The following Friday early morning finds everyone at the 4 bedroom apartment packing for a trip. Gwen and Brianna's sister (and Skyler's mother) is being presented with an award for excellence in her short career in medicine. Before she passed away she did great things at the hospital she worked at, which is 1,000 miles away from St Canard. Launchpad, Gwen, Brianna and Skyler are flying there for the weekend to accept the award for their deceased family member Dr. Melanie Pettitte. There is only room for the four of them in the plane, so they cannot bring Gosalyn with them. Gosalyn is bummed that she cannot go, and even more bummed because that means she has to spend the weekend with Drake and Beth. Other than the confrontation at the hospital a few weeks back she has not said more than two words to her estranged father. She has kept her distance, but now that she has to stay in that house, avoiding him is not going to be as easy.

Drake and Beth are now living together at 537 Avian Way and are preparing to have a guest for the weekend. Drake is really nervous because this is a big chance for him to win Gosalyn over. He is also nervous about her reaction to coming back to this house since the fire. Launchpad told him that Gosalyn has not been there since the night of the fire. Only Gosalyn knows that she has been there. She went there a few times to think about her father and grieve. She has not told anyone that she had been in that house, not even Skyler. She likes to keep that secret close to her heart. She truly misses her father, but she has not figured out how to forgive him.

After school Launchpad arrives at Drake and Beth's with Gosalyn. Beth is there to greet her and welcome her in. Gosalyn turns and looks at Launchpad with sad eyes.

Launchpad squats down to her level: "Don't worry kiddo, it's just for the weekend. You'll be ok I promise."

Gosalyn doesn't say anything, but gives him a big hug good bye.

Launchpad: "Bye kiddo, be good ok"

Gosalyn nods and watches Launchpad leave. She thinks to herself that she should be used to people leaving her behind. Her parents did it, her grandfather did it, Drake did it, and Negaduck did it. She feels abandoned by everyone in her life and she is almost over come by a great sadness, that is until Beth interrupts her thoughts.

Beth: "Gosalyn sweetie, Jake and I are baking cookies. Would you like to help?"

Gosalyn is not really in the mood to bake cookies, but there's really nothing else for her to do. She agrees to help and follows Beth into the kitchen.

While Beth and the kids are in the kitchen baking cookies, Drake arrives home from work. He doesn't have a badge yet but part of the program is to ride along on patrol with a veteran officer for a couple hours a week. He is both excited and nervous to see Gosalyn. He enters the kitchen and immediately kisses Beth hello. Gosalyn and Jake are rolling the rolling pin over the cookie dough.

Drake: "Hello Gosalyn."

Gosalyn shoots him a civil grin and then goes back to helping Jake. Jake runs over to Drake with cookie dough all over his hands. He is very excited to see Drake.

Jake: "Daddy!"

Drake picks him up and gives him a hug, which causes Jake to get cookie dough all over Drake's clothes.

Beth: "Ah, Jake honey…"

Drake chuckles: "It's ok Bethy, that's what washing machines are for."

He puts Jake down so he can go back to baking cookies with Gosalyn. Drake can't help but smile at the sight of Beth and the kids in the kitchen together.

Drake to Beth: "How was your day?"

Beth smiles: "It was good, really good. Jake took a three hour nap so he should be good for you tonight."

Drake: "That's good, that's good."

He looks over at Jake and notices he is eating some of the cookie dough.

Drake: "Son, son, no that stuff is not good for you."

He walks over and removes Jake from the stool he was standing on.

Drake: "I'm going to get him cleaned up for dinner."

Beth: "Ok honey, Gos and I will finish up the cookies."

Drake smiles and takes Jake to get him cleaned up.

As the four of them have dinner in the kitchen, it is quiet. Dinner time used to be the time of day where Drake and Gosalyn would talk about their day. Gosalyn is remembering this too and secretly misses that. She misses their talks and being able to go to him to make her feel better. Drake misses the tradition of talking about their day, but is afraid to start that up at this time. He just wants to enjoy the fact that the four of them are there together having dinner. Beth has to get up and leave for work. She is working the third shift at the hospital so she will be working until the next morning, leaving Drake with the kids. Drake kisses Beth good bye, she then walks over to Jake and kisses him good bye.

