Really short chap. U'll see why at the end.
xoxo Jules
Chapter 3: "Clouds soothe, shredded by the calico"
Piper awoke the next morning to find that she wasn't in her bed, and what was even stranger was that Madison was not with her. She wandered out of the room where she was sleeping to the voices that she heard coming down the hall. Suddenly she realized where she was. She was at Aunt Summer and Uncle Seth's apartment.
Summer, Dylan, and Seth were sitting at the table talking looking obviously drained. They stopped mid sentence when they saw Piper appear in the door way.
"Want some Cereal?" Dylan asked Piper.
Piper nodded as she sat at the table looking around at the three tired adults. Dylan handed her a bowl of cheerios.
"Thank you." She said politely
"Want something Summer?" Dylan asked
"No, morning sickness." She said miserably.
"Isn't that supposed to be over?" Dylan asked
"Summer, you cannot starve my child!" Seth said, "it needs to grow to be a strong Cohen man so we can name it Thor and-"
"Thor Cohen? EW!" Summer said. "Besides it's a girl anyway. I know it! I feel her!"
"You guys are crazy!" Dylan said
"And anyway, little Emily doesn't want to be named THOR!" Summer said
"Emily? No, what century are we living in. TATUM!" Seth said
"What, you want our daughter to grow up to be a porn star?" Summer asked raising an eyebrow
"It doesn't really matter because our daughter is a SON!" Seth said looking Summer dead in the eye.
"Oh god." Dylan said banging her head on the table.
Piper on the other hand was not listening to the conversation. She knew that there was something that she had to ask, she just didn't remember what…
Flashback:
"What if he finds out their his?" Marissa asked.
"HE WON'T!" Ryan said sharply. "He will NEVER find out."
"How?" Marissa asked beginning to cry. "Luke is Piper and Madisons father." Marissa said now sobbing.
Little did they know that Piper was in the doorway…
"So what I am not their father now?" Ryan said backing up defensively. "I was the one who raised them while you were off in the physc ward!"
"Don't start with me Ryan Atwood." Marissa said shoving him in the chest.
"DON'T!" Piper said coming in stomping her foot down.
End of Flashback
She remembered. Piper looked pointedly at Summer.
"What is a physc ward?" Piper asked her.
"WHAT?" Summer said
"Where did you hear that word?" Dylan asked
"Daddy used it when he and mommy were fighting." Piper asked.
"Let's not talk about this right now." Seth said trying to change the subject. "Look! Kim Possible is on!" He said trying to distract her.
"EW!" Summer said as usual at the mention of cartoons.
"Why's Luke my father?" Piper asked.
Now this was getting really off.
"Ryan is your father." Seth said picking up the little girl.
"But mommy sai-"
"I think you misheard honey." Dylan tried to reason
"But he came over an-"
"Oh look… Kim Possible is doing some kind of… leg…trick." Summer said which caused the little girl to divert her attention to the screen, and eventually head into the living room.
"What was that about?" Dylan asked
"I don't know but I need to go talk to Ryan." Seth said grabbing his jacket. "You stay here and watch Piper." He told the girls.
Seth drove up to Ryan and Marissas apartment to find Ryan standing in the parking lot polishing off a cigarette.
"Hey man." Seth said stepping out of the car.
"Hey." Ryan said squinting to meet his brothers eye.
"I thought you quit." He said gesturing towards the cigarette.
"Me too. Don't let Marissa find out, even though she's probably out on the deck doing the same thing." He said blandly
"Ryan man, now's the time to be with your wife, not drowning your sorrows in nicotine."
Ryan ignored his comment.
"How is Piper?" He asked
"Not to good."
"WHY! What happened? Is she sick? Does she have it too?" Ryan asked becoming hysterical.
"No, no, man. She's alright. It's just that she has been asking strange questions. First she asked me what the physc ward was."
Seth began not noticing Marissa walk up behind Ryan.
"And THEN she asked who was Luke and why was he her father." Seth said
"WHAT?" Marissa said stepping up. "Is someone trying to punish us or something? Why does everything keep on going wrong?" She said on the brink of tears.
"Where do you think that she heard it?" Seth asked
Marissa and Ryan both remembered it clearly.
"We got into a fight after Luke showed up the other day. Marissa was worried that he would find out that Piper and Madison are his."
Little did Ryan, Marissa, and Seth know that Luke was five feet away from them and heard every word that she said.
"What? Those two little girls are mine?" He said aloud causing the others to know his presence.
They all stopped and turned to face him… nobody knew what to say.
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