Perry began laying the table for dinner. In the living room, he could hear Teddy shrieking with delight and Priya laughing as they played a game. He smiled to himself and lay out the eight places with plates and cutlery. He paused to look out the window at the street. Ever since he had moved to OWCA's brand new underground village, he sorely missed small things like rain and snow. The underground village had a dome over it that mimicked the sky and even the temperature of the upper world. The one thing it couldn't do was make stuff fall from the sky, like rain or snow. The endless sunny days were fine for a while, but Perry missed having rain.

At least he, Priya, and Teddy had their own house.

"Perry, come over here quickly!"

Perry almost dropped the plate he was holding. He quickly set it down on the table in a random place and rushed into the living room. Priya was kneeling on the beige carpet with Teddy in her arms. "Teddy was walking!"

Perry hurriedly knelt down beside his mate. Priya put Teddy down on the carpet so that the six month old was facing his father. "Come on, sweetie. Do it again."

"I don't know if I can, Mommy," Teddy said nervously.

"I know you can do it, Teddy."

Priya helped her son to stand up. On unsteady legs, Teddy stumbled towards Perry, who scooped him up proudly. Perry and Priya crooned and hugged their son. "Well done, Teddy!" gushed Priya.

"I did it, Mommy!"

"You are pretty darn cute," Perry told his son. He stood up. "They're going to be here soon. Better get the music playlist ready."

Priya left Teddy playing by himself on the carpet and went to the CD player. "We only have two CDs," she called to Perry, who had gone back into the dining room. "Christmas Hits or Best of PFT."

"Well it sure isn't Christmas," called Perry's sardonic voice.

Priya put the Best of PFT CD in. The first song that began to play was the old favourite: Gitchee Gitchee Goo.

"Bow chikka bow wow," Priya sang as she picked up a sheet from the floor, intending to clear it away.

She stopped when she felt a tug. Teddy was clinging onto the sheet and giggling. Priya smiled and wrapped her son up in the sheet while Teddy squealed excitedly. He rolled around in the sheet until it was wrenched from Priya's grasp. Priya grinned at her son, who stayed completely still. "Where's Teddy?" she sang.

Giggling came from the sheet. Priya tiptoed across the carpet and caught the little platypus around the waist. Teddy squealed as Priya began tickling him.

"They're here!" Perry called.

Priya took the sheet and shook Teddy out of it. The light blue platypus tumbled onto the soft carpet, still giggling. As Priya put the sheet away, Teddy crawled over the carpet and to the front door, where Perry was letting his friends in.

"Hey, Perry. Good to see you," Ohio greeted as he and Perry hugged.

Piper crawled over to Teddy, who said proudly, "I walked today, Piper."

"I've been walking for four months," Piper boasted.

"You're a year older than me," complained Teddy. "That's why. And if you've been walking for longer than me, then why aren't you walking now?"

Piper stood up on two legs and smirked at Teddy, who pouted. "Show off." He went off to sulk.

Patty and India were chatting by the front door, while Sam and Luke chased each other round the dining room and under the table. Perry and Ohio were putting the food on the table, trying to dodge the kids running around.

"We've come straight from work on the East Side," Ohio was saying to Perry. "Our home's nearly finished. It looks kind of like yours."

"They're all going to look like mine," Perry said, placing the potato salad bowl on the table. "Because there's only one blueprint."

"You know what I mean." Ohio hopped up onto the kitchen counter and began swinging his legs. "We finished the ice skating rink today. It's supposed to open next Friday. Maybe we could go there sometime."

Perry nodded. "That sounds great. I haven't been ice skating since I was about three. Phineas and Ferb took me to the rink in Danville when they were younger."

"When was the last time you saw your hosts?" inquired Ohio.

"They're not my hosts anymore," Perry sighed. "I haven't seen them since I moved out, six months ago."

"You haven't even visited them?" Ohio said incredulously.

"I haven't had time," Perry said, knocking Ohio's legs out the way so that he could get some bowls from the cupboard underneath him. "We've been so busy with all the building work. Today was the only day I've had off in six months. But it doesn't matter. I wouldn't have been able to see the boys much anyway; they're at school. They actually break up for summer tomorrow, so we'll have a while to do stuff together."

"That's good," commented Ohio.

For few minutes, Perry and Ohio just listened to and sang along with the songs coming from the living room. They got through Summer All Over The World and Summer Belongs To You before everyone sat down to their buffet-type meal.

After that, the eight platypuses went to the playground. They were the only ones in the park, probably because everyone else was working. Perry and Priya had worked overtime, so they were allowed a day off when everybody else was still working.

Perry took with them to the playground a special hose pipe/sprinkler thing that Phineas and Ferb had made for him. It was evening by then, but still quite hot, so the two mothers sat on a bench and chatted some more while the two fathers chased their kids over the grass with the sprinkler. Teddy sat with Priya and India for the first five minutes because he couldn't run like Ohio's kids could, but soon Perry put the little platypus on his shoulder so that he could join in the fun.

When that was over, it was getting dark. Perry, Priya, and Teddy said goodbye to Ohio's family and headed home. Perry tucked Teddy into bed and went downstairs to help Priya clean up.

"That was very fun," Priya commented as she did the washing up.

"Yes, yes it was," agreed Perry as he brought more stuff to her to wash up.

"By the way, I need you to watch Teddy on Friday evening. I'm going out for a girl's night with Patty, India, and Victoria. We're going to see a new romantic movie that's just come out."

"Who's Victoria?"

"Victoria the Dalmatian. She's Pinky's new girlfriend. She's really sweet. She's offered to pay for the popcorn."

Perry dropped the plastic bowl he was holding. "Since when does Pinky have a girlfriend?"

Priya stared at Perry as the teal platypus picked up the bowl. "Perry, Pinky and Victoria have been dating for three weeks. You didn't know?"

"I haven't seen Pinky in a while," admitted Perry, adding the plastic bowl to the bowl of soapy water. "He's been working on the North Side."

"Still, you haven't talked to him in three weeks? You should be a better friend than that, Perry."

"I know, I know." Perry sighed. "It's just that…well, I'm trying to adjust to domestic life. For one thing, it's really odd not going out on regular missions. The last time I went out on a mission was six months ago, and that was to rescue you from LOVEMUFFIN."

"Ugh, don't remind me," Priya groaned, scrubbing up a plate.

"For another thing, when I imagined either temporarily or permanently retiring from missions for domestic life, I always imagined I'd be living with the Flynn-Fletchers. I mean, don't get me wrong, this is the perfect life." He gestured upwards. "Being in this house with you and Teddy, it's perfect. It's just hard to go from daily missions to domestic life."

Perry hoped Priya wouldn't get offended. It turned out that he needed not worry. "I do understand that, Perry. But still, you should try and be more in touch with your friends. And I don't just mean Ohio; you see him almost every day. Have you heard from Peter or Terry recently?"

"Peter's been relocated to Seattle, I know that," Perry answered. "And Terry…nope, I got nothing."

Priya approached Perry and put her wet forearms around his neck. "I know you're missing Phineas and Ferb, and regular missions, but until Major Monogram can get OWCA back on track, our place is here with our family. With you and me and Teddy."

Perry hesitated, before nodding. "You're right, Priya."

Priya tweaked his bill. "I always am," she teased.

Perry suddenly realised his neck was wet. "Aw man, come on!"

Priya started laughing. She flicked some soapy water at Perry, hitting his face. "Priya!"

Needless to say, the washing up didn't get done for a whole hour.