Thanks for all the help offers and encouragement! With playoffs starting I'm going to try and make afternoon time to write on this. Hope ya like it!
Julie spent the next two days calling everyone under the sun to get the ball organized by that Saturday. It was only on Thursday when she finally felt she could relax a bit.

"I think I know why they stuck me with planing all this." She groaned sitting by the pool.

"Could it be so you had no time to turn into Julie Gaffney, super spy?" Dean asked.

"Exactly!" She sighed loudly.

"Your better off not doing that." He said glancing over at her.

"I guess." She replied.

"Jules."

"Ok I don't need to be doing that, gezz your so annoying!" She muttered tossing a paper ball at him.

"Don't start a throwing battle with me." He stated blocking the paper aside.

"Like I'm scared?" She smiled.

"We're by the pool Jules, now unless you want to get tossed in I'd be nice." He smiled back.

"Kill joy." She smirked and got up grabbing the papers.

"That's me." He smiled picking up papers as they fell behind her.

They walked into the back living room joining up with Meg and Daniel.

"Everything set Jules?" Meg asked smiling.

"Sure is. All but the clothes, I gotta get fitted for the dress later today." She nodded.

"Good we can go together then." Meg stated happily.

"Ok." Julie smiled.

"Hey let's go early and have lunch in town, want to?" Meg asked and Julie nodded.

"Works for me." Julie said getting up.

"You two please be careful ok?" Daniel said looking a bit worried about them.

"We're only going to have lunch and get our dresses done, what trouble could we possibly find?" Meg asked tossing her arm around Julie.

"Knowing you two?" Daniel smirked getting looks from both the girls.

"Get the bail money ready." Dean said under his breath.

"I heard that bash boy." Julie looked at him.

"What?" He smiled innocently.

"Uh huh." She shook her head and started for the door.

"Later boys!" Meg smiled and followed her out.

"We should do this more often." Julie smiled relaxing in her chair at the restaurant.

"Yes we should!" Meg agreed. "Can I ask you something?" She said playing with her food then glanced up at Julie.

"Of course." Julie remarked sipping her tea.

"Are you ok? I mean really?" Meg asked watching the expressions on her face.

Julie stayed silent a minute, "Not really, no." She said softly. "It's just, I don't know."

"Maybe talking about it will help?" Meg questioned.

Julie shrugged," I'm sure it would. I just don't want to dump my worries and problems on someone else you know?"

"Hey, you've always been here for me. So let me be here for you now ok? Spill it girl." Meg said as Julie slightly smiled.

"I don't know what to say, that's the problem. I mean I miss my dad so much, there's all these problems with Mitchell and Alex, all the worry about what they will do next." She sighed. "Not to mention all these strange dreams I keep having."

"Dreams?" Meg asked worried.

"Yeah really strange dreams, almost always end in someone getting hurt. The last one was really upsetting, I woke up screaming." Julie shuddered thinking about it.

"What happened?"

"Mitchell like had me in a room, said I was his wife now. Then said some sort of threat at Dean, then Dean was drug into the room hurt badly. I tried to like check on him, someone grabbed me from behind and held me back, then Mitchell." She paused a second, "Killed him. And I couldn't stop him!"

"Oh my god Jules." Meg said reaching across the table patting her hand. "No wonder you woke up screaming!"

"It made me realize something though."

'What?" Meg asked tilting her head sideways slightly, wondering if she was about to say what she'd been thinking for weeks now.

"That I'm really not in control at all, and I'm really really scared." Julie looked over at her tears forming in her eyes.

Meg moved over and gave her a hug, tears forming in her own eyes. "It will be ok Jules. I know it will you have all of us here."

"I'm just so upset with myself for feeling so helpless. I hate feeling like this! I hate wanting to cry all the time." Julie said wiping the tears away.

"Don't be, you have to cry sometimes. It's better then keeping it all inside, it doesn't mean you're weak. Cause heaven knows you're far from weak!" Meg smiled, "We all know that Jules, you're human and a very sweet one at that. You don't have to put up the big bad nothing can hurt me act all the time. We know better, there is no reason to be ashamed."

"I just feel like if I show even for one second that I'm hurting, I'll get trampled by Mitchell or Alex." Julie said calmer now playing with the fork.

