Lucky landed in Detroit and immediately had his men tracking down who Agent Gerard is. He wanted to know everything family, friends, what he did for fun, what he ate for dinner. He hoped in a car and headed to the private spot he used for these types of meetings. He had already sent a few guys, fellow FBN Agents he had on the payroll, to pick up Agent Gerard and arrange the meeting.

When he arrived he saw Tiny there arranging things for Lucky. Lucky pulled the man aside to get what happened from him directly. 

"So Tiny what the fuck happened? Who was this friend she was with and what was the problem that caused them to Pull over?" he asked the man frankly. 

"It was Elias boss. He was drunk and Isabella went to pick him up to give him a ride home," he said hoping that would be enough. 

"And why did they have to stop?" Lucky asked pointedly. 

"Well, when we got to the car we saw them kissing boss. But Isabella pushed him away and yelled at him for it." 

"Really well we will have to have a chat with him as well. Get him and bring him here after we handle this fucking FBN. And bring Isabella here as well." he ordered to the man. 

Lucky didn't know what EXACTLY he was going to do to Elias but he was going to make his point. Lucky sat back and lit a cigarette as he waited for his guests to arrive... 

An hour later one of Lucky's men arrived with the information on the FBN agents family. The man had a wife and couple of kids... 

"Good... Good.. this will do nicely. Now go make sure everything is ready for our guest when he arrives." he tells the man. 

Lucky really wanted to just kill the man but he knew that would just attract more heat and he didn't want that. But now he had leverage and that he could use. 

Lucky walked into the room and saw Agent Gerard tied to a chair. He smiled at that he liked making his guests feel so welcomed. 

"I heard you wanted information on me Agent Gerard?" Lucky says walking into the man's view. 

Lucky watched as the man's eyes opened as wide as saucers when he recognized who was standing in front of him.

"From your expression, I can tell you are wondering if you are going to ever see your wife Lisa, Little Timmy or Tina again," he said with a smirk. 

"Well, that really depends on you Agent Gerard. You see you picked up MY daughter and held her. No charges and it took you 8 hours to let her make a phone call. Now that is just not right and I don't think you would like me to pick up your family and do that to them would you?" Lucky said to him 

Lucky punched the man in the jaw feeling it crack when he tried to speak. 

"You will have a chance to speak later. Right now I want you to pay attention to what I am going to tell you," he said grabbing the man by the hair and forcing him to look him in the eyes. 

"Detroit is MY city now. If you ever come after me or my family again I will have you picked up along with your family and you will watch as my men kill everyone one of them. You will hear their screams and hear them beg for their lives and the whole time you will know it is all your fault." He paused for a moment to let that sink in. 

"Now I am told you are in charge of the FBN here in Detroit. You keep them out of my business and you and your family will be just fine. Hell, I can even throw you some cash to help your pitiful financial situation out." He said looking at some paperwork in front of him. 

"I do not want to hurt your family. I find that kind of thing distasteful but DO NOT underestimate what I will do to protect what is mine. So do we have an understanding?" he asked the man. 

"Yes." Agent Gerard said after a pause. 

"Yes WHAT?" Lucky said angrily. 

"Yes Don Luciano we have an understanding" 

"Good. Now boys get him out of here our other guests will be arriving soon." Lucky said before walking off and waiting for Isabella and Elias to get there. 

Isabella had been allowed to go home and sleep, which was good, but honestly she kept having nightmares about being hung or given a lethal dose of poison from which she'd never recover.  That asshole had got inside her head, but she wouldn't let him win.  She was going to wash her face and pull herself together.  She was a Luciano and by now her father had probably already sorted most of this shit out... she hoped.

And that was when Tiny came in and told her that the Don wanted to see her.  Dressing in a nice, but modest, black dress and a small but expensive diamond necklace, she prepared herself for her second interrogation in less than twenty-four hours; this one was going to be far worse than the first though.  This one was being done by a man who she only wanted to please - who lived to serve and serve well; and right now she felt like she'd failed him though she could not rightly say what she might have done differently.

Hands clasped in front of her she followed Tiny to Don Luciano and stood silent waiting for him to speak.  She knew better than to talk too much... especially here and now.

