A/N: Thanks to Thunder903 and Smart One 17 for reviewing.
Song list: See You When I See You- Jason Aldean
Chapter 4: Setting Up
"I want you to listen to how quiet the house is this morning. I miss them a lot sometimes, Sparky." Lyn told her husband. They were sitting around their kitchen table.
"I miss them too, at least we normally have Gus here to make a little noise. But they did give us grandchildren to fill the house on occasion, so we can't be too mad at them." Frank replied.
Just then a dark headed young woman who looked a lot like Frank walked into the room. "I hope you guys don't mind, but it was late when I got in, so I just used my key and found myself a bed." She said by way of greeting.
Frank jumped up to his feet and pulled her into a hug. "Brooke Hoyt, it's been entirely too long since you stopped in and let your big brother know that you're still alive. I've been worried sick about you, girl." He lectured and then he pressed a kiss to her head.
"Sorry, Frankie, I've just been busy." Brooke replied hugging her big brother. Frank was just like a big cuddly teddy bear and she knew how to play him.
"Ainsley Breanna Brooklyn Hoyt, don't think that you're going to just waltz in here after all of this time and we're just going to take I've been busy as an answer as to why you haven't called." Lyn scolded her sister-in-law knowing that Frank wouldn't.
"Way to use my full name, Lyn." Brooke cracked with a grin.
"Don't you give me that grin young lady, I just so happen to be immune to that grin. Bianca and Francis have used it on me so many times that it doesn't even effect me anymore." Lyn warned her, but she went and pulled her into a hug. "It's good to have you home." She too kissed her on top of her head.
Frank shared a look with his wife. "Lyn, do you remember who this one's best friend is?" he asked her.
Lyn nodded her head thoughtfully. "Brooke, honey, I hate to tell you this, but I think you're up to something." She called her out.
"Why would you think something like that, Lenny?" Brooke asked trying to sound innocent.
"I think you know why, don't play dumb with me, it's not very becoming on you." Lyn said arching her eyebrow at her.
"Brooke, you might as well tell her what she wants to know. You and I both know that the woman is like a dog on a bone." Frank advised her.
"I really don't know what she's talking about right now, Frankie." Brooke swore to her brother.
"Ok, I'll let it go, for now." Lyn relented.
"I swear I got in more trouble with you than I did with my own mother growing up." Brooke muttered.
"That's because you were always following B around like a little lost puppy." Frank teased her.
"I did not follow B around, I just had to chase after Tommy to make sure that he didn't get in trouble." Brooke corrected her.
Before either Frank or Lyn could reply both Tommy and Emmett came walking in the patio door.
"Lenny, I did something really bad last night." Tommy groaned grabbing his head in pain.
"It's ok, Thomas, I too did something that was ill advised last night." Emmett said patting him on the back.
Lyn looked between her brother and her sister-in-law. "Brooke, you now know why I think you're up to something. I find it hard to believe that you didn't know Tommy was in town."
Tommy waved excitedly at his best friend. "Brooke, I need to tell you all about the unwise choices that I made last night." Those two had been inseparable since diapers.
"Tommy, I'm not sure that I want to know what you did." Brooke replied shaking her head at him.
"Hey, it's good to see you too, Brooke. I've been good, I'm glad that you asked." Emmett went off on a rant.
Brooke walked over to her youngest brother and put her arms around her. "Hi, Danny, I missed you."
Emmett smiled down at her. "I missed you too, kid. But, you know that I don't like to be called Danny." He replied.
"How about you two gentlemen tell us what you did last night that is so bad?" Lyn asked her brother and her brother-in-law.
"I'm not sure that I should say, it's not something to be proud of." Emmett said hanging his head in shame.
"What did you do with my sister?" Lyn asked him.
"I didn't do anything with your sister, she was with Greg last night." Emmett replied. Donnie's arrangement with Greg and Emmett was probably the worst kept secret ever.
"Then what could you have done that was that bad?" Frank asked his baby brother not really wanting to know.
"We just won't go there right now, it's not a nice place to be." Emmett said throwing himself down in a chair.
"I'll just come out and admit that I slept with my niece's sister-in-law." Tommy offered.
Lyn thought about it for a minute and then sighed. "Hank is gonna kill you, which one did you sleep with?" she demanded of him.
"I can tell you that he didn't sleep with Carly." Emmett supplied helpfully.
"How do you know that?" Brooke asked not really wanting to know.
"Because, that's the bad thing I did last night that I don't want to talk about." Emmett informed her before hanging his head in shame.
"Giovanni, you slept with Charlie? Hank is going to kill you before he kills Emmett." Lyn yelled at her little brother for being stupid.
"Well, there wasn't much sleeping involved, but yeah." Tommy replied.
"Tommy, just tell me what you want them to put on your headstone." Bianca told her uncle walking in the kitchen.
"You won't let him kill me will you?" Tommy asked her.
"He won't kill you, but I suggest you stop talking about it before he gets here. He'll be here any minute, we ran and he's not as fast as I am." Bianca replied.
"Hey, I'm not the only one that he's going to kill, he's gonna kill Emmett too." Tommy said defensively.
"Why would I kill Emmett?" Henry asked stepping through the patio door. He looked at his wife and then at both of her uncles before letting out a resigned sigh. "I'll just say this whichever one of you knocked boots with Carly needs to be tested."
"Honey, she's twenty-four and single, she'll settle down one day. You were no angel before we got married." Bianca replied looking from him to Brooke.
