November 28th, 2004

Jade was finally released from the hospital. There appeared to be no really bad damage to her system. They had to do a lot of changing around to the house. They switched the back doors around so they had to pull open the door. They bolted the stairs gates to the wall so they only had to be hooked in one way. They also installed an alarm system. They had been meaning to put one in for a while, but now they needed it more than ever.

Alex stared at her locker as she lay on the couch. She hated being at work when her daughter was home from the hospital. Kim sat down on the edge of the sofa and handed Alex a bowl of stew.

"Who made this?" She asked.

"DK." Kim said pushing Alex's feet away. Alex chuckled.

"Good. He's a good cook. I wouldn't be able to handle it if Carlos tried to cook again." Alex said as she started to eat.

"Luckily we work in a fire house." Kim chuckled, "If he starts a fire we can put it out." Alex chuckled.

"God, DK, this is great!" She called out.

"Thanks. I made it just for you." DK said sitting down at the table.

"Really?" Alex asked.

"No." DK laughed. The men all started to laugh.

"Jerk." Alex chuckled.

"How's Jaded doing?" Carlos asked from the table.

"She's good. I wish I was hoe instead of here though."

"I think we all wish that." Carlos chuckled.

"Davis, come on." Jimmy jogged up the stairs, "Got car fire."

"I didn't hear the announcement." She shoved her bowl into Kim's hands and ran behind Jimmy. Maybe she had been too tuned out and missed it. Alex was soon strapped into the engine as it sped off. She soon saw the car on fire. Both her and Jimmy jumped out and hooked up the fire hose. She was really paying attention. She didn't want to be here. As soon as the fire was put out, they got back into the engine.

"You okay?" Jimmy asked.

"I'm okay." She smiled at her partner.

"Davis, you there yet?" DK was on the radio.

"I'm here." Alex smiled. She was still getting used to the whole Davis as he last name thing. It gave her warm fuzzies.

"Your husband has been calling. He needs you to come home." Alex frowned deeply.

"Did he say why?" She asked.

"No, but I could hear your daughter screaming in the back ground." DK said. Jimmy chuckled softly.

* * *

"Ty?" Alex walked into the house. She tossed her keys onto the table.

"Mommy!!!!" Jade screamed from her bedroom. Alex sighed and walked upstairs. Ty was sitting in the rocking chair holding his head, "MOMMY!!!!"

"I'm here. I'm here." Alex picked up her daughter. "What's going on?"

"She just wont stop screaming for you." Ty said.

"Dadda seep." Jade said.

"Yes, daddy needs to sleep." Alex said hugging her daughter, "Did you miss Mommy? Mommy missed you too, ladybug."

"You spoiled her too much by being home those two weeks." Ty said. Alex chuckled helping her husband up.

"Did I spoil you too?" She asked.

"Well, yeah." Ty smiled looking at his daughter, "You're a horrid little girl."

"Wove dadda." Jade said. Alex chuckled softly.

"You can't be mad at her now. She loves you." She said.

"Well, I love her too, but I need sleep." He said shuffling into the bedroom. Alex looked at her daughter.

"Let's go get something to eat and let daddy sleep." Alex took Jade downstairs. These past couple of weeks had been extremely stressful for Ty. He obviously needed to rest with out having a toddler screaming in his ear.

December 15th, 2004

Jade's blue eyes were large as she watch Ty and Alex put the Christmas tree into the stand. She couldn't believe that they had brought a tree inside. She didn't remember her first Christmas so this was really weird to her. The house immediately started to fill up with the smell of the large pine tree. Alex and Ty loved that smell.

"Birdie?" Jade asked. Alex chuckled as she wiped the sap off of her hands.

"There's no birdies In the tree, ladybug." She said. Jade looked at her oddly. "We're going to put decorations on it to make it look pretty. Santa Claus is going to come soon and put Christmas presents underneath it and then you can get a lot of new toys and stuff."

"Daddy, birdie?" She asked again with frustration. Ty brushed the pine needles off of him and onto the floor. Alex rolled her blue eyes.

"No birdies, ladybug." He said, "Hey do you want me to put the lights on now?" Alex nodded as she reached into the box and pulled out the three strings of brightly coloured Christmas lights.

"Knock yourself out." She said with a wink, "Stay here and watch Daddy, Jadey, Mommy needs to go get the broom and clean all of these needles up." Jade climbed up on the couch and watched Ty as he began to put the lights on.

"Daddy?" Jade said with large eyes still. Ty chuckled.

"You'll see once we get it all decorated, Ladybug." He said.

"Whirl." Jade frowned.

"There's no squirrel in the tree I promise." Alex walked back in with the broom.

"We need to get some eggnog." She said.

"With a lot of liquor." Ty winked. "There's a work party we can go to next week." Alex wrinkled her nose.

"A bunch of drunken cops. That sounds like fun." She chuckled as she swept up the pine needles. Alex sat down next to Jade, "See these? These are the leaves of the pine tree." Jade pushed around the needles. She wrinkled her nose. "See? They are smelly huh?"

"Daddy, melly." Jade said.

"I know, Lady bug." He mumbled, "There how are the lights?"

"They're great." Alex smiled, "Let's decorate it now." She picked up Jade and handed her an ornament. "Help Mommy put it on the tree." Jade placed the ornament on the tree and it slid down, "Opps. Be careful."

"Opps." Jade giggled.

"Glad that wasn't a glass one." Ty chuckled as he put an ornament on.

"See what daddy did? Do it like him." Alex smiled trying to help Jade put her ornaments on.

"Look Jade." Ty held up a pink glass ball with her name on it, "Mommy and daddy bought this ornament when you had your very first Christmas." He hung it up high so she couldn't break it.

"Is it pretty, Jade?" Alex asked.

"Pity." Jade giggled. Alex smiled softly as they continued to decorate the tree. She loved this time of year. She was proposed to during this time of the year. How could someone not love it?

"Get the angel on." Alex said. Ty nodded and showed jade the Angel. The toddler giggled trying to reach for it, but Ty immediately took it away. Jade pouted as she watched Ty put the angel on the top of the tree. Ty sat down next to his family.

"The tree looks pretty good this year huh?" Ty asked wrapping his arm around Alex's shoulder. Alex nodded.

"Yeah. It's my favourite tree yet." They sat there in each other's arms looking at the tree until Jade fell asleep in their laps. Decorating a Christmas tree always bring a family closer together.