yet another installment. please review and enjoy. check out my other fics please. working on updating welcome back (part of making a memory) because people want more. this chapter came easier than an update of that so here it is first.

"Har-har, very funny," he laughed.

"Hey, Damian, when did you have a kid, Diane never said anything."

"He had a kid the same day I did. Well I guess technically before then; he became a father the day our baby was conceived," she rambled.

"Maxie stop. Either Spinelli has a daughter or you're playing some mean joke on me, but either way you need to stop."

"Sir, I do have a daughter."

"We have a daughter, you're granddaughter."

"Did the two of you run off and get married, making his kid yours or something? What about Seth?"

"Mac, she called me mommy."

"I heard, but Maxie, you don't have a daughter, I would know."

"Not if I hid it from you."

"How do you hide a pregnancy?"

"You run."

"What?"

"Don't you remember summer before senior year, when I went to go live with mom?"

"Of course I do, it broke my heart, it broke your sister's heart."

"It broke my heart too, but disappointing you, God, I thought that would break your heart more. I couldn't do that."

"So you ran?"

"I ran, and had."

"Had his baby," he said knocking Spinelli to the ground, "you took advantage of my teenage daughter, then let her go?"

"Mac!"

"Twice in one day, I don't know how much more of this I can take. Mac I didn't know."

"I was already gone when I told him."

"So the two of you were sneaking around that summer?"



"Mac, please, that isn't the point."

"You're right, that's not the point. The point is you and Spinelli had a baby when you were in high school, and you didn't tell me."

"No, the point is Spinelli and I have a baby. The point is you have a granddaughter. The point is I've decided I want my daughter in my life, I want her father in my life. The point is your family just got bigger. The point is this is something good, something that makes me happy, that's the point; I'm finally happy, finally free."

"I take it you've been raising her."

"No, no sir I haven't."

"Then where has she been. Maxie has your mother had her?"

"No, she's been in Omaha."

"Nebraska?"

"Yes, with a very nice couple. They've been raising her, the two of us have been visiting her on and off."

"I thought I couldn't handle being her mother. What I really couldn't handle was not being her mother. We just went and got her back."

"And what's going to happen now?"

"We're going to raise her, she's our daughter, what do you mean what's going to happen?"

"What about school? How do you plan on paying for a child? What about Seth, I know you said you were fighting, is he still in the picture? Where do you plan on living, you're apartment is barely big enough for you and Seth. Are you and Damian together? Is he going to play daddy?"

"That's too many questions. Daddy we don't have it all figured out yet. Seth and I are officially over, I'm moving out. I don't know where I'm going. I'm almost done with school."

"I start at ELQ next week. We plan on raising her together."

"Are you getting married?"

"Married," they both said shocked and confused.

"Daddy, we," he cut her off.

"Sir, we've decided to raise Ava together, as a couple. I think marriage would be jumping the gun a bit."



"We want to raise her as a couple, start out slow, build our relationship to something more than just being together for her. We want to be together for more than her, but our lives have to be about her right now."

"We owe it to her to be a family. We owe it to ourselves to try."

"I still can't believe this is happening."

"We really can't either to be honest."

"But it is."

"I really don't think you have enough of this figured out. You said you were moving out of your apartment, where do you plan on moving to?"

"I was hoping to move in with you, until," she paused, she hadn't discussed it with him yet.

"Until what? Until you find somewhere else. I mean I wouldn't have a problem with that."

"I already have a place in mind." Mac and Spinelli both raised their eyebrows. "I'm just waiting for it to get finished."

"Really," he asked.

"If you'll have us."

"Have you, I didn't want it any other way."

"Would someone like to fill me in on what the two of you are talking about?"

"She's talking about the house I'm remodeling."

"If we plan on raising our daughter together, I thought it would be a good idea for us to live together. Can Ava and I stay with you until our house is finished? If you want to say no, I'll understand; we'll stay somewhere else, there's always Diane's."

"You will not stay with Diane. I have a feeling staying at Diane's brought this all on. You can stay with me until you find somewhere better, somewhere that doesn't involve living with him."

"Daddy, I'll stay with Diane if you're going to act like that. I'm going to move in with him, as soon as possible, we have a daughter to raise, time to make up for."

"Sir, we want to be a family, I think it's the best thing for all of us."

"Stay out of this."

"I can't stay out of this, that's my daughter. I'm taking her to the playground; she doesn't need to be here for anymore of this. Maxie, come and get us when you've figured out where the two of you are 

staying tonight. You are more than welcome to stay with me at Diane's, if you want we could get a suite at the hotel." He took a deep breath and turned his attention to Mac, "I really hope the two of you figure this out, I know you love your daughter, that you probably hate me right now, but sir, I love my daughter too, I want to build a family with your daughter around her. I know I want you to be a part of Ava's life."

"Daddy I couldn't imagine you not being in our lives."

"The two of you are jumping to conclusions. I just don't think that moving in together is what's right. As far as I can remember the two of you haven't been together since Damian's last summer here. Maxie you said it yourself that you didn't tell him you were pregnant until after you decided you weren't ready to be a mother, and now," he shook his head. "And now you want to be some instant family?"

"The thing is Daddy, that we are an instant family. We became a family the night I decided to fly to Omaha and get her, the night I told him if he wanted in he was in, the night he showed up at the airport with the ELQ jet, ready to get our daughter and bring her home."

"Maxie."

"Mac, we're a family, plain and simple. I know this came as a shock, and I'm sorry," she began to sob again. "I just couldn't not be with her, can't you understand that?"

"I do understand that, it was hard not to make you come home when you left." He pulled her into a tight hug, "of course you can stay at the house. For as long as you need; you can stay forever if you need to."

"Daddy," she half cried half laughed.

"I'm serious. I know you want to be a family, for your daughter. I just hope you take a step back, not get caught up in the moment."

"Living for the moment is all we're guaranteed."

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