A/N - Okay so when I logged in this morning I found my story had 5 reviews. 5! That's a big number for me and for this series (in one go) so YAY. Yes, I do love parents, I think all fathers are overprotective of their daughters every once-in-a-while and this little story has been incredibly funny to write.

Here's Chapter 2

Meet the Parents

Well to say that Mike Logan was confused would be an understatement. But that's exactly what he was. Confused and unsure of what would be happening, he watched Alex as she seemed to be in some kind of shock. He watched the two unfamiliar people look between him and Alex with both suspicion and amusement.

"Alex." The silver haired man spoke her name with some kind of authority, although he didn't seem to be overpowering. "Why don't you let him in?" He was definitely amused although Mike felt he'd interrupted something important from the irritated look on the woman's face.

Mike looked at Alex who shook herself out of her daze and stood aside to let Mike in. Mike walked into the house slowly, unsure of what was going to happen. Was the atmosphere heavy in here? "Uh, Alex?" Mike felt the need to repeat his question since she hadn't answered the first time. Alex looked at him as she closed the door, "What's going on?"

Alex, who was now definitely more alert, completely out of her daze, looked at Mike and then at her parents. "Mike." she pointed at Mike, "Mom, Dad." she pointed at her parents. "John and Maggie, this is Mike Logan." She pointed back to Mike. Her introduction was quick, and she seemed nervous, Mike suddenly felt a little small as he realised who they were.

"Uh..." Mike shook himself and then took a step forward. Although he felt the need to stay near to Alex for some reason. He outstretched his arm and hand to shake the man's hand. "Pleased to meet you, sir." they shook hands and then Mike took Maggie's hand, "And you, ma'am."

"Ooooh." Maggie seemed to get a little excited, although not overly so. She looked at her daughter, who was not allowing any eye contact from anyone. "He seems nice." Alex tried to hold back the smile at her mother's approving comments.

"Logan?" John asked, as if he recognised the name. Mike nodded. "Logan... Logan... I know that name." John kept repeating his last name whilst he tried to remember. He then suddenly clicked his fingers as the proverbial lightbulb came on inside his head. "Logan. You don't happen to make a habit of punching city councilman do you?"

Mike was stunned by the bluntness of his question, looking at Alex who just shrugged. "Uh, not a habit, no. Just the once." Her father seemed pleased with his response, which just added to Mike's confusion. Why did that please him?

"So the two of you are..." John pointed at the two of them with his finger but was interrupted by Alex.

"Friends! We're friends, we're good friends." She looked at Mike and he looked at her for a moment and then turned to her parents. Alex seemed to be pleading with her eyes, and it was the kind of pleading that Mike couldn't just ignore.

"Damn good friends." choosing to agree with her with a good nod. But when he looked at their faces he knew, without a doubt, that they didn't believe them. They all stood there, apart from Maggie, looking at each other, waiting for a let up, a sign of defeat on either side but it never came.

"Okay." Her mother broke the silence that had formed between them, feeling too uncomfortable to let it continue. "Alex, little Janey is cooking dinner - with her mothers supervision of course - and I'm sure she'd love it if Auntie Alex and her... friend... turned up for dinner." As Maggie said 'friend' she looked at Mike, who felt like he'd been busted. Maggie then looked back at Alex, waiting for an answer.

"Uh, actually..." Alex started

"We'd love to." Mike finished. "Sounds like fun to me." Alex turned her head to Mike and gave him the deadliest look. Alex looked at her parents, gave a little smile and then grabbed hold of Mike's hand.

"Excuse us." She turned and dragged Mike into her kitchen. It didn't escape John's eye that Alex didn't grab him by the arm or his jacket, she'd took his hand to do so.

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As soon as they were in the kitchen Alex let go of his hand and turned to face him. "This is not a good idea." She said, defiantly.

"Why? What's wrong with meeting your family?" Mike asked, puzzled by her reaction.

"Nothing... uh... " Alex sighed, and looked at the ceiling before continuing. "Look, just before you got here my Dad told me that apparently I've not spoken to them for two months and let's just say he's a little pissed at me right now."

"Two months? Did you guys fall out?" Mike watched her as she shook her head and sighed again. He could see how frustrating this was for her.

"No, two months ago it was the Garrett case and then I guess I've just...been busy." She looked at him and rolled her eyes when she noticed his smug expression. "You're not allowed to be pleased with yourself." She pointed at him, trying to be cross but the smirk on his face was a little infectious but she was determined to not get caught up in it.

"Well, time flies when you're having fun." He offered the cliche as explanation. Alex rolled her eyes at him again. "Alright, look, you say your Dad's mad at you?" Alex nodded, "Well, would skipping out on dinner really help?" Alex looked at him and she couldn't deny his logic. She shook her head and Mike stopped her from shaking it when he gently cupped her face with his hands. "I was serious when I said I was serious. I'd love to meet your family."

"I'm serious too, which is why I think this is a bad idea." He took his hands off her face and rubbed her shoulders instead whilst she spoke.