"Am I never to be forgiven for dating Brooke?" Henry asked her.
"You need to relax, I was only giving you a hard time. You used to be married to my sister, if I can get over that I can get over the fact that you dated Brooke." Bianca shook her head at him.
"It's nice to see you too, B." Brooke stated sarcastically.
"I would say that it is nice to see you, but I'm reasonably sure that you and Tommy are both up to something. Because, you two are always up to something when you're together." Bianca replied.
"We're not up to anything, I honestly have no idea why you people all think that." Brooke objected strongly.
"Really, B, I have no clue what you're talking about." Tommy agreed with his best friend.
"Hank, I gave them a fair chance didn't I?" Bianca asked turning to her husband.
"Yeah, that's more of a chance than some people who we arrest get." Henry retorted.
Bianca looked between Brooke and Tommy before speaking again. "You're both lying out of your asses. I happen to know for a fact that Michael has a very big bounty out on a demon right now. I know this because I just got done telling him that I wouldn't do it. That and the fact that you two idiots were stupid enough to call Paige and Victor to help you and you fail to realize that sooner or later those two tell me everything."
"What kind of demon?" Henry asked his wife.
"A really, really easy to vanquish midlevel demon." Bianca told him like it pained her to talk about it.
"You should have taken the job, I would have helped you." Henry replied. They had come to an understanding about her taking jobs.
"If I had known that you were going to be off of work for two weeks I would have taken the job." Bianca snorted.
"This demon really isn't as easy to take care of as you're making it sound." Brooke said rolling her eyes.
"Actually, I called Paige for help with a different demon. They say that this guy is pretty much a force to be reckoned with." Tommy corrected his niece.
"You got any info on him?" Henry asked out of curiosity.
Tommy produced a slip of paper and handed it to Henry. "Here you go, Hank."
Henry took the piece of paper from him and he laughed after he read it. "B, if you want to have a good laugh read that," he said handing it to his wife.
Bianca took the sheet of paper and read it. The name printed on it was Ben Turner. "Tommy, Donnie would kill you dead if you even thought about taking that contract." She told the younger man. She just couldn't help laughing at him though.
Emmett understood what she was talking about right away. "Someone put a hit out on Greg?" he asked incredulously.
"Yeah, if it weren't for the fact that there was genuine surprise on your face I would have said that you were the one who put the hit out." Henry informed him, but he was joking.
"Whatever is going on around here, I'm not worrying about it for the next two days. After that I will consider helping you children get out of the mess that you have gotten yourselves into." Bianca said shaking her head.
"You really sound like a mom when you say things like that." Emmett threw out there shaking his head.
"Trust me, I really am a mom. If you don't believe me I have four little monsters running around to prove it." Bianca replied.
"Where are my grandchildren right now?" Frank asked as if the thought had just occurred to him.
"They're with my mom and dad. We're going to go pick them up after we leave here." Henry answered him.
"Don't worry, Frank, you'll get to spoil their little asses rotten tonight." Lyn assured her husband.
"Mom, you haven't really seen them in weeks and this is how you talk about them. I don't know what I'm going to do with you." Bianca said in a teasing manner.
"I have missed them, but that doesn't mean that they're not all little brats." Lyn replied with a smirk.
Bianca turned to her husband. "How you work with her without killing her I will never know." She could only shake her head at her mother.
"In the studio with me now I have Huck Cavanaugh who stopped by to talk about his new single." A man's voice filtered out over the radio waves. "It's good to have you here,Huck,why don't you tell us about the new single?"
"It's good to be here, Dave. Uh, we did something different with this new song and we're all really happy with the way that it turned out." Huck replied.
"Penny, what are you doing listening to this bullshit?" Emily asked her roommate.
"I don't know, I guess I just wanted to hear it." Penny replied. Despite everything that she and Huck had been through together she still loved his stupid ass.
"How about you introduce it for us?" Dave asked Huck.
"I'm Huck Cavanaugh,and this is my new single,See You When I See You." Huck had a really good radio presence and he seemed like he was at ease.
"I was just wondering. Normally these days if I mention Huck you shut down on me." Emily pointed out to her.
"Emily, you know as well as I do that it's complicated." Penny replied.
"Let's don't say goodbye,I hate the way it sounds. So,if you don't mind,let's just say for now." Huck's smooth mellow voice bounced off the radio waves.
"Penny, you're a Halliwell, you don't do easy." Emily chuckled.
"Don't you have a boyfriend around here to aggravate?" Penny asked her best friend resisting the urge to roll her eyes.
"Jack is still sleeping or I would be." Emily replied sticking her tongue out at her.
"Real mature, Em." Penny said flipping her off.
"See you when I see you,another place some other time.If I ever get down your way or you're ever up around mine.We'll laugh about the old days and catch up on the new.Yeah,I'll see you when I see you and I hope it's someday soon." Huck's voice wasn't alone this time it was joined by that of a female.
"It's a good thing that Emily never claimed to be mature." Jack said stepping into the living room. He sat down beside Emily and situated her legs over his lap. "Morning, meanness." He said leaning over to kiss her.
"Morning, Jackie," Emily replied.
"If you two get any sweeter I'm going to need to have my teeth checked for cavities." Penny cracked rolling her eyes.
"God made this ol' world round and maybe it's that way so the paths we go down.Yeah,I will cross again someday.And someday I'll." The female voice sang out this time.
Penny got a pissed off look on her face. "I'm gonna fucking kill that stupid bastard, he told me that he wasn't going to use that version."
