Chapter Two
A/n: I would like to thank 'Me' and Lady Alanna for reviewing this. And Yes, I have reviewed. I noticed the no updating of the other stories *Calls to all authors of DMC fan fiction UPDATE!!! At least for my sanity. (* Another thing, I know Dee's hair is blonde in the movie, but she did state that she had dyed it. I making it dirty blonde.
Ana ran around her grandfather, squealing in delight. Her dark brown curls flew in the wind as her grandfather picked her up and swung her around. Her blue eyes sparkled. She was having a lot of fun.
"Come on, Annie. Lets go watch some TV" He carried her to the living room. There she found her mother watching the television with her Nana Laura. She tugged on her Grandfather's sleeve and was let down, upon which she ran to her mother. She hugged her mother, noticing the wet marks on her face.
"Why is mama sad?" She asked. Nicole looked over at her young daughter and smiled, running a hand though the hair that reminded her of Ana's father.
"Mama's not really sad, sweetheart. Just sometimes she needs a good cry to get all the emotion out." Ana missed the look that her grandparents shared. They knew very well that Chase and Nicole had been dating for two years after High school despite the fact they tried to hide it. They had known it that night when they had announced they were moving in together. They also knew that Nicole had been crying because of Chase, not because she simply needed a good cry.
Ana shook her head at that statement.
"Mama knows it is no good to lie. Mama is sad, isn't she? Is it Daddy?" Nicole looked at her daughter. Like her father she was extremely perceptive and intelligent.
"Sort of, honey. Why don't you get ready to go over and play with the other kids?" Ana looked at her mother thoughtfully.
"Will Leeann and Lila be there?"
"Yes." Ana smiled, and jumped off her mother's lap.
"Yeah!" The five year old ran from the room and up the stairs. Nicole smiled and turned to her mother who smiled as well. Ana was the bright light in the house.
~*~
"NO!" Cried Lila as her mother tried to get her dressed. Dee bit her lip. Lila did not like getting dressed. For some reason the five year old liked to run around in her underwear. Dave found this funny, but she found it frustrating.
"Come on Lila. Uncle Ray and Uncle Chase are coming over."
"Uncle Chase?" the girl stopped moving around and stared at her mother. A new uncle? Must be Annie's father.
"Yes. You'll meet him downstairs." By this time, Dee had managed to put a shirt on the little girl and socks. Now she had to put the pants on and that was the hardest part. Luckily Lila did cooperate with her and it was quickly done.
Dee put the girl on the floor and the toddler rushed out of the room, having spotted her father. Dave picked her up and twirled her around, making the little girl happy.
"How is my Angel?" he asked. Lila did in fact look like an angel. She had her mother's dirty blonde curls and blue eyes. She was only slightly tall for her age, and Dave knew she would grow up to be a heart breaker.
"Great Daddy." The little girl smiled and hugged her father. Dee watched from the doorway of Lila's room and smiled. Her daughter and husband were close. It seemed that Lila even shared her father's fascination with X- files. Dave was so much into the story that He had asked to name their child Scully. Dee of course said no and they named her Lila. Dave was still hoping that the next one would be named after the X-files character but Dee was beginning to think that there would not be another child. She would have had one if they were going to be one.
Dave loved children as she did. They wanted to have a big family but after Lila was born, she had trouble having anymore. She had only gotten pregnant once, and that had ended up in a miscarriage after three months. She hadn't even known about that one yet. She still tried but she was starting to get discouraged. She was glad she at least had Lila.
"Why don't we go downstairs?" Dave nodded and carried Lila down the stairs. Upon reaching the bottom, she put her down and she looked at the man sitting at the table in the living room. She walked over and stood next to him.
"Hi, I'm Lila." She said, trying to sound as grown up as a five year old could be.
"Hi Lila. I'm your uncle Chase." Lila smiled and then hugged him.
"You must be Ana's dad. She's the only one whose dad would be my uncle other then Uncle Ray." Chase smiled weakly. The child was definitely smart.
