Author's Note: Again, I don't really have much to say. I really need some ideas of how to make this story even better. I am not positive if all of this is believable, especially the size and enormity of some of this things that continue even to this chapter, but I have seen the outside of Joan and Arthur's house and it looks like it is huge, so I wrote it as the inside was just like the impression that I had of the outside. Tell me if you disagree. As always, please review to tell me how I'm doing and what you would like to read!

Disclaimer: I don't own Covert Affairs

They were finished eating and now they were just sitting at the table talking.

Brooke yawned. Arthur said, "You seem tired, come on, let's go upstairs and we can talk some more tomorrow."

Brooke smiled and said, "Okay," as she got up and pushed in her chair. She took her plate and her glass and walked into the kitchen. She started to wash her dishes and put them into the dishwasher.

Arthur came over and said, "You don't have to do the dishes, I will do them later."

Joan smiled. She knew that Arthur really liked Brooke, and she was glad.

"Brooke," Joan started, "If you want to go to sleep, you can, but I was thinking that maybe we could watch a movie downstairs instead."

"That sounds great." Brooke responded.

"We never showed you the lower level, did we?" Arthur asked.

"Nope, but I'll see it now." Brooke responded giggling.

They walked downstairs to see a nice size, open room. There was a television with a sofa in front of it and a loveseat on either side of the sofa. On the opposite side of the room, there was a pool table and a door. On another open wall there were two other doors and one other on another wall.

"Cool." Brooke said as she walked downstairs.

"There's more." Joan said following behind her.

Brooke swung her head around in confusion.

"What's behind those doors?" Brooke asked.

"Well, that one." Arthur said pointing to the door by the pool table, "is a bathroom. That one." Arthur pointed to the one on the other wall, "is an alcohol cellar. That is a closet and the other one is the surprise. Go look."

Brooke opened it up and walked in. When she did, the lights turned on by a motion sensor and Brooke gasped. It was a room that had red walls, and plush cream colored carpet. There were two leather couches in each row and three rows. Each row went up two steps. On the wall that the couches were facing, there was a huge TV and a projector on the top. It was a home movie theater.

"Oh my god!" Brooke gasped. "Really, you guys have a movie theater in your house! This is crazy!"

Joan and Arthur smiled. They both loved that this girl who had been going through so much was now so excited and happy that they were the ones to do it.

"It was already here when we moved in." Arthur said looking for the movies. "Here are the movies that we have. I had Midge, my secretary, go out and get some movies that she thought that you would like." Arthur said, handing Brooke the stack.

Brooke took the movies and flipped through, "How about this one?" she asked holding up The Devil Wears Prada with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.

"She said that you would probably like this one the best." Arthur said taking the movie from Brooke and put it in the DVD player.

They sat down on the sofa in the front. Brooke sat down and Arthur sat next to her. Joan sat on the other side of Arthur. Arthur put his arm around Joan, Joan's head resting on his shoulder.

The movie started and after about twenty minutes, Arthur put his arm around Brooke. She turned to him and smiled. She snuggled up close to him and laid her head on his chest. He kissed her head and they continued to watch.

About a half an hour later, Brooke laid down in the crest of Arthur's arms. She laid on his chest with her legs on the other side of the couch.

By the end of the movie Brooke was sound asleep, still lying in the same position. Joan smiled at Arthur who was watching Brooke sleep.

Finally, Arthur picked up Brooke, carrying her like a baby up the stairs.

They finally got into her room and walked up the podium. Joan pulled up the covers and Arthur slipped her into bed. Joan pulled the covers back over Brooke. Arthur walked up to her bed and kissed her forehead.

They both walked out turned off the lights. They walked back into their room and got into bed and fell asleep.

The next morning, Brooke woke up peacefully. She opened her eyes and looked around. "So, it wasn't all a dream." She said to herself as she smiled.

She got up and went into the closet. It was cold outside because it is December, so she put on a warm turtleneck dress with leggings, brushed her teeth and walked downstairs.

"Brooke?" Joan called when she heard Brooke walk down the stairs.

"Yea." Brooke called back. She walked into the kitchen where Joan was.

"Would you like some breakfast?" Joan asked pointing to the bagels sitting on the counter. "Arthur thought you might have wanted them, so he went this morning to pick them up."

"Thank you. I will have one please."

"What kind? We have plain, everything, blueberry, and chocolate chip."

"I'll have a blueberry one with some cream cheese if you have it."

"Sure. I'll make it for you."

Brooke smiled and sat down on one of the tall stools that were under the counter. The kitchen was gorgeous with a granite countertop that covered the big island in the middle of the kitchen. The island was long and oval and had an extra part of it that extended outward. This had four stools underneath. The stools, actually more of chairs with long legs, that were metal with a beautiful dark grey cushion.

"So, I was thinking." Joan said as she spread the cream cheese on Brooke's bagel. "We could go shopping today."

Brooke smiled, "That's sounds great." Brooke's smile quickly faded. "But, I don't have any money."

Joan laughed and came over with the bagel on a plate. She kissed the top of Brooke's head and sat down on the stool next to her. "You don't need any money." She laughed again, "Arthur and I are going to take care of you. You don't need to worry about anything."

"Thank you, but I really don't deserve all of this."

"Well, you got it anyway." Joan said. They both laughed.

"Finish eating and get ready to go. Okay? I'm going to go get dressed."

"Okay." Brooke said.

Brooke finished eating and got up. She washed her plate and put it in the dishwasher. She went back upstairs and found a cute pair of shoes in the closet. Nothing special, just plain grey Toms.

She walked to Joan's room and knocked on the closed door.

"Come in." Joan answered.