"Yeah, that's why you never go sing with him. I warned you about that." Emily laughed at her friend.
"See you when I see you,another place some other time.If I ever get down your way or you're ever up around mine.We'll laugh about the old days and catch up on the new.Yeah,I'll see you when I see you and I hope it's some day real soon." Came the next verse. There was no denying that Penny and Huck's voices blended very well together.
"I hope it's some day soon." Huck sang in a gravely voice.
"This shit is not funny, Emily. I'm really gonna kill him when I get my hands on him." Penny smacked Emily with a pillow.
"You're right is fucking hilarious." Emily was laughing too hard to even try to defend herself against Penny's blows.
Jack bit his lip to keep from laughing out loud. He knew the quickest way to piss a Halliwell woman off was to laugh at her. "Penny, it's not like you sound bad." He said lamely.
"I'll see you when I see you,another place some other time.If I ever get down your way or you're ever up around mine." Huck and Penny's voices joined together here.
"Just stop by." Huck sang out.
"We'll laugh about the old days and catch up on the new.Yeah,I'll see you when I see you." Huck and Penny were together again.
"'Til then my prayers are with you." Penny wailed out.
"And I hope it's some day soon.I'll see you when I see you." The song finished with Huck and Penny in harmony.
"I'm gonna kill that idiot just as soon as I get my hands on him." Penny fumed shaking her head.
Huck leaned back in the chair he was sitting in with a smile on his face. He couldn't have been happier with the way that his new song had turned out. If the vibrating phone in his pocket was any indication though, Penny was going to kill him, but it would be well worth it.
"Huck, let me just say that that was so incredible." Dave the DJ told him.
"Thanks, Dave," Huck replied.
"Have you gone through a bad breakup lately to inspire that song?" Dave asked him jokingly.
Huck threw back his head and laughed. "No, it was nothing like that. Although, that song could be used to get over a breakup, what the song is really about is coming full circle. Life eventually comes back on itself and that is the message that we were trying to get across." He explained.
"Well, Huck, it's been really great having you in the studio this morning. And we all look forward to hearing more from you." Dave told him.
"Thanks for having me here, Dave. Let me say that I don't think we're going to disappoint anyone with the new album." Huck replied shaking his hand. He walked out of the studio and found his dad waiting for him in the lobby.
Eric smiled at his son. "Hey, you did a great job in there, Puck." He said throwing his arm around his son's shoulder.
"Thanks, dad, it means a lot that you could come with me today." Huck said gratefully.
"I'm your dad, Noah, there is no place in the world that I rather be right now." Eric assured him.
Calleigh walked into the kitchen of the home that she used to share with her husband and son. She took a good look around as she made the trip and she could see that Parker really wasn't much on housekeeping these days. "I take it that the coffee in this place is still fit to drink despite the state of things." She said as she walked up behind her husband.
"As you can see the kitchen is really the only part of the house that is clean at the moment. So, it's a safe bet that the coffee is still safe to drink." Parker said from where he stood shirtless at the stove. "I hope I didn't wake you up with all the noise that I was making down here," he added.
Calleigh smiled wanly at him. "You didn't wake me up, my damn internal body clock told me that it was time to get up. You didn't have to sleep on the couch last night you could have taken the bed." She replied.
"The couch doesn't bother me, I can't tell you the last time that I've slept in a bed." Parker assured her as he turned to face her.
Calleigh allowed herself to take in the sight of the half dressed man in front of her. A tattoo on his left pec caught her eye. It was a pair of handprints with the words Take my hand and lead me on for where you lead I will follow written in cursive script. "I don't think either of us has been getting much sleep lately." She observed.
"I hope you're hungry, I made pancakes. It's just about the only thing that I don't burn." Parker replied putting two plates on the counter. He was doing his best to keep from responding to her last remark.
"Well, with as hungry as I am this morning I think that I would be able to stomach even your more lame attempts at cooking." Calleigh smiled at him.
Parker barked out a little laugh. "Cal, you don't want to do that to yourself." He assured her taking a bite of his food.
Calleigh felt a pang of sadness hit her as she watched him eat. His mannerisms reminded her so much of their son that it wasn't funny. She quickly buried those feelings back under the surface with everything else that she couldn't bear to think about. "When did you get that tattoo?" she asked to get herself on a new subject.
"A few weeks ago, I had them use the handprints on Jesse's birth certificate to do this." Parker replied.
"I think that it was a really nice gesture." Calleigh really didn't know what else to say to that.
Parker shook his head sadly. "No it wasn't, I got this to remind me of how I failed him. I broke a promise to him Cal. That's what the words above it are about."
"What do you mean you broke a promise to him?" Calleigh asked him with an incredulous look on her face. She couldn't have asked for him to be a better father to their son.
Parker had opened this can of worms and he knew that he had to answer her question, so he swallowed down the wave of guilt that he felt. "You remember how when Jesse was first learning how to walk he would the first two fingers of both my hands in his little fists?" he asked her and she nodded in response. "I promised him then that all he had to do was take my hand and I would always follow him wherever he wanted to go. I promised him that he didn't even have to take my hand all he had to do was need me and I would be there. Cal, for all I know he could be out there somewhere scared and alone waiting for me to come after him, but I can't do that because I don't know where he is or even if he is ok."
"Parker, I have to hope that he is out and there and he knows that his daddy is doing everything that he can to get to him, we both are." Calleigh assured him.
