Alrighty, I have a lot of school work coming up just to warn you all! Finals, (late) mid finals and such! But I will try to update more, and get back on schedule! Well besides the usual notes of not owning, and all that stuff, I have some very exciting news for you all, my lovely readers!

A few friends and I are all going to be working on a story together quite soon, and I'd love for you to all check it out! It will be the ultimate fanfiction, in a high school! It will have tons of characters, some you may know, others, maybe not. I'll be handling all of the major pirate things too (yes they will be in there, and you'll never guess who Jack is going to be!) I'll also be in charge of the superhero related things! (DC mainly) so if you have any questions, would like to know more, blah, blah, blah, feel free to ask me!

P.S. If I do happen to forget to update this story, feel free to send me a friendly reminder message, I'm very forgetful, and it'd be very kind of you to do so! So if it takes me longer than a week and a half to update (unless I say it will take some time) feel free to message me, or a week or so after I say I would have updated... If I just say, "I'll be slow at updating" or something similar, and I haven't for half a month, or longer, please feel free to message me. I'll feel more motivated to do so.

So here's chapter twenty-one!

Maddie was screaming her head off, she'd been doing so all morning, and Gracie was getting about sick of it. She would love to just tell her to be quite, but it was her child, and it would probally only upset her more. Gracie sighed, as she gave Maddie a block of ice, wrapped in a clean towel to bit onto. The nurse said it would help her growing in teeth, but Gracie had her doubts.

It seems like only yesterday that Maddie could barely hold herself up, and here she was crawling! Gracie was starting to feel very old. She sighed, as she looked out at the sea. The beautiful sea, and if only Maddie was older, she and her would be out there now. The butler came inside and coughed politely. Gracie turned around to face him.

"Excuse me Mrs. Maynard" Gracie slightly frowned at this, but not enough for him to see. Gracie nodded her head, and set down, a now quiet Maddie onto the playing mat. The butler continued. "It seems that there is someone here to see you. He says his name is Andrew Sparrow. Are you acquainted with him?" Maddie was just about to tell him she had no clue who he was, when she remembered that Selina's maiden name was Sparrow, and that Andrew probably couldn't think of a good disguise name. Gracie nodded her head vigorously.

"Yes I know him, please let him in!" She said excited, when, who else to ruin her excitement came in, her husband.

"Hello darling." he kissed his wife on the cheek. "So who exactly are we letting in?" he asked calmly. Gracie thought quickly. What was she supposed to say, her old shipmate? The man she always loved, but couldn't be with for so many different reasons? The possible father of her daughter!? Without thinking Gracie spat out the first, slightly sensible thing she could think of.

"My brother. Well half brother. His mother died, and his father married mine." Robert looked at her oddly for a second.

"I thought you said you were an orphan..." Gracie cursed him in her mind, a normal man would not remember what she said during their first meeting!

"Yes, well I was. My parents then died soon. My brother, Andrew was sent to the work house, and I being too young, was sent to the orphanage. I just found him awhile ago, he's a merchant sailor, works for small companies, shipping their goods from one end of the country to the other side." Gracie said all on the top of her head. Robert nodded his head.

"I can't wait to meet him." he said. The butler reappeared at this time, with a man, much taller than him, holding the hand of a almost four year old. The butler bowed, and left, to do something that Gracie really didn't care. Gracie picked up her dress in one hand and ran to Teague.

"Brother!" She ran to Teague, who caught her in his arms, very quickly Gracie whispered to him "you're my half brother, same dad. Parents dead, you working house, me orphange. You work for small companies, merchant, delevering goods across sea." Teague barely nodded his head, having perfectly understood. He pulled her back.

"Gracie, you look great! Haven't seen you, in what feels like ages!" he said not knowing the exact time in her story. "And you must be Robert, Gracie told me all about you." Robert took a step forward, and the two shook hands. Gracie meanwhile, bent down to say hi to Jackie.

"Hey Jackie, how are you!" she asked as Jackie replied, Maddie started screaming again, wanting to be the center of attention. Maddie, and Jack walked over to her, Gracie picked her up. "Can you say hi to Jackie, Maddie? He's your cousin." Maddie stopped crying only to stick her tongue out at Jack. Gracie silently thanked the gods that Robert didn't see that; he would've thrown a fit! Jack stared at the baby, then stuck his tongue out at her. This however did not go unseen by Robert, and he gave Jack a look that one would think only a priest would give someone who had sinned in church. Teague, distracted Robert quickly though by asking him a question about his work.

Maddie, held Jack by his hand, and carried Maddie to a different room, so that the kids could play. As it turned out, Maddie didn't like Jack to much. And Jack quickly learned to not like Maddie. Both adored Gracie though, and fought for her attention. As it turned out, both had one thing in common, besdies for loving Gracie, and hating eachother. They both loved to fight eachother. Gracie made sure that they didn't do anything serious, but it was a close thing a few times. And for a baby, Maddie was vicious.

Meanwhile, Robert was busy talking to a very bored Teague. Soon the two men made their way to the room where Gracie was, talking of trade and such. Robert gasped, and Teague struggled the hardest he's ever had to, not to laugh. Gracie was on the floor, laying on her back. Jack was at her head reaching upward for Maddie, only to be stopped by Gracie's hand on his stomach. While Maddie was in the air, her stomach laying on Gracie's feet, which were straight up. The two younger ones were screaming, trying to kill each other; while Maddie was telling the younger ones to shut up. Robert immediately ran and grabbed Maddie out of the air, and Gracie managed to hold Jack down. Robert looked at Gracie questioningly but Gracie only shrugged her shoulders innocently.

Later that night, all of the adults were talking, and Maddie was playing on the couch, while Jack played on the floor with a toy ship. The adults weren't paying attention, Maddie accidentally knocked one of her toys off the couch. She yelled for her mom to get it. Gracie didn't pay attention though, Teague had just told a joke, and all three of them were busy laughing. Maddie yelled at Jack to get it, but he only stuck his tongue out at her, and went back to his ship.

Maddie stared at the end of the couch and started to crawl towards it. She pulled the blanket to help herself get farther along. She moaned, and was altogether very noisy. Being talking parents though, none of them noticed. Maddie got to the end of the couch, and reached one of her arms down towards the floor, trying to reach her toy. Jack looked at her. "Move Baby!" he said as she started to cry, Maddie realized she was stuck. Jack Pulled the pillow under her, knowing that she was going to fall, and if she did, she'd get her; leading to more crying. Sure enough, Maddie fell, stomach first onto the pillow, her head fell onto the pillow Jack had just stacked there. Jack screamed.

"Baby Maddie wrecked my fort!" Jack started screaming, and so did Maddie. The parents rushed over, all worried about their child, and proud of Jack for saving Maddie.

Later, Jack was holding Maddie, he looked very uncomfortable "She's squishing my arm..." Jack wailed quietly. Teague rolled his eyes. Jackie sighed as he looked at Maddie. She was asleep. Jack moaned loudly. "Get her off!" he cried. All the parents rolled their eyes.

Ok, who hasn't let a baby do that? Gracie is not a bad mom, none of them are bad parents, ask your parents, your friends, yourself; you've they've all probably done something similar, and hopefully Jack was there to save the day. Anyways, enough of that. I cut it short because I really wanted to get this up. So sue me (please don't...)

Good, bad, ok? Tell me what you think, review please oh please! Even if you haven't yet, don't be shy! I don't bite! Gracie does, but I don't! I'm the nice one! So, if you're reading this, if your eyes have passed over any of this, please for the sake of all, review!