Lennon Danielle Oliver is seven and a half years old when she says the thing that no actor or actress ever want to hear from their own child.

"I want to be in movies like Mom." She tells Beck, seemingly out of nowhere

They're sitting together at the kitchen island, working on her homework together. Normally Jade is the one to help Lennon and Charlotte with their assignments, she's always had more patience both with the kids when they don't understand and with herself when she doesn't understand something academically. But tonight Sutton is feeling a bit under the weather, so Jade had taken the responsibility of making sure she gets put to bed a bit earlier and left her husband on homework duty. It's math, and Beck hates math. He thought that he might be able to handle it, since she's only in second grade. How hard could that be? But this new Singapore method is really throwing him for a loop. What was wrong with math the way he learned it in school? It had gotten him through life just fine. Why did they need to go and change it now?

But Lennon's statement is more concerning than any unknown math concept that could have appeared on paper. It's every actor's worst nightmare, she wants to be like them.

"You know, I make movies too." He reminds her, hoping that his humor could change the subject "It's not just Mom."

"I know that." Lennon shrugs "But I said I want to be like Mom. Sometimes she gets to sing in her's."

Alright, that's fair enough. Jade has done a few movie musicals before and she even did that stretch on broadway for a little bit, although Beck doubts Lennon knows about that yet...she's still too young to have seen Rent, even if her mother is in it.

"Lennon, trust me." Beck sighs "You don't want to do that yet. We can talk about it when you're older."

"You just don't want me to have fun." Lennon pouts, crossing her arms "You and Mom get to go to work and have fun. Why can't I?"

"Exactly, we go to work." Beck points out "Being in movies is our job. Right now your job is to go to school and learn and to be a good big sister to your little ones."

"There are kids my age who work!" Lennon argues "There's always someone else playing your daughter in your movies. Or Mom's!"

"Well, those children's parents have allowed them that privilege." Beck tells her "And right now, I'm saying that's not a privilege I'm ready to give you yet."

"MOM!" Lennon yells, hopping off of her stool and running out of the kitchen "MOM!"

"Sure..." Beck sighs, running a hand through his hair as he stands up to follow her "Run to Mom."

Beck finds them at the top of the stairs, Jade with a concerned look on her face as she kneels down to be eye-level with Lennon.

"What's going on?" She asks him

"Nothing that should have resulted in this dramatic of a reaction..." Beck informs her "Lennon Danielle, your sisters are trying to sleep. You can't scream like that unless it's an absolute emergency."

"This is an emergency!" Lennon insists "You're being a butt head!"

Jade shoots her husband an amused look as she stands up and places a hand on her daughter's back, guiding her into her bedroom. Lennon runs in and flops face first onto her bed, obviously irritated, as Beck and Jade walk in behind her and close the door.

"What's going on?" Jade asks "Why are you all worked up, Len?"

"I wanna be in movies!" Lennon tells her "Like you!"

"Alright." Jade shrugs, almost laughing at how such a simple statement could cause such a big reaction from her daughter "You can be whatever you want when you grow up, you know that."

"No, I want to be in movies now." Lennon clarifies

"Oh..." Jade nods, the outburst making more sense to her now "And Daddy told you no?"

"Yeah! Because he's a butt head!"

"Stop calling him that, Lennon." Jade sighs "It's disrespectful and its mean."

"Well, he's being mean!"

"I don't care, Lennon Danielle." Jade says sternly "We've taught you better than to talk like that."

Her mother's suddenly stern tone and the use of her middle name is a signal to Lennon that she's going to be in trouble if she continues on the way that she has been. With a huff, the seven year-old pushes herself into a sitting position and scoots tot the edge of her bed, crossing her arms over her chest as her legs dangle over the side. Beck and Jade exchange a look with one another, and each move to sit on either side of her.

"Look, Len..." Beck sighs "I love you. Mom loves you. And we want you to be happy. Okay? But we also want you to be able to be a kid. And if you all of a sudden have a real grown up job in movies like we do...well there isn't going to be much time left to be a kid."

"You guys still have time to be adults."

"There's a bit of a difference between being an adult and being a kid." Jade tells her "And you only get to see a very small part of what your dad and I do while we're at work. I get the feeling it might not be as fun as you think it is once you actually get into it."

"But I want to."