"But he is just so little and helpless and I can't bear the thought of him wanting me and here I can't do a damn thing about it." Parker's voice broke at the end of that statement and tears went cascading down his face.
Calleigh somewhat awkwardly managed to negotiate their size difference and pull him close to her so that she could hold him while he cried. "Shh, it's going to be ok." She whispered in his ear while rubbing soft circles on his back. She brought up her hand and wiped some tears away from her face. She wasn't sure how things were going to be ok, but she just knew they had to be.
"Ok, little man, you're going to have to bear with Aunt Carly for just a second. It is very possible that she was still drunk when she took your measurements for these pants." Carly told Victor. She had him standing on the dining room table at the manor.
"Really, Carly?" Bianca asked her sister-in-law. She couldn't help laughing.
"B, you should know by now that Carly and I are never really sober." Val pointed out to her. She was making sure that Charlie's pants fit him.
"Shit, I think that I'm still hung over right now." Carly said grabbing her head in pain.
"Are you sure that you just aren't having morning after regrets?" Paige asked her aunt with a smirk on her face.
"Paige, what are you talking about?" Carly asked her knowing that she knew damn well what she was talking about.
"You and Emmett." Paige replied smugly she had her feet up on the table and she was working on a crossword in the newspaper.
"Carly, you didn't?" Mel asked her with an amused look on her face.
"I did, because I had entirely too much to drink." Carly replied like it was no big deal.
"Mel, I know you don't think that there is any hope for those two." Patty pointed out to her.
"I don't think that there is any hope for those two. I know that they are beyond help." Mel replied shaking her head.
"Mommy, I tired of standing here." Charlie complained to Prue.
"I know you are, Charlie Coop, but Aunt Val is almost finished. You have been such a big boy about this." Prue replied smiling at him.
"Ok, mommy." Charlie sighed.
"He might look like Chuck, but he without a doubt got your attitude." Lilly commented biting her lip to keep from laughing.
"I know and we're seriously going to fight when he gets to be a teenager." Prue agreed with her.
"I'll trade you for the sassy mouthed nine year old that I've got." Maria threw out there.
"Would you stop acting like that girl is so bad?" Bianca asked her sister rolling her eyes.
"B, you only don't think she is bad because she is just like you. She has started talking to me the way that you talk to mom." Maria ranted at her younger sister.
"Yeah, you get no sympathy from me, you see what I have to deal with." Bianca said inclining her head in Paige's direction.
"Mel, I need a six letter word for annoying." Paige addressed her aunt who was one of her best friends.
Mel knew where she was going with this and she was having no part of it. "I don't have a word for you, Slick." She replied.
Paige shook her head. "Never mind, I've got it. The word I was looking for is Bianca." She smirked when her mother shot her a glare.
"Paige, that's mommy's name." Victor pointed out to his big sister like she was talking crazy.
"Your sissy is just being silly, baby." Bianca told him.
"I don't think you two are ever really gonna stop nit picking each other." Rachel laughed.
"Ok, little dude, Aunt Carly is done with you now." Carly said helping Victor down.
"You're done too, Charlie." Val said ruffling her nephew's hair. She laughed as she watched both little boys run out of the room.
"Hey, Mel, is it safe for me to come in there?" Roman called out to his fiancé as he entered the manor.
"Yeah, you can come on in." Mel called back. It wasn't like he was going to see her in her dress. She was dressed in a pair of shorts that had SFPD written on the leg and a Florida Gators t-shirt.
Roman's face was lit up like a little kid on Christmas when he finally came into the room. "Hi, baby." He said pecking her on the lips.
"Hi," Mel replied before kissing him again.
"Have you by chance read today's paper yet?" Roman asked her.
"No, but I wager to say that that might have something to do with the mood you're in." Mel arched her eyebrow at him.
"As it turns out the food critic for the Mirror was in the restaurant two nights ago. We got a three star review." Roman reported proudly.
"Is that on a five star scale?" Lilly asked her twin.
"It depends on which critic from the Mirror did the review. We have two food critics, one uses the three star scale and the other uses the five star scale. They say getting three stars from the critic that uses that scale if better than a five star review from the other critic." Oriana piped up she was hunched over her laptop with her fingers flying over the keys.
"I am so proud of you, Roman James." Mel said wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I'll be back, I've gotta go show this to Aunt Piper." Roman said he could barely contain his excitement.
"What did you do?" Mel asked Oriana once Roman was out of the room.
Oriana looked up from her computer with an innocent grin. "I didn't do anything, I'm not a food critic. I review stores and fashion and I only do that when I'm not busy reporting on other things." She reminded her.
"You know the damn food critic." Mel replied.
"That's right I do, and I can't stand the son of a bitch, he is a slime ball and he hits on me all of the time." Oriana countered.
"But, there are two critics." Mel pointed out.
"Mel, as a rule of thumb if you think she did something then she most likely did." Calleigh supplied. She worked with Oriana and she knew damn well what she was like. She was actually feeling better now that she had had a chance to talk to Parker.
"I don't do half the shit that the editor thinks I do. I mostly sit in my office and mind my own business." Oriana said putting on an innocent act.
"O, my mom isn't the most suspicious person in the world, and I will admit that I had it easy growing up. So, I'm thinking that if she says you're up to something then chances are that you are." Prue told her friend.
"Prue, you talk in circles sometimes." Oriana replied. Oddly enough she had understood every word that she had said.
"I'm a Halliwell, none of us are very clear when we talk." Prue corrected her.