"What's the worst that could happen?" Mike asked, seemingly cocky.

Alex snorted, "The worst? Well if everyone's there you're going to be bombarded with a billion questions from each. Tested by my father and end up with food poisoning from Janey's cooking."

"Okay well I'll answer everyones questions, I'll try to pass your fathers test and I'll check the food is cooked before eating it." He kicked down every single one of her arguements in one fell swoop. She put her hands on his waist and she sighed when she realised she'd been defeated. Everyone of his arguments had been logical and she didn't want to piss her father off anymore than she already had.

"Oh God, I am so going to regret this." Alex groaned but Mike grinned.

"Are you kidding? I'm looking forward to this."

"That's because you don't know what's going to happen." She reasoned and his grin grew wider. She rolled her eyes at him and he leaned it to kiss her sweetly, only deepening it when she pulled him closer. They seperated a little and she looked at him, she couldn't understand why he was looking forward to meeting her family, she just guessed it was another part of his mystery that she'd probably never figure out. It didn't stop her from being curious about it though.

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Despite the fact that her father had insisted that she and Mike ride in their car with them, Alex was driving her car - following them, with Mike sitting next to her. Her reason being, which she had not voiced, that they could duck out whenever they wanted if she had her own car there.

Mike was looking forward to getting there because he was going to get to see another side to Alex, he couldn't understand why she seemed so nervous. "How long does it take to get there?" Mike asked, wanting to break the silence in the car.

"Not long, we're almost there. As a matter of fact... we're here." He looked out the windshield and saw the car they'd been following was turning into a driveway. Alex followed suit and parked her car behind theirs. She looked at Mike, who smiled at her, trying to convince her that it'd be okay. "You ready?" Mike nodded and she finally gave him a huge smile and he was relieved. "Then let's go." They both stepped out of the car at the same time. They walked upto her parents and they managed to get several metres from the front door before several young children rushed out the house screaming out for 'Aunt Alex'. Four of them came out, three girls and one boy, all looking like they were under the age of 10.

Mike laughed as they rushed into her making her grunt a little at the full force of the impact she'd suffered. "Hi, kids." she greeted them with a huge smile.

One of the little boys, aged 5, looked at Mike at seemed scared of him. Mike tried his best to be friendly but he just frightened the boy even more. The boy grabbed hold of Alex's hand and pointed at Mike. "Who's that?" he asked, and Alex looked at Mike and then back at the boy.

"Oh, that's my friend Mike." she told them, turning back to Mike to share a smile.

"Okay, kids, back into the house." John told them with a stern voice but affectionate smile.

"Okay Grandpa." they chorused, each of them grabbing one of Alex's and Mike's hand, they pulled them into the house. "Come on Aunt Alex, come on Mike, let's go inside." Mike winked at Alex as they were dragged inside by the children.

John kept a tight hold of Maggie as they walked inside, "Notice how they don't run to us when she's here." Maggie told him and John smiled. John knew the reason behind that - Alex was the kind of aunt who played with them outside, sometimes roughly, and she was also the aunt who they rarely got to see.

Walking inside, Alex and Mike's hands were released by the children. "Alex!" a male voice called out with excitement as soon as they were fully into the house. Alex turned to see her brother, Eric, walking over to her with his arms open wide. "If it isn't my elusive sister." Alex felt herself groan on the inside but she smiled at him and they hugged each other. When they let go he looked at Mike with fascination, "And you are?"

"This is Alex's friend." said the little boy who had been afraid of Mike. The boy seemed proud of himself for announcing that simple fact.

"Oh, her friend?" Eric asked, looking at Mike, he held out his hand to shake it.

Mike held out his. "Yeah, I'm Mike, Mike Logan." They shook hands vigorously. Alex smiled at them, thinking for a moment that this was going to be okay but she knew, she just knew, that something was about to drop and sure enough Eric didn't let her down.

"Well pleased to meet you, Mike. The last time Alex brought a 'friend' round all hell broke lose, I mean it was a disaster!" Eric said, joy feeling his features as he exaggerated the word 'disaster' by spreading out his arms to indicate 'huge'. Mike looked at Alex, who tried to shrug it off, but in truth it had been embarrassing.

It had happened when she'd brought her last boyfriend, Terry, round to meet everyone, he'd become so overwhelmed with everyone he'd lost his temper. Soon after that an argument ensued and a food fight broke out and Alex had spent the next day, in its entirety, cleaning up the mess just to appologise to her parents.

"Okay, you guys can sit down if you want." John said, when he'd helped Maggie into her own personal comfortable seat. "You don't have to stand."

Whilst Mike chose to take them up on their offer and sit down on the nearest seat, Alex was a little more reluctant to do so. Her mind telling herself that she should just grab Mike and bolt for the door whilst she still could. But Mike took hold of her arm to gently remind her to sit down. Offering her father a smile, she turned and sat down on the seat next to Mike. Not wanting him out of her sight for fear of what might go wrong.

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TBC