Chapter I: My Kind of Town

A/N: Well, the story went over better than expected. I was a bit nervous on how it would be received. I'm throughly enjoying this story, and I hope you all enjoy it as well! SSD

Early September, 2018.

Monica looked at her friend as she bustled around the sports car. She'd bought it about six months after arriving in Phoenix. It happened to be a blue hard top convertible Lamborghini Huracan. Sabrina was a speed demon.

"It's a wonder you've never gotten a speeding ticket here in Phoenix. What about Illinois?" she asked as her suitcase was put into the trunk.

"I got one before I graduated high school. Unfortunately a friend of my Uncle Hank's was the one who pulled me over. So my uncle knew about it by the end of the next day," Sabrina shuddered before saying, "Relax, I won't speed. We're doing this because you don't like flying. It's also nice to see other parts of the country. And you'll get to meet the McConnell's along with my uncle and cousin again. We'll be having dinner with them."

"You aren't planning on cooking are you?" Monica asked as they got onto I-17 N. Sabrina had many talents, cooking was not one of them. Monica had found that out the hard way.

"No I am not. Mom is a good cook. Shall we turn on some music? You pick," Sabrina replied focusing on the road.

His son Lucas could not help but ask with a smirk on his face, "Did you tell Sabrina who one of her new coworkers is? She's going to be surprised!"

"No I haven't. Your mother suggested that I not. She has enough to think about. No new betting pools involving Connor and Sabrina," Bill warned his son.

"Relax dad. I've still got the one going from high school. The pot is up to 10,000 bucks now. I've been having people now specify how they'll get their heads out of their asses. Grandpa Jim has put down that one of them will have to nearly die for them to catch on," Lucas replied.

"Hopefully it won't get to that."

"Didn't they nearly find out about it in college? Both would've flayed you alive if they had and I don't think that either of them would've put you under to do it," Allegra said as she came into the room.

"Well, if they had mom, may they'd have gotten their heads out of their asses 12 years ago!" Lucas groused before saying, "I cannot understand how two brilliant surgeons at the top of their specialties, can be so damn dense!"

After two and a half days, Sabrina was starting to see familiar sights. She was almost home.

Instead of taking I-80 to I-55, she had went up I-39, to I-90 which she was on right now, and would then get to I-94 to Glencoe. She'd have to pay tolls, but they would be less traffic.

I hope. Sabrina knew all too well how temperamental the traffic pattern in the Chicago metro area could be.

"Welcome to the Windy City, Monica," she said when she noticed Monica was awake from her nap. They were nearing their exit for I-94.

"It's so green here. Real green. Feels pretty nice out," her friend said as she opened a window.

"Just wait till winter and the polar vortex," Sabrina replied as got off at exit 31.

"Looking forward to seeing everyone again?"

"Of course I am. Especially my uncle Hank." As Sabrina wove her way through the streets, memories came crashing back of her first ride into Glencoe.

Her mother, father, and older brother had died in a car accident a few months earlier, just days after she'd gotten the letter from Ravenhill that Sabrina had won one of the two available scholarships.

It had started out so nice. Her parents paid attention to her for a change, they'd celebrated at Russell's. It had started to turn sour as Donnan began to throw a fit about all the attention Sabrina was getting, since he was usually the center of their parent's attention. She'd argued back. Their parent's had turned around to shout at them, then time stopped. They'd been T-boned by a Mack truck.

Her father died on impact, her mother died on the way to Loyola. Her brother lingered for about a week before dying himself. According to the cops from the way her family's car had been hit, Sabrina had been in the most secure place. She was the lucky one, walking away with only a broken arm.

Uncle Hank was driving her to the McConnell's, her host family. Sabrina had been so nervous the night before, she'd thrown up.

"Sweetheart, I've checked the McConnell's out. They seem to be good people, and if you have any problems, you call me right away," her uncle said as he tried to soothe her.

Moments later they'd gotten there. While the house was big, it wasn't too over the top, and it looked lived in. Unlike several gaudy monstrosity's down the street.

After getting her stuff out of the trunk, her uncle walked up with her to the door and knocked.

A man with blue-grey eyes opened the door and asked, "Mr. Voight?"

"Yes. I'm here with my niece Sabrina. You must be Bill McConnell," her uncle replied.

"Of course. It's nice to meet you Sabrina. My son Lucas has been looking forward to meeting you." He gave her a kind smile.

A boy came up noisily, he had his father's smile before asking, "I'm Lucas. You want to meet my dog Shadow? He's a German Shepherd."

Sabrina felt lighter than she'd felt in months. She darted inside to make friends with Shadow.

After the greetings in which Sabrina nearly knocked her uncle and cousin over with her joy at seeing them again. The McConnell's got a similarly exuberant greetings. Monica heard Sabrina ask her cousin, "So where's my firefighter calendar Iain? You said you'd get me one."

"You'll get next years. I'm June," Iain replied while throwing an arm around Sabrina's shoulders as they walked in.

Dinner was roast chicken and rice. Monica thought that it was better than her abuela's, not that she'd ever actually say that. Her friend's nut brown eyes were bright with mirth. Everyone was laughing and talking.

Once dinner was over and everything was cleaned up, everyone adjourned to the living room.

Monica was just sitting down when Lucas called out, "Hey Monica, it's time for you to see a photo album of Sabrina when she was living with us!"

"Lucas, I don't think-" Sabrina started to say before her brother in all but blood plopped a good sized photo album into her lap.

Most of the pictures were of Sabrina with a group of three boys in either their school uniform, sports attire, or casual clothing. Monica recognized a younger Lucas, but did not recognize the other two boys.

"Who are those two? Lucas, Sabrina?" She asked. It was a picture of them grinning like loons in their high school graduation robes. The boys were in gold, Sabrina was in red.

"Well the one on the other side of me is Felix. He's an ADA here in Chicago, and is moving through the ranks," Lucas replied.

"Sabrina, who's on your other side?"

"That's Connor. I was the closest to him of the three boys," Sabrina replied looking at the ceiling.

"You two had this weird telepathy thing going. Always seemed to know what the other was thinking," Iain mentioned to his cousin.

"Came in handy more than a few times," she replied, admiring the old photo.

Monica noticed that her friend's ears seemed a little pink.

About 20 minutes later, his niece and her friend were suppressing yawns. An undeceived Allegra said, "Bed. I can tell you've been pulling all nighters to get here, you've earned your rest. You have a busy week ahead. The both of you."

After both of the doors were shut, Bill said, "I still think she should be told."

"Why, what point would there be? She has enough on her mind," Allegra replied continuing the discussion from earlier.

"Sabrina can be iffy about surprises. Not sure how she'd react to this one," Hank cut in.

"He's not good enough for her," Iain muttered.

Hank turned towards him saying, "Iain, you wouldn't think God himself was good enough for Sabrina!"

A/N 2: And we are in Chicago! Yes Uncle Hank was who you thought it was. Hope you like the new characters, looking forward to seeing what you all think!

OC Casting

Allegra McConnell - Karen Allan

Lucas McConnell - Chris Pine as he looked in the second Princess Diaries movie.

Iain Byrne - Chris Gorham