It was Bruce who stopped Flood, "Do you ever think before you do something, Flood?" He said, "Stand down! For once don't be so crazy! You could hit Phoebe, or Pamela!" 

Pamela nodded, smiled, "That's right. We're your family. I'm your mother. Stop trying to hurt us. You don't hurt family" She said softly, reaching out to lay a hand on Nicholas's cheek. 

Phoebe stalked, with an almost swaying motion, to Crane. "You can't win. Because you can't understand Family"

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Connor looked over to Jack, hesitated himself, looked to Kijani then back to Estella. "Um. Well, Ben hasn't been seen in a while. Not since Luther was killed." How long ago had that been now? A wekk, two? Longer?