Title: Coming Clean

Name: Joy

Email: SleepingBeauty2@ziplip.com

Rating: PG 13

Logan's irritated face was the first thing his sister, Fiona saw as she unlocked and threw open the door to his bedroom. She smiled at him as she strutted by with Max following suite.

"Why are you wearing my clothes and where do you think you're going?" responded her annoyed brother with a fatherly tone.

"I'm going out with Max. I'll be home before one and I promise not to be taken home by any strangers, OK DAD!"

"Hey! It's your first night in town. I was hoping to have you all to myself before I'd have to share."

"Guess, what Loggie? You never were good at sharing so I by passed the situation. This is my first day seeing you, not my first day here," Fiona said with a confident look. Max burst into a fit of laughter as she looked at Bling's hollow expression. All attention soon went to Max who was just trying to contain herself knowing this whole situation was about to erupt.

"What's so funny?" Logan said annoyed.

"You're just so cute when you're angry," Max said trying to cover, & badly at that.

The Cales just glared at one another for a long moment before Logan wheeled around to look at Bling. "Why do I get the distinct feeling everyone knows something I don't… My girlfriend is busting up laughing for no apparent reason… My sister is telling me she has been here for a few days already…And my best friend looks like he swallowed his tongue… So who is going to start explaining?" Logan said with an icy look to Bling who just kept his mouth shut while his forehead perspired.

Fiona made her way over to Logan and glanced at him briefly. She then stood close to Bling and reached up to him for a hug & kiss. Bling put his arms around Fiona's back and lifted her to him, since he was at least a foot taller then she was. As their lips parted she said, "I'll be OK with Max. I just need to unwind some before bed. I'll sleep here and see you in the morning."

Bling lowered her back to the floor then kissed her forehead. He cupped her face with his strong hand and said, "Be careful and don't get into any trouble… I think Logan & I are going to need to talk for a while. Max, take care of my girl." Logan just sat dumb founded at the scene.

"No problem. I'll guard her with my life," Max replied watching Logan's expression of shock unchanging. "I promised to bring your sister back in one piece," she said kissing his forehead.

"I'm snagging your cell, Loggie. Bye," Fiona said picking up the phone as she and Max headed for the door.

Logan finally shook off the shock and began to yell, "What the hell just happened here!"

"Good luck Bling! You're gonna need it," Max said as the girls headed out the door.

Logan spun around and glared at his friend slash employee with the usual older brother protective look. Bling stood confidently in front off him, relieved to hear Max's motorcycle race off into the night.

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"You think Bling's OK with Logan?" Max yelled to Fiona.

"Yeah, fine. My husband was Loggie's best friend in high school. They had to go through the same thing. No big!"

"Your What?!?"

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Logan sat in his chair starring Bling down. "Logan, before you say anything you will regret, let me just say I've known your sister for a very long time; longer then I have known you. This is something that's only a recent development. I don't know how Max knew, I'm assuming Fi just told her when they were getting ready."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Logan said in annoyance.

"We spent all of our relationship doing the long distance thing. We wanted a little time together one on one before bringing you into it. Plus, there is the whole thing of her deciding if she wants to move back."

"So how long has this been going on?" Logan asked a little calmer.

"'Bout three months or so. Since my abrupt trip…"

"OK, I'm back to mad. You went to see my sister and you didn't tell me."

Bling closed his eyes and sat on the edge of the sofa clearing his mind, trying to decide how much he would tell Logan. "Logan, Fi hit a real hard patch on the anniversary of… well, ya know… a lot of survivor guilt and stuff. I've never seen her that bad, not even when it happened. I dropped everything and flew to England. She needed me a lot more then you did right then… I always knew that I cared about her a lot, but this time it was different. Spending time in the life she had made for herself there, showed me how much she had grown up and healed. I just fell in love with the woman she became through all the pain."

Logan listened intently, quickly realizing he knew very little about his baby sister anymore. It did explain her increased calling though, as well as her interest in Seattle again. "She's really thinking of coming back for you?"

"Me? Nah, for her. You're here. You're all she has left since the O'Connor's moved to Chicago. She'll be going there for a while when Becky's has her baby. I'll probably go out there for a while to meet them."

Logan's face became angered again, "Why doesn't she just move there? She has adopted them as family."

Bling shut him down fast, "How dare you judge her? As I recall, you were no where to be found when this went down. Oh yeah. You hide in a bottle and then behind Eyes Only. They were the ones to sit by her side until she woke up. They were the ones to fight for her against your Uncle Jonas. They've been the ones to have her for holidays and vacations- NOT YOU. You're her brother. You're the one she cried out for. You're the one she wanted, but you weren't there. Now she's back to work things out and start over, and you have the gall to begrudge her the only family she has that acted like family when it mattered most. GET A GRIP."

"Don't you think I want things to be different? Don't you think I would love to take back that day? Never write the story at all," Logan shot back.

"Logan, she never asked you to take anything back. She never blamed you or was angry with you for what that animal did. She was angry and hurt that after it was over you weren't there. You just pretended she died too. She left because she couldn't deal with the constant rejection… You have a second chance. She's here for me, but she's here for you too. Since you and Max have been together, she feels like you are growing up and moving on. Maybe you're ready to have a real family again?"

Logan sat uncomfortably in his chair for a minute and then looked at his friend, "So you're dating my sister?"

"Yeah."

"You're a good man Bling."

"Thanks, Fiona thinks so."

"Should we be worried about Max and Fiona out together?" Logan asked.

"Probably," Bling said smiling.

"Where do you think they went?"

"Crash… Shall we?"

"Lets!" Logan said emphatically as they headed to catch up with the girls.