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TJ found out about Alice a couple weeks after Sean left, after he got out of the hospital. Her mother was trying to demand money from him, one of the only females he slept with while he was high, before Sean. She was already two years old and she was so small and skinny from not being fed enough. Her mother was still a junky and wanted money for drugs but instead TJ took her to court and got full rights to her. Her mother didn’t even name her for god sakes. So he named her Alice Margaret Hammond and decided to get clean for her. So when his mother decided to throw a party to welcome the new Hammond into their lives six months after TJ met her he was a little nervous. They were still working on getting Alice comfortable and working on her panic attacks around large groups of people. It was no surprise that his mother was using him and his daughter to try and win people over so they would vote for her for president. He and Alice stayed in the room that had the piano once he realized his daughter was getting a little overwhelmed. He wasn’t excepting Sean to walk in as he was playing to calm her down and teach her how to play, a smile on his face as she just pressed any key she wanted, making her own music. He noticed she stopped and turned to the doorway, breath catching in his throat as he seen the male, making him swallow hard. His three year old crawled into his lap, not used to strangers and he wrapped his arms around her, cowardly hiding behind his daughter. “Didn’t know you were invited.”