Poe1911: Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like Arianna. I've put her into other stories here, but no one's ever told me what they think of her. So I appreciate you letting me know!
Kayla Tsukino: You are quite right about making sure people know where the "Full House" characters are at. And in the chapters to come, I will do my best to do so. Thanks for the advice! It's always welcome!
snipsa: I agree that is weird with the TV shows! Wow… I am glad that you like the Gary/Arianna interaction. As I already said, no one has ever told me what they think of Arianna. Thanks!

2. The Family

Arianna paced back and forth across the hotel room. Her father had left a half hour ago. She knew she shouldn't be too worried. It was about another 45 minutes until the explosion was to happen and her father needed time. But, she really couldn't help it. The whole explosion thing was really dangerous.

She sat down on one of the full-sized beds and put her head in her hands. Her mind wandered back to when Gary had first told her about the Paper. It had been on her 9th birthday; only a little over two years ago. She had been made to promise that she would never tell anybody about the Paper; ever. Unless, of course, Gary told her to, that is.

Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. Her first thought was that it was her father. But to be sure, she peeked through the little eye-hole. It wasn't Gary. It was another man; a stranger. He looked familiar though, but Arianna just couldn't put her finger on who he was exactly. One thing really stood out to her though; the earring in his ear. She just knew she had seen this guy somewhere before!

Remembering what her father had told her, Arianna didn't say anything as the man knocked again. Instead, she went into the bathroom and locked the door. Sitting down on the side of the bathtub, she rested her chin in one of her hands and listened as the man knocked again; this time louder. "Hello?" he called, "Is anybody home?"

Arianna waited a few more minutes and when she didn't hear anything after a few minutes she unlocked the bathroom door and stepped out. Looking through the peek hole, she saw that the man had left. Arianna breathed a sigh of relief, but his face still haunted her. She knew that she had seen him before… but where? She continued to ponder the question as she waited with worry for her father to return.

"Listen," Gary said, struggling to get away from the two security guards with handcuffs, "You're making a big mistake here; a big mistake. I, I'm not– ow!" one of the security guards had snapped the handcuffs onto Gary's wrists, behind his back. Then he pushed him down into a chair.

"Sit here," One of the guards instructed, "Now," He looked at the man in charge, "What's going on here?"

"Well," The man started. Gary later learned his name was 'Phillips', "This guy comes in here and tells me that if I don't check the pressure valve on the main post than we're gonna have an explosion! He expects me to believe him! Anyone who's smart enough knows you don't kid around about that kinda thing!"

"Well, did you?" The first guard asked.

"Did I what?" Phillips wanted to know, obviously confused.

"Did you go check it?" He asked again.

"Eh, no."

The second guard looked annoyed, "Go check the valve, Mr. Phillips."

Phillips obeyed and went to go check the valve, with one of the security men close behind. They came back a moment later, Phillips looking pale.

"Well?" Gary asked. He would have looked at the Paper, but he was sitting on it.

"You were right," Phillips admitted, meekly, "You were right. If I hadn't turned that down, then…"

"Good. Now, can I go?" Gary asked, hopefully, "I've got a daughter I want to get back to. She's waiting on me."

After asking him a few more questions, they let Gary go, with an apology from Mr. Phillips, as well.

When Gary walked into the hotel room half an hour later, Arianna ran into his arms and gave him a big hug, "Daddy!" She exclaimed, her face buried in his leather jacket, "You're alright! Did you stop it?" She looked up at him, expectantly.

"Yeah, I stopped it," Gary replied, with a faint smile on his tired face, "I just had some technical difficulties, is all. Were you alright?"

Arianna bit her lip.

"What happened?" Gary asked, the smile now fading.

"A man knocked on the door, daddy," Arianna told him, "But, I remembered what you said; I didn't open it. He looked familiar though, daddy, like I've seen him before."

"What'd he look like?" Gary asked, taking his jacket off and laying it on the bed.

