It had been a pleasant dinner at Jean and the doc's but they had left him with plenty to think on. He plopped himself down into his favorite chair musing about fate and the fact that Jean always seemed to be part of changes in his life.

Bill remembered the first time he tangled with little Jeannie Randall, she stepped between him and another smaller boy wielding a tree limb that was bigger than she was. Bill had made the mistake of thinking she wouldn't really hurt anyone till he stepped forward just as she swung the limb knocking him clean out. Bill took a great deal of ribbing over that episode, but he always remembered that if Jean Randall said something she most definitely meant it. He had only crossed her once after that and boy did he regret it. Jean was always known to be fiercely loyal and protective which probably should have warranted more caution on Bill's part, but yet not. He was being his usually bully self and shoved one young lad to the ground. Unbeknownst to Bill it was Jean's friend Christopher Beazley. Chris was not helping the matter by running his mouth and taunting Bill, but Jean had seen and heard enough to know it needed to be stopped. She stepped in front of Bill and told him to back off, but instead he shoved her aside and told her to stay out of it. She refused to allow the issue at hand to continue, therefore she grabbed as many rocks as her small hands could hold and started flinging them at both boys till they both took off, running from the onslaught of Jean's projectiles.

Bill sat back in his seat and giggled at the memories he had shared with Jean over the years. Then he remembered the last memory they had shared before the doc returned and her boys had left. Bill had gotten a disturbance call to go out to the Beazley farm. He hadn't been called out there before, but Matthew Lawson had been on numerous occasions. What Bill found shook him to his core. Jean was standing on the front porch holding young Jack while Christopher Jr. stood by her side; both boys had been crying, but Jean as always was stoic. She had blood running from her nose and a busted lip, both her eyes showing bruising, but only one was fresh. Christopher Sr. was drunk again and throwing and destroying everything and everyone in his wake. Before Bill went into the house Jean touched his arm and whispered not in front of the children.

Bill smirked to himself knowing the punishment the boys dealt out that night, but not in front of Jean's boys. It wasn't too long after that night Christopher Sr. was gone. Bill hoped he played a part of Christopher deciding to leave, lord knows it was what was best for Jean and her boys. Life had been hard for Jean, but marrying the doc has certainly seemed to make her happy. Bill was glad for her, even if he was self righteous and nosy the Doc in his own way was just trying to help.