A/N Thank you again for all your lovely reviews, we will get to the legal side in the next chapter but here's a little filler to get them home. Enjoy and remember reviews = faster chapter updates ;D
The next few days flew past fast. Both discussing how this was going to work, the phone call to the landlord that Gil knew had gone well and providing Gil liked it, he was viewing it on behalf of Sara when he returned to Vegas, they had planned getting back on the Monday afternoon they would talk to both of their daughters, Gil had an appointment with his lawyer and then he had an appointment with Sara's new landlord hopefully, he wanted it to be a nice house for them, not a run-down house, but knowing from the outside it was pretty modern and had been having work done for the last few weeks so it was promising.
Sara on the other hand was going to be getting back to San Francisco and talk to Aurora, tell her about the adoption and that she had met Aurora's real father while she was away and tell her that they were moving to Las Vegas so she could get to know her father and twin sister. Then she would look into hiring a truck to take her and Aurora's things to Las Vegas. Then she'd give up her tenancy on the apartment after Gil had seen the house.
They both had their next few days planned. They had also planned if the house was suitable and they got the keys that Gil and Henley would head to San Francisco for the weekend, Sara would travel in her car with the girls and Gil would take the hired truck with their things in and drive back to Vegas, from there they would see what was going to happen.
Packing up their suitcases Gil's flight left at noon and Sara's didn't leave until one thirty but they both headed to the airport together. Having lunch, they made sure they had each other's contact details as well as addresses. Gil's flight was getting called so he set down money to cover their lunch then gently hugged Sara promising to call her once he had talked to Henley. Then he left, boarding his flight he it was strange but for the past three days, he had gotten used to Sara being around all the time. It was going to be weird for him to go back to not having her around.
Sara went to the few stores inside the airport, picking up a I heart Boston t-shirt for Liam, a matching vest top for Jaimee and then got the kids t-shirt for Aurora, grabbing a couple of mementos of the city for herself, it was the first time she had met Gil and he had completely changed her life in the last few days, at one point she felt herself turning to tell him something and of course he wasn't there. Glad when her flight was called, she made her way on board and rested back waiting for her flight to be over already.
LAS VEGAS.
Monday; first of March two thousand and four, pm.
Gil's flight landed as scheduled, getting off the plane and getting his luggage then headed out to the long stay car park, finding his car easily, he headed home, glad that he was back in Vegas, he had missed it. Vegas was a lot warmer than Boston. Driving thoughts were going through his head, he knew that this was going to be a difficult conversation to have with his daughter but it had to be done. Pulling into Catherine's driveway he had to smile as he saw her front door open and Henley run into his waiting arms. Catherine came out with her bags soon after putting them in my car then Gil got Henley in the car.
Getting home, Gil got everything inside while Henley chatted constantly to him about what she had done with Catherine and Lindsey, Gil couldn't help but smile, she was so happy he was home. Once inside Gil got her to sit down in the living room on his lap, then he started to talk to her.
"So I met a nice woman at the airport, her name is Sara." He said softly as he brushed the deep brown curls away from her face. "She said to me that she had a daughter at home too, she was going to the same thing daddy was, so we shared a cab to the hotel, that's when she showed me a picture of her little girl, and I showed her the picture in my wallet of you." He smiled softly.
"Is the lady pretty?" Henley asked as she looked at Gil, he smiled and nodded, with everything that had gone on he had actually forgotten about what had drawn him to Sara in the first place, her beauty.
"She's very pretty." Gil smiled softly, "Henley I found out that her little girl is actually your sister, I know this seems a little strange but she's actually your twin sister, do you know what that means?" He asked her softly.
"Connor and Kyle are twins. It means they have the same birthday and are the same age." She said showing him that she did understand.
"Yes that's right, so when you and Aurora, that's your sister's name, were born the hospital didn't tell daddy and gave her away, that's when Sara adopted her." Gil explained softly. "Sara is a very nice woman, we've spent the past few days figuring out what's going to happen, daddy has to go and view a house across the street for Sara and Aurora to maybe live in." He explained softly. "Then I have to go to an appointment but Alex will be here with you okay?" He asked her softy.
