Teresa looked around at her dinner, well her and Jane's dinner, it consisted of mashed potatoes, roast , the dumplings Teresa now knew were called Yorkshires, and also some steamed veggies, but all he had done was almost burn the house down and then after she had banned him from he kitchen he had tried yelling out "helpful" comments.
Although, she had to admit, his Yorkshire recipe was pretty good.
"I'm proud of our dinner too" Patrick said, coming up to stand beside her, a broad grin on his features, Teresa rolled her eyes with a sigh.
"What exactly did you do?" Teresa asked, her voice showing her scepticism.
"I inspired it!" Patrick said, trying to strike some sort of pose, Teresa let out a burst of laughter before turning away from the counter, ignoring the fake hurt look he put on just for her she walked out of the kitchen. Her brother's would be home within the next few minutes, and they would definitely be hungry.
"Here they come" Patrick said in a sing-song voice, coming up to stand behind her, Teresa rolled her eyes and walked away from him once again.
"Matt is going to be upset that I'm here" Patrick told her with a sigh of reassignment and a shrug of his shoulders.
"He never did like you much" Teresa said, not arguing, truth be told she already knew Matt hated Patrick.
"Jeremy still likes you" Teresa told him, watching the grin reappear back on his face, something told her he hadn't really cared about what Matt thought anyways.
"He thinks your awesome" Teresa said, giving him a 'no idea why' look, Patrick grinned at her and winked comically.
Just then the front door swung open and Matt walked in, Patrick studied him with a small frown, his hair was long, almost to his shoulders. He glared at Patrick as soon as he seen him, an angry sneer making it's way onto his features.
Next came Hans, being only two years younger than his oldest brother, he was still in his teen years, yet he looked older than all three of them, but before Patrick could study him too long Jeremy walked in. His hair was lighter than his other brother's, and unlike the other two he broke into smile when he seen the blond haired man.
"Patrick!" Jeremy called happily, running over to him an grinning happily.
"Hey, Jeremy" Patrick said smiling at him and patting him on the shoulder, out of all his siblings he was the most happy and carefree, but Patrick knew that the boy was taking his father's death harder that he showed.
Over all he realized her brother's had gotten worse over the five years he had been gone, of course he had already knew this, but it was different to see it.
"You made a big dinner?" Hans asked, coming out of the kitchen, Patrick couldn't help but smile at the fact that he was talking again.
"Probably for him" Matt said vehemently, gesturing towards Patrick with anger.
"Awesome!" Jeremy cheered, interrupting his sisters argument before she could even start it.
Patrick smiled at the boy, before pointing out into the kitchen where everyone proceeded to go in order to get food.
Even Matt grudgingly admitted it looked pretty good, although he shot a death look towards Patrick who grinned at him in return. He had to admit Teenager's were fun to mess around with.
"I'm going out tonight" Matt said after dinner was over, Teresa looked at him, her eyes downcast as she nodded her head.
"I think you should stay" Patrick stated, stareing into the eyes of the teen, who glared back.
"I think I don't give a shit what you think" Matt said, standing up from the table and pushing back his chair loudly.
"Well, maybe not, but you should care about what your sister thinks" Patrick said, anger laced in his words.
"She doesn't care" Matt snapped at him, stopping to try and stare the man down, Patrick stood up facing him.
"Actually she does, she gives up almost everything for you, her time, her effort, she could be in university right now, and you could be dead or with some sort of gang" Patrick said, pointing an accusing finger at the boy.
"Jane!" Teresa said, standing up also, Patrick glanced at her before looking back to Matt.
"Be grateful" Patrick told him before sitting back down in his chair.
Matt glared angrily at Patrick before turning away from him and walking out of the kitchen and out the door.
"He's always like that" Jeremy said with a dramatic sigh, he looked at Teresa and smiled at her before going upstairs to have a shower, Teresa nodded and let him leave.
"Is it alright if I go over to a friends if I'm back by ten?" Hans said uncomfortably, Patrick couldn't help but grin internally, at least Hans still cared about his family.
"Yeah" Teresa said warmly, obviously thankful that he had at least asked, Hans nodded before going out the door also.
Teresa sat silently stareing down at her perfect dinner, which now seemed ruined by Matt, she wondered if she should have waited to make roast, she had been saving it for a happy day.
Patrick studied her, the worry on his face obvious even to her without his great observation skills.
"I'm fine" Teresa told him, trying to convince both herself and him. Patrick nodded, not wanting to push the matter to far.
"I rented a movie" Patrick said, changing the subject for her benefit.
"What one?" Teresa asked, the corner's of her mouth twitching into a smile.
"Guess" Patrick said, grinning at her.
Teresa sighed before guessing various names of movies she thought Patrick might want to watch.
After about the tenth wrong answer she finally gave up.
"It's Scooby Doo!" Patrick said, laughing at her confusion.
"All of us can watch it" Patrick added happily "Plus, I know you want to get into the business of solving crime"
Teresa laughed a second before going up to change before they started the movie, Jeremy had just gotten out and had went down to talk to Jane.
After sitting down with a big bowl of pop-corn her, Jeremy and Patrick watched Scooby Doo. Teresa couldn't help but think maybe the day turned out alright anyways.