I got a friendly reminder from my beta about the American Bar Association. If you belong to the ABA, you can practice wherever. You'd need to have a license to set up a firm, but Grace is just heading one case, so she wouldn't need a special license. So thanks Shadow for enlightening us!

Title: No objection to you

Category: GL eventually

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Luke is embroiled in a bitter custody battle with his ex. Grace is his lawyer, appointed in a special case.

AN: I do not own or know the characters. Rosalia is the product of my imagination. I also must thank Sam for all her help in getting this started!

After dinner and dessert, Christina decided to take Liz home since she was getting tired. After saying goodbye to everyone, Adam walked Christina and Liz to the car so he could make sure they got in safely. He came back inside to help Joan and Helen clean up. Kevin, Will, and Luke were playing with Rose. Grace was watching TV.

Luke looked over at Grace and smiled. He turned to Rose.

"I'm going to watch TV with Grace, okay?"

Rose nodded. "Okay daddy."

Luke kissed her forehead and got up to join Grace. She looked up at him.

"Hey geek."

"Hey." Luke sat down. "Well I've calmed down considerably." He looked at the time on the VCR. "9:30. Rose should be in bed."

Grace chuckled. "And why isn't she?"

Luke looked at Rose, who was currently being entertained by Kevin and a pair of socks with eyes sewed on them.

"She'll never go to bed with Kevin here." Luke said.

Grace nodded. Rose got up and squeezed her way in between Grace and Luke.

"I want to watch a movie." She said.

Luke smiled. "Okay. Let's see what we have." He went over to Joan's entertainment center and looked through the DVDs. "Joan, what are you doing with Star Wars?"

"Hayden Christiansen! Hello!" Joan called from the kitchen.

Luke and Grace looked at each other, both amused and slightly afraid, and Luke looked through the rest of the DVDs. He noticed a stack of Disney movies and pulled one out.

"How about Cinderella?" he asked, glancing over his shoulder at Grace and Rose.

Grace grimaced at the thought of the movie. She got up, walked over to the entertainment center, and pulled out a different DVD.

"How about Mulan?" Grace asked.

Luke nodded. "I should have know." He smirked before putting the movie in and getting up to sit beside his daughter and Grace.

Halfway into the movie, Helen, Will, and Kevin decided to head over to their hotel. After saying their goodnights, they left. Joan locked the front door and looked over at Luke, Rose, and Grace on the couch. She smiled seeing that Rose was nearly falling asleep.

"I'm going to go to bed. Night you guys." Joan said.

"Night Joan." Luke said.

Grace nodded. "Night."

Joan walked over and kissed Rose on the forehead before going to her bedroom.

Grace looked at Luke. "How long are you two planning on staying?"

Luke shrugged. "Until whenever her mom calls to get her."

Grace looked at the screen and looked down when Rose began to mutter some of the lines. "I take it she knows this movie well?"

"Yeah. Anytime she wants to, we watch it. She got Liz into it."

"Nice." Grace said.

Luke smiled and they went back to the movie. Sometime later, Grace felt a tiny arm drape across her waist and some hair brushed against her arm. Grace looked down to see Rose sleeping halfway on top of her. Grace looked over at Luke, slightly panicked.

"Pst! Dude!" Grace whispered.

Luke didn't hear her, as he was so enraptured with the movie.

"Dude!" Grace said a little louder.

Luke looked at her. "What?"

Grace glanced down at Rose. "The kid's got me trapped, dude! What do I do?"

Luke looked down at Rose and chuckled.

"This is not funny!" Grace said.

Luke smiled. "What I normally do is I wrap my arms around her and put her in my lap."

Grace looked at him as if telling him to get moving.

"She wakes up easily."

"Nothing is ever simple with you Girardis." Grace sighed and put an arm around Rose's back and the other one tucked under her legs. She pulled Rose into her lap and Rose curled up in her arms. Grace just looked at Luke.

Luke grinned. "Okay baby come here." He carefully took Rose from Grace and cradled her in his arms. She opened her eyes slightly and Luke kissed her cheek. "Sh go back to sleep, little star."

Grace smiled.

The phone rang and Luke sighed. He got up and carefully placed Rose on the couch before grabbing the phone. "Hello?"

"Yeah…hi Luke it's Lydia," she said sounding as if she didn't want to be calling.

"Hey Lydia. You home?" Luke asked, semi hopefully.

"Well…no. You can take her for the night. I got this thing." Lydia said.

Luke bit his tongue to keep from saying anything he shouldn't. "Oh?"

"Yeah, so you can have her till tomorrow."

Luke scoffed and hung up. He walked over to the couch and sat down on his knees on the floor. He looked at Rose's sleeping face and shook his head. Grace put a hand on Luke's shoulder. "You probably should get her home and in bed."

Luke smiled slightly. "Yeah. It's pretty late."

Grace got up and stopped the movie. She put the disc back in its case and put the movie away. Luke put on his jacket on and picked Rosalia up. Grace walked over to the door and opened it for him. Luke walked over and stepped onto the porch. He turned to look at Grace.

"I'll call you later, okay?"

Grace nodded. "Night rocket boy."

Luke chuckled at the nickname and turned to leave. Grace shut the door and locked it before heading to bed.