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I do not own B&B, nor it's characters. I do own my SLs and my characters.

October 9th 2009

A celebration was about to begin at the Forrester mansion, it was the day before the wedding of Thomas and Abby was supposed to have taken place, but since they had been married for about four months the wedding had turned into a family gathering to welcome the last four editions to the Clan. Liam, Marcus, Miranda and Wyatt were being welcomed due to different reasons at least partly, Liam, Marcus and Wyatt were being welcomed into the Clan because of their connections by blood, Miranda was being welcomed due to her connection by love.

Kaela and Tascha were practicing rolling over making their mother, older sister and aunt awe with pride and every time one of them would roll over they'd get an applause. Every single first that they had given their parents had given each of them applause. Nick bragged with pride to Ridge that he'd gotten Tascha's first smile, even though they both knew that Tascha had smiled a whole two days before when Ridge was visiting with Taylor to talk about an issue he was having at work. Ridge, Taylor and Nick had an understanding that when ever Ridge had an issue at work, he could always come to them to talk about it to get their opinions on the matter. Having people who work outside of the business to talk to helped his nerves get under control since most of his issues stemmed from the feeling that he wasn't being heard when he told Eric that the company was loosing money. Taylor had since whispered subtle hints into Stephanie's ears that maybe Eric should look into the finances of the company and as he did, he noticed something that the numbers weren't as they should and they realized that they needed to do something new and since then they'd been brain storming ideas and one that Steffy had given was the one most likely being used in combination with an idea that Thomas had. Concepts were being thought of and was to come into place.

Steffy was sitting on the couch with the twins on a blanket in front of her when the doorbell rang and the two guys from before were walking in through the door. It had been two months since the first day she saw them and she'd been seeing one of them a little more than the other since he was quite tech savvy and had been hired at Forrester Creations to deal with possible computer issues, she didn't know why, but her computer had been acting up lately and one event a few days ago stood out in her mind.

Steffy was sitting by her desk looking into what people thought of the idea she and her brother had over social media when her computer froze and there was no way to get it back, she called down the tech guys and about 20 minutes later Liam stepped in through the door.

"What seems to be the problem?" Liam asked and as Steffy started to explain what had happened she rose from her seat to let him sit by the computer, he sat down and then proceeded to show her how to get the computer started again and when he turned his head to look at her, they had a classic eye lock that lasted about a minute until someone opening the door interrupted it, Wyatt walked in looking for Liam. "Hey Liam, this place is a maze, it's amazing how the people who work here knows where to turn and not get lost. Are you ready for lunch?"

Liam looked up at Steffy and as she nodded he said "Yeah, I am! Let's go!" The boys walk out the door and while they're waiting by the elevator Liam gets a thoughtful look on his face. "Hey, should we invite Steffy?" Wyatt took a moment to think about it and thought that it was a pretty good idea. Liam walked back to the office that Steffy shares with her siblings and knocked on the door. "Come in!" Liam opens the door and peaks through it. "Hey, we wondered if you might wanna come with us to lunch?" Steffy looks a little surprised and then agrees. "Well, since I'm hungry I might as well eat! Where are we going?" Liam stops and thinks for a minute and then says "Well, I don't know actually, it's Wyatt's turn to choose today." They get to the elevator and Steffy says "Hey again Wyatt! So, where are we eating today?" Wyatt winks at her, says that she'll have to wait and see and then places his hand on the small of her back to guide her into the elevator and as he does, she gets shivers down her spine and her heart skips a beat, Wyatt has somewhat of a similar experience, although his hand gets a tingle that multiplies through his arm and his breath gets caught and he inhales sharply causing Liam to look at him confused.

The lunch had gone on smoothly and Steffy had had a great time with both guys. Wyatt had driven them back to work and gone back to his mothers shop to get back to work himself. Leaving Steffy a little bit confused as to what had happened before the lunch. As she now was sitting on the couch locking eyes with Wyatt, she felt like there was something she needed to explore with Wyatt, if nothing else, a friendship could be formed.