"Yes, I am. How did you guess?"
"She looks like you." The girl shrugged. "You both have the 'hair'. Yours is starting to go wild again. Her hair does that all the time. You should teach her how to tame it." Chase looked at Dave and he shrugged.
"Don't ask me. I have lost hope in understanding her phrases." Just then the doorbell rang and Dee went to answer it. In a few moments, Misha, Leann and Ray were ushered into the spacious room. Leeann smiled and ran over to her 'cousin' and hugged her. The two girls ran to the other end of the room and ran down to the basement, where all Lila's toys were stored.
"Hi, you must be Chase." Misha said as she crossed the space between her and Chase and shook his hand. "I'm Misha O'Connor, Ray's fiancée."
"I thought you two were already married."
"That is what we tell everyone. It wasn't till recently that I felt comfortable about marring again. I was married once before and it turned out to be a disaster. I didn't want to do that again. Luckily Ray was patient with me. We just thought it would be better to tell everyone we were already married for Leeann's sake." Ray nodded in agreement.
"This is getting to confuse me." Dee smiled.
"You're not the only one, Chase." Dee once again went to answer the door as it rang. This time it was Dulcie and Nicole with Ana.
"Hey Dee!" Dulcie said happily. Her hair was now up in another weird do.
"Hi Dulcie." Dee moved over as Ana ran into the house and ran to the basement. The three women walked into the room. Dulcie just kept on moving and sat on the couch. Dee went and stood beside her husband and the two shared a look. This was going to be interesting. Nicole walked in but stopped as soon as she noticed Chase.
"Hi Chase." She said, putting on a fake smile. She hadn't seen the man for over five years and yet she still felt as if it had only been five days. He was even more attractive then before, and Nicole could not deny that she still felt like she was Jell-O when he was around. She had no idea when that had started, because she could remember that before senior year, Chase Hammond had no effect on her what so ever.
"Hi Nicole." He said emotionlessly. He still didn't trust himself around her. "How are you doing?"
"Fine." Chase tried his best to smile at her. Dee decided it was time for the ladies to leave. She walked to the stairway and yelled down to the girls that they were leaving. All three girls ran up to hug their mothers. Ana paused a second when she spotted Chase but then ran into her mothers arms for a quick Kiss goodbye. Ray came up to Nicole and told her that Chase knew and for a second her eyes went back and forth from her daughter and Chase.
"Ana, remember how I told you one day, I would introduce you to Daddy and then you could spend some time with him." Nicole asked quietly, making sure her voice was low enough to not be heard over the others. Her daughter nodded and spared a glance at Chase. Nicole realized that Ana probably would know who he was. She figured there had to be a bound between the two.
"Well, that is going to be today."
"Is that my daddy." Ana said, motioning to Chase.
"Yes, and don't point it isn't polite." Nicole stood up and walked her daughter over to Chase. She tapped him on the shoulder and he looked up at her, although he already knew she was coming over.
"Chase, Ray told me that you know the truth now."
"Yeah, although I would have appreciated finding out from you about 5 years ago." Nicole grimaced. Why had she even hoped he wouldn't be mad? Of course he would be mad. Who wouldn't be in this situation?
"Well, This is Ana, Ana, this is your father Chase." The younger girl smiled up at her father although it was soon replaced with confusion.
"Wait.isn't that Grandpa's son's name?" she asked. Nicole smiled. IT never got boring trying to explain her parents and their relationship. But this time Chase beat her to it.
"Yes, Your grandfather is my dad."
"But wouldn't that make you my uncle and related to mom.
"Your mom and I are not related. I had different parents then your mother. Your Grandfather is my dad and your grandma is your mother's mother." Ana still looked confused but she nodded.
"Still sounds strange that you're both my uncle and my dad." Chase for the first time in awhile laughed and meant it.
"I know what you mean. I'm still getting used to having your Grandmother dating my father."
