13.

"Honey, I'm home" Piper calls out in a playful tone hoping that if Larry is in a bad mood about Alex it will lighten his mood a bit. She walks through the living room, nothing. Kitchen, nothing. Study, nothing. His car is there so he has to be there.

As she is walking out into the grand foyer again a form catches her eyes at the top of the staircase. Looking up, sure enough there she spots Larry standing, looking down at her. It's hard to read exactly what he is feeling at the moment as his face has a very neutral expression. He hasn't said anything since Piper noticed him standing at the top of the stairs, so she starts making her way up the stairs towards him never breaking eye contact. This, Piper feels is very important as to show Larry that she does not feel guilty about anything. There is nothing for her to feel guilty about. She did not lie to him or withheld the truth from him. She just didn't have time in between everything that happened today to contact him.

When she reached the top of the stairs she went and stood right beside him, shoulder against shoulder, also looking down into the foyer.

Larry turns his head to look at her "Hey" he says.

Piper also now looking at Larry half smiling responds with, "Hi honey". She leans over and gives him a small peck on the lips. He returns the gesture.

"So should I be expecting a guest walking through that door any moment now?" he asks nodding towards the door from where Alex and Cameron should be coming if they were still in the garage.

"I am sorry. It all happened so fast. I would have called you the first chance I got. Alex…."

"The first chance you had would have been in the car on your way to the airport to go and pick her up, don't you think." Larry interrupts

"I know. My mind was just racing. So much happened today and I had so much to process. I didn't even think about it, honestly." And she is honest because she did not think about Larry when Alex told her she was at the airport. All she thought about was how fast she could get there.

As Larry is about to say his say again, sure enough Alex and Cameron burst through the door Larry has been watching the whole time.

"Larry" Alex starts and Piper cringe inwards because she knows that tone in Alex's voice by now and she knows there is banter to follow and sure enough the raven haired girl continues "Fancy meeting you here. Was your ride over okay? Are you staying long?"

"He lives here silly." Alex hears Cameron laughing next to her.

"He does?" Alex asks the boy in mock shocked surprise.

"I am not going to do this with her every day." Larry speaks towards Piper angrily and with that he turns around and walks into the master bedroom slamming the door closer.

"Not helping Alex" and with that Piper turns around and makes her way to the master bedroom.

Alex could hear the venom in Pipers voice as she spoke to her and thought that maybe she should have handled the situation a bit better and hold of on pissing Larry off until Piper had a fair chance to plead her case, but …, it was just so much fun.

"Is that a thing in your family?" she directs the question to the little boy and he looks at her confused not exactly sure what she is talking about. "You know, over-reacting, slamming doors, all of that."

"Larry never gets mad…" Cameron pauses and thinks about it. "Only at you."

"Oh well that means I am doing something right then." She laughs

"And mommy, she gets mad a lot, but not at me. She always goes into a room somewhere and closes the door when she gets mad but then I can still here all the bad words she's using especially if she is on the phone." He rolls his eyes and Alex is bursting with laughter.

"Oh this is going to be fun." She says but more to herself than anyone else. "Come on lets go play outside for a bit." Alex suggest thinking it would be better that way, because once again the boys mother is behind a close door and she wants to spare him from all the bad words he might be hearing.

Piper walked into the bedroom, noticing Larry sitting on the couch with his hand in his hair. She knew Alex frustrated him immensely and that he is just no match for such a strong personality such as Alex's, but also in Larry's defense, Alex could have handled the situation a bit better and just lay off for a while until Piper could at least explain things to him. As these thoughts runs through the blonds mind she can feel herself getting a bit angry at the raven haired beauty and thought to herself that she will definitely have a talk to her about this.

Larry is still looking down at the floor with his hands in his hair, but can hear Piper approaching the couch. He runs his hands over his face frustratingly and looks up at her.

"I will talk to her" Piper says as she takes a seat next to Larry.

"Will it help?" He sighs.