"Speaking of Halliwells," Oriana said like a thought had just popped into her head. "Val, Carly, you know that I love you guys right?" she asked them.
"O, what do you want?" Val asked knowing that it had to be something.
"It's nothing much, just one little interview with you and Carly." Oriana replied hopefully.
"What do you want to interview us for?" Val asked her.
"You two just run the hottest up and coming clothing line that there is. I can't imagine why it would be a big deal to get an interview." Oriana answered sarcastically.
"Val would be more than happy to do an interview with you, me on the other hand, I'm pretty sure that I'm busy." Carly threw out there.
"Carly, this is how you treat me? After all the late night talks you and I had together?" Oriana wasn't above playing that card in front of her sister.
"So, you're the one we have to thank for the way that she behaves?" Paige asked her.
"Paige, I was seventeen at the time, listening to anything that came out of my mouth probably wasn't a good idea." Oriana reminded her.
"Fine, we'll both do your damn interview." Carly grumbled.
"So, what did you think of Jason's girlfriend?" Rachel asked Carly.
"All have to say if the bitch must be damn good in bed to have him so fucking blind. There is no way in hell that that baby is his." Carly really wasn't holding anything back.
"You're not the only one who thinks that she isn't his." Paige snorted.
"But, you know Jason he is going to do the decent thing." Patty chimed in.
"I'm pretty sure that Jason doesn't have a clue that that baby isn't his. I mean it's pretty obvious that she isn't, but he just can't see it." Mel added.
"Woman, are you ready to make sure your wedding dress fits? We don't have all day." Val asked.
"I just need someone to remind me why I thought it would be a good idea to get married." Mel grumbled.
"Because, you're slightly retarded." Paige supplied helpfully.
"Paige, you know that you love being married. I don't know why you must act like you don't." Lilly laughed at her.
"Those two hardly ever see each other, it's not like they have a chance to get tired of one another." Liz added.
"I don't get tired of him even when we do see a lot of each other." Paige said defensively.
"Ok, now that Slick has been heard from I think that it is fair to say that I'm ready to try that dress on." Mel chuckled.
"I'm just surprised as hell that Penny and Emily aren't here micromanaging right now." Carly said with a confused look on her face.
"Those two had other things to do today. They had to make sure that everything is just right, they are a couple of perfectionists." Mel reported. She had seen them work enough to know what they were like.
"Carly, how many more of these damn fittings do we have to do?" Val asked her eyes we're getting tired and she was really hungover.
"Val, my friend, you really don't want to know the answer to that." Carly replied shaking her head.
"I swear to God, I'm going to need a vacation after this." Val mumbled.
"Val, we are on vacation right now." Carly reminded her.
"Well then, we need another vacation after this." Val maintained.
"I'm pretty sure that Lilly would kill us if we took too much time off. Remember she is the one who handles the numbers." Carly pointed out.
"You two are good to take a vacation right now if you want to, but you have to at least attempt to get some work done." Lilly told them seriously. Not only did she do their accounting, she still did Piper's accounting, Tim's accounting, and the accounting for the company that Troy and Chord owned.
"Lilly, how the hell do you work as much as you do and still have time to be a mother?" Val asked her sister-in-law seriously.
"It's very simple, I don't sleep that much, not that your nephew allows me to sleep." Lilly replied with a dry chuckle.
"I refuse to believe that Coop is the little demon that you make him out to be." Val disputed.
"Val, he is Jake's son, that right there is enough for me to believe it." Prue cracked she wasn't going to pass up the chance to get a dig in on her brother.
That night the guys were all gathered at a strip club, they didn't stop to consider that their wives would kill them, this was just something that they had to do.
"Ro, are you sure that you want to do this? I can get you out of town tonight if you want." Chris joked with his soon to be brother-in-law.
Roman smiled and shook his head at Chris. "Chris, I'm positive that I want to do this. I'm never going to love any other woman the way that I love Mel. Besides that if I didn't show up tomorrow, I'm pretty sure that I could count on Paige helping Mel hunt me down and do not nice things to me."
"That sounds about right to me." Dom agreed with him. The last thing that he wanted was Mel and Paige on his ass at the same time.
Wyatt slid in the booth next to Roman and put his hand on his shoulder. "Ro, I know that this goes without saying, but if you ever hurt my baby sister I will kill you." he had a disarming grin fixed on his face, but they both knew that he meant business.
"I wouldn't dream of hurting her, Wyatt, she means everything to me." Roman didn't realize it, but he got a goofy grin on his face every time he even thought about Mel.
"Trust me, Wy, you wouldn't have to worry about killing him, because Mel would do it herself." Ricky added with a laugh.
"You've got that shit right, I can't begin to tell you the number of suspects that I've had to pull her off of." Victor agreed with Ricky.
"Vic, when you say things like that you give them ammo to talk about how cops aren't normal." Henry pointed out to his son.
"I can't help it that it happens to be true." Victor replied like he should have thought about that.
"Little brother you better enjoy tonight, pretty soon you're not going to be able to do things like this anymore." Troy advised his younger brother.
"Oriana told me that I had to be on my best behavior tonight, she said that I can't do the things I used to do because I'm going to be a father soon." Chord acknowledged what his brother was saying.
"At least you get a warning I don't even get that, I get a look that says if I do anything stupid I'm sleeping on the couch." Jake said laughing. He knew that Lilly wouldn't actually make him sleep on the couch, but she liked to threaten him with it.
