke away from the hug. Lei Fang knocked gently on the door. Fay and Jann Lee looked at her.

"I set out blankets and pillow for you," she looked at Jann Lee emotionless.

"Thank you," Jann Lee replied politely and he walked out. 'Is this some kind of act he's trying to pull on me?' she though negatively, as she watched his retreating back only for a second, then continued to Fay's room.

"Hey sweetie, ready to be tuck in? " Lei Fang walked and sat at her daughter's side.

"Yes, mommy, I brushed my teeth and Uncle Lee read me a bed time story already," she nodded.

"Oh, okay then," She leaned over and gave her a hug and a kiss on her brow. Fay gave back a kiss on her mother's cheek before laying down on her bed waiting to be tuck in when something on Fay caught Lei Fang's eyes. "What's this?" she pulled the small gold necklace with a heart hang on it onto her hand. Lei Fang flip the heart around and read the small scripture to herself. 'To my special little girl, I'll always be there for you,'

"Uncle Lee gave me that for my birthday. Isn't it beautiful?"

"Yeah, it is," Lei Fang replied as the description echo loudly over and over in her ears. "Sweet dreams, Mommy loves you," Lei Fang pulled the cover over her little girl and placed it in nicely. She turned down the little crane lamp into a dim light.

"Love you too," Fay yawned and slowly her eye lids grew heavy. Lei Fang quietly closed the door.

Lei Fang paced down into the living room full throttle ready to strike Jann Lee, for the lie he engraved into that necklace. She stopped at the site of Jann's shirtless body. All of a sudden her anger was washed away. She stared with vague eyes, and memories of when she first met him flashed through her mind. Jann Lee turned around and saw Lei Fang. He simply gave her a boyish wink she felt her face flush. Lei Fang quickly snapped out of Memory Lane and the anger returned.

"I saw the your gift for Fay," Lei Fang started.

"What do you think about it?" Jann Lee replied as he pulled a wife beater over him, his muscular arms still remained uncovered.

"It's a nice gift and all, but why did you had to write that lie on it?"

"It's not a lie," Jann Lee's voice stiffen as he unfolded the blanket.

"You were never there for her...you abandoned us," Lei fang jabbed her finger on his chest as her eyes were glazed with tears.

"I know I did. My ego got the best of me…I'm sorry-,"

"Sorry my ass!" Lei Fang informed spitefully as she blinked away the tears completely. "For the past five years you never bothered to call or visit her…not even when I was in the hospital, giving birth, and you have the nerve to suddenly walk back into my life and first time into hers, to claim that you are her father? Like you raised her? Like everything was just fine and dandy? This is not a game Jann Lee. You can't just barge in here and tell her 'Oh, Fay I'm your father.' This is bullshit." Lei Fang shook her head in frustration.

" I was arrogant and scared at the time. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to take care of a child, I didn't even know how to hold her...worst of all I don't how to be a good father," Jann Lee's words came untangled smoothly as if he had kept it in a bundle inside too long.

"And what makes you think you can be a good father now? That was no excuse, for you to just leave, just like that," Lei Fang's eyes filled with emotion. "You don't know how hard it was for me…I had to drop out of school, to support her on my own. You don't know how much it hurts when she ask me for the first time, 'Why do other kids have mom and dad, where's mine?' I was speechless when I heard those words…I didn't know what to tell her…I couldn't break her heart that her father doesn't want her, I had to lie that he died," distress was written all over Lei Fang's face. Jann Lee felt a small rage through him. He pinned Lei Fang to the wall with his arm on both side of her head. She flinched at the sudden move.

"Why did you tell her that...that I was dead?" anger busted out of his mouth.

"Jann Lee don't play stupid with me. You know why…You know damn why, I told her that," Lei Fang cocked her head to the side. The truth hit roughly in Jann Lee's heart as the superior dragon spirit inside slowly disappeared.

"For one of the most excellent fighters I know, you're the most cowardly one yet," Lei Fang looked on angrily as the words past through her teeth.

"Why can't you see that I'm trying to make up all the time I've lost. I understand that it was wrong for me to leave. You don't know how scared I was to show up here. I stood out side of your door step forever, not knowing to do next. I turned around to leave again, but then I met up with the most precious face…at that moment I knew why'd I came back and what I had to do. Why can't you understand that? " he repeated trying to see eye to eye.

"You lost your only chance and my respect," were the only words she had left to say.

"Give me one more chance…please," Jann Lee's eyes surrounding with regrets. Lei Fang's eyes looked intently, lost in an enchanting spell of his dark brown eyes. She slowly opened her mouth to speak, but instead her lips were met by another pair, her heart skipped a beat. Her chestnut eyes broaden, in shock, but she slowly closed them…enjoying the moment. Jann Lee brushed his lips against hers softly. After a few moment he pulled away and looked deeply into her heart through her eyes. He could feel that part of her wanted to forgive him, but there were more of her wanting him to just leave…like he did before. Lei Fang breathed uneasily and her eyes shifted from side to side trying to dodge Jann Lee's.

"There's nothing you can do, to make everything right again…not a damn thing," Lei Fang's eyes look down in disappointment as she gently pushed Jann Lee's arm down from the wall. "We made it this far without you…we didn't need you then...not now…and probably not ever Jann Lee…" Lei Fang glanced at the corner of her eyes.

She slowly took off away from him, trying not to seem too obvious of what she was feeling. Denial, deceit, a liar, she hated this. She hated this feeling that only he gave her, but she wouldn't sink down. She would stand her ground no matter what. It was best for her, it was best for Fay and it was best for him. She couldn't just wouldn't believe him, not after what had happened between them. Before anything else could be said between them, Lei Fang turned around, out of the living room. Leaving Jann Lee, standing there speechless as she faded away into the dark hallway.

Kurai Yume's note- Hope that made up for the delay. I dont have much to say but review, review, review!

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