Wow so i know its been forever, but i couldnt pick out which direction i wanted to take this story. Now after brain storming with some people, ive decided and ive started writing again. Please let me know what you think!! thanks to those of you still reading this btw...

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Jude did her best to balance Nick on her hip as she reached for the ringing phone. He was fresh out of the tub and still wrapped in a towel and she did not want him to get loose in the house. Picking up the phone she saw that the caller ID was G-major.

"Hello?"

"Jude, its Liam."

Jude rolled her eyes as she switched Nick to her other hip to relieve her aching arms and help her hold the phone better.

"Can I help you?" she asked in a professional tone.

"I need you to come into the studio this afternoon," he told her flatly, more so demanding then asking.

"Sorry, thats not going to work for me, how about sometime next week," she replied in the same tone.

"Look bring the kid if you have too, I don't care. Your producer can watch him while we discuss your up coming tour"

"Liam..." she said pausing as she took a deep breath, "Offending my child and my boyfriend, is not the best plan to get me to do what you want." She heard Liam sigh into the phone before he spoke.

"I'm sorry Jude, its been one of those days ya know...I would really appreciate it if you could make it today. It not, then tomorrow in the morning."

Jude was taken aback at the change in Liam just because of what she had told him. She had never heard him give into anyone, and she had just heard an apology from him!

"Um, ya, I mean, I think today will be ok. I just got Nick out of the bath, so let me dry him off and stuff and I will be there as soon as I can." She said as she kind of stuttered into the phone.

After she had hung up with Liam, still puzzled she called Tom.

"Hey baby mama... whatcha wearin right now?" he asked her as he picked up the phone. She smiled as she continued to put on Nicks dry clothes.

"Your shirt which has the remnants of Nicks lunch still stuck to it, and a pair of boxers...not to sexy, sorry."

"Depends, who's boxers are they?" he asked.

"Yours"

"Defiantly sexy then... I bet your legs looks so good..um..."

"Tommy i did not call you so you could try to have phone sex with me!" Jude said laughing and partly embarrassed.

"Why not?" he asked casually, like this was an everyday thing.

"Tom...be serious...the weirdest thing just happened. Liam called me."

"He what?"

"Ya he called the house and demanded that i come up there...then the next thing i know, get this, he apologized." She laughed when she heard Tommy coughing and clearing his throat on the other end.

"Seriously? No your joking..."

"No really! Im on my way up there, i'll call you when im in the parking lot so you can get Nick."

"Ok, love you, tell the big man daddy loves him too," he said.

Jude smiled widely.

"I love you too"

As Jude opened the car door she struggled to control her purse, the babies diaper bag, and navigate Nicks car seat. It was hard enough as it was for her to climb in and out of the Hummer by herself and it most certainly was a task for her to get the baby out.

"Ok, Nicky here we go, hold on to me..." she said encouraging the little boy to hang on. She tentatively stuck her leg back out of the hummer feeling for the side step below her foot. She felt it finally and went to shift her weight onto that foot and slide the rest of the way out. As she did this though, she felt her self start to slip...

She screamed and instinctively held Nick to her tighter, preparing to hit the ground, but totally not prepared for the arms clad in charcoal grey suit to catch her. Opening her eyes up, which had been shut so tightly, she saw Liam's face hovering above her.

"Nice to see that Quincy set you up in something so...suitable."

"It is suitable..." Tommy spat in Liams direction as he walked up on the whole situation taking place. "Baby, why did you call me to come help you?" He asked as he took Nick from Jude so she could stand.

"Im sorry, I thought I could do it myself...and my phone died. But thanks to Liam, we're all go here. So lets go in and start this meeting so that it can be done with."

Liam straightened his suit as Tommy continued to shoot daggers in his direction. Tom reached over and put his arm around Jude's shoulder as he leaned in and kissed the side of her head. She looked up as they walked into the building and quickly kissed his lips.