Nodding her head, Henley looked up at her dad. "So they are moving here?" She asked her eyes sparkling. "I've always wanted a sister." She said with a smile.
Gil smiled and nodded. "Yes, Sara and Aurora are moving here, hopefully to the house across the street." He listened to her words and smiled brightly. "Well sweetheart you have one, and this weekend you will get to meet her hopefully." He was really hoping that Sara and Aurora could move into the house across the street and that he could go help them move this weekend.
After their conversation, Gil got her settled with her dinner while Alex watched her; he freshened up then headed to the house, meeting the landlord outside he got taken inside and was pleasantly surprised, it was light airy, child friendly, neutrally decorated, Gil was told it could be decorated to whatever Sara wanted, two large bedrooms, one with the master bathroom of it, and a bathroom down the hall, both had baths and showers. There was a garden out the back with plenty of room to put up play equipment for Aurora. The house was perfect. Getting the bank details from him, Gil walked back over to his house just in time to put Henley to bed then went to his room which held his home office too and called Sara.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Monday; first of March two thousand and four, pm.
Sara was so glad when her flight landed; she had been flying for nearly six hours. Now all she wanted to do was get home and curl up with Aurora, Jaimee was going to take Aurora home and get her ready for bed so when Sara got home she could just have a little time with her before she went to bed.
Opening her front door she smiled as Aurora running into her arms, Sara bent down to pick her up and swung her around n her arms then kissed her cheek. "Miss me sugar plum!" Sara smiled as she held her daughter close.
"Yes! Auntie Jaimee can't cook." Aurora said as a matter of fact, she smiled as she looked at her mom. "She doesn't do my baths right either." She pouted.
"I think Aurora has a case of the missing mommy's." She smirked. "Auntie Jaimee can cook and she does do your baths just the way you like them." Sara said as she walked over to the couch and sat down. Aurora giggled then hid her face into Sara, just looking at Aurora, Sara could see Gil and smiled softly, it had only been eight hours since she had seen him and already she missed him. "Listen sweetie, I have something to tell you, now it's a lot to take in but know mommy loves you so much okay?" Sara spoke softly and looked down at the young girl in her arms.
"Okay mommy." Aurora said softly as she sat more comfortably on Sara's lap.
"Okay, so I met this man while I was away, he's a really really nice man. Now you remember mommy telling you that mommy got you when you were only hours old, that mommy adopted you right?" Looking at Aurora she nodded. "Well Gil, that man I met, well we found out that he is your dad, it's a really long story, but he didn't know about you, the hospital did a bad thing and gave you away to me." She paused as she looked at the wide eyed girl in her arms. "He wants to meet you; in fact you and I are going to be moving house." She smiled.
"Really! Where to?" She asked as she smiled up at her mom.
"We are moving to Las Vegas, so you can get to know your daddy." She smiled. "And your twin sister." Sara knew Aurora knew what twins were; they had talked about it before when a set of twins had joined her group when she had been at preschool.
"I have a sister?" He eyes widened even more as Sara nodded.
"Yes you have a sister, her name is Henley and she looks just like you." Sara said with a smile as she took out the picture that Gil had given her of them together, it was a recent photo. Showing Aurora she smiled as she held it in her hands. "That's for you to keep until we meet them." Sara said softly her eyes moved from Aurora and for the first time she looked at Jaimee and smiled, she was sitting in the chair listening to Sara, although she had been told about them moving she looked sad. Sara nodded at Jaimee a silent message saying she'd talk to her later about it.
After about five minutes, Sara looked down at Aurora and saw she was starting to fall asleep. "Hey let's get you to bed sleepy head." She smiled picking her up and walking through to Aurora's bedroom and setting her on the bed gently. After a quick kiss and cuddle Aurora wrapped herself around her favourite ladybug teddy and drifted off to sleep.
Going back into the living room, Sara was about to speak to Jaimee when her cell phone rang, Gil flashing on her screen she smiled and answered it, not realising that Jaimee had left already.