"Ears."
"Spots, I'm your mother I win."
"Mommy I like Ears…" Jaden said petting the pup.
"JJ…"
"I kind of like Ra and Raiden…" JJ mumbled to herself then looked up at Janet. "How much for both?"
"For you? I'll give ya Nico's spawn for half of Merlin's, I know how much trouble he'll cause."
"I'll take them."
"Yay we get two puppies!" Jaden smiled and hugged Nico.
"Woah, Jay you sure?" JJ nodded and picked the two pups up from Tara and Emily.
"You two better not ruin our house." JJ said and went inside with Janet to fill out the paperwork.
"Um… did we just get two dogs?" Izzy asked.
"I think so." Emily said confused.
"So now we have three Nico sized dogs?"
"Named Ra and Raiden."
"Oh we're going to be the hit of the neighborhood." Izzy laughed, Tara smiled and wrapped her arms around Izzy.
"Yeah but look at them." She said kissing Izzy's neck, the two puppies and walked over to Nico who had laid down they curled into his side, Nico had looked up and at them then sighed laying his head back down. Izzy smiled and turned in Tara's arms to face her.
"They fit in the family just like you do." She grinned and kissed Tara, Emily rolled her eyes, picking Jaden up, covering his eyes.
"We're going inside." She said.
"It's not like I haven't seen it before." Jaden said and Emily laughed.
"Doesn't mean we have to watch."
"Raiden?" Tara asked resting her forehead against Izzy's.
"The Japanese god of lightning and thunder."
"Ears should be Ra, he looks very wise and Ra seems like a wise kind of name."
"Oh yeah?" Izzy smiled and Tara gave her a lopsided smile.
"Yeah." Tara kissed Izzy.
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"Janet, can we leave them with you for the night?" JJ asked and Janet smiled.
"Sure JJ, leave Nico too." JJ smiled and thanked her.
"Ok kids, in to the car we're going to get food then go to a hotel." JJ said and looked at Izzy and Tara who had curled up with the three dogs. "And the pups stay, even the big one."
"Aw but mom…"
"Isabel."
"Yes mom." Izzy said putting Ears down, Emily herded the dogs inside and thanked Janet before getting into the car and driving to the outback steak house.
"Mom… is this the mac and cheese place?" Jaden asked and JJ laughed.
"Yes this is the mac and cheese place." She said ruffling his hair.
"Good. I like Mac and Cheese."
"I know you do."
"Order anything Tara." Emily said to the young girl.
"I'm good with just a salad…"
"Tara, I mean that order anything, I will not have you go hungry, oh and JJ and I agreed to get you two your own room, don't make us regret this." Emily said and Izzy grinned.
"So awesome thank you!"
"Don't thank us just yet." JJ said. "If she doesn't eat she's sleeping on our floor."
"Oh gezz. I hear they have good steaks?"
"Anything you want." Emily said again. They all ordered and conversation flowed well till they left. At the hotel Emily handed the girl's their keys.
"Don't mess this up." She warned and Tara nodded. She grabbed the bags and walked to the elevator with everyone. When the doors opened Emily, Izzy and JJ didn't move. Tara walked on with Jaden and turned around to see the three woman stopped dead in their tracks.
"You all ok?"
"We'll take the stairs." JJ said and Emily nodded, Izzy started walking away, Tara chuckled and hit the 2nd floor button. The doors closed and the small room started to move, suddenly it stopped, rocking back and forth the lights flicked. Tara braced herself against the walls.
"Shit!" Then the elevator moved again and the doors opened. Emily, Izzy and JJ sat there looking in at a very pale Tara.
"Everything ok?" Emily asked.
"Stairs… rock." Tara said and Emily laughed, she led the way to the rooms, Tara dropped Emily, JJ's and Jaden's bags at their room carrying hers and Izzy's to theirs. Tara flopped down on the bed and Izzy pulled her close.
"I just want to sleep." She said and Tara nodded. Not even ten minutes later Emily walked in the room and saw them on the bed, she chuckled, taking a photo on her phone she sent it to Garcia and JJ.
"Girl's we're going down to the pool if you want to join us."
"Pool?" Izzy's head shot up and Emily laughed.
"Yes, Izzy swimming." Emily said and Tara groaned.
"I was almost asleep." She whined and Emily left.
"I wanna go swimming."
"I… wait… ok I'll go." Tara smirked and Izzy laughed smacking her arm.
"My parents will be down there."
"Oh yeah, like they'll care, we cant do much worse than they already have." Tara said and Izzy threw a pillow at her.
"Come on, lets get ready." She growled stripping her clothes off, Tara sat watching till Izzy threw another pillow at her.
x-x-x
Emily handed Jaden his swim trunks and pushed him into the bathroom. "Change, don't come out till we tell you." She orders and Jaden nodded. Emily smiled and walked over to a half naked JJ, wrapping her hands around JJ's hips she pulled her back to her.
"Hi love." JJ said softly and Emily smiled kissing her neck.
"Hey babe." Emily said before turning JJ around kissing her. "Do you know how much I love you?" Emily asked and JJ shook her head. "I love you so much that I can't describe it, that no one can. It's so much love that it hurts to not love you." Emily said kissing JJ again and JJ wrapped her arms around Emily's neck.
"I think I might just know how that feels." JJ smiled kissing Emily. "Now get ready." She swatted at Emily who grinned and changed quickly before letting Jaden out of the bathroom.
"Ready to go swim?"
"Yes! Izzy's already down there! She texted you." Jaden said and he ran out of the room only to run into Tara.
"Woah you, aren't you suppose to stay with your moms?"
"I wanna swim!" Jaden said and Tara stuck her head into Emily and JJ's room.
"You want me to take him?"
"Sure Tara." Emily smiled and JJ rolled her eyes.
"We'll be right down."
"Take your time." Tara smiled and followed Jaden downstairs to the pool, inside Izzy was already doing laps in the small pool. Jaden jumped in as soon as he could, Tara chuckled and dove under the water catching up to Izzy she started swimming along the bottom underneath Izzy. She nearly smiled when Izzy opened her eyes and saw her under her. Both of them popping up at the same time; Izzy grinned and splashed water at Tara.
JJ stopped Emily pointing to the two girls before they entered the pool area.
"They're so much like us."
"Not really."
"Oh and how are they not like us?" JJ asked.
"Cause we knew each other for years before we knew we loved each other, they just knew."
"Are you jealous?" JJ asked smiling and Emily shook her head.
"No, I had too many years of you as a friend, I'd be jealous if I didn't have those years." Emily said. She watched as Tara pulled Izzy to her kissing Izzy. "Is it wrong that I pray to god that she doesn't break her heart?"
"No, just proves that you're her mother, anyway look at Tara… she doesn't look like she's going to break Izzy heart anytime soon."
"Yeah…"
"That scares you."
"What if she thinks that Tara's the one?"
"Then Tara's the one, I personally wouldn't disagree." JJ smiled watching her children. "I mean how nice would it be to call Tara our family?" Emily smiled, wrapping her arms around JJ she kissed the top of her head.
"I love that." They watched as Tara picked Jaden up and tossed him a few feet away he splashed in the water and swam right back over to do it again.
x-x-x
a/n: So just because I just realized, this series turned 2 years old on the 12th. I'm very proud I stuck with it for so long, and I'm excited that I still have a bit to go on it too. Thank you for reading this and sticking with it for so long, it means a lot.
