A/N This was a quick idea I had and luckily it wrote itself pretty easily. I wasn't sure how to get Brian involved but I hope this works. I think it does. I also edited a few chapters just to get some continuity problems worked out and think it's a little smoother now but nothing that changes the story. Just me picking nits. Enjoy!

The rest of the afternoon was uneventful after Allison left. The evening would have been if it hadn't been for a brief phone call from Elaine. Mom said she called to up date her on the obstetrician appointment that she had today but with the way mom acted after the call I think more than that was said. I didn't ask and she didn't bring it up but her whole demeanor changed from her normally relax self to very stressed and she went to bed early.

I stayed up late watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. It was one of the few episodes before his retirement. Sitting there with the TV on I decided to do something about Jeff and Elaine before they evicted mom from her house. There was a chance that they would see the light and realize putting her in a home was the wrong thing to do but in case they didn't something would have to be done. I'd hop in my car and drive to the Northwestern's law library and see what I could find out about her rights. My specialty was criminal law and didn't know too much about family law but it was time to make that a priority.

When I woke up the next morning I found myself still on the couch. It was more comfortable than sleeping sitting up on a kitchen chair but still enough to make me very stiff. I went upstairs, and got cleaned up. Mom was still asleep so I wrote her a quick note before I left to let her know where I would be going and give her an idea when I would be back. The last thing I needed was for Jeff to think I abandoned her. Then I snorted. I was becoming who I was in high school. I was worried about what someone else would think about me.

I arrived at the Northwestern campus at about noon after stopping in Winnetka to pick up an egg McMuffin and wait for the rush hour to dissipate on the I-94 heading into the city. As I pulled into campus it seemed like coming home. Why wouldn't it though? I had spent the last four years of my life on this campus. It could have been eight years but because of the whole wrestling thing I went out to Indiana and Purdue in Lafayette. Had I gone to NWU for my undergrad studies I would have been closer to mom. Dad too, no Purdue was right.

Entering the library I made my way to the computerized cataloging system and did a search for cases relatively close to what was going on with my mother. Whether Jeff and Elaine would actually kick her out I didn't know but I had a bad feeling about the whole thing. As I typed my info into the computer all I got was an error message. I tried again and the same thing so I walked over to the librarian's desk. "Excuse me?" She looked up. It was Ms Simons who had to have been around when dinosaurs walked the earth.

"Andrew Clark I thought you would never come back here."

"Neither did I but I needed to check on a few family law cases."

She peered at me over the edge of her wire rimmed bifocals. "I thought you were interested in criminal law." Ms. Simons May have looked like she roamed the earth with the dinos but had an excellent mind. She never forgot a face or what they were studying. I'm sure she still can remember what graduates the year she began at NWU studied even today.

"That's right but this is for something personal. The computer catalogues aren't working."

"I told Amber to put the sign up saying they would be down between 12 and 2. I wonder about that girl sometimes. They are updating the system and putting brand new computers in the labs. It's a big deal. The University president is here and the big shots from the software and computer companies. If you know what cases you are looking for I can take you down to the old catalogues and let you look through there. I know you wouldn't go messing anything up." As she finished I noticed a man staring at me. Something about him looked familiar but I just assumed he was one of the many students who attended NWU that I had seen about before.

"Thanks, Ms. Simons but I think I'll just come back once the system is back online." I was trying to decide how I would kill time until two o'clock. Not like there was a lot to do in Evanston but I could always walk along the lake front and revisit my old haunts.

As I pulled the door open I passed the group of men in suits who the man watching me belonged to and I heard him tell his colleagues, "I'll be right back." And then "Andy?"

I turned to face the man. He seemed very familiar but I couldn't put my finger on who he was. "Andy Clark right?" I nodded. Did I wrestle him? Was he in my torts class? Was he the guy who dented my car my second year there? "Andy its me!" I was trying to place him but I couldn't.

"I'm sorry but I don't remember you," I told him and prepared to walk away.

He looked momentarily disappointed and then said, "Elephant lamp".

I had to do a double take. "Brian? Brian Johnson?" He looked nothing like the scrawny sophomore that I remembered. He had filled out. He looked more like the football players who used to cram him into his locker.

Brian smiled and there was no doubt it was him. "You look great, Andy."

"You too. Hell you have changed. I wouldn't have thought that you were you in a million years."

"Me either. Hey I'm almost done here. Just let me tell my guys bye and we can go to the Student Union and grab a coffee."

"Sounds good."

He went back and said a few words to the guys in suits and we headed next door to get some coffee. We placed our orders and then sat at a booth near the window. "So what happened?" I asked him.

"You mean my new look?" He said laughing. "Well once I got into college I thought it was time to stop being a parent's wet dream as Bender called me. I started doing what I wanted and one of those things was working out. Hell my mom wouldn't let me play baseball when I was a kid because she thought Id get hit in the head with either the bat or the ball and get brain damage. So I got into working out and actually tried wrestling."

He said that I sprayed coffee. It was kind of ironic. I hurt myself and couldn't wrestle and Brian Johnson began. "So like it?"

"It was okay I did it for one season. Preferred the chess club. Can take the boy out of the geek but cant take the geek out of the boy I guess. What about you?"

I caught him up on the happenings in my life and he told me about attending MIT. Was there ever any doubt that would be his first choice? "Bet that made your mother happy."

"Not really. I learned it didn't matter. No matter what I did I wouldn't be good enough or my sister. So have you heard from any of the members of the Breakfast Club since school?"

I laughed. "Had you asked me that last week I would have said no but so far I have seen all of you."

"This week?"

"Yeah funny huh? I don't see any of you for eight years and now here you all are. Speaking of which, I'm meeting Claire and Bender for dinner tonight. Want to come?"

"Well the company is paying for a hotel room in Chicago. I know it's not far from Shermer but I don't have a car here. We are all in a rental and I know the guys wanted to check out some clubs tonight."

"If you are trying to say you don't want to have dinner with us just say it Bri. You don't have to beat around the bush."

"No. No, I'm not saying that. I want to but getting out to Shermer. Okay getting out isn't the problem but the last train is at 11:05 and if I miss that how will I get back to the city. Taxi's aren't covered in business expenses since we have the rental car. Plus I don't think one that far would be covered without a rental car."

"Bri?"

"Yeah"

"Stop babbling."

He blushed a deep shade of red, "Oops sorry."

"I or maybe Claire can give you a lift afterwards if we are too late. So do you want to come or not?"

"I'll be there," he said as he took a sip of his coffee. "Where exactly is there and what time?"

"Mikado at 8pm. If you want call me from the train station and Ill pick you up so you can get to the restaurant."

"Cool."

We finished our coffee while talking about the weather and remembering school. Then we walked back to the library where the computers were up again, surprisingly early and Brian rejoined his colleagues. As I looked for Pederson v Pederson in the law journals I decided to make tonight a real reunion and call and invite Allison when I got back home. We could still have our date on Sunday but tonight would be an impromptu Breakfast Club reunion.