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Tatum had only been in her first year of university for a little over a month, but she had already taken a good portion of that month off already. Early October was chilly, and she still found it hard to believe that it was even October already, that she had actually had her baby at the beginning of the month. It was still a shock to her that she had survived, just the contractions alone had been enough to make her want to give up. But somehow she had made it through, and now the tiniest baby girl she had ever seen lived with them, she was really here. Their little princesa Kia. It was definitely throwing her for a trip, it was all really happening. She had even taken to motherhood loads better than she had expected to do. Breastfeeding was intimidating and out of the question, so was so ready to have her body back and nothing in her body was good for nutrients, but she would have done anything else for her daughter, right from the beginning.

Just the fact that Tatum was up at nearly two in the morning with her, despite having class the next day, spoke volumes. They had only been home a couple of days and she would have loved nothing more than to smoke a joint and just go to sleep until school in the morning, but having a week old baby to take care of had burst that bubble. Sam and Michi had been helping her more than enough, she wasn't sure it would have even been possible without them, but she decided to let them sleep for a little while as she heard Kia beginning to fuss around midnight.

She had wandered out into the living room with her little girl, laying on the couch and laying Kia on her chest with a hand on her back to steady her. Tatum began absently flicking through the channels on tv in the otherwise dark room, and she didn't even realize how long she had been laying there watching nothing until she heard the knock on the door. She resisted the urge to sit bolt upright, checking the time and furrowing her eyebrows as she sat up carefully instead, shifting Kia into the crook of her arm and hoping not to disturb her. She was calm as could be now, which meant they could probably go back to bed. After they dealt with whatever this mess would be. Her initial gut reaction told her to go and get Sam, or Michi, but she resisted. She was a wolf herself, meant to be tough and rough, and she could handle it herself. She had to grow a more solid backbone sometime anyway.

Her assumption was that, at this hour of the night, it had to be one of Michi's friends. Probably Hunter and Charlie trying to convince her to come out with them for a couple of hours or something. Those two bitches could party all night, if anyone could. But when she stood on her tip-toes a bit to look through the peep hole on her side of the door, Tatum was genuinely surprised to see Rath standing there. She did a double-take, just to make sure she wasn't mistaken, before she shifted Kia around so that she was cradling her against her shoulder before she opened the front door slowly with her free hand. "You must be lost, do you realize what time it is?" she half-joked. He had never really visited their place, officially speaking, and now wasn't really the time. But he really did look a wreck, and he was her little brother, she couldn't just turn him away. "Come on then," she eventually sighed, stepping out of the way so that he could follow her in. She was resisting the urge to put down the baby and go get a warm cloth to wash the blood off him with.

"Shut the door, you're gonna freeze us out," she warned, already sitting back on the couch and making busy work of checking on the sleeping Kia in her arms.