Full Summary: Larry has to make a decision that will make a big impact on his life. He takes in his niece, after an accident leaves her without parents. Now Larry has to juggle his job, his relationship with Rebecca, and being a father to Nicky and Victoria. And now the tablet is acting funny, causing more chaos for Larry and the museum. And now certain inhabitants are human?

Chapter One: The Phone Call

Larry Dayle could not believe it had been a year since he began his job as night watchmen at the Museum of Natural History. What began as a simple way to make money so he wouldn't have to move away from his son, turned out to be way more. He thought he would only be watching dead mannequins. It turned out he was completely wrong. Thanks to the tablet of Ahkmenrah, everything in the museum came to life at night. And it had been his job for an entire year, to make sure that all the inhabitants stayed in the museum, and their not found out. For a year, he dealt with angry Huns, a T-rex with the personality of a puppy, a monkey that's one joy in life was to make hi life miserable, and a cowboy and Roman general who could go from friends to enemies in .3 seconds. He had dubbed his job the craziest job on Earth, and things were just going to get crazier for Larry. And it would all begin with a phone call.

The phone had been ringing on and off for the last hour, not that Larry had noticed. He was busy in the diorama room, breaking up another fight between Jedadiah and Octavius. It seemed to him, that he spent at least half his job keeping peace between the two miniatures. They'd be the death of him, if the Huns didn't kill him first.

"Come on you guys I gotta get the phone. Can you play nice for ten minutes."

Both miniatures sent him looks that said no way, but Larry had no time to notice. He was already out of the room, and heading towards his office. Grabbing the phone on it's third ring he said, "Hello Larry Dayle speaking."

A woman's voice came from the other side. "Mr. Dayle, this is Ms. Johnson."

Larry wrinkled his forehead in confusion, racking his mind to see if he knew a Ms. Johnson.

"I'm sorry but I don't know any Johnson's."

"Mr. Dayle, don't play games. I've left messages on your answering machine asking you to call me back but you haven't. So I had no choice but to call you at work. This is a serious matter, so I ask that you please take this seriously."

"Ms. Johnson, I haven't check my machine in a couple of days. So I don't know what your talking about."

"So you have no idea that your younger sister Anne Marie and her husband are dead?"

Larry felt like he was hit with a ton of bricks, the word dead repeating itself in his mind. She couldn't be, not Anne Marie. Not the sister he hadn't heard from in four years. She couldn't be dead. She couldn't have left Victoria alone. Than it hit him.

"What about Victoria? Is she okay? Is she . . ."

"Dead? No. Thankfully she was at some sort of event when they where hit."

Larry sighed in relief at that small good news.

"Mr. Dayle that is why I'm calling. In your sister's will, she said that if she died and Victoria was still a minor, guardianship would go to her older brother Larry Dayle."

Larry was stunned. He asked Ms. Johnson to repeat what she said, and she did. He was Victoria's guardian.

"Are you sure that she said me? I mean isn't there someone else?"

"Mr. Dayle, there are three choices. Either you can take Victoria in, she can go to her Aunt Maryanne, or an orphanage."

The mention of his older sisters name, made Larry wish he hadn't asked his question. His older sister had three children, and she raised them as if they were all on a sitcom from the sixties, and she was the perfect mother. He knew that Anne Marie wouldn't want her daughter raised that way. And there was no way he going to send her to an orphanage.

"What do I have to do to get her here?"

Larry spent the next five minutes jotting down the information he needed to know about getting Victoria to his home.

"Okay, thank you bye."

Larry hung up the phone, than turned around, to fins Rebecca on the couch her eyes fixed on him. He hadn't noticed her coming in. From the expression on her face, she wanted to know what he had been talking about on the phone. Sitting next to her on the couch, he began to explain everything.

"And so now I'm taking her in, because she has no where else to go."

They sat there in silence, Rebecca taking in everything Larry had told her, Larry waiting for her reaction.

"So when is she coming?"

Larry was surprised by her question. He didn't expect her to ask that. "In two weeks."

"That's not a lot of time to get everything. But than again it'll probably be better to let her pick out stuff for herself anyway."

"Becca," Larry said, "Are you sure your okay with this?"

Rebecca nodded. "Of course. Why wouldn't I be?"

Larry sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I don't know. I guess this all just happened so fast. I mean what about Nicky? Is he going to be happy about having someone else living with me? And what about the museum? I can't exactly hide it from her."

"Larry it'll be okay. Nicky will be fine with it, and we'll tell her about the museum when the times right."

Larry smiled. "I guess things are really going to change around here huh?"

"Yeah," Rebecca said, heading for the door. She paused in the frame. "Oh yeah I almost forgot. I couldn't get Jed and Octavius to stop fighting, so you might want to get there quick before they kill each other."

Larry let out a groan of annoyance. While somethings would change, others would stay exactly the same.

That is chapter one, so how is Larry's life going to change now that he is taking in his niece? And what is with the wing being added to the museum? Review and you'll find out. And I'm wondering should I have Victoria show up in the next chapter, or wait another chapter or two?