Beth: "Bye baby, you be a good boy for daddy."

Jake: "Ok Mama"

Beth: "Bye Gosalyn. I'll see you guys in the morning."

Drake: "Ok."

He is finished dinner so gets up and starts to clear the table. He will do the dishes while the kids play in the other room.

Drake: "Jake buddy why don't you take Gosalyn and show her your new trucks."

Jake: "Come on Goswyn."

Drake smiles as he watches the kids leave the room.

Later that evening the three of them are in the family room. Gosalyn is on the couch reading a book, which Drake is definitely not used to seeing. He's thinking "who is she and what did she do with Gosalyn?" Drake and Jake are sitting on the floor playing with blocks.

Drake: "That's a great tower son. Good job. Gosalyn didn't Jake do a great job?"

Gosalyn looks over and smiles at Jake: "Great job buddy."

She goes back to reading her book.

Drake is not really sure how to break the ice with Gosalyn. He thought the best way to do it was with having Jake there with him, but so far it was not working. Gosalyn continues to read while Drake and Jake play with the blocks. Jake purposely knocks the tower over and shouts a word that catches Gosalyn's attention.

Jake: "Damn it!"

Gosalyn looks over to see Drake's reaction.

Drake: "Son, Daddy doesn't want you saying that word."

Drake and Beth were not sure where their son heard that word, but he heard it and uses it appropriately. Drake and Beth have been trying to get him to stop saying that word, Beth has even punished him for it, but now that he is alone with Drake he seems to be testing him.

Jake: "Damn it"

Jake laughs. Drake stands him up so he is looking him in the eye. He is calm but firm with his words.

Drake: "Jake, Daddy told you to stop saying that word. Now you will have to sit in time out for three minutes."

Drake takes his hand and leads him over to the stairs and sits him down. He walks away and starts to clean up the blocks. Jake only sits there for about fifteen seconds and walks over to Drake. Drake gets up and takes him back to the stairs without saying a word to him. He sits him down again and goes back to pick up some more blocks. Gosalyn pretends to read her book but she is paying attention to what is happening. When Jake leaves the stairs again, Drake goes back and puts him back without saying a word. Gosalyn is slightly amused by this. She recognizes the behavior and realizes that Jake is testing Drake. This goes on a few times before the 3 minutes is up.

When the three minutes passes, Drake goes over to his son to talk to him about his behavior. He wants Jake to learn manners, respect and to follow the rules.

Drake: "Jake, why did Daddy put you in time out?"

Jake: "Because I said a bad wood."

Drake: "Do you have something to say to Daddy?"

Jake doesn't take Drake seriously yet because he's never punished him before. Drake has been more like a playmate to him than an authority figure.

Jake laughs: "Damn it!"

Drake feels bad that the time out method didn't work. Beth often uses spanking as a method of punishment because it worked more than a time out. Drake doesn't want to do that, but he also doesn't want his son to think that it's ok to behave this way. He puts him over his knee and slaps his bottom five times. He doesn't hurt him but he uses enough force to get a reaction. Jake starts to cry and Drake feels horrible. Gosalyn just sits there surprised. She can't believe Drake did that. He never punished her like that even after all the bad behavior she demonstrated in his care. She sees Drake's reaction and feels badly for him. She keeps her spot on the couch with her book and watches as Drake and Jake head upstairs for his bath.

A few minutes later, Gosalyn decides to head upstairs to check on Drake and Jake. She doesn't let them see her. She peaks into the bathroom and sees Jake in the tub laughing. Jake loves his baths and never gives Beth a hard time about it. He wasn't giving Drake a hard time either and he seemed to forget about being punished. He looks extremely happy playing with his bath toys. Drake is laughing too and enjoying the time being spent with his son. Gosalyn flashes back one of the many times she gave Drake a hard time about her bath….

Young Gosalyn: "No! No, please stop it!"

Drake: "Quit being such a baby Gosalyn, you act like this stuff is poison. Now hold still, I need to wash your hair."

Young Gosalyn starts to cry: "No, please.. please sto'op…"

Back in the present, Gosalyn has a tear in her eye. She wonders why she gave Drake such a hard time about everything. Could that be why he left? Was she just too much of a hand full for him? Did he stop loving her? With that she heads to her old bedroom that Beth set up nicely for her. She gets under the covers and wipes away tears as she falls asleep.

