This is a reply to a prompt I received on tumblr and what I originally planned to be something short has kind of run away with me. Usual disclaimers apply and as usual I hope you enjoy.
The prompt: Miranda and the kids get jealous when a pregnant 18 year old who looks like she has been in an MMA fight and her 3 year old show up claiming she knows Andrea. It's Andy's baby sister and she needs Andy's help.
I've twisted the prompt slightly to fit my ideas, I've taken some liberties with Miranda's behavior but I'm a firm believer that if you care deeply for someone the way you react in regards to them is likely to go completely against the way you would react to anyone else. Rated M for the possibility of later.
Miranda had had too long to stew in her anger, she knew that and the girls knew that. Andrea had stood them up, no phone call, not even a text and the editor had had the entire show to build up steam. It was supposed to have been their first family outing since hers and Andrea's relationship had become public and the media storm that had followed had settled down so that they could actually venture out without being hounded by paparazzi but Andrea just hadn't shown. It seemed that maybe Andrea was turning out to be just like the others and in record time too, she had even beaten Stephen to it and he had only managed to remain dependable for about five minutes after they married.
Cassidy knew the minute her mother had directed Roy to take them to Andy's place instead of the townhouse that she should try and do something to change her mind or at least distract her from the anger that was practically radiating off her in waves. She had never known her mom react so explosively to anyone the way she reacted to Andrea. When things were good it was amazing, her mom laughed and smiled more, even when Andrea wasn't there, but if something went wrong? One of two things would happen, you would either be able to hear her shouting on the other side of the townhouse or she would appear hours later her eyes red, her face blotchy like she had been crying, neither were things that Cassidy ever expected from her mom but Andy had changed a lot of things. Today was a screaming day though, Cassidy could see it in the set of her mom's shoulders and the way she had fidgeted her way through the entire show. It had been two years since Andy had reappeared and this would, by no means, be the first or last fight that the two women had but Cassidy had to wonder at what point her mom would go to far and Andy would just walk away again.
Caroline wasn't like her sister, she had no desire to distract her mom from whatever fit she was winding herself into, nor did she particularly care that Andy was going to be on the receiving end of it. It was always the same when their mom met someone new although Andy had been more genuine in her desire to get to know the twins too and didn't just fake it for Miranda's sake Caroline wasn't surprised that she was obviously loosing interest. It always happened eventually, just when Caroline was getting used to having a new person around, of sharing her sister and her mom with someone new, they started getting bored, they started missing dinners and family outings and eventually they vanished. She had really hoped that Andy was different, she'd actually liked her and Andy had helped her with her school work, encouraged her to pursue her writing, she'd made her mom happy too and even when they argued the brunette had been active in fixing things, but if Andy was already standing them up it was only a matter of time before she vanished altogether. Caroline was beginning to think that maybe there was some kind of curse on all of them that made them impossible to love. What she would never know was that her mother, for a long time, had believed exactly them same thing.