Wyatt had looked around the room when he arrived and as his eyes landed on the woman sitting on the couch in the middle of the room his heart skipped a beat and he smiled with the smile reaching his eyes. As he saw Steffy turn her head to look at him he could see her confusion and felt a need to make her understand and so he looked at her and then gave her a nod letting her know that he was going outside on the patio. As he opened the door outside he looked back and saw that Steffy was following him, but he also saw his newly found brother looking at them with jealousy in his eyes. He sat down on one of the chairs and relaxed a bit. Steffy sat down on the chair opposite his and looked at him.

"So, I'm guessing you felt what I felt a few days ago when you were leading me into the elevator." Steffy stated, Wyatt looked at her a little bit shocked and then his eyes lit up and he smiled as he said "I guess I did. What are we going to do about it?" Steffy looks inside and then turns her head to look right back at Wyatt. "I think we need to explore it." She placed both her hands on the table that stood in between them and watched as he placed his hands on top of hers, the sensation of his skin against hers was almost to much to bare. "Maybe we should go back inside?" Wyatt agreed and as they both stood up and walked to the door, Wyatt placed his hand on the small of Steffy´s back, she opened the door and walked inside with Wyatt following suit.

Just as Steffy and Wyatt were walking in from the patio, Rick, Lannie and Lille walked through the door and Steffy could feel the tension in the air. It was coming from all directions, Wyatt's hand dropped from her back, Liam's jaw dropped, Phoebe just stared, Kimberly started to look a bit jealous and as she turned around to look at Wyatt she saw that he was staring at Lillie and that was all it took for her to realize that her dream from a few months ago was put in motion. Steffy walks over to the new arrivals and gives Lannie and Lillie a welcome hug each and then glares at Rick. After that she catches the eyes of her sister and motions her to look at her girlfriend. Phoebe looks over at Kimberly, walks up to her, gives her a kiss and slides into her arms giving Kimberly all the reassurance she could ever ask for. Steffy then asks Lillie to follow her out on the patio.

"Hi Steffy, what's up?" Steffy looks at her with glee in her eyes. "Well, it seems we might be heading into a quadrangle you and me." Lillie stares at her. "What? Who? What do you mean?" Steffy laughs a little and then takes her to the glass door and and points to Liam and Wyatt, who's sitting on the couch. "See those guys over there?" Lillie nods her head and Steffy continues. "Well, it seems we're destined to be with them both the both of us, we'll go back and forth between them for years to come, but in the end it'll be as it should, exactly what that is I have no idea of yet. Could we make a pact that we will not become enemies because of this and that we'll always be there for each other through it all? I went through a childhood where my father was torn between my mother and Brooke Logan and that isn't something that I'd wish for anyone to go through." Lillie is taken back with the information she's getting thrown at her but she agrees with Steffy that they shouldn't become enemies because of it and over the course of the evening the two women form a very strong friendship that would help them over many obstacles over the years.

'So, how are your parents and your little brother, I haven't seen them in a while.' Steffy had sat herself down next to Lannie on the couch after her talk with Lillie. Lannie shoots a glance Steffys way and relaxes a bit. "They're good all three of them, Lillie and our parents had a bit of a disagreement before she came here and I've been trying to get them to see the other side and apparently our parents are having a little bit of a hard time doing so. Other than that they are all fine. Peter should be coming over to visit soon I think, nothings decided yet, but I think it could be fun. The Jaks-kids making the town unsafe for a while." Lannie smiles a the thought and Steffy has an idea. "Hey, why not meet up all of us and have a barbeque or something, have a chance to get to know each other. Since you are going to be a part of this family and I have a feeling that the rest of you might be getting involved in it pretty soon." Lannie agrees and they agree to have a talk a little further in the future when they know if Peter would be there soon or not.

A little while later Bridget approached her husband telling him that she was getting tired and that they should probably go home, Zach went over to Eric and Stephanie to tell them that they were leaving and that the food had been really good and that he was sad to go so soon, but Bridget was getting pretty tired and adding that to being pregnant equals going home. They waved good bye and soon after Nick, Taylor and the twins followed, Tascha had been fuzzy for a while and now they felt it was time to go home. Eric and Stephanie decided that it was time to go to bed and told everyone that they're going to bed, but that the rest could stay and that every part of the bottom floor as well as the garden, pool and patio was available to them and the group agreed that they'd be as quite as possible.

