Ok, you asked for it, here it is. I'm sorry It took me longer than usual, this was a very flowing chapter, everything just fell into place, but I had to make sure there was nothing wrong with it so it wouldn't ruin the mood. I hope my work paid off. I don't think there's too many punctuation mistakes. Personally this is one of my favorite chapters.

Well I guess I'll let you start reading! I hope you like it.

Family Matters

At 8:28 the doorbell rang. Charlie ran to get it, but his father beat him to it. He looked slightly disappointed but cheered up as he watched the scene unfold before his eyes.

"Early as usual" Jack said as he gave her a kiss on the cheek before she came in. This brought a smile on Charlie's face knowing that his father and soon to be mom truly loved each other. But this brought some confusion to his thoughts. Soon to be mom? Will I have to call her mother? Is she replacing my real mom? Jack noticed a look of confusion and sadness on his son's face and inquired about it. He squatted down on the balls of his feet so he was eye level with his son. "What's up son?" As he took Charlie's hands in his and looked deep in to his eyes he noticed that Charlie didn't want to talk about it right then. So Jack simply rubbed his son's head and said, "We can talk about it later if you'd like."

Breakfast went on with some fun family conversations about school and friends and other things. While cleaning up Jack said, "Charlie its 9:00 you need to go take a bath while we clean up."

"Aww dad, do I hafta?"

"Yes, you 'hafta,' " Jack said imitating his son and he patted Charlie's bum while the child ran up stairs to the bathroom.

"So Charlie said you needed to talk to me about something." Jack said, leading her to the couch after they cleaned up after breakfast. He pulled her onto him and the two were spread out cuddling, enjoying each other's company.

"Well I had a dream last night that all three of us were together and I woke up with a strong impression that we needed to set a date for the wedding."

"Yeah I agree. I think we should have it in the summer, that way we can have a barbeque with friends and family."

"Jack, the barbeque king" she "misquoted" from Nightmare Before Christmas. "That sounds good, it's soon but it also gives us time to plan."

As they were discussing dates, Charlie came down the stairs. "I'm ready for today!"

"You are?" Jack asked. "Did you brush your teeth?"

"Yup"

"Hair?"

"Yup"

"Make your bed?"

"Yup"

"Yup, you are ready! Good job" he praised his son and gave him a high five. Jack paused, "Sam and I were just discussing the date of the wedding. What do you think?"

"I don't now," Charlie said disappointedly. "I really don't care," He said putting his head down.

"Hey son, What's up?" Sam got off Jack's lap and scooted to the side of the couch. He put his son in his lap and wrapped his arms around him. "Do you want to talk about something?"

Slowly Charlie said, "I miss mom. I love Sam†but I still love Mom too. I don't know who I want for my mom. I don't want to hurt Sam's feelings†but I don't want to hurt Mom's either." He was talking to his father as if nobody else was around them.

"Remember how after Taylor left and you were missing Mom, I took you on the balcony with the telescope and I showed you the stars?" He waited for his son to respond with a nod. "Do you remember what I told you?"

"Yeah, you said Mom was up there and she is always looking down on us, watching over us with love." He paused and said the next part slowly, "I just don't want her to stop watching over us because she's mad cuz' Sam's my new mom."

All though admiring Jack and the way he was handling this situation, Sam felt like she needed to put her two cents in at that point of the conversation. "Hey bud," she said while putting her hand on his shoulder. "I'm not going to replace your mom- I don't want to replace her. Even though I love your Dad, I know that he will always love and miss your Mom and because I love your Dad I understand he still has room in his heart for me. I don't have to be your new mom. I can just be Sam if you like. It wont change how much I love you, and it wont change how much your Dad or Mom loves you."

"That's right" Jack continued, "No matter what, she will always love you and Mom will always be watching over us with love, ok?"

"Ok" Charlie said with a reassured smile.

Jack ruffled his hand through his son's hair and finished this conversation by giving Charlie a hug. Charlie let go and gave Sam a hug and then grabbed his Dad into a group hug. "Thanks Mom and Dad" he whispered in their ears. And in his heart he looked up toward the "stars" and whispered, "Thanks Mom."

So there it is I hope you liked it. Please please please! Review I need some feedback on this one! I think it was the easiest yet hardest chapters I have written. I need some feedback. How could I make it better?

By the way, I changed the letter in ch 3. It feels better now, time wise. For clarifications, Charlie is about 9 years old. Sam and Jack have been working together for about 7 years so Charlie was about 2. Sarah (Jack's late wife) died about 4-5 years ago so Charlie was just barely 5. Then Taylor moved in about that time and moved out right before Charlie turned 6. Then Taylor and Katie got married and Sarah was born when Charlie was 7. I hope that clears some stuff up. I had to write it down on paper so I could figure it all out and I thought it might help for some of you. If you want I can put it in a timeline, but that means you have to review and tell me you want a timeline of some sort.