Brooke opened the door and walked in to see Joan wearing some dark jeans and a cute shirt. "Ready to go?" Joan asked.

"Yup."

"Where's Arthur?" Brooke asked as they got into Joan's car.

"He had to go to work. We can't both take off, so we are going to switch off because we both want to be with you before you have to go back to school on Monday."

It was Monday today, so she would start school in one week.

"Okay." Brooke said, her mood dropping.

"It's going to be okay. It isn't going to be easy, but you will be okay. It will all work out, I promise, we will get through all of this as a team, the three of us. But let's have fun today and we can talk about all of this later."

Brooke smiled and nodded.

They chatted as they drove to Tysons Mall. When they got there, they parked in the parking garage and got out of the car. They walked into the mall and Joan asked Brooke, "What stores do you like?"

"Umm, I don't know, Abercrombie and Fitch, uh, Banana Republic, Aeropostale, Hollister, uh, Wet Seal, Sephora, um, Nordstrom. Umm, I don't know what else.

"Okay, Hollister is right there." Joan said pointing to a store, "so let's go there first."

They walk in and Joan says to her, "Today is your day. Do not look at the price tags, we are going to get whatever you want, okay?"

"Thank you." Brooke said softly.

She picked out some tops, and some dresses, and a couple pairs of pants. Then they went to the dressing room to try everything on. Joan stood right outside and waited for Brooke to put the first outfit on to show her. After a couple of minutes, Brooke opened the door and walked out. She was wearing a dress that was formfitting at the top and flowed out at the bottom.

"You look beautiful." Joan said.

"Thank you, I really like this one." She walked over to Joan and whispered into her ear. "I know that you said that the price doesn't matter, but I cannot do that to you. It isn't right."

"Brooke, honey, I promise that it is fine. Arthur and I have never been able to spoil anybody before and we want to do it now. You deserve it, you practically saved our country."

Brooke smiled before saying, "Okay, thank you."

She finished trying on everything and they went to the register.

"I'm going to wait outside." Brooke said because she didn't want to see the total. "But thank you again for everything."

"Okay, I'll be out in a minute."

Joan came out with the bag and Brooke took it from her.

They continued to shop. By lunchtime, Brooke was carrying five bags from different stores, each bag carrying at least eight items. She now had at least twenty shirts, nine pairs of pants and thirteen dresses. They had also gone into a bathing suit store and Brooke got five or six bikinis and two piece bathing suits.

Joan's phone rang. She took it out of her pocket and looked at the caller id. It was Arthur. "Hello." She said.

"Hey honey, how are you two doing?"

"Good, we are just out, doing a little bit of shopping."

"Okay, at the mall?"

"Yes Arthur, why?"

"Oh, nothing is wrong." Joan sighed, "I was just thinking that if you were at Tysons, that you could stop in the Apple store. If she is going to school next week, I would like her to have a phone. We mine as well get her an iPhone. She will probably also need a computer for school, so we could get her a MacBook."

Joan smiled. "Good idea. Why don't you tell her yourself?"

"Okay, put her on."

Joan handed the phone to Brooke, "Its Arthur."

Brooke took the iPhone and put it up to her ear, "Hello."

Joan knew that Arthur told her when her face lit up.

"Thank you so much." Brooke said to both Arthur on the phone and Joan.

Brooke hung up the phone and they proceeded to the Apple Store.

They walked in and went to an employee.

"Hello, can I help you with anything today?"

"Yes," Joan said, "We are looking to buy an iPhone for her today and a MacBook."

"Alright, lucky girl." Brooke smiled, "Let's start with the MacBook. What kind were you looking at? The pro or the air?"

"Umm, we really don't know." Joan said, "can you tell us about both of them."

The salesman continued to talk to them about the difference.

When he was done talking, Joan turned to Brooke and said, "I think that you should get the MacBook Pro. It seems sturdier, faster and just better for a teenage girl. What do you think?"

"I agree completely," Brooke said.

"Okay, now onto the iPhone," the salesman said. "Which one. The iPhone 5 is the newest. I wouldn't recommend getting the iPhone 4 because it is so outdated, but the 4s or the 5."

Joan turned to Brooke, "I would like to get you the newest one, but why don't you play around with both of them and see what you decide."

Brooke played around with both of them for a few minutes and said, "I would like the 5."

"How much storage would you like? 16, 36, or 64?" I know, so many choices."

They all laughed, Joan asked Brooke, "36 or 64?"

"I don't know, how about the 36."

"Its up to you, Brooke, you can get the 64."

"They 36 is plenty of space." Brooke responded.

"Okay, we will get the 36 GB iPhone 5." Joan said to the salesman.

"One more decision. White or black?" he said.

"White." Brooke said.

Joan smiled. The salesman came out with the MacBook Pro and the iPhone. He helped her set up both, setting up the new iPhone account on her new MacBook.

Joan also bought her the Microsoft Office Package for the Mac and if you bought that, it came with a free printer and an iTunes gift card so that Brooke could buy some apps and music. She also got a case for the iPhone and a carrying bag for the Macbook.

They checked out and they set up the iPhone on Joan and Arthur's Verizon account

They finally were finished and decided to go home.

When they got into the car, Brooke was playing around with her new iPhone with her MacBook in the backseat.

Joan had just started the car. Brooke put down the phone and turned to Joan.

"Thank you so much for everything." She said as she hugged Joan tightly.

AN: Hey guys, I hope that you liked it. I also hope that it was believable. I tried to make it seem that way, but there were certain things that I wanted to happen and needs to happen now, to make future chapters make sense. Please review and tell me how this chapter was and what you would like to see in the future.