DISCLAIMER: As much as I would like to say that I own the characters here, I only own a handful – and here is your first chapter, Nicole, dear. Enjoy it!

There was a knock at the door and Nicole went to answer it, having to step over a block tower as she did so. Joey looked up at her as she walked by, smiling.

"One moment!" She opened the door and smiled. Standing there was a man wearing a pair of jeans with a striped polo, a jacket open over the shirt. His hands were jammed in his pockets; his brown, puppy-dog eyes making her almost melt. "Can I help you?"

"Uh, yeah," the man on the other side stammered. "Is Jack here?"

"He and Susan stepped out – I'm Nicole. I'm the Nanny." She smiled at him, mortified that she was rambling, but not knowing how to stop.

"Well, uh, Nicole, can you tell him that I came by?" He stepped from the doorway and started back to the street.

"Who do I tell him?" Nicole called after him.

The young man turned. "Oh, uh, I forgot." He made a face and went back to talk to her. "I'm Andy. I work with Jack – he's kind of my boss."

"So you work at the tourist office?" She found that she was twirling her hair around her first finger and stopped abruptly.

"Yeah," he spoke the word slowly. "And I needed to talk to Jack."

"At eight-o-clock?" Nicole arched an eyebrow at the absurdity of the situation.

"Yeah. It's about the...bro..shures..." He was searching for the words.

"Okay then, I'll tell him you stopped by." Nicole let him off the hook.

"Have him call me." Andy turned back to the street, wondering if that sounded as awful as he thought it did.

"I can do that. Have a nice night, Andy." She watched him walk down to the curb before shutting the door and leaning against it. "Way to go, Nikki! Such a dork!"

Joey looked up at her and agreed. "Dork."

"Thanks, shorty." She went to sit with the toddler. "Did you see him, though? Bless!"

The boy crawled into her lap. "Nick." He brushed his chubby hand on her cheek.

"What is it, Danger?" She had taken to calling him by his middle name – it fit him too well not to.

"Loves." He put his head on her shoulder.

She patted his back. "Loves you too." She had been working for Susan for three months now, and the kid was starting to grow on her. Tallulah too. She had her moments, but what pre-teen didn't? She imagined it was really hard to leave behind an entire country – family and friends. But she was adjusting. Susan had said that she was doing better here than she had back home. Lulu had told her that it was because she knew about European history from Eddie Izzard. Nicole had laughed, wondering if he would find it funny to know that he was responsible for someone's education.

Joey shifted in her arms, trying to get comfortable. She looked at the clock. It was near his bedtime. "Danger, let's give you a bath. How would that be?"

The boy's eyes lit up and he started bouncing. She got up and he followed her into the bathroom. She ran the water and had just placed him in when she heard the key in the lock.

"We're home!" Jack hollered, which was followed by the sound of Susan slapping his arm.

"The baby could be asleep!" She scolded in a hushed whisper. "Why do you have to holler?"

Nicole laughed to herself. "We're taking a bath!"

"Both of you?" Jack's face appeared in the doorway. "What did I say about no girls over?"

"Haha," Nicole voice was flat, despite the fact that she found it hard not to flirt with her boss. He had the type of personality that made every word he said sound as if her were flirting. "Oh! Andy came by."

She picked up a cup on the side of the bathtub and dumped water over Joey's head.

Jack wrinkled his nose. "What did he want?"

"He didn't say – he wants you to call him." She soaped the child's hair.

"Thanks for the message." He stepped in and looked down at the bathtub. "Doesn't she give you any toys?"

"Toys," the boy repeated. "Toystoystoystoystoys."

Jack chuckled.

"Thanks for that." Nicole sighed.

He shrugged. "Didn't know he was going to do that..." He stuffed his hands in his pockets and made a face of apology.

"Get out, Mr. Harkness." Nicole was only half kidding. There was something about the man that always got the boy riled up. "I'll bring him into you when we're done here."

"Fine." Jack took being kicked out better than she thought he would.

"All right, Danger, let's get you all clean!"

"Clean!"