A/N: all from Maggie and Josh's POV's I didn't get to the Caitlin drama and in fact I may scrap that idea altogether. Josh has a few sweet moments and comes to terms that Charles and Liza are in love, and he finally tells Liza about the baby. Enjoy and let me know what you think please!!

Maggie's POV

Well, Charles was a lot taller than Maggie had imagined him. Liza's so tall herself Maggie liked that Liza had to look up to him instead of down. He also had excellent taste in wine, and legitimately knew what he was saying when he talked about the bottle they were sipping right now. She'd entertained so many fake wine snobs in the past it was refreshing to hear an intelligent opinion. He was stuffy that was for sure, but he wasn't condescending...stuffy can be fixed with tequila and a joint. You can't fix chauvinistic elitist assholes. Yeah, she might be able to see a friendship with Charles Brooks and after a thorough vetting, she may just let him join their family. Liza was too quick to bring strays home sometimes, but she was rarely wrong when it came to people. Josh had become one of her dearest friends, and Maggie wouldn't trade Lauren or the high maintenance Kelsey for all the wine in the world. Hell even Diana was apart of her squad now. Maggie had been one of Liza's strays a million years ago too, and she will always be her bulldog. Forever loyal to her best and dearest friend. Charles was asking her a question-something about her favorite wine? Maybe he'd asked about the time being nine??? No definitely wine, she was just about to fake her way through his question and suggest they share a joint (no time like the present to fix his stuffiness-plus it'd be easier to interrogate him if he was flyin' high) when Josh showed up to the party. Maggie should have felt guilty at her excitement for the drama of having Liza's two guys there, but shit Liza needed to get over this obstacle of Charles and Josh being at odds. Liza was adamant about keeping Josh in her life (however cruel it seemed to Maggie-honestly she believed Liza should let the kid go so he doesn't keep getting his heart broken. She might be the best person Maggie knew but Liza could be selfish sometimes...) and Maggie was there to have her back forever #TeamLiza. She downed her wine-damn it was fantastic!!- and made her way to Liza. Charles moved to the othe side of the counter and made eye contact with the pixie he'd brought with him, must be his sister. Lauren was certainly trying to work her over. Maggie felt a wave of jealousy roll through her, it was the weed and the wine that was responsible she knew, but still it was there. Lauren was suppose to be fawning over her not some Kristen Bell wannabe. Charles may get his invitation to the group eventually, but she doubted there'd be room for his sister. Finally Liza spoke.

"Josh! What're you doing here? Kelsey told me you weren't going to be able to make it something about Claire?"

Kelsey looks up from her phone and meets Josh's eye and shakes her head "no" so slightly you'd miss it if you weren't looking for it. So Liza still did not know about the baby. Maggie didn't get what the big deal was Josh wanted a kid, now he was getting one. Liza did not want a kid and now she was with an guy who didn't want anymore kids himself. Boom! problem solved...but nothing was ever that easy with Josh and Liza. Maggie pushed past Liza and pulled Josh in for a bear hug, she may have been getting along with Charles and she saw the potential for a friendship there, but she needed him to know that Josh was already one of her people and he would always have her back so Charles had better not expect her to choose.

"Well I'm glad you stopped by! Did you bring me a gift?" He smiles and holds out a bottle with no label, the liquid inside the bottle has a slight green tint to it like slimy pool water. She makes a face and he says it's "pot vodka-homemade" he smiles as he says it clearly proud of himself for his ingenuity.

"You know me so well, have some with me?"

"Yeah, just a minute I need to talk to Liza for a sec."

Maggie nods approvingly, and heads back towards where she left Charles standing. As she passes the one they call Charli she notices the girls utter fascination with Josh, she was practically ignoring Lauren who was rambling on about getting Charli on the cover of Time magazine if she signs with "Heller Good PR".

"You's two should join me for a birthday shot, Lauren introduce me to your new friend."

Maggie brings the party to the kitchen area and pours shots for everyone this gives Liza and Josh some semblance of privacy. She did notice how hard Charles was trying to seem mature and calm about Liza talking to Josh all alone. Calm, yes Liza needs all the calm in the world, another point for the giant standing at her counter. Let's see who this man really is, she pours his pot vodka shot all the way to the top.

Josh's POV

He fidgets awkwardly as he stands there in front of Liza. She's try to be chill, but he can tell she's about burst form anticipation. In another life he would have taken her hand and kissed her right brow the one that was always slightly higher than the the left, she'd sigh and the anxiety would leave her...for a short time. Masochistically he takes a quick look over to where Charles is standing with the others, he seems calm but Josh knew he was probably having a stroke worrying about Josh with Liza. Good let the old fart worry. Liza interjected his venomous thoughts.

"I didn't know you were coming, Kelsey told me Claire was in town and that you two were talking about your future?"