Lucky watched as his daughter came in. When she came in and didn't say anything it made him proud to know what the situation called for. He turned to her 

"I have dealt with that FBN fuck he won't be bothering you anymore." He tells his daughter. 

"But now we have another issue to deal with. To do that you need to take a seat and wait for our other Guest to arrive," he says to her pointing to a chair. 

Isabella nodded as her father said that the FBN would not be coming after her anymore.  She was grateful and wanted to thank him, but it was clear by his tone he wasn't interested in hearing her gratitude.  He was clearly in the mode to do business... but what in the hell was left to handle?

She let her eyes, but not her head, turn towards Tiny who stood emotionless a short distance away.  Her heart began pounding faster in her chest as she walked over to the chair which was indicated for her to sit in.  Smoothing out her skirt she sat down and began racking her brain about what he might be angry with.  Where had she failed?  And what was this nonsense about a guest?  If it wasn't the FBN agent being brought in to apologize to her and beg her forgiveness ... what the hell was left to do.

Absently she played with the new diamond pendant around her neck that Hank_Moody had given to her as a gift.  It was then, as she toyed with a trinket which one of her many suitors had sent to her, that she realized who the hell the guest in question might be - Elias!  Her mind raced.  Elias couldn't possibly be to blame for this... she had to make him see that!  The memory of all those photos laid out before her, her father's handy work, flashed through her mind.

"I accept full responsibility for the events of last night."  She said flatly, not making excuses, but accepting the burden of responsibility.  It was, or so she thought, the right thing to do as a leader of the family.  "Had I not stopped the car on the highway there is a very good chance that the Agent wouldn't have cornered me as they did.  I behaved... inexcusably foolish.  I put myself and members of the family at risk and I was damn lucky that it was an agent and not a rival family who found us there.  It will, of course, never happen again."

Lucky listened as his daughter started trying to accept responsibility for the night's events. He wasn't having any of it. 

"SILENCE. I said we will deal with it when our other guest arrives." He said to her. 

He watched as she went to protest again he raised his hand to silence her

"ENOUGH!!"

Isabella clenched her teeth so hard she feared they might crack.  She'd never wanted so badly to scream at someone in her life... but asking him 'where the hell he got off talking to her that way' was not only a question to which she had the answer, but it was also (most importantly) potentially fatal.

Instead, she let her body language communicate her disappointment at being silenced like a small child rather than spoken to as an adult and trusted member of his family - a leader.  Her anger quickly morphed into sadness; that he would rather make a spectacle rather than simply work with her, felt like a statement of how much ground she'd lost in his eyes. 

After about an hour goes by Lucky's temper was boiling over. Where the fuck was this guy? Did he go into hiding? 

Lucky stands up and grabs his metal chair flinging it across the room. The loud crash of metal on concrete fills the room. 

"WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS GUY?" he screams over the crashing chair 

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE PROMISED ME AND HOW HE FUCKING BETRAYED ME?" He yells at his daughter. 

Isabella lets her eyes close, exhales and draws breath ever so slowly to keep as calm as possible.  "No,"  She says simply, knowing her father full well WANTS to tell her and won't need much invitation to do so.  "I'm afraid I don't."

"He came to me and asked me for my permission to date you. I said NO and gave him a job to do. HE FUCKING PROMISED ME THAT HE WOULDNT AND THAT HE WOULD KEEP YOU OUT OF FUCKING TROUBLE." He says getting more pissed. 

"AND THE NEXT FUCKING DAY YOU'RE LOCKED UP AND HE IS KNOW WHERE TO BE FOUND. ON TOP OF THAT HE KISSED YOU AFTER HE TOLD ME HE WOULDNT." he screams pulling his gun and shooting holes into the chair meant for Elias. 

"He came to me and asked me for my permission to date you."

Isabella's eyes go as wide as they've ever gone - the mere THOUGHT that Elias felt the need to ask her father to see her... when they barely knew each other at all... how serious was he?  It wasn't like she wanted to marry the guy, maybe sleep with him cause he was undeniably sexy, but not marry him!  Not yet!
 

I said NO

"You..."  She choked back her reaction, literally.  WHO THE FUCK DID HE THINK HE WAS?!?  Again she had the answer to this question, hence why she choked back her outrage.  
 

and gave him a job to do.

