"Will you hurry up"

"I'll be done in a minute"

"you said that twenty minutes ago, I'm hungry"

Dominic sat on the bed praying that Colby hurried up before he starved to rest of the night was uneventful after the pay-per view Colby insisted they drive straight to the next city to which Dominic complied and luckily it was only a couple hours away he wasn't running on much sleep as it all the things he missed about his job,early mornings were definitely not one of them. When they got there they checked into their room and spent the rest of the night watching tv wrapped in each other's arms.

Colby had woke him up at eight thirty claiming that he was hungry and Dominic foolishly volunteered to take him out to was over an hour ago and breakfast was looking more and more like a pipe dream.

"Lopez, come the fuck on"

"Just because you choose to walk out dressed like a slob doesn't mean I have to."

Dominic looked down taking in his own appearance, He had on a simple pair of relaxed fit dark blue jeans ,a black short sleeved polo and black sneakers. Looking back to Colby who wore a pair of his trademark skinny jeans and an equally as, and if not tighter red shirt with an abstract design that was probably from a band that he couldn't remember the name of.

"What, Like it's my fault you have shitty taste in men "

"well….. when you're right, you're right"

Dominic laid back folding his hands behind his head and closed his eyes . A few minutes later he felt a weight on his lap.

"fuckin finally"

Dominic had opened his eyes to find Colby sitting on his lap putting his shoes of responding Colby smirked and wiggled his hips a little and laughing outright when he heard a sharp intake of breath from behind him. The younger man got up and walked towards the door.

"Ok I'm ready, let's go"

Dominic got up and followed Colby out of the room and down to the hotel's restaurant.

Dominic and Colby sat in a nice quiet both in the back of the restaurant eating their breakfast and enjoying each other's company.

"This is nice"

Colby loved having Dominic all to himself ,he was sweet,attentive and didn't know what it was but,lately there was something inside of him that just wanted to be near him, more than wasn't just his looks or his personality (as odd as that sounded because Dominic's personality was shitty at best)...It was his weirdest thing was that when he'd woke up he'd aid there for an entire hour sniffing him before he woke him up for more so this was the man that had given up his career so that he could have his and that made his heart of the guys that he had ever dated had even so much as pretended to care about him this much.

But,when he had stopped taking his calls that had scared the hell out of him.

"Yeah. . . this steak is perfect"

Colby narrowed his eyes in Dom's direction.

"I meant this, us together . . . ALONE"

Now Dominic understood his meaning , He'd quickly noticed those 'changes' that Stephanie had told him about along with this very unappealing one. Even last night Colby had all but physically carried him to the car when he stopped to say hi Victoria and AJ. It was like Colby wanted him all to himself,it was weird.

"Are we on THAT again?"

"what?, are you serious right now? all I want is alone time with my boyfriend who by the way came here to spend time with me and I'm the bad guy?"

"Wanting to spend time together isn't the problem, you stompin around here like a fuckin five year old whenever I talk to someone else for more than thirty seconds however IS"

"oh NOW I'm immature?" He hated when Colby got like this now he had to do some serious backpedaling to calm him down so he didn't make a scene. He grabbed Colby's hands and held them in his own.

"No,I'm sorry I misspoke...Baby I love you and there's nothing more I want than to spend time with you but, I told you I'm not used to having to answer to anyone but me and I don't want to stop hanging out with my friends I have a very small group of people that care about me Colby, my mother's family isn't close...AT ALL, I know OF them but I don't KNOW them and let's not talk about 'the jackass' that is Dominic Sr., It's pretty much My mom ,Devin ,YOU and them that's six people Colby. But, listen I love you and no matter who I'm talking to you're always the first thought on my mind"

He planted kisses on the back of the younger man's hands causing him to blush.

"Hi Unca Dee Dee"

The couple jumped apart startled at the sound of the little girls voice. Dominic looked around but didn't see Stephanie or Paul anywhere.

"Vaughn where are your parents?"

"I don't know" She shrugged her shoulders and Dominic let go of Colby's hands so he could help her into the booth to sit next to him.