Chuck took a drag off of the cigarette he was smoking before joining the conversation. "If Prue knew that I was smoking right now she would kill me. Forget kill me, she wouldn't let me around the boys for as long as I smelled like smoke."
"I sometimes sneak a cigarette when I have to go out to run errands. I think Lizzie is on to me, because now she sends Nixie with me whenever she can, she knows that I won't smoke with her in the car." Wyatt chimed in.
"Wy, I would think that at some point in time she is going to give up on trying to get you to quit smoking. She's been trying for the last seven years and it hasn't happened yet." Henry observed.
"My wife is persistent as hell and she will break her foot off in my ass if she finds out that I'm still smoking." Wyatt replied. He knew that he would be in for a world of hurt if Liz caught him smoking yet again.
"My bride to be told me that they're my damn lungs if I want to mess them up that is my business." Roman informed the group.
"I can hear Mels saying something like that to you. She threatens to beat the shit out of me all of the time." Victor said shaking his head.
"Nothing that Mel says or does surprises me. I do live with her after all." Chase added.
"Hey, you're not the only one who has to live there with her. I will have you know that I'm glad when those girls have to work." Billy loved Mel and Patty, but they made him do things around the apartment that he rather not do.
"Billy, I would sympathize with you, but I had to live with Prue when I lived in that apartment and I much rather deal with Mel and Charlie any day of the week." Henry teased his cousin ruffling his hair.
"I don't think our wives talk about us as much as we talk about them." Alan mentioned in passing. It seemed to him that they spent entirely too much time talking about their women.
"Yeah they do, according to Hailey we would all blush if we knew about half the shit they say about us." Brady corrected him.
"Sean, why must it always be our job to liven things up?" Huck asked his friend.
"I have no idea, Huck, it may just be that these guys don't know how to party." Sean replied knowing damn good and well that that wasn't true.
"That's not true at all, these guys were a lot of fun before they had kids." Greg informed them.
"I'm going to have to agree with Greg on that one. These guys really knew how to party when we were teenagers." Tommy said he was carrying a tray of shots.
"Thomas, as much as I hate to say it, you do have a point." Emmett told the closest thing that he had to a little brother. He often joked with Donnie that he would gladly trade her younger siblings. He too was carrying a tray of shots.
Once everyone had a shot glass in their hands they all looked at Henry to make a toast.
"Alright, gentlemen, you want me to make a toast, I've got one." Henry said after thinking it over for a moment. "Here's to you, Roman, you're about to join the big boys' club, I hope you and Mel are very happy together." He toasted. They all tossed down their shots.
"Emmett, what the hell? Are we girls now? That shit was pretty weak." Parker asked Emmett with an arched eyebrow.
"I didn't want to get anything too harsh for the younger guys, they haven't been drinking with us for that long. I'm trying to ease them into things." Emmett joked.
"Emmett, I will have you know that I've been able to legally drink for three years, I'm pretty sure that I can handle drinking with the big boys." Ricky assured him.
"Ricky, you obviously can't if you're saying things like that, you never under any circumstances challenge a Hoyt to a drinking game least of all Emmett." Chase advised him.
"I'm pretty sure that I can take him." Ricky said not heeding the warning his was given.
"Ricky, there are two Hoyts that you never challenge to drinking games. I'm married to one of them and Emmett happens to be the other one, since he has his father's genes. Brennan pretty much drinks from the time that he gets up until the time he goes to bed." Henry said trying to talk him out of his foolishness.
"You might want to listen to Hank, he was pretty much right on the money with that statement." Tyler said. He knew for a fact that it was stupid to try to keep up with a Hoyt when it came to drinking.
"I still say that I can take him." Ricky just couldn't allow himself to back down on this one.
"Let him learn the hard way, Hank, we all had to." Jason told him.
"Jay, I'm surprised that Katie let you out of the house to come out tonight." Roman cracked.
"Katie is not the boss of me just because she happens to think she is. Actually, she was pretty cool about me coming out tonight, she told me just to crash with DJ if I had too much to drink." Jason replied.
DJ rolled his eyes upon hearing this. "Which of course means that Jason is going to have too much to drink and I'm going to have to try to manhandle his ass into the apartment."
"Don't worry we'll all manage to make it home somehow." Chris laughed clapping him on the back.
"Alright, Ricky, if you want to do this we're going to do this." Emmett declared loudly.
"Game on, Hoyt, I know that I can take your old ass." Ricky replied with a cocky grin.
"If he is sick in the morning you guys can all tell my mom that I had nothing to do with this." Chuck said throwing his hands out in front of him in a sign that he had nothing to do with this.
"Mom isn't the one that he is going to have to worry about being pissed at him, he'll have to worry about pissing Mel off." Roman corrected his older brother.
"Mel would never dream of getting pissed off at anyone for anything." Jack said sarcastically he knew damn well that his sister was as bad as they were making her out to be.
"Shit, let him do what he wants to do, he has to learn sometimes." Jake put his two cents in on the matter. "Just don't tell Lilly that I said that if he does get sick." He had a healthy fear of his wife.
"It's nice to know that you idiots finally learned your damn wives. I was starting to think that there wasn't any hope for you." Tyler said.
"They don't fear their wives, they fear mine, their wives threaten to have her kill them." Henry chuckled.
"I'm the only one who should be really terrified of her, she would have no problem killing me." Victor said gulping at the thought of having his mom pissed at him.
"If she hasn't killed Paige yet then she is not going to kill you." Henry assured him.