She closed her mouth.  THIS, she had to hear.  WHAT manner of job could he have POSSIBLY thought to give him after he'd asked for such a thing?  
 

HE FUCKING PROMISED ME THAT HE WOULDNT AND THAT HE WOULD KEEP YOU OUT OF FUCKING TROUBLE." 

Her face softened.  Her father might have been a backwards thinking, over-protective, sexist asshole... but clearly he really cared.
 

"AND THE NEXT FUCKING DAY YOU'RE LOCKED UP AND HE IS KNOW WHERE TO BE FOUND.

"Now wait, to be absolutely fair..."  She tried to interject but her father continued.
 

ON TOP OF THAT HE KISSED YOU AFTER HE TOLD ME HE WOULDNT." he screams pulling his gun and shooting holes into the chair meant for Elias. 

She snapped her mouth shut as the insides of the chair flew all about the room.  She grabbed the arms of her own chair white knuckle tight and winced until his clip was empty, fearful he might accidentally shoot her.  Finally, convinced he had no more bullets without the benefit of reloading she stood up in an effort to make him come back to the land of reason and good sense.

"Elias shouldn't have kissed me."  She said, in total agreement with her father, in as calm a voice as she could bring herself to have.  "Especially because he told you he wouldn't... but mostly because I wasn't ready for it, I didn't offer myself to him, and he had no right to put his hands or body on me in that way.  As my father, you have every to be upset about that."

She was happy he wasn't silencing her again or putting her in a corner like a child in trouble.  She walked over to him as he searched for another clip and put her hand on his arm.  "But Elias didn't abandon me with the FBN.  In fact, he told me what to do so I didn't make a mistake, he kept me calm and though it pains me to admit this to my Don -- he comforted me because I was desperately afraid after what that fucker Gerard put me through."

She really DID hate admitting that part, but she wasn't going to let Elias take a punishment for something he didn't do.  For the other part though... that shit he was on his own for!

"Can we talk about this... without bullets?  Please?"

Lucky ejected the clip and it fell to and bounced off the concrete floor. He could hear Isabella talking to him and he slammed another one into the gun and sent the slide home loading it. But instead of unloading it in the chair he put it in its holster he would save that one for Elias potentially. 

"NO him being arrested just proves why I said no," he said to her anger still in his features. 

"They had NO WARRANT, didn't read anyone their rights. THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ANYONE!!!" he said starting to boil over again

"He lied to the Don.  Let me handle this shit for you.  Let me make sure he lives to regret it and never does it again - I assure you that I can hurt him and make him remember the lesson better than you can without losing his loyalty to the family."  And just in case he didn't understand she spelled it out to him, "Think Dad.  How much more power to hurt you does Marie have than anyone else on this planet?  Think about it and you know I'm right."

"As for the idiot mistake of allowing us to be taken in..." again she was putting herself into an unfavorable light for Elias, and she couldn't figure out why.  She was so mad at him right now she could scream until her voice left her.  "I should have known better.  I should never have allowed us to be in that position - he's MY subordinate Dad and if you bring him in here and give him shit for things I didn't know, well, you're going to make me look..."

She sighs.  "Please ... I'll take whatever punishment is required for the mistake.  Just don't bring my subordinate in here and dress him down for something I didn't have the damn brains or experience to know - I won't have any fucking legs to stand on with the men in the crew if you do.  It just affirms that I have no business being your left hand man and someone else would have been the better choice.  At least if I take my lumps for the fuck up... it's business as usual, but I can't let a man lower than me take lumps for shit I did.  I was the senior man there.  It's on me."

Lucky stands there and thinks about what Isabella has to say. While she makes sense some of this is personal. 

"When I gave him his task it was to keep you out of trouble. And doing that should have told him the situation wasn't right. I assigned him with this task because there are things you still HAVE to learn. You wouldn't think of the potential threat of that situation. HE SHOULD HAVE." 

"And for Disobeying me... That's on me to discipline him for. You are right you can hurt him ways I cant. But you can also fracture your relationship with him in doing so."

Lucky calmed himself so he could fill her in on somethings. 