They had been talking about their future, almost non stop since she'd shown up at his door after Lauren's ceremony. They'd been discussing the baby, it was his she'd said and she'd offered to do a paternity test but he believed her the time line was right and he wanted it to be his so bad he didn't care if it wasn't he was going to be a dad. They'd talked about cribs and onesies, about diapers and which hospital they'd go to since Claire didn't have a doctor here in NYC. They'd even gone together to fine her a new one. They'd discussed names, and which strollers had the highest rated safety reviews. From bottle warmers to pacifiers and high chairs, they'd mapped out a pretty solid future that did not involve them being a married couple. Yeah they were going to stay married till Claire could divorce him and still be able to live in the states, but they'd both agreed they did not want to be a couple. They'd be co-parents, everything 50/50. He was thrilled and scared shitless. He was going to need his friend Liza, she was the only mom he knew aside from his own. Which reminded him he needed to tell his mom she was going to be a grandparent. Liza was staring a hole into his head and the urge to kiss her washed over him again. It was just residual feelings...at least that's the lie he was telling himself and honestly it was probably true. He needed to work on himself before he could be in any romantic relationship and then the baby would be here soon so now was not the time for any relationship. He smiled at Liza sweetly hoping to ease her anxiety slightly.

"Yeah, we've been working things out, and we're going to stay together till after the baby is born. Then sometime after its first birthday we'll file for the divorce." He watched as Liza digested what he'd just told her her emotions ranging from happiness that they were staying married to sadness about the divorce and then shock at the baby bomb he'd just dropped.

"Baby?!" She shrieked and he saw Charles' head jerk in their direction concern for Liza splayed on his face. He looked like he wanted to be there holding Liza's hand and kissing her raised eyebrow, he loved her Josh could see that. You'd have to be blind not to, and it still stung to see.

"Yeah due in nine weeks, she was afraid to tell me but I'm so glad she finally did. We're going to raise the baby together but separate. As a couple we just don't...we don't click." Liza nods in agreement and looks over to Charles holding his gaze for just a moment. She was thinking about how she and Charles click so well together, and then when she looked back to him she had pity in her eyes that Josh didn't have what she'd found in Charles. Josh wanted to scream that he didn't need her pity, but that was old Josh-pre baby Josh. Now he just smiled back at her and asked her what he'd come here for.

"Will you be the godmother? We, Claire and I don't have any family close by and Liza I'd like you to be apart of my child's life forever." He waited anxiously, she was with Charles now she may not want nothing to do with him and his kid now that she had mister fancy pants Manhattan over there.

"Josh-" her voice cracked ever so slightly as she choked over her emotions "wild zebras couldn't keep me away from that baby." He laughed at her dorkyness and She pulled him to her to wrap him in a hug so platonic it could have been his sister hugging him. He hugged her back, and for the first time saw their life together as friends. Whenever he'd think of Liza and the future he'd always dreamed of a spring wedding and babies, of growing old and front porches. But now he just saw friendship like he did with Maggie or Lauren. His heart wasn't healed instantly but this was the beginning of the long road to recovery. She stepped back and wiped a tear from her face and said "we have to celebrate!" And she pulls him to the group.

"Maggie pour the shots! We're celebrating your day o' birth and a baby!"

Liza pats him on the back and when they reach the group she wraps her arm around Charles' waist. It's not a statement of any kind, it's just something she does because she's in love with him too. It still stings some but Josh notices that it doesn't sting as bad as it use too. Maggie's pouring and Josh catches Charli watching him with open curiosity and something else. Maybe disappointment? Disappointment that there was no quarrel, no exchange of unpleasantries with her brother? He expected that from Maggie, not Charles' sister. She was a lawyer maybe she just liked opposition? They all drink to Maggie and the new life Josh and Claire were bringing into the world. Josh moves away from Liza and gets closer to Charlotte.

"Hey Charlie Brown. You wrestled any drunk horny toads yet tonight?" She snorts in laughter causing everyone to look their way.

"Nope, but the night is young yet." She smiles and he gets the impression that her smile is just for him.

"Who's horny?" Maggie asks bluntly and she tells them all the adventure of Diana, Enzo, and the missing eyebrow. They laugh and drink all except Charli, Josh notices everytime Maggie would pour another shot and instruct everyone to drink she'd lift the glass to her lips but not actually drink, then she'd swap her full glass for one of Lauren or Kelsey's empty glasses. They were too drunk to notice or just didn't care, she even did it with his own glass once. She was pretty smooth about it and honestly if he hadn't been watching her so closely he probably wouldn't have noticed her doing it all. Charles had also witnessed her doing it, he'd crack up everytime she'd successfully switched her full glass for someone's empty one...Who was this chick?

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