"Gentlemen, to keep this game honest I fear that I must start taking bets. Now I've got fifty on Hoyt." Troy announced it always came back to gambling with him.
"Yeah, well, I've got fifty on Ricky then." Dom took his brother's bet.
"Shit, I might as well put fifty on Emmett." Chord said knowing that his wife would kill him if he managed to lose fifty bucks.
"There is really now hope for those two gambling addicts." DJ laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes.
"You just better hope the one who looks like Charlie Manson doesn't lose, because if he does the boss is going to have us covering up a murder instead of investigating it." Chris of course was referring to the fact that Oriana would kill Chord if she knew he was gambling.
"Nobody, is gonna break bro code and tell her anything. What happens in the strip club stays in the strip club." Huck intoned solemnly.
"Damn straight," Sean said bumping knuckles with his partner in crime.
"Bianca Lyn, I just want you to know that you're drinking double tonight, one for me and one for you." Oriana informed her sister. They were also in a strip club watching men who looked like Greek gods gyrate on poles.
"I would gladly accept if Hank wasn't drinking too, but one of us has to be able to get up with the kids in the morning." Bianca replied like she was talking crazy.
"Nice try, B, the kids are with mom and dad tonight." Maria reminded her.
"Oh, shit, I can drink as much as I want and then go home and have my way with my husband without my son interrupting us by screaming his lungs out." Bianca said brightly as she took two shots as fast as she could.
"That is one of my personal favorites, I swear to God, I know that Shane knows the minute that Wyatt touches me, because he starts screaming at the top of his lungs." Liz agreed.
"Even better is when Chuck and I are just about to have sex and Charlie will bust into the room and then Cal starts crying." Prue threw out there.
"No, I've got that beat, Lyn just about walked in on me and Tyler one night. I could have killed him for not locking that damn door. I really don't want to have to explain the birds and the bees to my nine year old." Maria shared with them.
"I can't believe you don't make sure the door is locked. I check to make sure the door is locked even if I know Chris locked the door. Paige thinks absolutely nothing of walking in the room and crawling in bed with us and sure as Christ made little apples if we left that door unlocked that's what would happen." Rachel said like her cousin had lost her mind.
"I always make sure the door is locked and for some reason that night I didn't. All I know is if that girl had walked in two minutes sooner she would have seen something that she didn't need to see." Maria replied.
"My all time favorite though, is when Jake and I are right in the middle of sex and I'm almost there and then Sammy decides that she is going to have one of those nights when she can't sleep good and she starts calling for us." Lilly reported.
"Don't even get me started on that, it's fucking horrible." Bianca agreed.
"Is a dull sex life what I have to look forward to now that I'm going to be a mother?" Oriana asked her voice coming out as a whine.
"If you're listening closely the moral is that you always remember to lock the damn door. Hank and I don't have a dull sex life, you just have to make sure that they don't walk in and see it." Bianca explained to her.
"That right there is why I'm never having kids." Paige said shaking her head.
"Paige, I don't think that you need to have kids." Mel told her and she was being dead serious.
"What you have that kinky a sex life?" Val asked her with an arched eyebrow.
"If you must know I once left Dom handcuffed to the bed for like six hours." Paige retorted.
"You are such a bitch when you want to be." Patty couldn't help laughing at her.
"He didn't have to be in court that day and I stopped by on my lunch break to undo the cuffs." Paige replied like it wasn't a big deal.
"I've used my cuffs for purposes other than what they were intended for before too, I can't even say anything about that." Mel informed her.
"I don't think that there is one of you cops who hasn't used your handcuffs in the bedroom." Carly threw out there.
"Carly, you act like you never used Jason's handcuffs when you two were dating." Penny called her on her bullshit.
"I didn't say that we never used his handcuffs, I just said that cops have a thing about their handcuffs." Carly corrected her younger cousin.
"Mel, I really don't want to hear about you using your cuffs on my brother. That gives me bad mental pictures I don't need." Emily said sounding grossed out.
"Emily, you're sleeping with my brother, don't think that that isn't weird for me." Mel pointed out to her.
"I don't know why Val is acting like she isn't kinky in the sack. We all know how much she talks about sex." Mia said.
"Honey, if I told you about some of the things that Troy and I do, I'm pretty sure that you would need therapy." Val replied winking at her.
"Val, I don't want to hear about what you and my hairy ass brother do in bed together." Liz said shaking her head to rid herself of the mental picture that gave her.
"Carly, what is this I hear about you sleeping with one of my boyfriends?" Donnie asked the younger woman with an amused look on her face.
"Well, Donnie, if you must know, I had sex with Emmett last night." Carly answered her undaunted.
"Damn, I thought Val was the one of you two skanks who liked older men." Lilly joked with her.
"Hey, I had a little too much to drink last night, I get a pass on sleeping with Emmett. It could have been worse, I could have slept with DJ." Carly replied.
"And it wouldn't have been weird for you at all?" Mel asked with an incredulous look on her face.
"You only ask that question because you don't know what we once got Jason and Troy to agree to." Val informed her with a grin.
"Ew, I really don't want to know about anything that has to do with my big brother." Savannah said sounding grossed out.
"You had sex with each other's boyfriends didn't you?" Paige asked them shaking her head.
"Maybe," Carly replied laughing.
"Of course Val doesn't find that weird at all, because she and Huck were fuck buddies before he and Penny started dating." Hailey said gagging.
Prue looked at her oldest sister like she had lost her mind. "You slept with Huck?" she asked.
