Emestee1 this is for you and all the wonderful Samcedes fanfiction readers who inspire us semi-retired writers to continually to crank one out. Original Story was Tinkled Pink that I drew inspiration from and because I have been watching talk shows instead of TV shows and haven't been watching movies this is the kind of chapter that flows effortlessly from my fingers. This is filled with errors, please forgive them all and a shout out to monni2215...when you email us as writers it will sometimes light a spark and the next story that I am writing is because of you...I don't own anything especially not The Real but I do own the song and the "The Odd Squad" comics not TV show of same name.
Epilogue 2
"Welcome to "The Real"! We are so excited to have music recording artist Mercedes Jones for our co-host this week." Jeannie Mai said.
"Let's roll right into some Girl Chat. If I asked you all right now who do you think Mercedes is closest to at this table, who would you guess?" Jeannie asks looking smug.
"I think most of us would think Tamera." Adrienne says looking amused.
"Why you gotta say Tamera, Munchkin?" Loni says looking messy.
"Cause we all know who her husband is, and he is whiter than Adam, plus they are both known for being Christians." Adrienne replies looking smug.
"You are wrong for that Adrienne," Tamera says before continuing, "This is my first time meeting Mercedes, but my entire family are big fans of her. Before she married, my sister and I seriously was going to try to set her up with Tahj because she is so petite."
"Thanks Tamera, and Sam better be glad that you didn't try to hook me up with your brother because he is all sorts of fine. But Adrienne is right. I am a Christian and I have an interracial marriage like Tamera, but the person who I am closest to is Ms. Jeannie Mai. I have known Jeannie for years. My best friend Tina Cohen-Chang is a designer, and the two of them have a strong relationship both personal and private because of their love of innovative fashions and helping out their Asian sisters. Tina introduced me to Jeannie, and Jeannie was my stylist for several years before she began working on "The Real". Mercedes explained knowing that Sam was going to be brought up and ready to roll with the punches.
"Yes, Sam and Mercedes and Tina and her husband Mike will go on triple dates with Freddie and myself when we are all in Los Angeles at the same time. I love this woman right here, and she was a joy to work for. She is truly nice and all that positive press she has is because she lives what she preaches. Also, Freddy and Sam are really good friends who really get along with each other because they both wanted to be fathers at a time that Mercedes and I were just not ready for motherhood."
"In case you all don't know who this Sam that Jeannie and Mercedes keep referring to is let's show a picture of Mercedes' sexy husband ." Loni says still being messy, and she claps along with the audience when a picture of Sam is shown.
"Yes, that's the love of my life, Sam Evans, he is a former award winning interior designer, but he now works solely in comics. His comics have been optioned for television shows and a new movie that we will begin production on in a couple of weeks." Mercedes explained.
"One thing that I find interesting about you is that you and your husband have combined careers, so that you rarely spend anytime apart." Tamera says looking impressed.
"Yes, in the beginning of our marriage we rarely spent any time apart, so when I went on tour, he went on tour with me and worked on his comics having left his father's company. It made our lives' less stressful for him to be with me, and while he was with me, I provided him inspiration for more than one of his comics. The one that is now an animated televison series that is about to become a live action movie is called "The Odd Squad."
"My children love the "The Odd Squad." Ariah loves the music that is incorporated in each epsidode and Aiden loves the superhero aspect of the show."
"Can you tell us a little about the upcoming movie for those of the audience who are unfamiliar with the comic or televison cartoon?"
"Well, the "The Odd Squad" is about two lawyers based loosely on myself and my friend who Jeannie mentioned earlier, Mike Chang. The lawyers are meeting with a client who is based on Sam's little brother Stevie Evans and the law office building collaspes. When their bodies are recovered, they are all given illegal experimental operations that turn them into superheroes. The character based on me is named Joanie Mercer, Mike's character is named Chad Ming, and Sam's brother's character is named Evan Stevens. The three fight criminals and try to save their city from others who have had the same operation that were in the building but are using their newfound abilities for evil."
"What makes this cartoon so great is that you have a strong, intelligent, and full-figured black female as the lead along with a compassionate, brilliant, and badass Asian male both partnered with a silly, flirty, but goodhearted white male. The full-figured black lady is usually given the part of the funny side-kick instead it's the gorgeous white male who fills this part. I can't wait to see the casting for the movie."
"That is why we were surprised that Sam was given offers for the television show and now the movie because the main two leads are people of color who are brilliant and have no bad horror backstory. Sam and I provide the majority of the voices for the cartoon characters with some help from our friends and family with supporting characters. I hope I don't get in any trouble, but I can tell you that Dennis Oh and Raven Goodwin from "Being Mary Jane" have been casted for the movie along with Austin Butler. I don't think my husband will be too upset with me giving away that detail."
