Beautiful Disaster

Chapter: 16

Pairing: R&H

Rating: PG

"I'm sorry." Robin apologized. "I should have knocked."

"Yes you should have." Robert agreed.

Robin smiled. "Well I guess we're even now because I'm scarred for life."

"Well now that you're here come on in." Robert instructed her as he backed away from Holly. "We all need to talk anyway."

Robin made her way across the room and onto the bed beside her step-mother. "This is about the living situation isn't it?"

"Yes." he replied.

"What's wrong with the living situation?" Holly questioned.

"Well, now that I'm back I'd like Robin to stay with me." he told her. "This was only temporary remember?"

"I don't want to go back to that house." Robin confessed. "There are too many memories of Mom there and besides I really like it here. I don't want to leave."

"Holly, help me talk some sense into her." Robert requested.

"If she likes it here she's welcome to stay." Holly offered. "And so are you."

"Me? Stay here?" he asked.

"Yes." Holly answered. "You could move into the guest room. That way you could be here for the duration of my pregnancy."

"I don't know." he sighed.

"Come on, Dad." Robin coaxed. "Please?"

"Okay." he reluctantly agreed. "How could I resist the two of you?"

"Impossible." Holly smiled.

October 12th 1992

"Holly?" Robert called out as he made his way up the staircase. "Holly?"

"I'm in the nursery."

"They just delivered the paint." he told her, sitting the buckets down in the middle of the floor. "Are you all ready?"

"Yes." she replied. "The carpet has been covered and we're ready to go."

"Great." he replied as he began opening the first paint can. "Yellow." he commented as he removed the lid.

"Pale yellow." she replied. "It was either that or green."

Robert poured the paint into the tray. "Yellow is good." he commented. "I think Holiday will like this color."

"Robert, we've been through this, if we have a girl her name will not be Holiday."

"That's what you think."

"It's what I know."

"Here." he said handing her the paint brush. "And try not to get it everywhere."

Holly took the brushed and dipped it in the paint. "I'll do my best." she told him as she ran the paint brush down his arm. "Oops."

Robert tried to keep from laughing. "Okay." he smiled. "I deserved that." he said as he wiped the paint from his arm.

"Yes you did." she agreed. "Now, where shall I start?"

"Oh, I don't know." he sighed. "I'll start here." he said as he marked the white wall with a 'R'. "You can start over here." he said as he crossed the room, painting a 'H' on the opposite side.

Holly dipped her brush back in the paint. "Okay."

Robert stood against the wall watching her. "Remember the paint goes on the wall."

"Right." she agreed.

Holly painted a small area as Robert continued to watch her. "I knew you could do it." he replied.

She ran her brush down the front of his shirt. "Why did you want to go and do that?" he asked. "Now my shirt is soaked with paint."

"Then take it off." she suggested.

"Take it off?" he repeated.

Holly placed her brush in the tray. She moved closer to him and pushed his shirt up his abdomen, past his chest and finally off his head. "Better?" she asked.

"Much." he breathed, pulling her as close to him as her stomach would allow.

She placed a kiss in the center of his chest. "How about losing the pants as well?" she asked.

tbc...