"Well, he had kinda wavy, black hair – but it was graying. His eyes were brown; I think. He was real muscular-like and oh, yeah. His right ear was pierced. He was real rough-looking." Arianna did her best to describe the man.

Gary winced. He knew exactly who it was. Arianna could tell by watching her father's expressions that something was wrong.

"What's the matter, daddy?" She asked, her eyes showing worry and concern.

Gary sank down onto one of the beds and pulled Arianna onto his knee. Though the girl wanted desperately to know what was going on, she remained silent. For she knew that in his own time, Gary would tell her what she needed to know.

"The man you just described to me, Arianna," He finally said, "Was the same man driving the cab earlier today."

Arianna's eyes widened. "Really?"

Gary nodded, "I don't know how he knew we were here or why he even showed up for that matter, but I don't like it."

"Daddy, is he dangerous?" Arianna asked, suspiciously.

"I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but I think he might be." Gary admitted.

Arianna rested her head on Gary's shoulder and sighed. Wouldn't they ever get a break?

Later that day, around 7 o'clock, a taxi dropped Gary and Arianna off in front of 1882 Gerad Street. Arianna looked around at the dimming light. So this was it; this was the home of Becky Katsopolis.

"Come on, Arianna," Gary said, putting his hand on her shoulder, "Let's go."

Obediently, the girl followed him up to the front door. Once there, he found the doorbell and pushed the button. A moment later the door opened. A tall, thin man with brown hair and a smile on his face stood in the doorway.

"You must be the Hobsons," He said, and then stepped back, "Come on in. We've been expecting you."

Gary smiled and stepped inside, with Arianna right beside him. Arianna gazed around at the house.

"I'm Danny Tanner," The man introduced himself.

"Gary Hobson," Gary shook Danny's hand, "And this is my daughter, Arianna. Thanks for having us."

"Nice to meet you," Danny replied, then called up the stairs, "Stephanie!"

Just a moment later, the blonde girl from earlier that day came bounding down the stairs. "Yeah, dad?" Then she saw Arianna standing there, "Oh hi! I'm glad you're here, Arianna! You want to see my room?" Without waiting for a reply, Stephanie took Arianna by the wrist and began to drag her upstairs.

"Stephanie," Danny called up, "Slow down!" Chuckling, he just shook his head. Gary, too, had a smile on his face.

"Those two will get along great." Gary laughed.

"Yeah, I hope so," Danny said, equally amused, "Come on. Everyone's in the kitchen."

Gary followed Danny into the kitchen and found a bunch of people waiting for him. "Gary," Danny said, pointing to a man with wavy black hair, "This is my brother-in-law; Jesse Katsopolis. You've already met his wife; Becky, and their two little boys; Nicky and Alex."

"How do you do?" Gary shook Jesse and Becky's hands, "Thanks for having us."

"We're happy to have you." Becky smiled.

"And this;" Danny motioned toward a grinning man with blonde hair, "This is my good friend Joey Gladstone. I have two other daughters, but they must be upstairs right now."

"Gary Hobson." Gary shook Joey's hand. Did all these people live in this one house?

"Alright," Stephanie pulled Arianna into her bedroom, "This is my room."

"Wow," Arianna looked around, "This is really cool!"

"Thanks."

Just then, a little girl of about 5 or 6-years-old, stood up from a small table. Her blonde hair was pulled into 2 pigtails over each ear and her eyes were blue.

"Hello," She said, "My name is Michelle. Who are you?"

"I'm Arianna." Arianna replied, smiling at the girl.

"This is my little sister Michelle," Stephanie spoke up, "We share this bedroom." She added, rolling her blue eyes.

"I'm 6," Michelle spoke again, "How old are you?"

"11."

"You're eleven?" Stephanie asked.

Arianna nodded.

"Oh, that is so cool! So am I!" Stephanie exclaimed.

Arianna smiled. This was great!

Just then, an older blonde girl walked into the room.

"Hey, Deej," Stephanie greeted the girl, and then turned to Arianna, "Arianna, this is my sister D.J. She's 16. D.J., this is Arianna Hobson; the girl I was telling you about."

