Prologue-

"Are you sure you're ready for this?"

Jay took the girl in his arms and smiled softly down at her. "Nope," he said contently.

"Jay!"

He picked his head up and looked at the dark haired woman. "What? I'm only eighteen! Of course I'm not ready for this Spike," he said incredulously. "All I know is that this is my little girl. And that's all that matters," he said as he started to walk outside with her diaper bag.

"But-"

Snake laid a hand on her back. "He has to learn Spike. For once in his life, Jay's right. He's not ready for it…but he's willing to learn. Besides, we couldn't keep her here forever."

Spike pouted. "Why not?"

"Daddy!" a little voice called from inside.

"That's why," he said as he went to go find Jack.

"Now you're sure you have everything?" Spike asked for the tenth time in a half hour.

Jay just rolled his eyes. "I'm not moving to Mexico, Spike. It's not like you'll never see her again."

"And you have a crib at your house?"

Jay laughed and for a second Spike thought he was going to say no and she almost grabbed the baby back from him. "Yeah…Sean and I tried. So far it hasn't fallen down."

The older woman just blinked at him without saying anything and Jay sighed.

"Spike. We have everything we need. My dad bought her a crib and everything. Relax," he said as he buckled the sleeping little girl into the car seat.

"Your father?"

Jay straightened up at that. "Yeah. So far he's doing a better with his grand daughter than he did with his son so it's fine by me."

"Take care son," Snake putting an arm around him. "You know we're always here to help."

The young man jumped as he heard his former teacher call him son but then he thought about it. He had their grand daughter. If Emma was…well you know…they'd be together. Jay had actually gotten used to the Nelsons without realizing it. He had even begun to accept their fruity way of thinking about some things…like trees. Apparently they were super important. Hell as long as they don't interfere with his driving, Jay couldn't give two fucks about the trees. But he noticed he started to pretend to; just as how they pretended not to notice his smoking habit picked back up. Jay sat down in the driver seat, looked back at the sleeping little blonde baby and sighed. So much for living it up until twenty five…


"Where is she? Let me see my baby!" Ellie cried as she ran to the car and opened the back door.

"Ellie, can we get out of the car first?"

She made a face at him and opened the door to reveal the sleeping beauty. "She's gorgeous…" she sighed.

Jay rolled his eyes. "I know…now move," he said as he pushed her aside gently to retrieve his daughter that had just woken up, looking slightly confused.

"Hey there Michelle," he said softly to her as she looked up at him with the same blue eyes that he had. "Welcome home."