"Huck and I had sex at least once a week for almost three years." Val reported.
"Alright, I don't want to hear about my baby brother's sex life." Calleigh said. Though there was nothing that that boy could do to surprise her in the least little bit.
"If those two didn't talk about their sex lives they would have nothing to talk about. I'm convinced that they spend more time on their backs with their legs spread than they do anything else." Paige commented with a snort.
"Slick, did you really just say that?" Mel asked her laughing her ass off.
"Mel, you know that she just said that, I don't know why you act like something she said surprises you." Bianca answered for her daughter.
"The conversations that you people have make me want to go to church and confess." Brooke said shaking her head at them.
"Brooke, don't act like you're little Miss Pure and Innocent." Donnie said staring at her friend hard.
"Donnie, I'm not anywhere near as bad as they are." Brooke argued.
"So, you're telling me that you've never slept with Tommy?" Donnie asked her.
"No, I've never slept with Tommy, he is my best friend and that is all there is to it." Brooke maintained firmly.
"That sounds like some other people I know sitting at this table. Ask Liz and Charlie how that turned out for them." Rachel reasoned with her younger aunt.
"I'm pretty sure that I'm married to my best friend." Liz supplied helpfully.
"And I was supposed to marry my best friend, hell we were together six years." Patty added.
"It's not like that with Tommy and me. I know how that boy is I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole." Brooke said not caving at all.
"Honey, even I've slept with my best friend." Bianca pointed out to her. She realized what she said and then she laughed. " I meant before the whole we had a kid together thing. We were both single at the time and we decided to see if we were missing out on anything." She corrected her previous statement.
"I'm just going to pretend like I didn't hear that. If I didn't hear that then I don't have to go to Phil and ask him to psycho analyze me, because I would obviously need therapy if I just heard that." Paige rattled off.
"Sorry, Paige, I forgot that that is probably something you rather not know about." Bianca apologized, but she couldn't help laughing a little bit.
"Seriously, though, nothing is going on between Tommy and me, he is a man whore and I don't like to think about how many diseases that boy probably has." Brooke maintained.
"Brooke, I don't think he's that bad." Patty said of course she hadn't stopped to consider that maybe he was and she hadn't exercised the best judgment by sleeping with him.
"If he is a man whore he didn't get like that until after I had my little fling with him." Mel said she wasn't ashamed to admit that she had slept with Tommy.
"You slept with Tommy?" Brooke asked her.
"Yeah, I kinda sorta dated Tommy when DJ and I were on one of our breaks. I was a sophomore and Tommy was a senior. It might not have been one of the wiser choices that I have ever made when it to comes to men, but it still happened." Mel joked.
"How did I not now that you dated Tommy?" Brooke asked her. The two of them had been pretty good friends in high school.
"What we did didn't exactly qualify as dating. Besides that, I didn't want B to kick my ass." Mel replied.
"Mel, you know that I could never kick your ass. I've told you I don't know how many times that you're just like another little sister to me, because of all the time that Chris and I spent together when we were growing up. Trust me if I didn't love you the way I do you wouldn't be my daughter's godmother." Bianca reminded her. She couldn't help seeing more than a little of herself in Mel.
"I know that that little girl is entirely too much like me for her own good." Mel chuckled.
"Mel, Paige adores the ground that you walk on. You happen to be one of the only people who can watch both of the twins at the same time. I don't know why, but for some reason you can handle them pretty well." Bianca informed her.
"I have no problem with the twins, they are not as bad as everybody tries to make them out to be." Mel agreed.
"They don't give me any problems either. Now, Vic can't watch those two, because they both damn near climb the walls on him." Paige threw out there.
"Paige, that's because they both know not to mess with you, you scare the hell out of them." Bianca laughed.
"You can totally tell that we are parents now, we talk about those kids even when they're not around." Liz observed.
"I never thought I would say this, but I love being a mom. They think that I can solve all of their problems like magic." Bianca admitted.
"Good, then you won't mind taking your niece, I'm serious about that girl being just like you." Maria told her.
"Maria, I don't think Lyn is as bad as you try to make her out to be. Honey, she is going to be a teenager in four years, that sassy mouth comes with the territory. Neither one of us were angels when we were that age and it isn't fair for you to expect her to be." Bianca pointed out to her sister.
"I know that I really have nothing to complain about, she is so good with her little brother and sister, but she drives me crazy with that mouth. Some of the things she says to me are the things that you say to mom." Maria tried reasoning with her sister.
"Maria, I sincerely doubt, that she says the shit to you that I say to mom. I will be the first to admit that I talk to mom like dog shit sometimes; I don't think Lyn has acquired my flair for that just yet." Bianca replied laughing.
"B, the shit isn't funny, one day you're going to realize what I'm talking about." Maria glared at her younger sibling.
"What do you mean one day?" Bianca asked pointing at Paige.
"You know damn well that most of the things I say to you are said in jest." Paige said rolling her eyes.
"You two seriously are never going to get over your need to nit pick each other." Rachel laughed at them.
"Rach, one day when our daughter is grown up you will understand what this one puts me through." Bianca said referring to little Paige.
"It's sad to say, but I think that I'm going to need to drink more to listen to this." Brooke announced.
"You and me both, Brooke." Mel agreed with her friend.
A/N: Here is the next chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I know that there isn't much going on this chapter, but it had to be written, we'll be getting to the wedding next chapter. I promise that this story is going to pick up more. Until next time please review.