A/N: Hey guys! Two chapters in one week. Wow I haven't been able to do that since the beginning of Truth or Consequences. Thank you to everyone thats reviewed and I hope you all enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter 6

He was sitting on the couch furiously scribbling on a pad of paper as the sun started to peak through the window. He hadn't written this much since he was sixteen but he had been hit with sudden inspiration during the night and had stayed up to get it all written out.

He took a drink of his coffee as he heard someone walk out of one of the other rooms.

"Didn't know rock stars knew how to wake up before sunrise." he heard Jay snark as he went into the kitchen.

He sneered as the man appeared in the doorway holding a coffee mug. "Didn't know drug addicts knew how to be up before noon." he snarked back.

Jay chuckled hollowly. "You'd know wouldn't you?" he said grabbing his keys from the side table. "Try to stay away from my son and don't go hitting on my wife today while I'm gone alright."

Craig glared at him as he headed out to his car to leave for the garage. He picked up his cup again to find it empty. He was nodding his head to the rhythm in his head as he poured himself another cup of coffee when he heard Daniel start to fuzz in his room.

He left his cup by the pot and made his way into the boy's room to see him awake and standing up in his crib.

"Hey buddy." he whispered turning off the baby monitor. "Remember me?" he asked picking the boy up out of the crib.

"Wan' Dada." Dan whimpered.

"Dada left already. You want some breakfast?" he whispered carrying the boy out into the living room.

"Mama?" he whimpered laying his head on Craig's shoulder.

Craig shook his head. "Mom's not up yet and we don't wanna wake her up do we?" he said sitting back down on the couch and turning the tv onto some cartoon.

Daniel pouted as Craig sat him on the couch so he could get his coffee and grab the toddler's sippy cup.

Ellie was in the baby's room rocking Sophia as she cried. She had been crying off and on since she had gotten off the phone with Emma.

"Come on baby girl. You gotta be tired." she said softly as she patted her gently on the back just incase she was feeling sick. Ellie heard the front door open as Sophia began to quiet down.

She laid the baby down in her crib and went to see if Jesse had come home. She went into the room they shared and found him changing his shirt.

"It's about time you came back home." she said folding her arms across her chest as she leaned against the door frame.

"Just came to change before I go back to work." Jesse told her.

She looked over at him. "So we're not going to talk? You're not going to check in on your daughter?"

Jesse shook his head. "There's nothing to talk about and of course I am." he said walking out of the room.

"Come on Jesse. Talk to me. Please?" Ellie said following him.

Jesse turned around. "Talk to you about what? The fact that my wife is in love with another man? That she still loves her ex-boyfriend from high school who has twins and is engaged to another woman?"

"Jesse stop." Ellie pleaded not wanting to remember why they got into another fight the day before.

Jesse sighed as he went over to the door to Sophia's room. "I'll be back later for some of my stuff. I'm going to go stay with Eric and Marco for a while." he said quietly as he went into their daughter's room.

Ellie leaned against the wall and sunk down to the carpet. She could hear Jesse talking to Sophia and slowly dissolved into tears.

Manny yawned as she woke up to the sun shining brightly through the window. She looked over at the clock and was surprised to see it was after nine o'clock.

"Crap." she muttered as she grabbed her robe. Normally Dan was awake and hungry not too long after Jay left in the mornings. She checked the baby monitor but didn't hear anything coming from the boy's room.

She went down the hall to check on him but didn't find him in his crib. "Em!" she called going up stairs to see if Emma had gotten him up.

She found Emma upstairs with Mike and Alyssa getting them ready to go out for the day. "Hey Danny's not in here with you guys is he?" Manny asked looking in the room.

Emma shook her head as Mike rooted around under the bed for his other sandal. "He wasn't in there in his room?"

Manny shook her head. "Maybe Jay or Sean took him to the garage when they left?" Emma asked her as Mike grinned as he found the other sandal.

"Jay won't take him. He says Dan's too young to go right now." Manny said now worried about where her baby boy was. At least until they heard laughter coming from down stairs.

They all went downstairs to find Craig in the living room with Dan watching cartoons. Manny sighed with relief as she went over and picked up Dan and held him close.

"Mama! Me hungy." he said as he sloppily kissed her cheek while she glared at Craig.

"Mama will get you something to eat, baby." Manny said kissing his head before turning her glare back to Craig who sunk down in his seat. "Next time you take my son from his bed don't turn off the monitor, better yet wake me up and don't touch him." she told him before taking the boy into the kitchen to fix him something for breakfast.

Craig looked over at Emma for help but she just shook her head and led Mike and Alyssa out to her car.

Craig sighed after he heard the door close. Plan A: failed, he thought, just have to switch to Plan B.

TBC...

A/N 2: One more note. I don't know how many of you know this but the N is running a What If contest that fans get to submit ideas they'd like to see turned into a mini and the fans get to vote for the winner. Voting starts next week and I entered the idea that spawned this series so if you'd like to see them act it out vote for it please. Thank you!

- Lexxie