" you know better than to walk off Vaughn, how did you find us?"

"we were walking back upstairs and I saw you and I wanted to say hi,I tried to tell mommy but she wouldn't listen."

He took out his phone and called Stephanie knowing that she had to have noticed that her daughter was missing by now.

"Hello!"

yup , just as he thought Vaughn had wandered off luckily she had found him before someone found sounded like she was crying.

"Steph….calm down...I found her"

"SHE'S WITH YOU!"

he could hear Paul asking questions in the background.

"Where are you?"

" up in our room, we just came back from breakfast with dad , we turned around for two seconds and she wasn't there. where are you?"

"Downstairs eating breakfast. You want us to bring her up to you?"

Vaughn's eyes widened and she crawled into Dominic's lap pulling at his shirt.

"No Unca Dee I wanna stay with you." Stephanie knew she should be mad but she was just glad her daughter was safe.

"Take your time"

"Ok we'll have her back in a couple hours"

Dominic hung up and looked towards Colby

"you don't mind do you?"

"No"

he really didn't mind watching her,he was actually hoping that it would get Dominic to think more about the future and maybe this would put him in that mindset.

he really didn't mind watching her .He was actually hoping that it would get Dominic to think more about the future and maybe this would put him in that mindset.

Colby had always wanted children and this was the first relationship that he'd been in where he could feel it happening,he'd never felt this 'maternal' and hoped Dominic watching her would put him in the mood to have THAT talk.

"Well Vee it looks like you get to stay with Uncle Dominic"

"YAY!"

the youngest Levesque was ecstatic she loved spending time with her uncle.

"Who's he?" she questioned pointing back towards Colby

"I'm glad you asked,This *Dominic motioned towards Colby* Is my boyfriend his name is Colby Lopez and Colby this* he motioned towards the toddler sitting in his lap* Is Vaughn Levesque"

"It's nice to meet you Vaughn" Colby smiled trying to put the child at ease with him. Vaughn turned and sat on Dominic's lap so she could get a better look at Colby.

"You're pretty" Dominic couldn't help but laugh at that comment

"OW!" Dominic's laughter quickly stopped when he felt a sharp kick under the table from his lover.

"thank you sweetie" If Colby could name ONE thing he couldn't stand it was when people called him 'Pretty' but, he couldn't yell at her she was a kid….his boss's kid .Dominic chuckled again and looked down at the blue eyed little girl.

"Vee, what do you wanna do?"

She shrugged her shoulders and her focus soon turned to drinking the rest of the orange juice in his glass.

"Well , Well , Well Don't you all just make an adorable little family?"

The last time Dominic had seen Joe he was prying AJ off of Ariane….which was not as easy as it sounded.

"you'd be the resident expert on that"

Colby wasn't the only one who'd bought guests for their big night Joe's fiance Galina and their daughter Joelle had also tagged along.

"Thanks , so how have you been Caveman?"

"Great"

"Joe, Aren't you going to introduce us?" Galina felt a little put out she'd met Joe's Co-workers Colby included (whom she counted as a part of Joe's family ) she'd even met Vaughn and her sisters but, she had yet to physically meet Dominic she knew OF him from the whole incident a while back and Colby spoke non-stop about him but, she didn't KNOW him.
"Shoot,Sorry ...Babe ,this is Colby's boyfriend Dominic. Dominic this is My beautiful fiance Galina and my equally as beautiful Daughter Joelle or 'Jo Jo' for short "

"Nice to meet you ,I've heard a bit about you from Colby"

Dominic nodded and smiled extending his arm and shaking Galina's hand.

"Likewise , although I thought I would have already met you before now" she turned to Colby and folded her arms before finishing "and why is that Colby?"

Colby looked around , all eyes were in him.

"Uh- I got an idea how about we go to the Zoo"

"The Zoo!"

That got both Vaughn and Jo Jo's attention who was now asking her parents if she could go to the zoo with them and Vaughn who was pleading with Dom to say yes as well.

"OR we could go to the bounce house a couple blocks from here, you and JoJo can jump yourselves crazy " that earned an excited nod from Vaughn.