"Dee just motioned that we have to go now. Bye sweetheart." Nicole bent down and kissed her daughters check. She stood up and looked at Chase. She decided to take a risk and leaned down and was going to kiss him on the check but Chase managed to turn his head slightly and she ended up giving him a true kiss.
It didn't last long, but both felt the electricity there. For a second afterwards they just stared at each other.
"C'mon Nicky!" Called Dulcie. "It is time to leave." Nicole walked away, turning only once to wave at her daughter and a quick glance at Chase. Then she was gone.
"Well." Ray said, interrupting Chase's thoughts. "That was interesting."
~*~
Nicole sat in the backseat of Dulcie's black convertible mustang starring at the traffic passing her. She wasn't even attempting to make it look like she was paying attention to the conversation the other three had going on. All her thoughts were on Chase and the last time she had seen him before he came back to town.
"Nicky?" Misha asked. She was the first to notice an unusual lack of commentary from the seat beside her. Nicole looked up at her.
"Wha?"
"Something wrong hon.?" Dee asked from the seat in front of Misha.
"Nothing's wrong." Dee and Misha shared a look that said, yeah right.
"C'mon, tell us, Nicky." Nicole sighed. With this bunch, when something was bothering you they would find out.
"Remember how everyone thought Ana was small for being a month late."
"Yes. I recall that for a 10 month wait, she was quite small." Dulcie commented from the driver's seat. Nicole sighed again.
"That's because she wasn't late. She was two months early."
"What?" All three girls said at once."
"She was supposed to be born on Christmas Day."
"But I thought you and Chase broke up the December before?"
"We did, but I went to see him in New York in March. We went and watched the parade and then went out to dinner. I came up for his twentieth birthday."
"What happened?" by this time they had pulled into the restaurant, so she waited till they were seated to began thinking about that night.
A/n: ok, I just checked my reviews and I wanted to thank those who reviewed after I started this chapter. Also, for those of you wondering, this will remain a PG to PG-13 rated story so the next chapter will not have anything major, although there will be some suggestiveness. But then there kind of already was because you all know Ana's here.
A/n: I would like to thank 'Me' and Lady Alanna for reviewing this. And Yes, I have reviewed. I noticed the no updating of the other stories *Calls to all authors of DMC fan fiction UPDATE!!! At least for my sanity. (* Another thing, I know Dee's hair is blonde in the movie, but she did state that she had dyed it. I making it dirty blonde.
Ana ran around her grandfather, squealing in delight. Her dark brown curls flew in the wind as her grandfather picked her up and swung her around. Her blue eyes sparkled. She was having a lot of fun.
"Come on, Annie. Lets go watch some TV" He carried her to the living room. There she found her mother watching the television with her Nana Laura. She tugged on her Grandfather's sleeve and was let down, upon which she ran to her mother. She hugged her mother, noticing the wet marks on her face.
"Why is mama sad?" She asked. Nicole looked over at her young daughter and smiled, running a hand though the hair that reminded her of Ana's father.
"Mama's not really sad, sweetheart. Just sometimes she needs a good cry to get all the emotion out." Ana missed the look that her grandparents shared. They knew very well that Chase and Nicole had been dating for two years after High school despite the fact they tried to hide it. They had known it that night when they had announced they were moving in together. They also knew that Nicole had been crying because of Chase, not because she simply needed a good cry.
Ana shook her head at that statement.
"Mama knows it is no good to lie. Mama is sad, isn't she? Is it Daddy?" Nicole looked at her daughter. Like her father she was extremely perceptive and intelligent.
"Sort of, honey. Why don't you get ready to go over and play with the other kids?" Ana looked at her mother thoughtfully.
"Will Leeann and Lila be there?"
"Yes." Ana smiled, and jumped off her mother's lap.
"Yeah!" The five year old ran from the room and up the stairs. Nicole smiled and turned to her mother who smiled as well. Ana was the bright light in the house.
~*~
"NO!" Cried Lila as her mother tried to get her dressed. Dee bit her lip. Lila did not like getting dressed. For some reason the five year old liked to run around in her underwear. Dave found this funny, but she found it frustrating.
