Chapter Two: Making peace

Traffic was terrible. They had been stuck at this light for two green lights and still had not made it past the intersection. 'Ryo is going to have my hide now. I'm way late and I can't call because I left my cell back at the office. I now Ryo won't accept that excuse for making him worry, seeing as how it didn't work last week when I went bar hopping with Ted. Well it would just have to do; Ryo has made me worry too.'

Dee looked over at the girl sitting in the seat next to him. She had not said a word all night. He did not now anything about not even her name witch was going to make it even harder to explain to Ryo why he was bringing a small child home from work with him.

"Hey kid what's your name?"

"…"

"Well … alright be that way, I'll just tell you mine." Dee said now that she had finally turned her head to look at him. "I'm Dee, and I'm taking you back to my place alright … well, okay well I live with my partner Ryo and his son, so you're going to have to be nice to them. Well not so much Bikky he's a dork but defiantly Ryo. I mean be nice to Ryo he's not a dork … but yah. You should be alright, all you have to do is look cute and Ryo will like you," Dee said. 'Just stop now you idiot, your making an ass of yourself.' Dee looked back over at her she had her head tilted like Ryo did when he was listening to something, but she still did not say anything.

Dee parked the car in the parking garage across from his and Ryo's apartment. They had ridden the rest of the way home in silence.

'Man Ryo's going to kill me I'm late, I have not called, he missed the bust and I have a small child with me. Hell I would kill me if I were him.'

Dee got out of the car to make his way across the street until he was stopped in his tracks by a blood curtailing screech. The little girl was kneeling on the passenger seat with her face pressed against the glass crying. Dee groaned and tilted his head back, turned around to go get her. 'This is going to be harder then I thought'

Dee could never remember feeling this nervous. He should not feel this way Ryo loved him he wasn't going to do anything to him, but he just could not shake the feeling that something was up and it was making him anxious.

He pushed open the front door and cringed at the yelling he expected to hear. But there was nothing. Dee straightened up. The living room was clean as always, this was Ryo's apartment too after all. Dee checked his watch it was 2:30 am. 'I defiantly expected Ryo to be sitting on that coach waiting to jump down my throat when I showed up.'

He just shrugged he put her on the sofa right where he thought Ryo would have been. She was so small that you could hardly see her over the over stuffed pillows. As Dee was taking off his coat Ryo walk out of the Kitchen in sweats and a Tee shirt sipping the hot tea he'd just fixed for himself. 'How does he always look so sexy?' Dee went to apologies for being late but Ryo interrupted him, "hey baby I was waiting up for you I called the office about a couple of hours ago. They said you had gone out to the Gilmor's. I would have gone out to meet you but they said you had been gone a while so I thought you were on your way home. I kept saying you would walk through the door any second."

Dee was not paying any attention; he was watching the little girl who was looking around the room in wonder. "Dee, Kiboto something wrong." Ryo said as he walked up to Dee and kissed him.

She turned to look at Dee and started screaming again as Dee simultaneously wrapped his arms around his sexy lover. Ryo almost spilt his tea all over Dee. He looked at her she had stopped screaming but tears were still streaming down her face. She slid off the sofa and walked in between Ryo and Dee to sit back on Dee's foot. Ryo looked at her and then back at Dee, who had been watching Ryo anxiously. Ryo could come up with nothing better to say then "huh" he looked back at her and back a Dee again. Dee had accepted a lot of reactions from Ryo but this was not one of them. He went to take Ryo by the shoulders but she put his leg in a death grip so he decided against it. He didn't need the brat (a.k.a. Bikky) waking up. He sat down on the sofa and patted the seat next to him. Ryo sat down very precariously and tilted his head clearly asking for an explanation.

"Now before you get all mad at me, just remember you did the same thing with Bikky…" Dee said, Ryo seemed a bit more relaxed so he continued. "You see they were going to put her in one of those homes and she was attached to my leg for like three hours and then my leg feel asleep and that Potter woman was going to take her and I was like fine but she meaning her" he said pointing to the girl in his lap who was glaring at Ryo, "started screaming, so I said I would take her then we fought and I left, bad traffic and no phone and .. and"

"Dee" said Ryo, "take a deep breath, so this is the Gilmor's daughter?" Dee just nodded "Did you know they had a daughter? What's her name?"

