A/N: Here's chapter 15. Hope you enjoy!

Olivia and Mason walked, hand in hand, through to Jack's apartment to find their stepmother sitting on the sofa, staring into space, with tears running down her cheeks. Olivia and Mason had been told just over an hour ago that their father was dead. It was obvious that Karen had just been told that her ex-husband had died. Even though he had cheated on her, Karen still loved Stan.

'Karen?' Olivia began. She wasn't sure what state her stepmother would be in. Karen looked up at her to tell her she was listening.' Are you okay?' when Olivia asked that question, Karen burst out crying. Olivia and Mason went straight over to her and hugged her tightly. 'It's okay. It's gonna be okay.' Olivia said, trying to comfort Karen.

'Yeah. We're gonna be here.' Mason added. For some strange reason, Mason and Olivia both felt as if they needed to be strong for Karen. They'd already had an hour to take in the news.

'I'm glad you kids are here.' Olivia and Mason were the only things Karen had left of her ex-husband, whom she still loved.

'Karen, can we live with you?' Mason's question may have seemed inappropriately timed, but Mason didn't want to have to live with Lorraine.

'I don't know, honey. I want you to live with me but we'll need to see what happens.' Karen watched as Mason's face dropped. She didn't want them to have to live with Lorraine either, but she had no idea who Stan wanted his kids to be left with.

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Stan's funeral had been arranged for a week later. Mason and Olivia, however, weren't allowed to attend.

'How could she do that? How could she not let us go to our own father's funeral?' Mason was so angry.

'I hate Lorraine. What gives her the right to decide who can go to Dad's funeral? I swear to god, if we have to live with that bitch I will have to run away!' Olivia couldn't stand Lorraine. She wanted nothing more than to kill her right now.

'Well, at least she Karen go.' Mason could see one good thing about Lorraine. She didn't have to let her boyfriend's ex-wife go to the funeral after all.

Olivia seemed to ignore Mason's comment. 'She was only with Dad for his money. She didn't give a toss about him or about us. What if we have to live with her? She'll send us to boarding school or something so she doesn't have to see us! ' Olivia was panicking on a day she really should have been mourning her father's death.

'Liv, don't panic. It's probably not going to be as bad as you think it will be. If Dad had any sense or if he knew us at all, he would know we'd want to live with Karen.' Mason could only hope that Stan knew them that well. It wasn't as if he had paid much attention to them. A few seconds later, somebody knocked at the door.

'I'll get it.' Olivia declared as she walked towards the door. She was not really in the mood for visitors. 'What?' Olivia snapped as she opened the door. When she saw who was at the door, she regretted being so harsh. 'Sorry, Elliot.'

'Hey, I came to see how you guys were doing.'

'Let's see. We're sitting at home while nearly everybody we know is at our father's funeral, which his whore said we weren't allowed to go to. Yeah, we're fantastic!' Olivia answered sarcastically.

'Okay then.' Elliot replied, a little shocked by her tone.

'I'm sorry.' Mason apologised on behalf of his sister. 'Do you know how Karen's doing?'

'I'm not sure. Everybody left to go to the crematorium about half an hour ago and I left to come here. Uncle Will told me to tell you that he'll try everything he can to make sure you get to live with Karen.' Elliot also knew that Karen should be the one looking after Olivia and Mason. She had looked after them their entire lives.

'What do you think Dad's funeral will be like?' Olivia asked.

'I don't know. I don't really want to think about it.' Mason didn't want to imagine something he would never be able to see.

'You want to go down to the park?' Elliot tried to think of something that would take their minds off their father and his funeral.

'Nah, we need to wait on Lorraine coming back.' Mason answered.

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An hour and a half or so later, Lorraine arrived back at the penthouse with Will, Grace and Jack.

'Where's Karen?' Mason asked. There was something wrong if Will, Grace and Jack were here without Karen.

'She's gone back to my apartment to get her things.' Jack responded to Mason's question.

'Why?' Olivia jumped in.

'Because Karen's going to be moving back in here!' Jack though Mason and Olivia would have been happy.

'But where are we going?' Olivia was still convinced that they would have to live with Lorraine.

'You're staying here silly!' Jack yelled in a childlike manner.

'You're kidding, right?' Olivia couldn't believe what she was hearing.

'No! You're gonna get to live with Karen!' Jack was still shouting.

'There's just one thing. You're going to have to make sure Karen's okay. This is going to be really difficult on her. I know it's going to be difficult for you two as well, but you two are strong. And we're all here for you two as well.' Will explained.

'Yeah. We know. And we'll try to make sure Karen's okay. We've done it before, we can do it again.' Mason remembered back to when Stan went to prison.

'We're all here for each other.' Olivia added.

'It's what we all do.' Elliot said to Olivia and Mason, letting them know that he was there for them.

'Yeah, we should be alright.' Olivia said for no apparent reason a few minutes later. It would be hard to adjust to life with a deceased father, but Olivia and Mason were that used to change, it would be a walk in the park for them.

A/N: I don't think this is my best chapter.It's kinda short, I know.Thanks to karengraciewalker, Panema, The Filmmaker Cannot See, keisha4 and Lindsey Grissom for reviewing the last two chapters. Linds, you're great. Thanks for everything, hun, and I'll have chapter 16 up soon so you don't get withdrawal symptoms!. Enjoy!