"Come on Lila. Uncle Ray and Uncle Chase are coming over."
"Uncle Chase?" the girl stopped moving around and stared at her mother. A new uncle? Must be Annie's father.
"Yes. You'll meet him downstairs." By this time, Dee had managed to put a shirt on the little girl and socks. Now she had to put the pants on and that was the hardest part. Luckily Lila did cooperate with her and it was quickly done.
Dee put the girl on the floor and the toddler rushed out of the room, having spotted her father. Dave picked her up and twirled her around, making the little girl happy.
"How is my Angel?" he asked. Lila did in fact look like an angel. She had her mother's dirty blonde curls and blue eyes. She was only slightly tall for her age, and Dave knew she would grow up to be a heart breaker.
"Great Daddy." The little girl smiled and hugged her father. Dee watched from the doorway of Lila's room and smiled. Her daughter and husband were close. It seemed that Lila even shared her father's fascination with X- files. Dave was so much into the story that He had asked to name their child Scully. Dee of course said no and they named her Lila. Dave was still hoping that the next one would be named after the X-files character but Dee was beginning to think that there would not be another child. She would have had one if they were going to be one.
Dave loved children as she did. They wanted to have a big family but after Lila was born, she had trouble having anymore. She had only gotten pregnant once, and that had ended up in a miscarriage after three months. She hadn't even known about that one yet. She still tried but she was starting to get discouraged. She was glad she at least had Lila.
"Why don't we go downstairs?" Dave nodded and carried Lila down the stairs. Upon reaching the bottom, she put her down and she looked at the man sitting at the table in the living room. She walked over and stood next to him.
"Hi, I'm Lila." She said, trying to sound as grown up as a five year old could be.
"Hi Lila. I'm your uncle Chase." Lila smiled and then hugged him.
"You must be Ana's dad. She's the only one whose dad would be my uncle other then Uncle Ray." Chase smiled weakly. The child was definitely smart.
"Yes, I am. How did you guess?"
"She looks like you." The girl shrugged. "You both have the 'hair'. Yours is starting to go wild again. Her hair does that all the time. You should teach her how to tame it." Chase looked at Dave and he shrugged.
"Don't ask me. I have lost hope in understanding her phrases." Just then the doorbell rang and Dee went to answer it. In a few moments, Misha, Leann and Ray were ushered into the spacious room. Leeann smiled and ran over to her 'cousin' and hugged her. The two girls ran to the other end of the room and ran down to the basement, where all Lila's toys were stored.
"Hi, you must be Chase." Misha said as she crossed the space between her and Chase and shook his hand. "I'm Misha O'Connor, Ray's fiancée."
"I thought you two were already married."
"That is what we tell everyone. It wasn't till recently that I felt comfortable about marring again. I was married once before and it turned out to be a disaster. I didn't want to do that again. Luckily Ray was patient with me. We just thought it would be better to tell everyone we were already married for Leeann's sake." Ray nodded in agreement.
"This is getting to confuse me." Dee smiled.
"You're not the only one, Chase." Dee once again went to answer the door as it rang. This time it was Dulcie and Nicole with Ana.
"Hey Dee!" Dulcie said happily. Her hair was now up in another weird do.
"Hi Dulcie." Dee moved over as Ana ran into the house and ran to the basement. The three women walked into the room. Dulcie just kept on moving and sat on the couch. Dee went and stood beside her husband and the two shared a look. This was going to be interesting. Nicole walked in but stopped as soon as she noticed Chase.
"Hi Chase." She said, putting on a fake smile. She hadn't seen the man for over five years and yet she still felt as if it had only been five days. He was even more attractive then before, and Nicole could not deny that she still felt like she was Jell-O when he was around. She had no idea when that had started, because she could remember that before senior year, Chase Hammond had no effect on her what so ever.
"Hi Nicole." He said emotionlessly. He still didn't trust himself around her. "How are you doing?"