Steffy had decided that she was going to use the swimming pool and asked the girls to join her, everyone agreed leaving Marcus, Liam, Wyatt, Thomas, Rick and Carter in the living room. The girls went to the Forrester guest house and got their bikinis, Miranda, Lillie and Lannie had to borrow some, but since there was an overflow of bathing suits and such, it really wasn't a problem, they chose a robe to walk to the pool in and as they got there they disrobed and placed themselves on the side of the pool and then slid in. After a while the guys came down the steps from the patio and looked at the girls. Liam whispered to Wyatt and asked him if he felt like they should join the girls, Wyatt agrees and the guys walk over to the guest house to get some surfershorts. After the boys had joined the girls a bunch of fun stuff happened, amongst other things they had a tournament over who could hold on the longest when the guys each had a girl on their shoulders and then the girls wrestled each other. Since Carter was without a girl he got to be the pointskeeper. When the points had been counted it stood between Liam and Steffy versus Lillie and Wyatt. It took a while, but eventually all of them landed in the water and it was decided that it would be a tie, then Carter had the intriguing idea that maybe they should switch partners, so that Wyatt and Steffy was a team and Lillie and Liam was a team, this round, Steffy and Wyatt won and then when they switched back, Steffy and Liam won that round. After 6 more rounds, the score was that Steffy and Wyatt was in the lead, Lillie and Wyatt had won one time as had Lillie and Liam, they had decided that they would do a best of eleven. The fifth round of Liam and Lillie versus Steffy and Wyatt, Liam and Lillie won and the eleventh round Steffy and Liam won. Round nine with Steffy and Liam with Lillie and Wyatt as the other team had also ended up in a tie. When all eleven rounds were over, there had been 2 ties, Steffy and Wyatt had won a total of four times, Lillie and Liam had won once and Steffy and Liam had won two times, Lillie and Wyatt had also won two times, this making Steffy and Wyatt the reigning champions of the Forrester pool wrestling competition that would eventually be an annual occurrence.

After Steffy and Wyatt had celebrated with a cannonball into the pool, the group decided that it was time to go home.

WTROJAD

The next few weeks went by smoothly it was now nearing the beginning of December and life had been without complications for most of the members of the clan, including the new ones, although Kayla had had a battle with a sudden onslaught of fever in the beginning of November, but she was a strong girl who fought it off in no time and only by luck Tascha never got it.

Lannie had recently found out that Peter would be joining her and Lillie over Christmas since their parents had decided that it was time for some time away from everything and everyone knew they needed it. Since everyone had been invited over to Stephanie and Eric's for Christmas dinner, Ronnie and Mike felt that their children would be perfectly safe.

The dinner went by without a hitch and Peter had ended up next to Hope and had a great time. After dinner everyone got quite the surprise though because when Eric sat himself down and started playing O Holy Night on the piano, Peter, Phoebe, Steffy and Liam started singing and it actually sounded really good. Taylor brings out the camera and started to film the performance, the quartet sang a few more Christmas songs and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. All in all it was a perfect Christmas Eves dinner and everyone got one gift from someone else with them doing the Forrester version of Secret Santa. Taylor, Nick, Zach and Bridget however had to exchange two gifts per couple between them since it was difficult to have Tascha, Kayla and Zach and Bridgets unborn twins give gifts to someone. Especially since the parents to be had decided to be surprised and not ask to know the sexes of their babies. Bridget had a feeling though and had secretly thought about names for her babies.

Bridget had entered her fifth month of pregnancy and she was glowing, there hadn't been any difficulty with the pregnancy and she was still working, albeit on a schedule, but they had cut back her hours so that she did about 5 hours a day and only seeing patients, she was also doing some lab time to get in her hours so that she could resume her oncology residency after having been on maternity leave with her babies.

After everyone had left, Stephanie and Eric sat on their couch and talked about what had happened during the day. "Did you hear how amazing the kids sounded when they sang together?" Stephanie nodded and said "Maybe we should ask Taylor to send the video to a record company or something." To that Eric jokingly asked if maybe she should put it up on youtube. Stephanie laughed at that and said maybe they should ask Taylor that. They then decide that it's time to go to bed since both of them are getting pretty tired.