"Speaking of your husband where is he right now?" Adrienne asks looking for him in the studio.
"He will be here tomorrow. But he is deliving stuff for his booths at Comic Con in San Diego. I will be there on Thursday and Friday. So, he will come by on Wednesday on my last day co-hosting with you ladies to travel with me to San Diego. I will be on "The Odd Couple" panel on Thursday, and on Friday I will get to enjoy being a comic geek alongside my hubby."
"Ok, now let's get into some girl chat, and give Mercedes time to breathe we have been interviewing her instead of chatting." Jeannie says giving her friend's arm a squeeze.
"Yes, I will start things off. How do you all feel about the Trump's administration taking away internet privacy laws that the Obama administration put in place?" Loni asks.
"I think that Trump is proving that he is here for Trump and businesses and not here for the American people." Tamera says looking disapproving. "Everything that I post online or search online will now be sold to the highest bidder. It is all about money and not our safety or our right to keep our online activitiy regarding our finances, health, and anything else we make share in emails, online bills, online shopping etc., can be bought and broadcasted without our permission. I am very upset about this."
All of the ladies on "The View continue to talk about this topic, and then after discussing other popular news items the ladies end their chat with the Man Crush Monday picks.
"Well even though I am married to a man who likes all things chocolate: ice cream, milk, me and loves rap music and will out rap Jeannie on any back in the day song...I know you all thought that my man was a comic nerd with a black girl fetish which couldn't be further from the truth. He is a man who loves women and appreciates all shapes, sizes, and colors. I am the opposite. I prefer black men but so just happened to fall in love with a white man. I say that to explain why I have chosen my Male Crush Mike Colter who plays Luke Cage. Mike is just not gorgeous on the outside but he is a highly educated with a Masters of Fine Arts, and he is a very generous man who if our paths had crossed before I became Mrs. Evans would have given my hubby some stiff competition. "I can see us now talking a walk on beach and getting caught in the rain and Mike sweeping me off my feet to keep my Jimmy Choos from getting damaged by the water." The audience laughs at the Photoshopped picture of Mike carrying Mercedes in a rainstorm.
After laughing at Loni's, whose man crush was today's guest Chance the rapper, picture of her carrying him on the beach during the rain, and then Adrienne's pick of Jackie Chan which cracked the table and the audience up with even more unrestrained laughter, the show paused for a commercial break.
When the show resumed, Chance the rapper was introduced as the guest. After talking with Chance about the Bulls matching his donation for public schools in Chicago and everything else that was going on in his life including his decision to take care of his daughter, the ladies were surprised when he mentioned Mercedes' latest cd. "Your husband spitting those lines on some of your tracks on your last album was pretty dope."
"Thanks. I was working at home in the studio, and he came inside to tell me dinner was ready. When he heard the song I was working on, he just broke off in a rap and it ended up being the first of several collaborations that we made on my album "Not for the Heartbroken".
"Yeah, several people were shocked that he was white when they saw that video of you two."
"Well, he is no Eminem or his favorite rapper of all time LL Cool J, but he is decent. Definitely not in your league. You are a very gifted performer." Mercedes says trying to once again steer the conversation from herself. After playing a game with the hosts of the show with Chance, the show was soon finished, and Mercedes prepared to tape the next episode. Sam would be back in LA the next day, and Mercedes was so glad to have him with her when she went to tape her final show the next day with the ladies.
"Okay, I don't know who was more excited today me or Mercedes, but we have her husband here, come on out Sam Evans." Sam came on the stage giving each cohost a side hug before coming to sit by his wife giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"Now Sam, you were telling us backstage that this is Mercedes' last album for awhile, and she won't be touring this year. Is this because of you two having to be on location to film "The Odd Squad"? Loni asked.
"No, but after years of trying to convince this woman to bear me some kids, she is finally pregnant, and we both have decided that being on the road and parenting is not something that we can do. I convinced Mercedes last year to do emergency foster care to show her that she is more than ready to be a mom, and our first time as foster parents, they give us a nine year old girl and a four month old baby boy."
"Wow, Mercedes how did you cope from haviing no kids to becoming a parent of two overnight?" Tamera asked.
"I was shell-shocked at first. I told Sam the baby was all his, and that I would deal with the little girl which wasn't how things ended up, because the girls' mother had lost custody because she was pimping out her daughter to pay for drugs, and she was taken to court and lost custody of her kids. The little girl didn't trust me because she thought I was like her mom, and she craved Sam's attention because she was used to men giving her money for sexual acts. It took months but with counseling, patience, and love we were able to help the little girl before her grandparents were able to be contacted, proven to be fit for custody, and the mother signed her children over to them. It was a five month process that taught me that I could never be such a failure of a mom that our temporary family had have. So, I gave Sam a set time of getting me pregnant. He had a year, and if I didn't conceive, we were going to adopt." Mercedes paused looking at her husband before continuing.