"Daddy can we go too? Please" Jojo began pulling on Joe's arm.

"Sure, Gal you don't mind do you?" Joe turned to his fiance waiting for her answer.

"No, it sounds fun,let's do it"

They split up and agreed to meet back up at eleven

The indoor bounce house was relatively empty when they arrived; but,about an hour or so later it had quickly filled up apparently one of the employees was a wrestling fan and had tweeted a picture of they had been left alone but they could see people trying and failing miserably to discreetly take photo's of them. Dominic sat at the table talking to Joe and Galina while Colby had pulled off his sneakers,threw Dom his phone and was out bouncing with the girls. Dominic personally thought he looked like he was having more fun than they were.

"So, Dominic,what are your intentions with Colby?"

He felt like he was talking to AJ (minus the cheesy nicknames) she was clearly just as protective of Colby as his friends were towards him Galina however was a parent which made her ten times more protective than AJ,Victoria and Nikki combined she was….. Stephanie and that thought made him shudder.

"well, I don't plan on letting him go…...ever. I know I screwed up before but, we've talked and I love him and I WILL NOT let that happen again"

The table grew quiet,Dominic's eyes met Galina's in a stare down ,Joe looked between the two ,he hoped like hell that neither one caused a scene.

"Ok…..For now but, If you EVER hurt him the way you did again,I will castrate you...are we clear?"

Dominic's eyes widened just as he'd suspected , She was just as protective as Stephanie. He snuck a glance at Joe who looked just as afraid to move as he did he looked back to Galina and swallowed the lump in his throat before he replied.

"I'd buy the knife"

She gave him a quick once over before increasing sound of excited squeals of joy let them know that the girls were ran to her parents while Vaughn captured Dominic's attention both girls talking a mile a minute.

"Unca Dee Dee I'm hungry."

Dominic looked down at his watch,no wonder she was hungry….it was four o'clock she'd been running around for the last five hours with nothing but water.

"Joe, It's five now , what time do you guys have to be at the arena?"

" six thirty...we should start heading back" They sent the girls back to go get their shoes...and Colby.

Once everyone was in the car they headed back to the hotel so Joe and Colby could gather their things for the night.

Dominic and Colby were in their room with Vaughn still in tow having refused to go with her parents once again choosing to go with was laying back in the bed watching Colby gather and make sure he had everything while Vaughn cuddled up to his side fast asleep. He could tell by the way that he kept looking back at them that Colby had something else on his mind.

"Ok you OBVIOUSLY have something you want to say so just say it" Dominic decided to bite the bullet since it was obvious Colby wasn't gonna start.

"You're good with her"

Colby stopped at the foot of the bed admiring the that Dominic had said something first had been trying to find a way to bring up the discussion of marriage and starting a family but, he couldn't figure out how to start.

"Yeah, she's a sweetheart,until you piss her off THEN she turns into Stephanie…..Not pretty."

"Sooo...Dominic…..have you ever thought of...you know?..."

Colby trailed off unsure of how to thought for a minute before and was still drawing a blank.

"No I don't know,you haven't said it yet?"Colby actually felt stupid for thinking the man who asked him if he was gay even after he'd shoved his tongue down his throat would catch on that quick.

"Have you ever thought about the future,us getting married, having kids, that kind of stuff"

Dominic's mouth went bone dry.

"I don't think now is the time for this discussion"

Dominic tried to sound as calm as possible despite the fact that his thoughts were running at a mile a minute.

Colby lowered his head not wanting Dominic to see the tears forming in his eyes, he wasn't stupid he knew what that hated the dejected look on Colby's face, he carefully moved Vaughn and got up walking over to where Colby stood and hooked his index fingers into his belt loops and pulling him closer and pressing his lips to the side of his head.

"I promise I'm not blowing you off Co-Co, we'll talk about it just not right now, this just isn't a conversation to have with Vaughn here ." Colby nodded still not entirely convinced that Dominic was serious.

Colby nodded still not entirely convinced that Dominic was serious.