"Lennon..." Beck begins, but Jade holds up a hand to stop him from saying anything else

"Dad and I will talk about it, okay?" She tells her daughter as she rubs her back "We might not have an answer for you by tomorrow, or the next day, or even next week. But we will talk about it, I promise."

"That just means you're going to say no." Lennon pouts "You're just trying to put it off."

"Not necessarily." Beck reassures her "It means we really do need to talk about it."

"Fine." Lennon sighs

It's in that moment that Beck can see just how similar Lennon and Jade are. Not only in appearance, they have the same big blue eyes and light brown wavy hair, but in attitude. They're both very determined and motivated, and neither one of them like to lose. But Jade knows when a battle isn't worth fighting anymore, and he's starting to see that Lennon might too.

"Did you finish your homework?" Jade asks her

"No."

"Why don't we go work on that then?" Jade suggests "I know math isn't really Dad's favorite."

"Homework in general isn't really Dad's favorite..." Beck admits, which earns him a nasty look from his wife "Sorry."

"Can you go check on the others and make sure they're still asleep?" Jade asks him "I'll help her finish up and then I'll send her back up to get ready for bed."

"Sure." Beck nods "I'm on it."

Thankfully, Sutton and Hazel are still asleep when Beck peeks in to check on them. The now two-year olds still sleep in the same room, but have their own beds on opposite walls. When they start pre-school next year, Beck and Jade plan on moving one of them into the empty bedroom next door. Charlotte is slightly conscious when her father looks in, but she had only just recently attempted to try falling asleep. Beck assures her that nothing is wrong and that he just wanted to check on her, then sits with her awhile until her eyes grow heavy again. Within half an hour, Jade and Lennon have returned upstairs so that Lennon can get ready for bed. Her parents tuck her in and say goodnight, then return to the kitchen themselves.

"She's just like you, you know..." Beck says to his wife as he pops the cork out of a bottle of wine

"Which one?"

"Lennon." Beck chuckles as he grabs a glass for each of them "Not in a bad way or anything. I just see a lot of your...determination...in her."

"That was a smart choice of words." Jade tells him, taking her glass of wine out of his hand and sitting at the island "I was worried about where you were going to take that."

"I don't want her in movies yet." Beck says seriously, taking his own glass of wine to sit next to his wife "Or TV. It's just...you know how it is with child stars."

"Yeah, I do." Jade nods "But if she really is anything like me, she won't let this go. I sure wouldn't have at her age. Or at any age really."

"I don't want her to think we don't support her." Beck admits "But I also don't want the industry to ruin her childhood. I mean, if we start putting her in stuff now we might as well just hand her the keys to the liquor cabinet while we're at it."

"Alright, that's a bit much." Jade tells him "And not really an image of my sweet little seven year old that I want in my head."

"Sorry." Beck apologizes "It's just...well you know how it is."

"We've raised her well so far, or at least I think we have." Jade sighs "Maybe if we kept an eye on her and made sure that she still has as normal of a childhood as possible..."

"What about school?" Beck asks "I want her in a real school where she's getting a real education from a real teacher. Not some on-set classroom where a tutor is going to give her the bare minimum to get her GED by sixteen so she can work full time."

"That's a good point." Jade agrees "But, there's the chance she might try it and end up not liking it. I mean, I love what I do, but there's definitely aspects to it that I have to deal with that I never thought I would. I'm sure you can agree with that?"

"I can." Beck nods "But nothing that would stop me from continuing to pursue it."

"She might think differently." Jade shrugs "Maybe I could get her in as an extra or something on my next project, so she can see what it's like to be on a set."

"She's visited both of us on set before, she knows what it's like."

"She knows what it's like to be the star's kid and get treated like royalty by everyone she comes into contact with." Jade reminds him "Not what it's like to actually be an actor."

"I dunno..." Beck admits "I'm just not comfortable with that yet. I also don't want to just allow her these special privileges because of who we are, you know? Like she couldn't just walk in as an extra if we weren't her parents working on the movie. I want her, I want all of them, to know the value of what it's like to actually work for something. We had it rough in the beginning, remember? We had to work hard to break into the industry. And I want them to know the same feeling of accomplishment of having to work for something. Part of that is already taken away from them because of their last name."

"We can't just flat out tell her no."