WTROJAD

In the days between Christmas and New Years, Lillie and Peter got to go to Forrester Creations with Rick and you could tell that the both of them would fit right in there. Peter got so mesmerized when they walked by Thomas office that he decided to stay there for the rest of the day, Thomas lent him a sketchpad and a few pencils and Peter went to work. What he came up with was so good that Thomas asked him if he could show them to Eric and Ridge, but also reassured Peter that they wouldn't do anything with them without Peter being under contract with them. Peter went with Thomas and he was ecstatic when both Ridge and Eric said that maybe they could give him a part time job to help him get through college, he didn't even have to come to work at all, all he had do do was to do some designs, send the sketches to Forrester Creations for Eric to take a look at and then come to the showings. He could focus on school and when inspiration hit, it did and he could draw all he wanted under stipulation that his schoolwork didn't suffer. Eric called his parents and they came up with the best way for Peter to deal with it all. Peter then hit them with a request that probably should have shocked everyone. "I want Lillie to be the one modeling my designs, I do not want anyone else to walk in them." Ridge and Eric said that they need to see Lillie walk first and asked for permission to have one of the designs sown up and when it was done everyone was in awe at the beautiful dress, seeing Lillie walking, no floating, down the runway in the emerald green dress with her big curly red hair was a sight to see. As it came to be both Peter and Lillie got a job that would help them with both college and law school, they wouldn't have to take any loans what so ever.

When Peter went home to his parents, he had a suitcase filled with sketchpads, pencils and a copy of his contract with the addition that only Lillie could walk in those designs.

January 2010

The first package of sketches came mid January and it seemed like Peter had had a burst of inspiration because with every design he had drawn, came a piece of paper stating what kind of fabric it should be made in, if there should be buttons, a zipper or a corset tying in the back. Eric called Ridge to make him come to see what had arrived and when he walked through the door Ridges mouth dropped. "It seems we have a new star designer, we might even be able to retire now with Peter, Thomas and at times Abby designing for us. I think it's time we let the younger generation do the designing and just focus on making the designs they produce have the best start in terms of fabric and everything that comes with it. Runway shows and all that. I mean, clearly they are a bottomless pit of inspiration and designs. I also think it would be good if we hired someone to help Steffy out with the PR-side of the business." Eric thought about it for a minute or two and then agreed with Ridge. "Hey, doesn't Rick's girlfriend and her roommate work with PR? Maybe we should ask them?" Ridge looked bewildered. "I don't actually know what she does for a living, isn't it bad that I don't even know what my brothers girlfriend of a little under a year does for a living?" Eric looked up at the admission from Ridge, but wasn't really shocked, Ridge and Rick hadn't actually been that close as brothers and so could never agree on anything. Eric called Rick to let him know that they wanted to talk to Lannie and Miranda about something and that they needed to do it soon.

During that meeting it was discovered that Lannie and Miranda did actually work in PR, they even had their own business. The both of them were shocked to hear that Eric and Ridge had talked about getting Steffy some help with the PR-side of the business, when they were offered the job it took them less then a look at each other to decide what they wanted to do. "We'll take it" Both of them said at the same time. The four of them decided that Forrester Creation would buy the PR-company that Lannie and Miranda had and that the three women would have their own office together.

Later that week Eric decided to have a staff meeting to talk about the changes that would be happening. Steffy, Rick, Thomas, Abby and Peter over Skype were in attending as were Taylor, Brooke, even Bridget waddled into her fathers office, when Lannie and Miranda walked through the door everyone looked a little surprised.

"Well I can see that you all are surprised. But believe me that what I am about to say is going to be very good for this company, Ridge and I have decided to cut back drastically on our designing time and focus on the numbers to make sure that the company survives now that we've got three really good designers that are just pumping out designs like clockwork. We are really proud of the three of you and really glad that you work for us. We're also expanding on our PR-team and that's the reason Lannie and Miranda are here. As most of you know they owned their own PR-company and Forrester Creations have recently bought their company in order to give Steffy some much needed help." Steffy began to object but was quickly shot down by her grandfather. "Steffy, we've all seen the hours you put into this, we do not want you to stress yourself out or loose out on your life because of your work, you are only twenty years old you know. You'll still get to do the work, only with help." Steffy surrendered and after a while she saw what her grandfather meant and that he was right. The transition towards the changes in the company went smoothly and everyone noticed that most everyone was very happy and everyone was producing more, their campaigns became stronger and you could see the change in the numbers too. By mid February the numbers had increased by almost 75% and everyone was happy. At the moment they were just excitedly waiting for Bridget and Zachs twins to be born, they were a little over a month away, but everyone had a feeling they'd come early.

