"Then there was that time when Danny was about... fourteen..." Maggie laughed.
"No. Maggie, don't you dare." he warned.
"Oh no. This was funny." Tim smirked.
"Stop guys!" Danny pleaded.
"Nope." Maggie shook her head. "The boys had just born and Tim had come home to see them so he picked Danny up from school to take him over to my house with him."
"Oh no! NO!" Tim shook his head. "Not this one! Don't talk about this."
"It was funny!"
"It was not!"
"Oh yes it was!"
"It was embarrassing!"
"Too bad." Maggie smiled evilly. "I had to run out to the store so I asked Tim to watch them. He agreed, saying that Danny was there and they were sleeping. What could go wrong?"
Tim sighed and buried his face in Calleigh's shoulder.
"Stop embarrassing the poor guy." Greg laughed.
"Let's just say a lot went wrong." Tim said. "We don't need to know this story."
"Yes we do." Maggie insisted.
"If you tell this story, then I'm never going to speak to you again and you can be left out on a whole lot!"
Tim knew Calleigh had told Maggie about the baby so he used this to his advantage.
"Oh no fair!"
"Then shut up." Tim stuck his tongue out at her.
"You're so juvenile." Maggie muttered.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Hah!"
Tim glared at his sister and turned his head the other way, choosing to ignore her for the rest of the night.
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"We get a lot of interesting cases down there." Tim nodded. Gina and Danny seemed deeply enthralled in the conversation. "Right baby?"
Calleigh mumbled her agreement, half asleep with her head in Tim's lap.
"But don't think about taking over Ballistics." she said, a bit more coherently. "That's my job."
"Yeah. Don't think of taking that lab away from Bullet Girl." Tim said, a slightly joking tone in his voice. Calleigh smiled tiredly.
"Tired much Cal?" Greg teased.
"I have an excuse." she yawned.
"Yes she does." Maggie smiled.
"Maggie, shush."
"Well now you've caught my attention." Greg said.
"Too bad. I'll tell you later."
"I wanna know." Danny said.
"Later." Tim said. The room was soon empty of any talking, each couple busy with themselves. Gina and Danny left, saying they were going to the movies. Maggie and Greg went to bed, hoping to get some sleep before the triplets barged in at six o'clock again. Calleigh finally sat up and wrapped herself in Tim's arms.
"I like Gina." she said. "I'd like to have her as a sister-in-law."
"Yeah me too. Danny seems to love her. I'm glad he's happy." Tim agreed. "My mom is just scared that her... clothing will ruin her golden image that she had for this family. I hate to say it but it was ruined the day Greg entered this family."
Calleigh laughed slightly.
"He had to fall in love with my sister and then marry her and then, well then that was when all hell broke lose."
"The triplets." Calleigh deduced.
"Yep. Then about a year and a half ago, we got a little crazier." Tim said. "Cause you joined this already insane family. But that was okay, you brought some sanity back to this place."
"Aww thanks sweetie."
"No problem." Tim glanced down and kissed Calleigh. "I love you baby."
"I love you too." she kissed him back and settled back in his arms, her head tucked under his chin.
"It hasn't been too bad."
"What hasn't?"
"Being up here with all of them." Tim replied, his eyes focused on the fireplace, where the wood was burning slowly and casting a soft glow around the darkened room.
"I'm not going to say I told you so." Calleigh said, a small smile on her face.
"Thanks."
"It's nice up here. I hate that we don't have these kind of winters down in Miami."
"Well so far it's been like Miami, minus the hot weather and sunshine." Tim joked.
"I know but it's different..."
"You want to move here?"
"No." Calleigh laughed. "I love it down in Miami."
She turned in Tim's arms so she could straddle him.
"We'd never have any privacy up here." she said, resting her forehead against his. "It'd be like Everybody Loves Raymond, your parents always walking into our house."
"That's true." Tim agreed, running his hands up and down her back. "They're asleep though."
He captured her lips in a passionate kiss. Calleigh eagerly returned it but pulled away.
"The triplets could walk down..." she reminded.
"I think Maggie sedates them so they sleep through the night. We'd never get any sleep otherwise." Tim joked, turning so he could lay Calleigh on the couch. She smiled and pulled him down to her, their lips meeting in another kiss. "This is different."
"What is?"
"Well we've always been in my room with the door locked where our nephews or siblings couldn't walk in while we're in... compromising situations." Tim smirked. "Never on my parents' couch, where anyone could walk in."
"Then they can watch." Calleigh said. "Because right now I don't feel like walking upstairs."
"I'll carry you." Tim moved off her and swept her into his arms.
"Don't hurt yourself."
"You're not fat."
"No but you're not that strong." Calleigh teased.
"I'm sick of you talking." Tim said, kissing her lightly.
"Watch where you're walking Yankee." Calleigh drawled. "We don't need to trip on the stairs."
"I know this house like the back of my hand."