"No, and I don't know"

"You don't know, didn't you ask her?" Ryo asked not waiting for a response he looked down at her "what's your name sweetie?" she gave a small gasp and just buried her head in Dee's chest.

"Of course I asked her what her name was she won't talk all she does is scream."

Ryo got of the sofa, "well what do you expect Dee she just went through a very traumatic experience," Ryo said with wide eyes that seemed to say 'what are you thinking.' "All I wanted to do was scream when I lost my parents and she's much younger then I was, I'd say she is doing wonderful for someone her age." He held his hand out to her. "Come on sweetie I'm sure you're hungry, lets go find something for you to eat."

The idea of going anywhere did not go over well with her. She pushed Ryo's hand away and wrapped her arms around Dee. Ryo looked like had had just been put on street patrol. Dee just laughed, "Seems you're not as good with kids as you thought you were."

"Oh yah," said Ryo mockingly, swatting him on the back of the head, "and since when have you been the worlds #1 dad."

"Well she's cute and those homes are so petrifying, it's only temporary besides she's not even talking to anyone yet she needs individual attention, not a home full of wine brats like Bikky."

"Don't bring him in to this; he has nothing to do with you bringing home a little girl."

"But I can keep her right?"

"Keep her what is she a stray cat? She can stay here of course I'm not going to turn her out, just don't go getting attached, this is only temporary right?"

"Well yah, until child services can find her a family," said Dee, "So she's staying right?"

"Yes" said Ryo matter-of-factly. "It's late I'll make her a bed on the sofa and we can work on getting her to talk tomorrow at breakfast. You wrapped everything up right? Then we should have tomorrow off. I'll call and check in the morning," said Ryo on his way to the hall closet. He started pulling out extra bedding.

Dee was not listening any more, "See he's nice, I can tell he likes you because if he didn't I would probably have been sleeping on the sofa instead of you." Dee said in triumph. Ryo walked in with a blanket for her and one of his old tee-shirts. She seemed to have warmed up to Ryo a little because she let him make up her bed, but she screamed and ran in between Dee's legs when he tried to help her put on the shirt. Dee just knelt down, "Hey Ryo's not gonna bite you silly. He was just lending you a night shirt. Those close your wearing look awful dirty, but if you don't want it …" She turned around and took the shirt from Ryo went around the sofa to change and climbed into her make shift bed. Dee and Ryo head towards their bed room and she just watched from over the edge of the sofa.

Ryo turned off the living room light and closed the door behind him. "You want help with that?" Ryo asked coming up behind Dee who had started unbuttoning his shirt. He wrapped his arms around Dee and stared to unbutton the shirt slowly feeling his way down his lover's firm chest. He pulled the shirt off by the collar Dee turned around and kissed Ryo softly on the lips and pulled Ryo's tee shirt over his head. He kicked off his pants and kissed Ryo again deeper this time and lead him towards the bed. They laid down with out breaking their kiss. Ryo parted his lips for Dee who instantly responded with a soft moan. He defiantly had not been expecting to get lucky tonight.

He pulled the quilt over them when the door opened softly. They did notice and Ryo started kissing Dees collar bone when she crawled onto their bed up between them. She sat against Dee's chest shoving them apart and gave Ryo a look that could have killed. Ryo and Dee just looked at each other. Dee sat up against the head board and sat her in his lap. "Now listen hear you better not have a problem with Ryo because if you do you have a problem with me." Dee said looking her square in the eyes. She looked back just as strongly and crossed her arms. Ryo started laughing she gave him another death look and hmphed. Dee turned her face back towards him, "Like I was saying, I love Ryo very much and from what I understand," he said catching a quick smile from Ryo, "he loves me very much too. So I don't care what you have been told. I'm telling you now it does not matter if a couple is two men or two women love is love got that kid?" She looked at him then over at Dee. She tilted her head thinking to herself and then crawled under the covers between the two of them and looked at Dee as if saying 'that's fine but I'm sleeping here tonight and that's that.' Dee shook his head apparently he was not going to be as lucky as he thought he was tonight.

'Something is not right if she had a problem with us she would have shied away from both of us. It seemed to me like the problem was with me alone. But why, it was like she was trying to protect Dee from me, like I was going to hurt him. She only screamed when we were close. Plus she has no problem being touched by Dee but she won't let me get near her. Something is wrong with this picture.' Ryo just rolled over tomorrow was going to be a long day.