Piper was wonder the same thing as soon as the words left her mouth, but never the less she assures him that it will "I will make sure of it." She leans towards him playfully with a smile on her face. "So are you going to let me explain now?"

"Please do, because I will be honest honey, one of my journalists running into my office with a picture of you and 'some hot girl', their words, not mine, is not an ideal way for me to find out about these things and when I saw it was her I saw black and it was not her hair." He rambles on "I mean have you seen the pictures on twitter?" he questions. "have you seen what they are saying?" he looks at Piper disgusted.

"Are you done now?" she asks calmly and he nods for her to go ahead, so she does. She explains everything to Larry. Everything her and Alex has spoken about over the last couple of weeks. He knew they spoke and it didn't bother him, until now. She also explained the movie date getting moved up by a month and that she was in complete panic because she didn't have a nanny for Cameron yet. Alex was just at the right place at the right time, she explained and before she could even think about it she was in her car on her way to the airport to pick her up. She also explained to Larry that Alex was not Cameron's nanny, which she though Alex would appreciate, but that she was just a friend helping out until she could find someone more permanent. "So you see, I wasn't really hiding anything from you. It was just one fucking crazy day and I didn't know if I was coming or going."

"I'm sorry you had a bad day." He says as he pulls her into a hug. "I'm not going to deny that I wish you had another solution, but I am glad you found a solution…." He pauses for a second pulling away from Piper so he can look her in the eyes. He smiles "Or should I say that a solution found you."

"Thank you" Piper smiles and leans in to give Larry a kiss "and I promise I will talk to her. The two of you should really try and get along if she is going to stay with us."

"I will try okay, but she really has to try as well."

"Yes she does." And with that Piper stands up and holds out her hand to Larry "Come on, lets go start over shall we?"

"Urgh do I really have to do this now honey." He questions as he takes her hand and stands up anyways. "I really don't have time for that smug grin on her face right now."

"Ah, but there is no better time than the present." Piper says as she pulls Larry into her arms and smiles at him sweetly "Besides she would have to have won to have a smug grin and I am going to let her know that she did not win anything."

"I love it when you're bossy." Larry wiggles his eyebrows at Piper before he pulls her into an even tighter hug and kisses her passionately which she returns with just as much passion.

Just as Larry thinks about taking it up a notch Camron comes bursting through the bedroom doors and Piper breaks the kiss but not before Alex got a good look

She stops dead in her tracks. "Sorry bud, you're on your own." She says to the boy "I think I am going to be sick."

"But Alex" Cameron begins but she turns around and starts to walk away.

"I tried to explain to him that we should leave you alone for a while." She says to Piper and Larry over her shoulder. "There's a key" she points to the key in the door. "Use it." And with that she walks out.

Piper hurries to the bedroom door spotting Alex as she walks down the stairs "Alex!" she calls for her and as soon as their eyes meets "we need to talk."

"Whatever you say boss. I will be around." Alex replies as she walks down the rest of the stairs and into the direction of the garage.

"Good luck with that" Larry whispers from behind.

"Maybe I'm going to need it. So…" she redirects her gaze to her son "What was it that made you burst through my bedroom door without knocking as if I haven't thought you any better?" She questions in a bit of an angry voice, but only to discipline her son and to let him know that it is not okay. She doesn't get angry with him often, but when he does something wrong she has to make sure he knows about it.

"Sorry mommy" he says sadly watching his feet.

"So come on, out with it."

"Alex said she will take me for pizza for dinner" Piper notices the boys shoulders sagging as he speaks "so I came to ask if we can go now but now she is sick so I guess we wont go."

'Pizza for dinner on a Thursday night, nice start Alex' Piper though to herself sarcastically. She bends down so she can look Cameron in the eyes. She places her hands on his arms as to sooth him "Mommy will make her better quickly and then she can take you for pizza okay."

He nods and offers her a huge grin. She places a kiss on his forehead, kiss on Larry's cheek and there so goes on her search for Alex. They really need to talk.