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"UNCLE DAN!" Sam screams as he sees me standing besides my little brother. I squat at just the right moment so I can lift him into the air for a quick hug. I missed the little bugger and I think he's grown some since I last saw him. I glance over at Johnny who is being attacked by Coxie's spawns.
"Sam the man!" I say to my favorite little nephew who grins at the nickname.
"Hiya, Uncle Dan." Jenny and Jack greet from their spots on Johnny. I can't help but laugh at the image of my little brother being covered in children. He's still a kid himself and he's really marrying Coxie-the anti-kid!
"Are you here for da weddin, Uncle Dan?" I nod as I reach down and ruffle Jack's hair before lowering Sam to the hoard surrounding Johnny. Its not that I don't adore Jack and Jennifer, but they aren't my blood or my Sammy, I just think its so amusing how much they adore Johnny. Its kind of hard not to though. Johnny is just one of those people you just love, especially kids. Probably helps a lot that he's a big kid himself.
"So, Uncle Dan gets to wear the monkey suits with Jack, Sam and me." Johnny laughs as he looks off for a moment. I know how he goes off into his own little world, its so crazy. The kids and I exchange knowing looks before JD sighs sadly. "Perry wouldn't like the whole idea of tails though." I raise my eyebrow in complete curiosity. I should be used to this, but my little brother is one strange man.
"So, Johnny, we gonna go get lunch than take these monsters to see their Pops?" I notice the look in his eyes before he can hide it. Something's going on with him, because Coxie was upset when I mentioned seeing Johnny today. Christopher didn't want to talk about it either.
I'm about to ask Johnny bout it, but I'm interrupted by the chorus of kids begging to go to some pizza place. I glance at them before smiling up at Johnny. Pizza sounds awesome! Johnny, however, is shaking his head at them, which I feel is completely unfair. So I kneel down to their level, arms pulling the three of them to me, my head finding its place between Jennifer and Sam's heads. The four of us look up at him what would probably be the cutest puppy dog expressions ever.
"How is that helping, Dan?" Johnny grounds out between clenched teeth. What did Coxie do to Johnny to make the puppy dog face not work anymore? I used it to get him to do my homework all the time.
"Well, I see where you learned it from, Lover Boy." I look up at the sound of Jordan entering the room. As I pull myself to my feet I extend a hand in greeting. Best be nice to the mother figure for little Sam, not like Kim's ever going to be a great one.
"Howdy, Jordy. I do believe my spidey senses are tingling." Johnny rolls his eyes as Jordan scoffs at my joke. I am so allowed to tease her. I'm the adopted uncle for her kids too. She always mentions something about Ben having been a better one, but I don't know who this Ben guy is.
"Well, my dork senses were on overload." Johnny coughs behind me and I catch the look he gives Jordan. It's kind of amusing to watch them interact. I mean, they both are playing parent to the other one's kids and both had Coxie's love at some point. It'd be some insane soap opera, but the girls would have to wear sexier clothes. "You look like you're living through the separation pretty well, DJ." Jordan states as she pulls out three hats from somewhere-mothers are all magic to some extent. They have invisible Mary Poppins' bags, I swear.
"What separation?" I whip my head around so fast, I think I might need Johnny to check for whiplash after I strangle him for not telling me about his or Coxie's cold feet. "Is everything ok, little brother?" I ask with real concern. I've been trying really hard to do this whole supportive big brother thing especially with Mom and Nana Hobbs not taking Johnny being in love with a man well.
I can tell this wasn't something Johnny wanted to tell me, at least at this moment. If I came out here and missed my opportunity to pummel Coxie for breaking my little brother's heart, I don't know what I'd do. But Johnny looks me over once before nodding towards the kids.
"Hey, kiddos," He kneels to look them in the eyes as they watch him intently. "I'm gonna take Uncle Dan out for lunch, but I know Jordan's got something in the kitchen you'd love for lunch. Right, Jordan." Johnny looks up at Jordan and I hope she got the hint, because I'm about ready to go kick some Irish ass if he really, truly got cold feet on Johnny.
"Hey, Dad?" I look down at Jack as he fixes Johnny with a pensive look, but I can actually see that he's trying to figure something out in his head. Being the awesome father that my little brother is, he looks like Jack has his full attention. Which is hard, because Johnny has never been great on focusing on one thing at a time. Still surprises me that he was able to survive med school.
