**Author's Note: This is just my speculations on what would be interesting. I am sorry if it doesn't match what happens on the show. I am jumping ahead to right when everyone gets back from Puerto Rico. Oh...and Tabitha is my character.

Chapter 1: There's Nothing Like Family

Chloe Lane looked at her mother with complete disdain. "I can't believe you kept this from me, Nancy! How could you? How can you expect me to respect you when you are ALWAYS lying to me?"

"Now Chloe, you are overreacting. I did this for your own good." Nancy was trying not to get flustered by her daughter's vehement words.

"My own good? Nancy, how does keeping the fact that I have a twin sister a secret for MY OWN GOOD?"

"We didn't know where she was! And when we did find out she had been adopted. I thought it best just to leave it alone and avoid the tangle with the law. Besides, what if she didn't want to come to us? That would be worse."

"First, you pretend I'm not alive and now you tried to ignore her too? What kind of mother are you? God, each time I think you can't top the last thing you've done you pull out something new!'

"I'm sorry Chloe, I really am. I realize now that what I did was wrong..."

"How many times have you said that to me, Nancy? How many? When will you start realizing these things ahead of time?" Chloe spun around, her hair flinging out around her and started to leave. Then she stopped and turned back towards Nancy. "And just so you don't' have to ask, I am calling Brady Black and asking him to come and pick me up so I don't have to be around you! And DO NOT try and stop me!" While Nancy sat there searching for words to say to her daughter, Chloe ran upstairs to her room. She dialed Brady's number which she now knew by heart, they had gotten very close since Belle and everyone had been gone. The phone started to ring on the other end of the line, one, two three rings. "Come on, Brady. Pick up," she mumbled under her breath. But her psychic powers were not up to full efficiency because she heard Belle's recorded voice on the other end, "Hi, you have reached the Black residence, home of John, Marlena, Brady, and Belle. We can't come to the phone right now but leave a message and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Bye!........BEEP!" "Hey Brady, it's Chloe. I needed to talk to you but I guess you are not home. Call me as soon as you can. I'll be in my room hiding from the Wicked Witch of Salem, also known as Nancy. Bye."

Over at the Black household Brady was just getting out of the shower and caught the tail end of Chloe's message. He ran toward the phone while wrapping a towel around his waist. "but I guess you are not home..." "NO! I am hold on!" Brady gave no thought to the fact that he was talking to the answering machine. But when he looked he saw the phone was not in it's cradle. "Dammit!" He ran towards the living room and just as he saw the phone he heard, "Bye." "Great." He grabbed the phone and carried it upstairs with him, dialing Chloe's number on the way up to his room.

Chloe had just hit the off button on her phone and was replacing it on it's cradle when it rang. She jumped, scared by the unexpected noise, and answered it. "Brady?"

"Yeah, it's me. What's up? You sounded really upset."

"I don't want to talk about it over the phone. Can you come get me?"

"Sure, I'll be there in a minute. No one's home over here, I'll bring you over and make you dinner, OK?"

"That sounds great. I'll see you in a little while." And with that she hung up so he could leave sooner.

In five minutes she saw Brady pull up in his Jeep. At first she was going to run down and intercept him before he could ring the doorbell but then she thought about it. She realized that Nancy would be even angrier to see Brady come to the door, Nancy hated Brady. So she waited at the top of the stairs. The doorbell rang and Nancy got up to answer it.

"Why...hello Brady...it's so...nice to see you again." Nancy knew that she had to be nice to Brady or Chloe would get even madder, and she HATED to see her daughter mad.

"Hello Mrs. Wesley, is Chloe here?"

"Just a minute." She turned to call Chloe but she was already down the stairs and going out the door.

"Bye Nancy, I'm going to Brady's. His parents aren't home but I know you don't mind, right? I'll be home whenever, I may just stay the night. Bye!"

Nancy wanted to say something but knew her daughter had her trapped. The best thing to do was just ride it out. 'She'll get over this,' Nancy thought, 'besides, Tabitha comes and she wouldn't miss that, no matter how mad at me she is.' But deep down she wasn't so sure.