"I like the idea of you and Elias being together. I would like to see that. But when he came to me he handled it weakly in my eyes. I want you to be with someone who would give their life to protect you like I would and have done for Marie. I have almost died to keep her safe. I needed him to step up. You can be respectful and fight for what you want." he explains to her. 

Isabella melted and would have LITERALLY done anything Salvatore wanted in the moment that he conceded his concern for her relationship with a man she wasn't yet sure she was 'with' or wanted to be 'with' ... but that her Father cared enough to protect the integrity of this budding relationship meant he loved her.  He really, truly, cared about her happiness and nothing mattered more to her in that moment than that.  This was, despite the oddity of it all, quite possibly the most magically wonderful moment of her entire life thus far.

At least until he said his peace about the nature of Elias' request.  The wheels turned in her head and her heart sunk just a bit.  "He didn't... he didn't... well, what do you mean exactly when you say he handled it weakly - I mean, you said something about fighting for what you want."  She tilted her head to the side, "Didn't he fight for me?"

Lucky listened to her questioned how Elias was during the meeting. 

"He asked and tried to play off what he has done for the family. He said he would protect you. But he came across as..." Lucky tries to think of the right words. 

"When I went after Marie she was dating a Godfather from LA. It didn't stop me. I didn't back off or back down. I kept fighting for her. No one was going to tell me I couldn't be with her." he said. 

"I took 7 bullets keeping her safe in an ambush. I am not sure that Elias is willing to do that. He seemed timid in the meeting I had with him." he says to her. 

She sighed and sat down in one of the remaining seats in the room.  "Well, that wasn't what I was expecting you to say ... I mean, I just assumed if he was the only guy I've been seeing who had the actual balls to come to face you - well, I just thought..."

Her shoulders sunk a little.  "Maybe it was too much to hope for right now.  Maybe Agent Gerard is right and I've just been... lonely."  She folded her hands in her lap.  "It feels nice to know that people want to be with me, you know?  And Elias seems ... rough, stronger than some of the others I suppose.  He's young, doesn't have a weirdly foppish fashion sense, he actually wants to be seen with me somewhere other than in total secret from the world... so, I figured maybe he was the guy who most deserved my attentions."

She shook her head.  "I suppose it's good he didn't come in here guns blazing though - I mean, he's a damn good earner for the crew and you putting him in an early grave wouldn't have been good for business."  She looked up to her Dad.  "You wouldn't really kill a man just for loving me, would you?"

"I know there has been many that want to be with you and if I find any of them trying things without my permission Yes I WOULD SHOOT THEM.," he says to her. 

"You need to understand something the permission is not about being with you it's about showing me the proper respect. And if they can't be bothered to do that then they are in need of a tough lesson of how things are supposed to be done in this life. You don't date the Don's daughter without his consent it's just something you don't do."

"I gave Elias his job to see if the way he acted in my office was just because of the situation... but with this, I am afraid I may have been correct in my assumptions," he said to her. 

"I do like him."  She admitted.  "A great deal I fear... though right now it makes no sense to me at all."

She still wanted to give him a damn good chewing out about that kiss again - especially now.  He'd done so much to win her father's approval and threw it away in a heated moment and she'd give anything to go back in time and do it all over. 

"With all you've told me and has happened, I'm ... hurt.  Hurt that he started out on the right foot with asking you, but then he undid all the good he'd done by kissing me... and all the rest of what you said, it just makes what should have been something really special feel like it fell apart."

Isabella was confused, torn in her heart and mind between duty and feelings she didn't really understand yet and hadn't had time to consider.  She needed more time, she need her father to not write off Elias just yet. 

"I know as your Left Hand Man I should be deeply concerned about him lying to the Don; but as your daughter... as a woman, I feel conflicted and I'd like to ask you to give him another chance to prove himself."  She met his eyes, "I don't have the collateral to ask you to do him any favors, God knows maybe he doesn't even deserve it, but there it is.  I hope that you don't think less of me because of it, but I won't pretend that Elias' fuck ups have undone my interest in him or my desire to see him." 

Lucky thinks for a few minutes about his daughter's request. 

"You can always request things just know I may not always do what you ask. But on this, I will tell you he won't die. But I am going to make him realize how close he came." he says to her. 

Lucky pulls his back up S&W revolver and pulls the bullets from it. Then he cocks the hammer. before putting it in his pocket.