A short chapter, sorry.
it is an inbetween chapter to get to the next good part.
After that there was no more talk about containers or Lindsy leaving. So she settled in more. Phil was losing some of his Harley Davidson stuff and it was replaced by brightly colored pillows and such, you know the female touch. And even if he hated it. He also loved it. Because it meant Lindsy was staying. And she didn't change his whole house just the living room and the bedroom and okay she also did put in two extra closets in the spare room for her clothes and shoes. So now Phil was certain she was staying. Because that was something he had learned over the years. As soon as you get the girls shoe collection in your house, it isn't your house any more, but you share the house. And that Gizmo almost loved Lindsy more than Phil, well that was something to get used to but it would work.
All that needed planning now was the next king crab season that Phil was going to captain again, and a wedding.
Murray had just finished Opie season and everything went well, some damages but nothing that couldn't be fixed. Jake had come home too, and survived his dads wrath. Not that it was much of a problem, the little sneak had gone straight to LA and Hilde forgave him with no problems, so by the time he got to Seattle with Hilde he was all proud daddy to be. And Phil forgave him too, after a little one on one talk just for good measure.
Phil decided to get a new tattoo to commemorate these new and big steps in his live. Getting a full sleeve on his left arm. He could, no more medication to stop him from getting it. He went for a skeleton, representing his brush with death. And this skeleton was holding an old-fashioned steering wheel. Because Phil was in control again. And the waves where all the people he loved in his live, old and new, and even one to be.
The wedding was going to be between king and opie season in Seattle, a winter Christmassy wedding. Lindsy insisted on it being a small wedding without her family, because they wouldn't like to fly over anyway. Phil wanted a big one like his daydream and he wanted to meet her parents and sisters, so in June the Harris clan went to the big 70th birthday party of Lindsy's dad. That was the plan Lindsy and JJ had concocted. Give Phil and kids a single overdose of her extended family and he would be fine with a small wedding. Glad even probably.
Hilde and Helmuth went along too, of course. They already knew Lindsy's family and the extended family too, and now that they where used to it and accepted as part of the "in law group" they always enjoyed the spectacle it presented. Not having any contact with their own family, Lindsy's family and the dynamics where always an interesting study object.
Hilde was by now close to four months pregnant and showing she was pregnant. And she had been warned by Lindsy how the family would react to a pregnant and unmarried woman, even if the father to be was present and accounted for. But Hilde was fine with it. She even rather wickedly suggested to use it to give Jake the needed family overdose.
Her own family hadn't even respond to the card she had sent to inform them of her pregnancy. So anything was better than that.
And they both liked the excuse to go to Europe in summer.