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Title: Fangs: A Rat's Tale
Author: Elizabeth
Category: GL
Summary: Meeting Luke's family
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Joan of Arcadia or any of its characters. This is all in good fun.
Saturday came seeing Luke and Grace at their respective homes IMing each other. Fangs was in his cage asleep for the moment.
GravityBoy: You know…I think it's time Fangs met my mom and dad
Blackwidow4U: He's already been acquainted with your mother. Do I need to remind you of our detention?
GravityBoy: I'm still on dish duty. But my dad hasn't met him yet! I'm sure he'd love to meet the little guy.
Blackwidow4U: You aren't letting this go are you?
GravityBoy: Not a chance.
Blackwidow4U: All right, fine. When?
GravityBoy: Tonight. At dinner.
Blackwidow4U: How did I know there would be an angle?
GravityBoy: Grace!
Blackwidow4U: Hey! What did I say about the name thing?
GravityBoy: Right. Sorry. So, how about it?
Blackwidow4U: What time should I be there?
GravityBoy: 7:00?
Blackwidow4U: Fine. See you then.
GravityBoy: Great!
Blackwidow4U has logged offGrace went over to Fangs and looked in on him. "Well dude, it looks like you will be meeting the rest of the geek's family. You'll like them, I promise."
Fangs continued to sleep.
Grace rang the doorbell and Helen answered. She gave a slight start seeing Fangs sitting on her shoulder.
"Hello Grace, come on in."
Grace walked in. "Thanks for letting me come, Mrs. Girardi."
"You're welcome here anytime you want." Helen said with a smile.
"Um…where is everyone?"
"Oh Luke and Joan are setting the table. Kevin is upstairs finishing an article and Will is making dinner."
Grace nodded. "I'm going to go say hi."
Grace went into the kitchen and smiled smelling lasagna. She remembered coming here once expecting to get lasagna. Will turned and smiled upon seeing her.
"Hello Grace." He went to turn away when he suddenly froze. He turned back and stared at the rat sitting on Grace's shoulder. "I…see we have a special guest tonight."
Luke walked in and grinned. "I see you met Fangs. Isn't he cool?"
Will regarded the teens, shaking his head and smiling. "Yeah. Uh can I pet him?"
"Uh you can try but he tends to…try and bite people who aren't me and the geek." Grace smiled.
"Uh…huh. Well…dinner will be ready soon."
"Okay dad." Luke said. "Come on Grace."
They headed into the living room and Helen went into the kitchen. Helen smiled at Will.
"Now you see the reason why Luke is on dish duty."
"They don't refer to each other as mommy and daddy when it comes to the rat do they?" Will asked, concerned.
Helen laughed. "No honey."
Will nodded, glancing towards the stairs before going back to the lasagna.
Luke knocked on Kevin's door and Kevin glanced over at him.
"Yo."
"Hey." Luke and Grace walked in. "There's someone we'd like you to meet."
Kevin looked up and smirked seeing the rat sitting on Grace's shoulder. "Nice. I didn't expect to be Uncle Kevin so soon but dang am I proud."
Grace raised an eyebrow and Luke rolled his eyes.
Kevin chuckled and reached out to pet the rat. Fangs glared at Kevin and bared his teeth, making a hissing sound. Kevin recoiled and gave Fangs a look.
"Man! What did I ever do to you!"
Grace and Luke laughed and Joan came in. "Okay people! Dinner's ready!" Joan regarded Fangs and shuddered before leaving the room.
They went downstairs and sat at the table. Everyone began eating and talking about the week ahead of them. As they were eating, Fangs crawled down Grace's arm and sat on the table. Helen gave Fangs a look and cleared her throat.
Luke smiled apologetically and held out his hand face up. "Come here, Fangs. Good boy."
Fangs crawled up Luke's arm and settled down onto his shoulder where he promptly fell asleep. Grace smiled and Luke smiled back at her. They glanced over to see everyone just looking at them. They went back to eating.
After dinner, Luke got his jacket to walk Grace home, even though she insisted with her 'rat bodyguard' she was fine. Luke ignored her and walked her home anyway.
"That was an awesome dinner. Thanks for inviting me." Grace said.
"Thanks for coming." Luke smiled. "Fangs was a big hit."
"Of course he was!" Grace looked at the rat in question. "You had fun didn't you?"
Fangs made a couple sounds then lye down.
Grace chuckled. "Well I better get him to his cage."
"Yeah." Luke grinned. "So I'll see you later?"
"You bet." Grace nodded.
Luke kissed her and Grace went inside. Luke sighed and headed home.
