First half is Brainy's POV. Lanie was asked certain questions to help us along, but she didn't write any of this chapter due to the last one since I thought we would give her a break. I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Thanks for your reviews.


*Brainy POV*

Joy wasn't at all pregnant. He couldn't help but do a happy dance to that one. What he hated was to go to the facility to meet up with one patient that placed himself in there for preventive measures. After his session with that patient I headed to see the status of, Joy. They told me she was in a room right now being evaluated further. I was asked if I wanted to observe and I had my reservations about it, but I knew it was something that I had to do.

Walking into one of the many observation rooms they had, I was looking out towards, Joy looking decidedly different. Her hair was stringy and she had bags under her eyes. Hearing the question if he would like to listen, I just nodded my answer before the doctor pressed the button.

"Why did you draw her?" The doctor was asking.

"She deserves to die." Joy answered as her head went down to the blank piece of paper. "She killed my baby."

"How did she do that?"

"She came into my room and ripped it out of me. Brainy will be sad." Joy ran her hand through her hair.

He knew she was talking about, Lanie. How can she hate a woman she only met once? Listening to the many questions, he shook his head. "Let me ask her a few questions."

"Are you sure, Dr Bartlett? It might not be wise for you to do so." The doctor had a face marked with concern.

I was very resolute in my decision. "Yes. I know it may set her off, but I really need to know to settle my brain some."

Nodding his head, he went and left him where he was. I watched him step inside the room to whisper to the one doing the evaluation. Soon they left her alone and he replaced that previous doctor. Stepping inside the room it smelled musky so I wondered if it was the room itself till I sat down to find her sad hopeful eyes followed strongly by the scent as she reached for me.

"Brainy, my love, did you come to marry me?" Joy inquired with so much hope in her eyes.

I shook my head gently. "No. I never asked you to marry me."

"But you love me."

"I don't." Looking at the drawing that was left on the table, I reached for it to study it. It was childish at best but the meaning was there. "Why do you believe, Lanie was trying to steal me after only meeting her once?"

Joy leaned back as her finger scratched the surface of the tabletop. "You talk about her in your sleep. When I met her in the park I knew she was desiring you."

He had no clue if he spoke during sleep so he couldn't deny that. "How could you tell?"

"She told me with her mind. She didn't say the words but she told me to back away because you are hers. I hate her as much as I hate, Helga. I hope they both die and then we can be together." Joy had another finger join in scratching at the top of the table. "I want them to die. I want them to die. I want them to die."

She began to repeat that sentence over and over. He tried to stop her but she became louder as he stood up as the other doctors came in. He had to leave there. Frank will get the updates for him. He needed to try to move on. As he walked to his car he received a call from the office with a special request from, Joy's parents. Considering it he will have to talk to, Lanie about it since they wanted a special meeting with her. Calling up, Lanie he asked her if she would like to come to speak to her parents. Lanie hesitated till she answered in the positive. Soon he was calling back the office to tell them to set up a day for them.

A day later, all four of them were in his office as Lanie sat beside me. They asked her plenty of questions with her answering all them. Their smiles seemed to grow more and more as they spoke to her and he spotted how less tense they were as the seconds drifted by.

"We are dreadfully sorry to all the things she was doing. We tried to be good parents but we failed." The mother weeped at that.

Comforting his wife, the father smiled at Lanie. "We are and we can tell that you are a genuine person. You care very much about your friends and family. You obviously care about strangers seeing what we saw in the waiting room."

Lanie listened to them patiently. "Please don't say you failed as parents. The ones that completely ignore their children should apologize. From what I can see in front of me I can see two parents who were involved still in spite of their own flesh and blood... Well it is hard to speak about it. My parents are very involved in our lives and growing up with them I know that you are the same. I know my parents will do anything to see us happy. Just hearing you talk about her is so much love there. Please don't ever say that again."

Standing up her parents went up to her to shake her hand. "We just wanted to talk to you in person. Get to know you a little before we apologized. We hope you have a very fruitful life." Joy's mom expressed to her.

"I wish you both the same. I hope you both have a pleasant day." Lanie told them.

"Dr Bartlett, please also have a good day." Joy's father told him.

"Same to you." I bid them a good bye as Lanie opened the door for them.

Waving at them, Lanie closed the door, and locked it. I remained quiet as I watched her turn to me. "They're a nice couple."

"They are." I agreed as I watched her come closer to me. I wondered what was on her mind. "Do you still want to hold off a little longer on us?"

The way her eyes went down before coming back up to meet his gaze had his heart pumping. "I do want this and since I'm serious I will take it slow to get to that part."

We stood there just looking into the others eyes. I opened my mouth up to say something when I suddenly had her hand taking me by the tie to bring me to her. The way her lips felt on mines felt like the exact first time. It wasn't awkward. It is positive. Finding my arms around her I returned her kiss with equal passion. I wanted to run up to the roof to shout out how I felt. She was exactly like no one else I have ever met. Hearing the alert from my phone I pulled away to groan. Not wanting to separate from her, I moved her with me to answer my phone. "Yes, Sue?"

"Dr Bartlett, your 1:00 is here." Came her response.