"Jack." Sam hisses from his place next to Jennifer, who was shaking her head. Jack looks at them both and shrugs before he throws his arms around Johnny's neck. I chuckle at the look of surprise that crosses his face at the unexpected movement.
"You're not leaving right?" Johnny looks at Jack's sincere expression before looking from the other two kids to Jordan, sparing a glance at me before closing his eyes. I know he's trying to figure out something in his own head. I think that there's something I'm missing here. Which is awesome, let's leave the favorite Uncle out of the family moment. I see how it is!
"Jacksters, I'm just going to get lunch with Uncle Dan and then we're gonna take you guys to the park afterwards." Jack shakes his head and I catch the look he sends his mom.
"Mom said that you're in big trouble at the hospital." My eyes widen at this news, I would never expect Johnny-my Johnny- to be in trouble. Coxie, totally, but never Johnny. Unless him and Coxie got caught doing-oh lord, no! My retnas! Must share imagery to make Christopher suffer with me. I rub my eyes, squashing the desire to scream in agony as the image continues to burn itself into the back of my brain.
"Oh, that. Ha." Johnny chuckles, which catches my attention, because Johnny never makes a chuckling noise unless he's really really uncomfortable, normally he's got a gigglier sounding laugh. I lean against the wall for support. Jordan's keeping a blank face so I can't figure out what's going on. Again, leaving the favorite uncle out of the picture.
"Well, I haven't been really happy since Aunt Carla and Aunt Elliot decided that having me move in with Izzy and her parents until the ceremony would be best. They haven't let me see you guys or Pops, so I kind of had a tantrum." Jennifer and Sam gasp and cover their mouths as their eyes widen in disbelief, while Jack just nods as he listens.
"Pops is gonna be mad!" Jennifer sing-songs as she wags a finger at Johnny. It's actually really adorable. "Tantrums are for bad kids and there aren't any bad kids here." She's amazingly good at scolding for a six year old, I wonder if it's in the Cox's genetics.
"Santa's not gonna give you any presents if you throw a tantrum, Dad!" Sam adds as he looks around at us. "If he skips you, he might skip us because we didn't stop you." Johnny shakes his head as he pulls both Jennifer and Sam, who are on the brink of tears at the prospect of Santa ignoring them, into his arms.
"No. No. Santa won't forget you guys. You've been really good this year. I might get a lump of coal though, because I broke Franklyn's office." Jack's eyes lit up with something as he bit back some laughter.
"Dad! We're not allowed to play with Franklyn's awesome toys! Why'd you break them? Now he won't let me play with the microscope anymore." Johnny fixes Jack with a look as the boy lowers his head with a smile on his face as he got caught for something that I'm not sure about.
"Alright, I think you've given your dad enough guilt for the moment. Let him feed your uncle before Dan's stomach decides little children might be a good treat instead." I laugh as the three of them look up at me in disbelief. It seems that my stomach likes Jordan's comment, because it lets out a low rumble that causes the kids to start talking excitedly amongst each other.
"I'll be back, kiddos." Johnny states as he kisses each of their heads before he directs me towards the car I bought him after Sammy was born.
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"Hey, buddy!" I grin as I walk into the hospital and see Christopher talking with Elliot near the nurses' station. Christopher looks up and smiles when he sees me. Oh, he would not be smiling if he knew what I plan on doing to him.
"Yo, Dan. Sup?" Christopher lets a small yelp out as I throw my arm across his shoulders and squeeze his shoulder a little excessively.
"Dan, you really shouldn't go and beat up Turk in a hospital." Elliot chirps up from her spot a safe distance on the other side of the station. I look down and start to wonder how exactly she was able to find a person in a wheelchair that quickly, but then I remember I'm in a hospital. These guys are freaking dime a dozen.
"Elliot, I'm having a talk with Christopher here." I smile at Christopher who seems to have that deer in the headlights expression down perfectly. I turn to look back at Elliot with my evil smirk before adding, "Unless you know why my little brother is currently grounded from seeing Coxie?" As I expected Elliot shook her head before having her pager start to beep wildly-Ooh, I love that song! That's the way-uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh-, giving her a reason to dash off in some random direction. Grinning, I turn back to Christopher and start to push him in the direction of the morgue. All the while, my little brother's best friend is looking around for some kind of help or escape.
This is going to be interesting, maybe I can get Coxie to help out on this too.
That's the end of chapter 5. There's not that many left to go. It just looks like there's sooo many because I have the mini chapters in between. It keeps making me do a double take everytime I see this huge number and I'm like: wait, that's not right.
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