"It's nice to meet you, Arianna," D.J. smiled, "Do you live around here?"

"No," Arianna shook her head, "I'm from Chicago. We're just visiting."

D.J. nodded. Just then, Danny stuck his head in the room, "Hey, girls; time to eat."

A little while later, Arianna looked around the table. "Wow," she thought, "Nine people in one house?" Well, then again, her good friend Jessa Wissmann had 8 members in her family.

"So, tell us, Gary," Jesse said, holding his fork full of rice in mid-air, "Where is your wife at? Did she stay home?"

Arianna instantly looked down at her dinner plate. "Uh, I, I'm not married, actually," Gary replied, hesitantly, "Well, I, I man I was, but, um, my wife, sh-she passed away… when Arianna was born."

"I'm sorry," Becky said, sympathetically.

"Its, its alright," Gary said, "You didn't know. It's a-alright."

Arianna glanced over at her father. He smiled at her and she gave a sigh of relief. She hadn't been sure just how that situation was going to play out.

Just then, the back door behind the table opened and in walked a teenage girl around D.J.'s age. She had brown hair and it was only a little longer than Arianna's.

"¡Hola Tanneritos!" The girl greeted. She then grabbed a plate off the shelf and began to serve herself.

"Kimmy," Danny asked, in wonder, "Don't your parents feed you?"

"Sure they do, Mr. T.," She replied, helping herself to a large piece of fried chicken, "Except tonight they said that if I wanted to eat then I'd better come here."

Danny sighed and Gary tried to hide a smile. Arianna just looked stunned.

"Gary, Arianna," Danny said, "This is our next door neighbor, Kimmy Gibbler. Kimmy, this is Gary and Arianna Hobson."

"Hi there," She said, sitting down, "I've never seen you before. Do you live around here?"

"Actually, no," Gary replied, "We're from Chicago."

"Oooh, Wendy's City." She smiled, then got a confused look on her face, "Who's Wendy?"

Gary opened his mouth as if he were about to answer her, then shut it and just shook his head.

"Kimmy," Stephanie took a deep breath, and then, she too, just shook her head, "Never mind."

Joey tried to change the subject, "So, how long are you planning on staying in San Francisco, Gary?"

"We're not sure exactly," Gary replied, glancing over at his daughter, "We're just not sure, yet."

"Do you have a place to stay?" Becky asked, spooning some food into one of the twins' mouths.

"We've got a room at the Brooklyn." Gary answered her, "We'll probably just stay there for a while."

"Well, why don't you stay here?" Danny suggested, "We would love to have you."

Arianna's mouth dropped open and she quickly shut it. Was this guy really serious? Didn't he have a full house already without adding two more people to it?

"A-are you sure?" Gary asked. He looked as shocked as Arianna, but he had managed to keep control of his bottom jaw.

"Yeah, Danny," Joey said, "Are you sure?"

"Well, of course I'm sure." Danny said, chuckling.

Finally, Gary accepted and Arianna was glad. That would give her a chance to get to know Stephanie better. And after about another hour, the Hobsons left.

After they showed them out the front door, Jesse just stared at Danny.

"What?" Danny asked.

"You invited them to stay?" Jesse asked.

"Yeah; why not?" Danny replied, "You know what they say; 'the more, the merrier'."

"Yeah, well," Jesse replied, "You know what they also say; 'three's a crowd' and in this case it's now 11!" He added.

"Oh, come on, Jess," Danny said, "I mean, did you see the look on Steph's face? She's absolutely thrilled!"

"Yeah, that's her," Jesse replied, "Like we need another little munchkin running around here. Don't we already have enough?"

"Hey," Joey joined in, "Look at it this way; if you count Kimmy, then with Arianna coming then we can have the 7 dwarfs!"

Jesse just gave him a disgusted look.

"Come on, Jesse," Danny said, "It'll be fine. You'll see."

Jesse sighed. Maybe Danny was right. Maybe.

Well, that's chapter two. So, what'd you think?