After Drake puts Jake to bed he notices that Gosalyn is not downstairs anymore. He peeks into her room and sees that she is asleep. He decides not to disturb her and shuts her door.

The next morning, Beth has arrived home from work and has already given Jake his breakfast. He is sitting in his high chair eating as Drake comes in to greet Beth.

Drake: "Hi Baby"

He gives her a kiss.

Beth: "Good Morning. How did it go last night?"

Drake: "Oh it was my dream Friday night, you know, Jake saying bad words, Gosalyn ignoring me…"

Beth: "Jacob Mallard!"

She gives him a look of disapproval from across the kitchen.

Jake: "Sorry Mama"

Drake: "Its ok, I already took care of it."

Beth: "I'm sorry about Gosalyn. I thought her being here would help break the silence."

Drake: "Its going to take a lot more than that. Speaking of which where is Gosalyn?"

Beth: "She and Abby went for a run. They should be back soon."

A few minutes later Gosalyn and Abby arrive and are all sweaty from their run.

Beth: "Hey girls, how was your run?"

Abby: "It was good. We made good time today."

Beth: "Go get cleaned up and join us for breakfast."

Both girls obey and head upstairs to get washed up. They come down a few minutes later and Beth has cereal, milk and juice on the table for them. They are always hungry after a run and are grateful to Beth for getting breakfast ready for them. The girls sit down next to each other at the table and start eating. Drake is sitting across from them enjoying a cup of coffee and some cereal.

Drake: "So, how's the team doing this year?"

He is referring to their school soccer team.

Abby looks at Gosalyn and knew she wasn't going to answer: "Mm so far so good. We're 4 and 0."

Drake: "That's fantastic! Launchpad told me you had an undefeated season last year."

Abby: "We did, but we lost in the island divisional playoffs. Our goalie was injured so we had to go with our back up Cindy. She's nowhere near as good as Natalie so, we lost the game."

Drake: "I'm sorry to hear that. That was probably a lot of pressure on Cindy…"

Gosalyn chimes in with disappointment in her eyes: "She's unreliable."

Drake and Abby both look at her.

Gosalyn: "She comes to practice only when she feels like it. So, you can't have sympathy for someone that just comes and goes as they please. You just have pity on them."

Drake knows where she is going with this. She is referring to him being gone for four years. Instead of responding he sips his coffee.

Abby: "Gosalyn!"

Gosalyn: "What?"

Abby is disappointed in her friend for what she said to Drake. She sighs:

Abby: "Come on lets go."

Beth: "Wait, hold it!"

Both girls look up at Beth.

Beth: "Gosalyn you can't go out, remember you're grounded for going to that party last weekend."

Gosalyn: "What? You let me go out this morning."

Beth: "That's different. You are not grounded from school or sports. I let you go running since that is a requirement for soccer, but for the rest of the day you need to stay in. Sorry honey."

Abby looks at Gosalyn: "I should go."

Gosalyn knows that she deserves to be grounded, but is bummed that she has to be grounded at the house she feels the least comfortable in. She heads up to her room.

Drake is not happy about Gosalyn going to the party, but decides it's not his place right now to say anything about it. Gwen has already punished the kids for going to the party so he decided he's going to stay out to it.

Later that afternoon, Beth is sleeping since she worked over night. Jake is napping in his room and Gosalyn is reading in her room. Drake takes this opportunity to rake up the leaves that have fallen on the front lawn, but Jake could wake up at any time. He checks in on Gosalyn.

Drake: "Hey Gos, I'm going to be out front for a while raking up leaves. I need you to listen for Jake."

Gosalyn: "I'm reading."

Drake responds with a firm tone: "That wasn't a request. Keep your door open please."

Drake leaves her door open and walks away. Gosalyn gives him a nasty look and goes back to reading. This weekend is going by way to slow for her. She just wants it to be over, even though it means back to school on Monday. A few minutes go by and she hears Jake calling for Beth. Gosalyn knows that Beth needs her sleep so she goes to get Jake.

Gosalyn enters Jake's room and sees him sitting in his crib crying.