"I have a feeling we know three men who are more then capable of handling those two morons!" Meg smiled back in her chair.

"Yeah suppose they can." Julie tried to smile.

" I know they can! They love you Jules! They won't let anyone hurt you!" Meg smiled then added with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes, "Besides Dean is with you night and day now, I highly doubt anyone would want to mess with him over you. The boy does adore you ya know."

"Adore me? More like annoy me!" Julie shook her head while then looked at Meg giggling. "What?"

"You know, a lot of people fuss and fight. Only means they love each other." Meg flashed a sweet smile at Julie who no doubt was thinking over those words. Obviously the light bulb went off and she shook her head quickly.

"Oh don't you start! He's my friend, my teammate for goodness sakes! Get that matchmaking look out of your eyes and drop it girl! I mean it!" Julie said seriously.

"What me? Would I ever do something like match making?" Meg asked holding her hand over her heart in mock shock.

"Gee I don't know, let's ring up Jasmine! Or maybe the Linda the cook, or Jenny.. or "

"Ok ok Jules, but hey I get it right! Well sometimes." Meg smiled.

"When?" Julie smiled back.

"Kate!" Meg triumphantly smiled.

"Hate to break your ego here but Kate and Jacob were well on their way to one another before you stepped in!" Julie giggled standing up and picking up her purse check in hand.

Meg smiled as Julie walked past and went to the desk to pay, "And you're well on your way also." She giggled took one last sip of tea then grabbed her purse and followed Julie threw the door.

"It's been five hours, think they are ok?" Dean asked Daniel as they played a game of pool.

"Yep sure they are." Daniel said concentrating on his shot.

"Girls still not home?" her grandfather asked walking in.

"Nope." Daniel asked then groaned loudly when his shot fell just short.

"Bad luck there." Dean smiled.

"I demand a rematch." Daniel smiled shaking his head putting up the stick.

"Anytime." Dean smirked sitting down.

"Just don't' challenge the shark there, he'd take you out in no time." Daniel said pointing to her grandfather.

Dean looked over at the smiling face.

"I don't play often enough to still be sharp, but I'm sure I can still pull some tricks." He smiled. "You should be more worried about my granddaughter." He said taking a sip watching both the boy's faces turn to surprise.

"Jules?" Daniel asked shocked, "Jules can play pool? Since when?"

"All her life, she used to stay in here while I played. She's very smart you know, she just watched me long enough then finally asked to play a game aginst me. Did darn good! So I taught her more and the rest she did by herself. There's nothing much she can't do." He smiled with pride.

"I'm starting to see that." Dean shook his head.

"That's what worries me." Daniel said sitting down.

"What does?" Dean asked quickly slightly worried that he'd picked up on his feelings for her.

"She's so smart, she won't sit back on this stuff. She's been strangely patient with everything Mitchell and Alex have done so far. And that scares the hell out of me." Daniel said the worry obvious, while Dean slightly relaxed.

"It worries me as well." Her grandfather agreed. "One thing I know about my angel is if you make her angry, you will pay. She's patient but not this patient. She's up to something, I just know it."

"But what?" Dean asked.

"Who knows, just hope she decides to play nice and let us in on it before time." Daniel stated.

"She better, she promised me." Dean muttered.

"Promised what?" Daniel asked.

"That she wouldn't do anything without telling me first." Dean shook his head, "But would she?"

"Oh if she promised then she'd tell you allright, maybe not till after she'd started things but she'd tell you. She doesn't break a promise." Her grandfather smiled.

"Better not, if anything happens.." Dean began.

"I'll tell you what's going to happen."

They turned their heads to see Julie standing in the doorway with a strangely powerful look on her face. She walked in and stood before them.

"Saturday is the beginning of the end. I have a plan and Mitchell and Alex will be knocked where it hurts the most." She smiled.

"And how would that be?" Daniel asked.

Julie smiled cryptically and held up a brown sealed file. "This is my little insurance, trust me when I say they won't know what hit them!"

"I'm scared to ask." Dean said aloud surprised by the sudden change in her demeanor.

"This is going to be fun, I promise." She smiled brightly at them all, oblvious to the fact Alex was peaking around the door hearing and seeing everything.