"Thank you, Sue. I'll be out as soon as possible."

"I'll tell the patient." She clicked off from her end.

Glancing back to, Lanie's eyes I spotted how much more greener her eyes seemed to be. She was happy. She truly had a mood ring for eyes. "I want to keep you. Can I keep you?"

Her eyebrow did the quickest quirk up and down. "Well just as long as you are not planning on shackling me to a castle cell, then yes."

Most give him a simple yes and no answer, she always had to be cute with her answers. "I'd rather have you stick around to keep kissing me."

"Same here, but you have the responsible need to screw peoples heads in." Kissing him, Lanie wrapped her arms around my neck. "Call me later."

"I will. Promise." Making sure to get another kiss in, I had to watch her leave. I hated to do that since all I wanted to do was hold her.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Arnold was calling for everyone's attention in, Gerald's backyard. "Alright everyone we seem to have some important announcements happening tonight and he wants to be last." Tonight there was no in laws, it was just the young as they can be, adults. "First of all, Joy is not pregnant."

"HERE, HERE!" All of them cheered out. Brainy just lifted his drink up as he held, Lanie's hand.

"Also we seem to have the beginning of a new relationship happening." Arnold told all their friends as he pointed at, Lanie and Brainy.

"Finally!" Gerald yelled out as he gave them a thumbs up.

"Now have kids!" Harold called out himself as he started to laugh.

"Now don't rush them." Phoebe told Harold as she gave a thumbs up to them too.

"We aren't an official couple just yet, but I do have a great feeling here about this." Lifting her hand up, Brainy kissed Lanie's hand. Lanie blushed as her smile grew on her face.

Sensing that the couple needed some attention off them for a little while, Arnold looked towards Helga. "We found out today that we will be having a boy."

In the midst of more cheering happening, Phoebe leaned to whisper in Helga's ear. "I bet he'll teach him to watch out for his sister because of boys."

"You don't know the half of it. He came home hoping that our son will be fighting off the boys to stay away from his sister. He needs to relax." Sighing, Helga started to giggle. "I keep telling myself to lessen up on making him paranoid, but he is so cute. I keep telling him stories of when I was young and his eyes grow so large that one day they'll pop out literally."

"So you get charged by it." Taking a glimpse of Gerald, Phoebe giggled. "There was this one guy in school who was considered the most good looking guy in school. Well one day he started to flirt with me and paying so much attention that, Gerald would always turn up trying to stop him in some not so subtle ways. Eventually he stopped flirting with me and began to flirt with, Sheena instead. That is when Harold started doing the same things. Now Roxie has a couple boys vying for her attention and as calm as he his, he gets between Roxie and those boys when he sees it for himself. They just want their daughters to remain their little girls forever."

Studying Arnold chatting away with Curly, Helga shook her head. "If that was the case then they wouldn't be seeing us under the sheets with them."

"Oh that is so bad, but so true." Glancing to Lanie, Phoebe called her over. "So Lanie when it comes time when you both consummate could you let, Sheena and myself know what is Brainy's personal rating downstairs."

Looking over her shoulder at him, Lanie winked. "Judge it in the way I walk I guess."

"Ohhhhhhhh!" Both Helga and Phoebe exclaimed at the same time.

Winking at them once more, Lanie went back to sit next to Brainy. "They just wanted to give them a number when it comes to that time."

"I guess no one truly grows up no matter what." Brainy said as he watched Curly being restrained by June. "Take Curly for example. I believe if he was in a walker he would still be ripping his clothes off to streak."

"Well he is never boring. At least he has a decent enough body." Turning to him, Lanie gave him a once over. "I know yours is better even if I haven't seen it all yet."

Kissing the tip of her nose, he followed it up by kissing her lips. "Is this really happening?"

"It is." Seeing Gerald stand up on the steps now, everyone turned their attention to him. "Kiss me some time after this announcement so I can soak you more in." She whispered to Brainy.

"Will do."

Raising his arms up in the air, Gerald cleared his throat. "Now we all know about how I am married to a most beautiful intelligent woman. A woman who continues to make me happy each and every day of my life. A woman who has given us both a beautiful daughter by the name of, Roxie. A woman who has the sweetest giggle I have ever laid my ears on." Extending his hand out towards, Phoebe she stood up to go to his side. "A woman who is currently 19 weeks along with our second child. Our newest child will be introduced to us basically at the same time as your own bundle of joy, Arnold and Helga. So tonight we all celebrate all our good news."

Everyone stood up to congratulate them. Phoebe wanted to wait like her last pregnancy to tell everyone. When Harold said she was drinking beer at the last few get together's she told him it really wasn't beer. Gerald switched what she was drinking to keep up with the illusion. It was the same thing they did with Roxie too.

Arnold asked if Gerald was hoping for a boy too, and all he could do was nod his head. What do you do with paranoid fathers after all?


Yeah what do you do with paranoid fathers? Us girls are trying to stop them from being too paranoid. Thankfully my father lessened that one up a long time ago, or so it would seem. My dad is probably good at keeping it quiet and my mom has to hear about it lol. Also our Brainy and Lanie are an official couple.