"Thank you so much," Manny said standing up and shaking his outstretched hand.
"Your welcome, I'm glad to be supporting you and your family," John said smiling gently at the little girl on her hip.
"If you and your family would like to follow me to my office we can talk about your situation and what we're going to do about it," John said pointing to the door.
"That would be great," Manny said walking over to the couch where Jake sat and took Emily from him and handed him Alexis.
Jake then got up off the couch and Manny and Jake followed John down the hall to his office. Once inside John offered them the couch and told them to take a seat. Manny then proceeded to tell Jake their situation from the time when Spinner and her created Alexis, to the point in time when Craig came into the picture, to Alexis second kidnaping and then finally to what had happened earlier that day.
"Wow," John said when she finished telling her situation.
"Yeah, and he wants to see her, but he'll take her from me, and then I'll never see her again," Manny said holding the sleeping Emily in her arms.
"Well, how do you want to handle this," John asked politely.
"I want to get a restraining order, and temporary sole custody of Alexis and Emily and eventually permanent sole custody and for Jake to adopt them," Manny said.
"Is that what you want also Jake," John asked.
"I love these little girls as if they were my own, I'd never do anything to hurt them. I want to adopt them and keep them safe from danger," Jake said as Alexis snuggled deeper into his lap while she slept.
"And I see you have a very close connection with them and Manuela. If Judge Smith finds it in the children's best interest you and Manuela with have temporary sole custody of the children and the father will have nothing to do with them," John said.
"That would be wonderful, what do we have to do now," Manny asked anxiously.
"Just talk to Judge Smith and see what she says," John said kindly and led them back down the hall and into Judge Smith's office.
Judge Smith signed the papers and sent someone out with the paper's for Spinner and Craig. Spinner and Craig also got the papers for the restraining orders. They stated they could not come within 500 feet of Manny, Jake, Alexis, or Emily. There would be a custody hearing for them both a month later.
That night Manny, Jake, and their little girls all went out to eat at McDonald's to celebrate. They girls even got ice cream cones.
Somewhere Else.
Spinner sat in his one bedroom apartment watching t.v. when there was a knock at the door. He grumbled as he got up to answer it. When he opened the door a man in a police uniform stood there with papers.
"Are you Gavin "Spinner" Mason," The police officer asked.
"Yes I am, Can I help you officer," Spinner asked innocently.
"These are for you. Have a nice day," The officer said handing Spinner the papers and leaving.
Spinner shut the doors and opened the envelope just as the phone rang. He picked it up and pushed the talk button and put the phone to his ear.
"Hello," He said as he read the papers and got angrier and angrier.
"Hey Spin, is that you," A male voice asked.
"Yeah, who is this," Spinner asked enraged.
"It's Craig, did you get served papers too," Craig asked.
"Yeah, is she trying to take your daughter away," Spinner asked.
"Yeah, but she won't succeed cuz I always get what I want. You gonna help me get what we want," Craig asked evilly.
"Yeah, but I get Manny too," Spinner said agreeing.
"No, we have to get rid of her all together, we can't let her get away with this," Craig said almost psychotically.
"Are you sure this is a good idea," Spinner asked nervously.
"Yeah, It's a great idea, we get our little girls and Manny's gone, for good," Craig said.
"Yeah, great idea, when," Spinner asked trying to think of a way out of this deal.
"Tomorrow night, midnight, we'll sneak in, get the girls and get rid of Manny," Craig said almost demonically.
"Great idea. I gotta go get ready," Spinner said and hung up the phone.
"I gotta warn Manny and apologize, maybe then I'll get to see my daughter," Spinner said out loud and picked up the phone.
A/N: Okay, I know I made Craig really evil but it was either Craig or Spinner and I have future plans for Spinner, I planned on sending Craig to jail on the death sentence anyway. I hope you all like this little twist I added, if not send me some suggestions as to what to do next time. And as for this sounding like a soap opera, Degrassi kind of is a teen soap opera, I love soap operas so if you see that kind of drama it'll probably be there a lot more often.