Gosalyn: "Jake what's wrong?"

Jake cries: "Mama… I want Mama."

Gosalyn picks him up and notices that he is warm. She thinks he has a fever and immediately goes to get Beth.

Gosalyn carries Jake into the master bedroom: "Beth, Beth!"

Drake is in the house now and can hear the commotion. He comes upstairs to see what is going on.

Beth is groggy: "Gosalyn, what is it?"

Drake: "Gosalyn what are you doing? Beth is sleeping."

Gosalyn: "Jake needs her."

Drake: "Gosalyn you should have come and got me instead, Beth needs to sleep before her next shift."

Beth: "Honey, calm down, its ok."

Drake takes Jake from Gosalyn and also notices that he is warm.

Drake: "What's the matter buddy, not feeling well?"

Jake sobs and nods his head.

Gosalyn: "That's why I brought him to Beth. She's a doctor."

Gosalyn exits the room angry that Drake gave her a hard time about waking Beth.

Beth to Drake: "You shouldn't have snapped at her honey."

Drake: "I know... I should go take his temperature."

Drake takes his temperature and it's 101. He calls the doctor and gets instructions on how to treat him. He is to give him children's tylenol and plenty of fluids. Gosalyn spies on him while he's in Jake's room taking care of him. He is sitting in the rocking chair with Jake on his lap and he is softly singing to him. Gosalyn can remember when Drake took care of her when she was sick. She hated throwing up and feeling hot but he was always able to sooth her. He kept her company when she was awake and stayed with her until she fell asleep. She is more confused than ever as she is remembering the past. What he did was wrong and she cannot let go of her anger toward him. With that she goes back to her room.

Later that evening Drake, Beth and Gosalyn are downstairs eating dinner. Drake feels bad about what happened earlier.

Drake: "Gos, I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier."

Gosalyn is playing with her food.

Drake: "Gosalyn?"

Beth tries to help: "Gosalyn, your father is trying to talk to you."

Gosalyn looks up at Beth, then at Drake, then back at Beth.

Gosalyn: "What?"

Drake and Beth both sigh and look at her with discontent.

Gosalyn: "I'm sorry but, I'm not really hungry. May I be excused?"

Beth: "Gosalyn…."

Drake interrupts her: "No it's ok."

He looks at Gosalyn with his blessing.

Drake: "You can go"

Gosalyn gets up and exits the kitchen.

Beth: "Are you going to be ok while I'm at work?"

Drake sips his drink: "Yeah, we'll be fine. Aren't all families supposed to have this much fun?"

Later that evening, Drake decides to approach Gosalyn. He probably won't get another opportunity like this to talk to her. This is his opportunity, she is there and she can't go anywhere.

Drake knocks on her door, but there is no answer. Gosalyn is in there but she is texting Skyler. After a few tries he gives up and opens the door. Her door does not have a lock on it, just like it didn't before the fire.

Gosalyn looks at him surprisingly: "What are you doing?"

Drake: "We need to talk."

As he walks toward her, Gosalyn just looks at him. She's not sure what to say to him and she is curious as to what he has to say. He speaks calmly.

Drake: "I need to talk to you about what happened four years ago."

Gosalyn continues to look at him, feeling both nervous and speechless.

Before Drake could explain they are interrupted.

Jake calls out from his room: "Daddy"

Drake has the look of exhaustion on his face. He's been waiting for weeks for this moment to talk to his daughter, but he needs to tend to his sick son.

Gosalyn: "You better go"

Drake looks at Gosalyn with sorry eyes before he gets up to walk out. Gosalyn watches as he exits, and goes back to texting Skyler "I'll see you tomorrow, miss you"

The next morning Launchpad arrives to pick up Gosalyn. Both Drake and Beth are exhausted since Beth worked the night shift and Drake was up all night with Jake. Gosalyn answers the door to Launchpad and is ready to go. Launchpad sees that Drake and Beth are tired and not up for visitors, so he doesn't plan on sticking around.

Launchpad to Gosalyn: "Did you thank your Dad and Beth for letting you stay here?"

Gosalyn looks at both of them and hesitates for a moment: "Thank you."

She turns and walks out. The adults look at each other and each feel defeated.