"And why not?" Beck asks "We're her parents. What we say goes for now and she has to be okay with it until she turns eighteen."

"I don't want to be those parents though." Jade tells him "My dad was that parent, and I hated it. I want to be reasonable and fair with them."

"So, what are you suggesting then?"

"Let's get her into theater at school or something." Jade suggests "Obviously community theater is out of the question. Because of us there's no anonymity anymore, there hasn't been for years. People would eat her alive trying to get to us. But at school, she'd be safe."

Beck and Jade opted not to send Lennon, and then eventually Charlotte and soon the twins, to public school when the time came. They would have preferred to send them to public school, if they could. Both of them attended public school until it came time for Hollywood Arts and they both liked the experiences that they had, but because of who they are they worry that their children's privacy may be compromised in a public school environment. Instead, they send them to a non-relgious private school that had been highly recommended by a few of their colleagues also in the industry. It's not snobby but protects their privacy while still insuring that they get a good education. Both Beck and Jade love the school environment and what is has to offer their children, and speak so highly of it that Cat and Robbie also plan on sending Eli there when he starts kindergarten the following year.

"I would be okay with that." Beck nods "Let her try things out before she gets herself in too deep?"

"Exactly."

They wait a few days before bringing anything up to Lennon. Her emotions had run so high the night that they first had the conversation, and Beck and Jade decide it's for the best if they let her calm down a bit first before starting the conversation again. When they do finally decide to talk to her, it's Jade that instigates the conversation. Her and Lennon are close, and Beck already looks like the bad guy after saying no the first time, so she feels that it might get through to Lennon better if she's the one to bring it up.

"Dad and I have discussed the conversation we had the other night..." Jade tells her daughter "And we're not trying to be mean, but we think it would be best if you wait until you're a little older to try movies or TV."

"But-"

"No buts." Jade shakes her head "This job that we do...there's a lot more to it than just what you and your sisters can see. It's a lot of hard work, and we don't want to throw you into that without knowing what you're up against. It's just not fair."

"What's not fair is saying no." Lennon sighs

"We're not saying no completely." Beck chimes in "We're just saying no right now. When you're a little older and you've had some time to explore other things, then we can talk about it. But for right now we'd like you to wait. Does that sound fair?"

"Not really, but it's fine I guess."

"You know, Dad and I didn't start off in movies or TV right away." Jade says to Lennon "I know that's all you've ever known us to be doing, but before you were born we did other things."

"You did?"

"Sure." Jade nods "Not everybody gets to be a big star right away. We had to start at the bottom and work our way up from there."

"It's true." Beck tells her "We used to do plays or little commercials here and there. Not huge parts either, sometimes our characters didn't even have names."

"Really?" Lennon gasps "Why?"

"Well, because we were just starting out." Beck chuckles "People didn't know us that well yet, so we had to start somewhere."

"And we were thinking that if this is something you really want to do...that you could start with your school play?" Jade suggests "How does that sound?"

"You did plays?" Lennon asks

"We did." Jade nods "I even did a musical once. When you're older, I'll show you the video."

"Okay." Lennon shrugs "I'll try a play."

"Alright good." Jade grins "That's good, Len."

There isn't much in the way of competition when it comes to casting the school play, anyone who signs up gets to be in it and their parts are assigned based on gender and age. The students in kindergarten through second grade put on one production, while the students in third through fifth grade put on another to keep the cast numbers down and to keep things fair. Of course, once Charlotte found out Lennon was doing the play she wanted to participate as well. So, they were both cast in the production of the Corduroy, with Charlotte playing a baby doll and Lennon playing Lisa's mother.

Beck and Jade both attend both performances of the play while Sutton and Hazel stay home with Stephanie. Their parents attend the evening show with them as well and get the chance to see their granddaughters make their first big acting debut. Charlotte seems as if she could care less when the next time is she'll get to be on stage, but as soon as they're in the car on the way home from the school following the last performance Lennon is already asking her parents when she'll get to do another play. She seems bummed that there won't be another school production until the spring, but seems content with Jade's offer to look into ballet classes to keep her occupied in the mean time.

"I think we're in trouble, babe." Beck tells his wife later that night as they're getting ready for bed "I think she might really like performing."

"So what if she does?" Jade laughs "Remember who her parents are? It was basically inevitable."