With A Dad Like Jack…

Summary: After spending five years in jail, Jack finally gets out in hope of rekindling his broken relationship with his daughter. Meanwhile Lisa is trying to move on and fix her life, but when the two cross paths, what's to be expected?

Disclaimer: I own the idea for this storyline and my own characters, nothing else.

Chapter Ten

Katy watched the front door, waiting for what seemed to be years, waiting for Jack to come home after another night out. Her gaze left the door and met Josh's. "Nana's coming." She said in a whisper.

Josh nodded and remained silent. He hadn't agreed to tell her grandmother, Jackson was all his.

"Katy, what are you doing sitting out here? You'll catch your death in this draft." Her nana kept her dressing gown wrapped tightly around her frail body. She scooted past Josh, giving him a friendly smile.

"Nana…. I have something I need to tell you, and I don't know how you'll take it." She played with her hands nervously, striding into the kitchen slowly.

"What is it?"

"Well… I'm having a… A baby." She looked down at the floor. Katy was so afraid of what her grandmother thought, but she was terrified of her father's reaction.

"And are you sure that you're pregnant?" her nana's voice was calm and had a tone of understanding.

Katy looked up with some shock on her face, nana was taking it well. "Uh, yeah I'm sure."

She smiled a little and glanced at Josh. "It's good news, but aren't you a little young?"

Katy rubbed the back of her neck and looked at Josh. "We weren't aiming to get pregnant. We used protection." She looked away from him and shook her head a little. "I don't understand how it happened to be honest."

He watched Katy with a sly smirk on his face but then from the corner of his eye he noticed Katy's grandmother looking at him. She knew what that look meant. She may have been old, but she wasn't slow.

"I think your father's home…" Nana looked at Katy and placed her hand on her shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. "Don't be nervous, your dad's a little kitten when it comes to you." She winked and edged past Josh uncomfortably.

Katy turned to Josh with an uneasy smile and a drop of sweat forming on her brow. "Nana took that well." She tucked her hands into her sleeves and crossed her arms.

"Is your dad really a 'little kitten' when it comes to you?" he raised his eyebrow sceptically.

She nodded and watched Jackson come in through the front door. "But when it comes to you, he's more like a raging Rottweiler." She flashed a worried glance to her nana as she walked back in, Jackson behind her.

"You have something to tell me?" Jack looked confused but then he noticed Josh, standing beside Katy. He made the atmosphere almost threatening, dominated. Jackson stood up straight and crossed his arms, broadening his stance. "What's going on?"

His face felt smooth, almost silk like under Lisa's fingertips. She enjoyed getting up five minutes earlier than him, just to watch him in peace. Kevin loved waking up to Lisa smiling at him, and when he did he felt more like a morning person than he did before they met.

"Morning." He stretched and pulled her onto him. "What time is it?"

Lisa reached over him and grabbed the alarm clock. "Just after eleven. We slept in." she rubbed her eyes and groaned a little. "Cynthia's going to be so pissed that we're late to her wedding rehearsal."

Kevin rubbed the middle of Lisa's back and sat up. "She'll understand, I mean Cynthia's always late to work and you don't complain."

"Well that's true. But we should at least get there as soon as possible." She kissed his forehead and climbed out of bed, hopping over to her wardrobe.

She skimmed over all her clothes, her eyes catching the look of a certain cashmere sweater. Lisa glanced over at Kevin and ran her finger over it, remembering the flight. It all came back to her like it was yesterday. Jack's smile. How kind he was to her. The charm, the drinks… And how it all turned out to be the worst night of her life; the worst week of her life.

Lisa shook the thought out of her head and grabbed a dress and put it on her quickly. She almost ran over to her vanity table and brushed her hair with one hand while pulling her shoe on with the other.

"Are you almost ready?" Kevin called from the bathroom.

"Yeah, are you?"

"Just putting on some after shave."

She heard the glass bottle clink against the marble counter and then his heavy footsteps on the floor.

"You're going to be cold in that dress, let me get you a cardigan or something." He stepped over to the open wardrobe and looked through it as Lisa perfected her look.

"What did you pull out?" she watched him close over the doors and leant against the table.

"This cream pullover, here." He placed the cashmere sweater onto her hand and walked out of the bedroom. "I'll get the car warmed up."

She stared at the sweater and pulled it on with a sigh. "Let's give you a better memory." She said to herself as she stepped out of the apartment.

Classical music played from the dining hall of the Lux Atlantic. Everyone inside sounded like buzzing bees as they talked about their days, their family members and of course, how excited they were for Cynthia. Lisa dragged Kevin through the crowd until they reached Cynthia and her husband to be.

"Leese, you're here." She said with a grin, pulling her into a tight hug.

"I wouldn't miss your rehearsal. Sorry I'm late."

"No, no it's fine. I wasn't going to start without my maid of honour." Cynthia looked at Kevin and her fiancé, Bill with a smile. "They're like two kids aren't they?"

Lisa laughed and ran her fingers through her hair. "Together, they are. I don't know how we're going to put up with them."

Cynthia turned to her and clasped her own hands. "I better get this show on the road before Granddad Jim gets bored and leaves." She walked over to the two men and grabbed her fiancé, taking him onto the stage.

Lisa watched a little enviously, why couldn't she be the one that's engaged?

Jackson glared at Josh, the anger and frustration was written all over his face. It was screaming at them loudly. "You got Katy pregnant!? Firstly you two shouldn't have been having sex." He looked at Katy in disappointment. "And secondly, you should've used protection."

"We did use protection dad. I'm not an idiot." She frowned and tried to keep in her tears.

"Obviously not if you're…" he looked at her stomach area and clenched his jaw. "Having a baby."

He seemed to calm down a little, but the ambiance in the room was tense.

"Listen Jack, I'll take care of her. I'm not going to abandon her." He tried to get through to him, but it made things worse.

"Jack? I'm Mr Rippner to you. Also, I don't want you in my house. You're not welcome anymore, so I suggest you leave, before my fist makes contact with your face." He snarled.

Josh looked at Katy, but she couldn't look at him. "Fine." He glared at Jackson before walking out of the house, slamming the door.

"And as for you Katy, I really thought that you would've been smarter than this."

She wrapped her arms around herself and stared at the ground, chewing on her lip. "I know, you don't need to say anything." She started to run upstairs. "Nothing you can say can make me feel any worse than I already do."

Jackson listened to her bedroom door close and looked at him mom. "What am I going to do?"

"I suggest you care for her, because that Josh kid, he's mentally unstable." She warned, pointing towards the door.

"Why do you think that?"

"I have a feeling that he meant to get Katy pregnant, and that's all I'm going to say." She held up her hands and walked over to the patio door. "Just keep an eye on him, and you'll see what I mean."

A:N Sorry for the wait, but school is a little hectic. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!