"He got me pregnant on the first try, so I knew then that it was God's will for me to be a mommy, or it wouldn't have been so easy for me to conceive so late in life."
"How far along are you?" Tamera asked amazed that Mercedes had been there for two days, and they couldn't tell she was pregnant.
"I am entering my fifth month and just got a little bump. My mom says I am carrying the baby in my hips like all Marshall women. Marshall is my mother's maiden name."
"I didn't know you were pregnant, but congratulations to you both. Being the mom of two I can tell you that being a mom and a wife changed me, and I can't imagine how much it's going to change you both." Tamera said tearing up.
"Well, one thing that has already changed for me is the knowledge that I can't be superwoman and continuing doing all I do. I love singing, but I also love giving back more. I will continue to write songs and record and work in animation alongside my hubby, but no more tours for me until this little baby is old enough to go on his or her summer vacation."
"You two do alot of charity work and have four major fundraisers a year." Jeannie said knowing how close supporting causes were to both of their hearts.
"Yes we do a fundraiser for Jeannie's human trafficking foundation, a cancer fundraiser, a mental and physical child abuse fundraiser, and a fundraiser for sexually abused child." Sam explained while holding Mercedes' tiny hand in his own. He continued to sit at the table throughout Girl Chat and even gave his opinion when asked.
The two were ask to perform the song that Chance the rapper was raving about earlier that week on the show. Mercedes stayed at the table until it was time to perform, but Sam went backstage and continued to communicate with Stevie his assistant who was still at Comic Con and then he made sure all the arrangements for his and Mercedes' trip to San Diego were taken care of.
(Song: You Are My Cultivator from Mercy's record "Not for the Brokenhearted")
You stir and pulverize me, Sam/ Showing me who I am/I see all the worst and best in me when we argue when we fight/ and we make up by making love all through the night/ Chorus: You are my cultivator. Taking me to a new level. Helping me to achieve all my hopes and dreams by challenging me to the best me that I can be. Sam's rap: I am just so grateful to God that He gave me Mercy's heart. And because she's legit and keep making hit after hit, I give her da room to grow and be herself because I won't settle for anything less for her. Through our highs and our lows, my love for her only grows. She is my best friend but more than than she is a part of me, and I only want the best for myself and believe me fellows she it. You know she's the ..it. I am willing to pay any price. She is who she is beautiful brown skin, brown eyes; she's mine, and I love her with all of my being and she will always be the reason that I keep my hustle alive and I do what it takes to keep her in my life. (Mercedes singing in my life with runs) Chorus. And end hook: I am thankful that I have a man who is the kind that understands that I have a purpose I have a life and that is not just being his wife. I am a daughter, a friend, a sister, an artist, a philanthropist, and a brand. And he keeps on cultivating me by allowing my dreams to grow and uprooting those people and those things that can cause my dream to end. you for cultivating baby.
By the time the couple had finished Comic Con and returned to Lima, the episodes of the "The Real" had aired, and Mercedes was receiving all kinds of encouraging letters, emails, and gifts from her fans. What she thought was the funniest thing was that many of her fans in the Mercedes Militia had been enudating the "The Real" with suggestions that Mercedes become a permanent host. She enjoyed being on the show, but she didn't want to do it every day of her life. Being pregnant with their little bundle of joy was more than enough to keep her occupied.
Sam was grateful that Mercedes was able to attend and enjoy Comic Con. He never thought that his talent for impressions would be something that he and his wife had in common. But their work on "The Odd Squad" had only brought them closer together. Everything was going good in the Evans household, and he was grateful that the news of their first grandchild had melted his mother and mother-in-law's hearts. Mercedes and he had been adamant that their mothers change their ways if they wanted to be apart of their future grandbaby's life. Their fathers also stood up to their wives and finally put them in their place with threats of leaving them if they gave Mercedes and Sam any stress during the pregnancy and afterwards. After attending fundraisers for mental abuse, the two women saw how they had hurt their children, and they had been attending therapy to get to the root of their issues, and the Evans-Jones' households were more harmonious than ever.
The only person who gave Sam hell was Stacie for leaving her out of the "The Odd Squad." She hadn't been appeased until she found out she was going to be auntie, instantly, changing her tune and being a supportive sister that she had been all along. Yep, Sam Evans knew he was one blessed man as he looked as he is wife snuggling into him for his body heat. She was his heart and no matter what the future held, he knew that with her on his side, he was capable of achieving all his dreams and was committed to making all her dreams come true as well.