"Fine." Chase tried his best to smile at her. Dee decided it was time for the ladies to leave. She walked to the stairway and yelled down to the girls that they were leaving. All three girls ran up to hug their mothers. Ana paused a second when she spotted Chase but then ran into her mothers arms for a quick Kiss goodbye. Ray came up to Nicole and told her that Chase knew and for a second her eyes went back and forth from her daughter and Chase.
"Ana, remember how I told you one day, I would introduce you to Daddy and then you could spend some time with him." Nicole asked quietly, making sure her voice was low enough to not be heard over the others. Her daughter nodded and spared a glance at Chase. Nicole realized that Ana probably would know who he was. She figured there had to be a bound between the two.
"Well, that is going to be today."
"Is that my daddy." Ana said, motioning to Chase.
"Yes, and don't point it isn't polite." Nicole stood up and walked her daughter over to Chase. She tapped him on the shoulder and he looked up at her, although he already knew she was coming over.
"Chase, Ray told me that you know the truth now."
"Yeah, although I would have appreciated finding out from you about 5 years ago." Nicole grimaced. Why had she even hoped he wouldn't be mad? Of course he would be mad. Who wouldn't be in this situation?
"Well, This is Ana, Ana, this is your father Chase." The younger girl smiled up at her father although it was soon replaced with confusion.
"Wait.isn't that Grandpa's son's name?" she asked. Nicole smiled. IT never got boring trying to explain her parents and their relationship. But this time Chase beat her to it.
"Yes, Your grandfather is my dad."
"But wouldn't that make you my uncle and related to mom.
"Your mom and I are not related. I had different parents then your mother. Your Grandfather is my dad and your grandma is your mother's mother." Ana still looked confused but she nodded.
"Still sounds strange that you're both my uncle and my dad." Chase for the first time in awhile laughed and meant it.
"I know what you mean. I'm still getting used to having your Grandmother dating my father."
"Dee just motioned that we have to go now. Bye sweetheart." Nicole bent down and kissed her daughters check. She stood up and looked at Chase. She decided to take a risk and leaned down and was going to kiss him on the check but Chase managed to turn his head slightly and she ended up giving him a true kiss.
It didn't last long, but both felt the electricity there. For a second afterwards they just stared at each other.
"C'mon Nicky!" Called Dulcie. "It is time to leave." Nicole walked away, turning only once to wave at her daughter and a quick glance at Chase. Then she was gone.
"Well." Ray said, interrupting Chase's thoughts. "That was interesting."
~*~
Nicole sat in the backseat of Dulcie's black convertible mustang starring at the traffic passing her. She wasn't even attempting to make it look like she was paying attention to the conversation the other three had going on. All her thoughts were on Chase and the last time she had seen him before he came back to town.
"Nicky?" Misha asked. She was the first to notice an unusual lack of commentary from the seat beside her. Nicole looked up at her.
"Wha?"
"Something wrong hon.?" Dee asked from the seat in front of Misha.
"Nothing's wrong." Dee and Misha shared a look that said, yeah right.
"C'mon, tell us, Nicky." Nicole sighed. With this bunch, when something was bothering you they would find out.
"Remember how everyone thought Ana was small for being a month late."
"Yes. I recall that for a 10 month wait, she was quite small." Dulcie commented from the driver's seat. Nicole sighed again.
"That's because she wasn't late. She was two months early."
"What?" All three girls said at once."
"She was supposed to be born on Christmas Day."
"But I thought you and Chase broke up the December before?"
"We did, but I went to see him in New York in March. We went and watched the parade and then went out to dinner. I came up for his twentieth birthday."
"What happened?" by this time they had pulled into the restaurant, so she waited till they were seated to began thinking about that night.
A/n: ok, I just checked my reviews and I wanted to thank those who reviewed after I started this chapter. Also, for those of you wondering, this will remain a PG to PG-13 rated story so the next chapter will not have anything major, although there will be some suggestiveness. But then there kind of already was because you all know Ana's here.