In the beginning of March the numbers were so good that Rick celebrated by proposing to Lannie and soon everyone was excitingly planning a wedding again. Steffy slumped down on a chair and sighed deeply. "So, we had two weddings last year, atleast one this year, you know since Bill and Katie got married two months ago and now Rick has proposed to Lannie, The wedding industry must be loving us right now." Thomas looked up at his sister and saw that Steffy looked a little tired. "I'm not saying that I'm not happy for Rick and Lannie, but there is just so much planning with one wedding and to have to do two is even more. Helping Miranda and Lillie plan Lannies bachelorette party is so much fun though. It should be a good time. Hey, did you ever think you'd be Rick's best man?" Thomas shakes his head and laughs at the question. "No, I didn't, but seeing how much he's changed over the last year or so and the impact that Lannie has had on him, I'd say it was good that granddad had that talk with him. It made him focus less on Brookes hurt and more on his own happiness! I like that a lot." Steffy got a text from someone which said:

"About 10 minutes apart and closing in on delivery."

Steffy squeals and Thomas shakes his head at Steffy and asks her what the text said. "Bridgets labor has started, the contractions are about 10 minutes apart and they are closing in on delivery." Thomas eyes starts to sparkles and says "Should we go tell granddad that his grandchildren are coming? Maybe we should call mom too? And Brooke." Steffy runs out the door leaving Thomas to call everyone, his mother was excited that her brother were finally going to be a father and over the moon that Bridget was finally going to be a mother. Brooke had the same reaction, although she had been told by Bridget that it might be time so she was a little bit prepared.

Eric however hadn't and when he heard the clickety clack of high heels running and then seeing Steffy try to catch her breath with a big smile on her face waving her phone in the air Eric didn't really need to hear what she had to say, he sank back into his office chair and had a big smile on his face. "It's happening isn't it? I'm gonna be a grandfather again" Hearing his question Steffy nodded and she went over to the couches in Eric's office and just collapsed on them. As Steffy was laying there trying to catch her breath, someone walks in the door and as the person looks at Steffys position on the couch with her phone in her hand and the stupidly happy smile on Eric's face he came to the exact conclusion that Eric had. "I'm gonna be an uncle? Bridget is in labor?" Steffy nodded at Rick from the couch and Eric's smile just grew bigger. "But, isn't it too soon? Shouldn't she be at least 37 weeks or something?" Rick asked almost terrified. Steffy turned her head and stated "She entered her 37th week two days ago, both she and the babies are ready to go"

Baby boy Hamilton was born on Wednesday March 10th 2010 at 3:43 am and Baby girl Hamilton was born on Wednesday March 10th 2010 at 3:57 am after almost 14 hours of labor. Reading Bridget's chart you would see that the boy had actually been baby B and the girl baby A. When Brooke, Taylor, Nick and Eric came to visit that afternoon they were introduced to Logan Eric and Jennifer Sharon Hamilton. Both babies were the perfect blend of their parents, Logan having his fathers brown hair and you could see that he would have his mothers brown eyes, Jennifer having her mothers beautiful golden locks and fathers stunning blue eyes.

AN:

I wanna apologize for not having this up earlier, but you know, life gets in the way and things have to get pushed aside.

A lot happened in this chapter though, Ricnie got engaged, Zacget had their babies, the Wyatt-Lillie-Liam-Steffy-Wyatt-quadrangle was actually started and then ended as well, if you don't understand what that means, you'll see in later chapters. We offered jobs to a bunch of people and celebrated Christmas, found out that Kill/Batie got married in early 2010 and that Steffy is getting tired of planning weddings and I promise that after the Ricnie-wedding there won't be one for a while. In future chapters there will be engagements, more babies and someone is going to get into a car accident. But as for now, everyone is happy, safe and sound.

DISCLAIMER again:

I own my characters, the rest is owned by who ever owns it.