"Nick has everything he needs in the diaper bag," she told Tommy as she handed it to him. "You might want to feed him in 45 minuets or so if I'm not out by then." She kissed him quickly again and kissed Nick as she turned to walk into the conference room.

An hour later when Tommy was done feeding Nick, the phone on his desk rang.

"Yo,"

"Its Sadie, Jude is asking for you in the conference room...I would hurry if I were you, leave Nick with me when you go by."

Tom slammed the phone down and quickly picked up Nick and flew down the stairs as fast as he could. As he reached the front desk across from the conference room, he could hear the voices inside and they were getting louder.

"What the hell is going on in there?" He asked as Sadie reached for Nick.

"Im not sure, but Jude needs you, she called me to call you. Go in there." Sadie said as she shooed him away.

He walked up to the door and placed his hand on the handle taking a deep breath before he walked into what sounded like a war zone.

"What the hell is going on in here?" he repeated for the second time that day. He stared down the people at the table as he took in the sight of Jude pacing, with her face wet from tears.

"Tom, Tommy, tell them!" she said as she pointed with her hand in the direction of the table.

"What baby, what's going on?" He asked as he went to where she was and smoothed her hair out of her face.

"What's going on is that Miss Harrison is being irrational..." Said a stern looking woman sitting at the end of the table.

"Irrational...IRRATIONAL? You want to see irrational lady? Go ahead, you tell him. You tell him what you have been trying to tell me." She said as she ran her hand through her hair and continued to pace. The 6 members of the board and Liam all exchanged nervous glances, trying to urge one of them to speak up. Liam cleared his throat.

"The board and the tour planner decided that it would be in Jude's best interest if you and the kid stayed here for the duration of the tour."

"Damn it Liam! I already told you he has a name...Nickolas, do I need to spell if for you, because if you refer to him as " the kid" one more time, your going to wish I had!" Jude yelled as she lashed out at Liam.

"Miss there is no need to raise your voice an-" started the stern lady.

"No there is a need for her to raise her voice, so let me get this, you want me and the baby to stay home while she tours for 6 months. You want to separate us? You don't have that right!" Tommy said as he cut off the lady.

"Its not that we're trying to separate you, but this should be a drama free easy tour that we get going and get it over with."

"Listen Lady, I don't know who you are and I sure as hell don't care at this point. No matter what you all have decided is best for Jude, it is far from it. I guarantee you. She needs her son, and I need them, BOTH of them. So if you think just telling us that we're not going to be allowed is going to fly, then you have another thing coming."

"Well I'm sorry Mister Quincy, but Liam has already given his approval on this and security will be instructed to carry out his orders. This meeting is over." The lady said as she closed up the folder in front of her and stood with the other board members.

"This is far from over, Liam is not going to control my family," yelled Jude as the people continued to walk from the room. Tommy and Jude followed them out into the foyer, they didn't know what else to say to them so Tommy did the only thing he could think of.

"DARIUS! D! COME OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!" Tom said as he yelled as loud as he could for the fearless leader to emerge from his office. This outburst shocked everyone in the foyer and all they could do was stand and stare at him. Darius's office doors opened a moment later as he buttoned his suit and walked their way.

"This better be damn good for you to be screaming, I was on an important phone call."

"Not as important as the conversation your about to have with these idiotic people. You better get it through their thick skulls that your about to lose your best producer, and artist, unless they come to some sense of morality and understanding." Tommy said as he glared at the group of people still standing there. Liam laughed in the background.

"Something you want to say Liam?" Tom asked as he went and got in his face.

"You all have contracts, you couldn't just leave."

"They could if I released them..." said D as he viewed the scene in front of him, " And if they are this upset over something you all have decided it must be important to them. Back in the conference room, everyone but Jude and Tom. Let me talk to them alone first, then we will call you in," Tommy and Jude nodded.

A few moments later, Nick sleeping peacefully in Tommy's arms, Jude leaned over and rested her head on Tommy's arm...

"What are we going to do Tom?" Jude asked.

"I don't know Jude...I don't know."