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A/N: I have to admit that I didn't like Bringeth It On the first time I watched it, but now, three or four times later, I think it's a pretty round up episode with not too much "left unsaid". Anyway, I thought it would be nice to have another Will/Helen talk, so here it is.
Bringeth It On
Mooses, Elks and Alienated Daughters
(This is the continuation of the second scene with Helen and Will talking in bed before going to sleep. So this takes place right on Helen's and Will's bed.)
Wrapping her arms around her husband's neck, Helen said, "She's got a good dad."
Will tried a smile but for some reason it didn't work. "Honestly, Helen, I haven't been fair to her."
Helen shrugged and said quietly, "She'll survive."
"You promise?" Will asked and made his wife smile.
"I promise."
They held their position a little longer, then Helen grinned and asked, "You wanna hear something funny?"
"Always."
"But this is strictly confidential."
"Hey, I'm the Chief of Police! My security clearance should be high enough, shouldn't it?"
Helen bit on her lower lip and continued to grin. "I'm not so sure. This is more father stuff."
"So shoot and I promise not to tell that you told me."
"Okay." Helen sat back on the bed, crossing her legs and stroking a strand of hair out of her face. "I overheard Luke and Kevin talking today."
"Yeah…" Will said, having no idea where this was leading to.
"Luke came out of the shower and stormed into Kevin's room. I just had to…"
Will smiled. "I promise not to charge you if you let me know what you heard."
"Okay, here it comes," Helen began. "Luke started some weird metaphor with mooses and elks, about a moose telling another moose that it was really an elk. I didn't get it."
"But Kevin did?"
Helen shook her head. "No, obviously neither, so Luke had to be more specific and the actual question that came out was if he were gay if he liked a lesbian."
"Luke's gay?" Will asked surprised.
"No! Of course not," Helen detested. "But obviously someone told him that."
"Because…?" Will asked, obviously totally confused.
"… he likes a lesbian."
Will frowned. "So Luke likes a lesbian? Have all fifteen year old teenagers already figured out their sexual orientation?"
Helen shook her head again. "No. And I don't think that he really likes a lesbian."
"So you know who we're talking about?"
"Come on, Will," Helen laughed, "Even you should know. You met her."
"I met…" Suddenly the penny dropped. "This girl I thought was a boy. Grace? Was that her name?"
Helen nodded. "Grace Polk. I'm pretty sure we're talking about her. And the rumor is that Grace's playing for the other team."
"The rumor?" Will asked, already knowing that his wife wouldn't trust this rumor.
"I don't believe it," Helen said. "She might not be in the crowd and she might dress like a boy, but I don't think she's a lesbian."
"And Luke likes her?"
"It looks like that. And someone – my bet's on Friedman – told him that he had to be gay because he likes her. Poor Luke was so irritated that he had to talk to someone."
"That's why he ended up with Kevin." Will observed. "And what did Kevin say?"
Helen laid back her head and smiled widely. "Oh, Kevin was just great. I couldn't have done it better. He asked Luke what he were thinking about when he were alone, passing the time…"
"Ah," Will smiled. "And Luke said…"
"Luke said something about getting to the next level on Diablo. He didn't have a clue what Kevin was talking about." Helen laughed.
Will grinned. "Right now I don't know if I should be happy about that or scared."
"Be happy that he's obviously not thinking about sex all the time, at least not yet. But when Kevin was a little more specific, Luke realized what he was talking about and it turned out that it was girls."
"Good Kevin," Will smiled.
"Yeah," Helen nodded, still laughing, "But Luke had to promise him that they wouldn't have to have that conversation again."
"So with the help of his big brother he figured out that he's not gay. Wow. I told you, we should have stopped at two. I'm not sure I would have been able to have that conversation with him without starting to laugh."
"Me neither," Helen said. "Kevin did a great job."
Will nodded and smiled. "I'm really glad that Kevin's back at being the big brother."
"I'm too. That job at the newspaper seems to be good for him."
"Yeah. But now that Kevin's back to normal, Luke starts to freak out and I start to freak out Joan." Will sighed. "When is this ever going to end?"
Helen put her hand on his shoulder. "Depends on which college Luke attends. I'd go for six years maximum."
Smiling, Will wrapped his arms around her. "Only two if we're lucky."
"But just imagine them to all move out at once. I don't like that idea either."
"Me neither. It's good to have them all here, even with all the regular freak-outs. It's going to be okay. It is okay, I guess. Nobody's pregnant, nobody's taking drugs… I think we're doing okay."
"Only that we thought Joan could be pregnant, that we really don't wanna know with what substances Luke is experimenting in his room and that I was almost kicking our paralyzed son out because his attitude was too frustrating too handle."
"But Joan isn't pregnant and Kevin's doing fine. You're right about Luke's experiments, but I don't think he's got a crack kitchen up there. Relax." Helen tried to calm down her husband, freed herself from his embrace, crawled behind him and started to massage his shoulders. "Just relax."
Will sighed and leaned back against her chest. "Mooses, elks and alienated daughters and you want me to relax?"
"Yes, I want you to."
"Okay," he smiled. "You're the boss."
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A/N: So? What do you think? BTW for once I'll try and stay with the chronological order, but I might insert another scene here or there later or jump a little further if my muse is at sleep.
