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Chapter Four:

Bianca sat on top of Brax smacking his chest. "Call me Ice Queen once more I dare you."

"Come on Auntie Bi l, give him a nipple cripple!" Darcy shouted as she stood up on the chair.

"Come on Bianca, make it count." Kyle taunted as Brax tried to throw her off.

"Here let me help you." Tamara said as she pinned Brax's arms down.

"Oh let's put ice on him!" Lucas exclaimed.

"No! Let's feed him vegemite on a spoon! He hates it." Jack told them.

Brax looked at Bianca. "Alright you two off."

"What's wrong Father?" Bianca teased.

"I hate that name, smartass."

"Then don't cause me ice queen." Bianca exclaimed.

"Charlie you married into a fucking circus!"

Charlie leaped of her chair, she recognised that voice. "Mum? Dad?" She asked in shock.

"Oh my god Charlie, you're pregnant too?" Elsie asked.

Charlie sighed. "How did you find me? Why are you here?"

"It was as easy as looking up your address in the phonebook sweetheart, and we wanted to see you." Elsie said.

"Why didn't you tell us you were married? Why didn't you invite us to the wedding?" Ross asked.

"It wasn't like it was planned"

Elsie frowned. "You got married without thinking it through. Oh dear god"

Charlie whipped her head around. "Bianca, Tamara get off my husband! Brax get up here"

Ross glared. "He's your husband? That man wrestling with two ladies, oh geez, Charlie."

"Oh they're not ladies" Jack chuckled.

"Shut up, Jack" Tamara said poking her tongue out.

"Charlie, this isn't like you. Have you lost your mind?" Ross asked as he trained his eyes on Brax as he hopped off the ground.

"Dad, please" Charlie muttered as Brax approached them. "This is my husband, Darryl Braxton"

Elise shook her head. "You have children, Charlie; don't you think you have enough of your own? How are you meant to raise so many, and you're pregnant again?"

Emily giggled. "Nanna, she's having twins."

Elise shook her head. "Dear, aren't you exhausting yourself?"

"No mum, I'm not. I love my children, I love my stepchildren and I'll love these babies. Equally." Charlie sighed as she saw her mother's disapproving glance.

Ross shook his head. "Don't these children have a mother?"

Tegan smiled as she leaned back in her chair. "I'm their mother"

Elsie looked at Tegan's pregnant stomach. "Oh dear god, is this a baby making factory, dear, I don't think I approve at all"

"You're associating yourself with your new husband's ex-wife?" Ross asked appalled.

"Yeah, and I don't see any problem with it." Charlie said.

Elsie glanced at Ross. "Are you still working, at least?"

"Yeah, I was made detective at Yabbie Creek a few years ago," Charlie said. "Mum, I'm happy, my kids are happy, isn't that what matters?"

"Hey," Brax said, holding a hand out to Elsie and Ross. "I'm Darryl, you can call me Brax."

"Nice to meet you." Elsie said politely as she gingerly shook Brax's hand.

"Do you want to stay for some food?" Brax offered just as Emily barrelled up to Elsie and Ross, throwing her arms around them. Mia followed, throwing her arms around Elsie's legs.

"Nanna!" Mia said happily.

"Hey munchkin, how are you?" Elsie asked.

"I'm good. We went to the beach yesterday and Ruby helped me build a sandcastle!"

"That's good dear." Elsie said as she picked Mia up.

"I really missed you guys," Emily said. "Why haven't you visited us lately? It's been ages!"

"We've just been busy dear, I'm sorry." Elsie answered as Mia buried her head in Elsie's shoulder.

"Can you at least stay for some food before you disappear again?" Emily asked.

"I suppose so, dear, since we do have a new family to get to know"

"I can introduce you to everyone, Nanna" Lucas said as he took her hand. "That is Auntie Bianca, Uncle Heath, Uncle Casey, Uncle Kyle…"

Elsie giggled softly as her grandson pointed around the table. "Dear, slowdown"

Lucas smiled sheepishly. "Sorry" He murmured as he took a deep breath. "They're dad's brothers, and Bianca is married to Uncle Heath" Lucas spoke quickly.

Ruby shook her head at her brothers antics, he spoke to quick. "Lucas!"

