Chapter 2: Elliot Drops By

Derek and Kate are sitting on the couch watching TV together. Vinny sees Derek put his arm around Kate.

"Derek can I talk to you for a minute?" Vinny asked him as he saw Derek lean in for a kiss.

"Sure thing Mr. D." Derek said to him as he got up from the couch.

Derek walks into the kitchen.

"What's up Mr. D?" Derek asked him.

"What were you and my daughter doing in there?" Vinny then asked him as he was cutting a cucumber for the salad he was making for dinner with the steaks he was going to put on the barbeque.

"Nothing." Derek replied.

"It sure didn't look like nothing." Vinny then told him.

"Trust me Mr. D it was nothing." Derek told him.

"I believe you Derek. But, remember this if nothing turns into something this vacation you and me might have a little problem. Understand?" Vinny asked him as he cut off the tip of the cucumber.

"I completey understand Mr. D." Derek said to him looking at the tip of the cucumber.

"Good." Vinny said to him.

Derek walks back into the livingroom and sits on the other side of the couch away from Kate.

"Derek what's wrong?" Kate asked him.

"Nothing." Derek replied.

"Sit next to me then." Kate said to him.

"I'll pass." Derek told her as he got up from the couch and went outside.

Kate walks into the kitchen.

"Dad, what did you tell Derek?" Kate asked him.

"I didn't tell him anything." Vinny replied.

" You said something to him." Kate then said to him.

"How do you know I even said anything to him?" Vinny asked her.

"Maybe it's because before he went into the kitchen he was sitting next to me on the couch and when he came back he wouldn't even sit next to me and when I asked if anything was wrong, he replied 'Nothing.' and walked outside." Kate then explained.

"I saw him with his arm around you." Vinny told her.

"And you threatened to stab him with a knife?" Kate asked him looking at the knife he had in his hand.

"No. I was cutting a cucumber when he came in here. And I told him to cool it while on vacation." Vinny explained.

"You told him you would chop off his manhood if he didn't cool down this vacation?" Kate then asked him in an annoyed voice.

"I didn't say that." Vinny told her.

"Dad, Derek is afraid of you. He saw you cut up that cucumber and thought you were implying you were going to you know if he didn't cool it this vacation." Kate explained.

"Then that boy has got his mind in the gutters." Vinny told her.

"Dad, I can't believe you would do that." Kate told him as she stormed out of the kitchen.

"What'd I do?" Vinny asked her shrugging his shoulders.

Kate gives him an annoyed look and goes outside.

Matt comes into the cabin.

"Dad, Elliot Murtaugh is here." Matt told him.

"I'll be right out." Vinny told him as he finishing washing the knife and cutting board.

Vinny walks out and sees Elliot.

"Elliot, what's it been four years?" Vinny asked him.

"Yeah it has." Elliot told him as he shoke his hand.

"Hey Vinny." Andrew said to him.

"What's up Andrew?" Vinny asked him shaking his hand.

"Nothing much." Andrew said to him.

"Where's Lorraine?" Elliot asked him.

"She's at Charlie and Ann's house." Vinny told him.

"Where's Heather?" Vinny asked him.

"Me and her divorced two months ago." Elliot told him.

When Elliot said that Andrew changed the subject.

"Where's Brian?" Andrew asked Vinny.

"He's at the skatepark." Vinny told him.

"Dad, can I go to the skatepark?" Andrew asked Elliot.

"Sure just be back at the Boulders by five thirty." Elliot told him.

"Sure thing Dad." Andrew replied as he went to the skatepark.

Andrew goes off to the skatepark to hangout with Brian.

"You guys should come to the Boulders tonight." Elliot said to Vinny.

"Who else would be there besides your family and mine?" Vinny asked him.

"My sister Ann and my brother in law Charlie and their kids. Bud and Nora are coming with Nicole also." Elliot explained.

"I'll take a rain check." Vinny told him.

"Why because of Bud?" Elliot then asked him.

"All he wants to do since we got here is talk business. He's driving me insane." Vinny told him.

"You're already insane. How could Bud drive you anymore insane?" Elliot asked him.

"I don't know. But, whatever he's doing it's working." Vinny told him.

Vinny and Elliot walk into Vinny's cabin to catch up on things.