"It's fine, Ruby" Elsie assured. "Continue, dear"

Lucas smiled. "That's Auntie Tegan, she used to be dads wife. That's Tamara; she is in love with Uncle Kyle"

Tamara laughed at his description as she nodded to Elsie. "Nice to meet you"

"My turn" Edward announced as he pointed to Darcy. "That's Darcy, Jack, Jade, Taylah, Cassie, Samantha and Chase"

Joey pointed to the pram and highchair beside Bianca. "That's Rocco, Emmett and Scott…they're like our cousins now"

Ross looked at Charlie. "They call him dad?! Let me guess they call you mum? Charlie!"

"Yeah." Charlie said quietly.

"Charlie is my second mummy." Chase told them, taking a big slurp of Fanta.

"Is this true?" Ross asked.

"I don't see what the big deal is!" Charlie yelled, throwing down her napkin and storming into the house.

"Pregnancy hormones again." Joey said, rolling his eyes.

"Seriously though, what is the big deal?" Ruby asked. "Why does it matter if we call Brax dad and they call Charlie mum?"

"Look, Charlie has had a rough time, give her a break." Brax said.

"Don't you think it's a little disrespectful though?" Ross asked.

"Why would it be disrespectful?" Nicole asked.

"You don't find it disrespectful, them calling another man dad?"

"No, no I don't." Nicole said quietly. Nicole looked at Brax and smiled softly. "He's a great guy, and they deserve a father" Nicole said quietly and Brax ruffled her hair affectionately. "Brax!"

"What?" Brax said innocently and Nicole rolled her eyes.

Drew tugged on his leg making him glance down. "Is mummy angry again?"

Brax shook his head. "Not at you buddy"

"It's the babies fault!" Chase shouted as Charlie came storming back out of the house.

"How can you judge me? Where have you been the last four years?!"

"Charlie, we're sorry-" Elsie started but Charlie cut her off.

"You haven't bothered to contact me in the last four years! Nothing! Not even to the kids! You say you're concerned and that you're worried, but you haven't tried to contact me or the kids in four years! What does that say! It fucking says that you don't fucking care about me!"

"I'm sick, Charlie."

"What?" Charlie asked. "Dad!"

"Your father has early onset Alzheimer's. We were going to stay away" Elsie started.

"What's Alzheimer's?" Brock asked.

Brax glanced at Bianca and Heath. "Take the kids inside, Kyle, Case. Help."

Nicole and Ruby looked at Brax. "We're staying." They spoke in unison as Charlie started crying.

"So you were going to stay away until he couldn't remember any of us?"

"We didn't want to hurt you anymore than we already did." Ross said.

"You didn't think that this would hurt me?" Charlie asked as she threw herself into Brax's arms, sobbing.

"Of course we didn't think that, we love you Charlie. We didn't want to hurt you at all."

"Yeah, sure," Charlie said sarcastically. "You stayed away from me and the kids, ruined the time that we could have with you and you threw that away?"

"Charlie, this hurts me too." Ross said.

"Why didn't you fucking tell me sooner Dad?" Charlie asked, untangling herself from Brax's grasp and looking at her father. "Why would you keep that from me?"

"You were hurting over Roman, we couldn't bring ourselves to make your like harder" Elise spoke.

Charlie didn't speak as she turned around and walked inside, Brax saw the looks of sadness on her parents faces.

"Nic, Rubes check on your mum"

"Sure Brax"

Ross sighed. "We should go"

Brax shook his head. "Stay. The hormones are doing most of the talking. She will be down soon. Come inside" Brax motioned for them to follow him.

"Pa are you sick?" Drew asked, throwing himself in Ross's lap as the older man sat down on the couch, surrounded by his grandchildren, and faces he didn't recognize. "Are you gonna die like Grandma Cheryl?"

"Is that your mum?" Elsie asked. "Brax, I'm so sorry."

Brax just nodded.

"Are you going to die?" Drew asked.

"Drew, I am not going to die. What's going to happen is that I am going to forget things slowly, okay?"

"Are you going to forget me Pa?" Drew asked, a look of sadness on his face.

Brax could see the sadness etched on Ross's face as he searched for an answer.

Ross settled on a lie, so he wouldn't hurt the little boy. "No Drew. I am never going to forget you or your siblings."

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Authors Note: Let us know what you think.

Ross and Elise disappear for a little bit but they'll make another appearance.