Chapter five! Thanks to:

AlyandAjluver: I absolutely love Aly & AJ too! Ha… Anyway, thanks for the review I'm glad you like the story!

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Brittney: It's rated M because of this whole thing I'm going to get into eventually, but I was having a problem rating like T or something because I don't really know what the ratings are for anymore. I've seen so many rated R movies, but than again I've seen PG13 movies that were worse.

Sorry for the mistakes, if there are any.

"I went to buy something at American Eagle and they said our credit card was maxed out." She had told him. But this was over eight months ago.

Rain fell against the windows making repetitive pounding noises. Lightning crashed through the sky hitting the ground with a loud crack that could be heard for miles and miles. Page and Madison wailed at the fright. Keely sat on the couch in the living room with her eight and a half month old babies perched on her hips. For the first time in about two months Pickford was having a thunder storm.

It was three in the afternoon on a Saturday, but the darkness of the sky said differently. Page and Madison didn't seem to enjoy the storm as much as Keely was. They held onto their mother for dear life as more noise filled the house. Keely held the babies closer to her body. Time had moved gone by so fast. Her adorable baby girls were almost nine months old.

Page began holding her head up at three months and started crawling at six. As for Madison, so was moving just a little bit faster. She had been holding her head up since two and a half months and could now pull her self up with the help of furniture.

Phil was now back at work normal hours and was pretty much pulling the financial aid. Keely worked with the local news channel, LD11, with the morning and night reports. Her morning reports were from six to seven thirty and her night reports were from seven to nine thirty, after Phil got home. Her journalistic carrier had been put on hold until the girls started school, but she didn't mind too much.

As for the Tanner problem, Keely had received a house call from him at least twice a month. As hard as it was for her, she was keeping it away from Phil. He hadn't showed up the house yet, but she was sure that he knew where they lived. Their driveway was too long for him to watch them, but she told him in one of their recent phone calls, that she would call the cops if he came with in fifty meters of the house.

Turning her attention back towards the hysterical babies, she carried them into the office. She sat one on each leg as she sat down at the desk chair. She pulled in close enough to the desk so they wouldn't fall off her lap. She shook the mouse and watched light return to the dark computer screen. She knew she shouldn't be on the computer when in was lightning like it was outside, but there was something she had to do. Pulling up an empty web browser, she typed into the address bar.

It was a site for people who were curious about knowing if anyone dangerous was living close to them. Keely's mom had told her about it when the babies were first born, but it wasn't until right now that she had been to the actual page. She typed her area code into the search box and waited for the search page to load. She looked down at the two blonde mushroom heads pulling on her shirt. They had stopped crying and were using her chest as a pillow.

The page loaded and a list of names were included. She scrolled down and noticed that there were a lot of people on the list, but most in the surrounding town. Her eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar face and she stopped scrolling. Her hearts stopped as her eyes fell upon his face, Tanners face. She clicked on his picture.

Charged for ignored rape and under persuasive stocking… Was sent to jail in 2008 and came out in 2012… Under no watch program…

She forwarded the page to Via and closed the search page. She sat in wonder for a while. Why hadn't she done this before? She turned her head to look out the window and saw the sun peering through the clouds. She bit her lip and ran her ringers through the babies' hair. Page pointed her fingers at the computer background and mumbled something. Keely laughed in spite. It was the picture taken at the hospital the day they were born. Page kept pointing and grunting things, and Keely kept laughing…Until Page wailed something that didn't sound like a grunt. Keely stopped and listened.

"Da!" Page announced. Keely's mouth dropped she reached for the phone.

"Who's that?" Keely asked pointing to Phil.

"Da!" She exclaimed again. Keely carried the babies and the phone into the living room and set them on the floor. She sat down next to them as she dialed Phil cell phone number. She babies crawled over her and Madison stood up using her shoulder for support.

"Couldn't you wait until I got in the door?" Phil answered his cell.

"You're here?" She asked excitedly.

Phil shook his head. "I just pulled into the garage."

"Well hurry up, run!" Keely hung up and caught Madison before she fell backwards. "Your sister said Daddy!" Keely told her. The baby just wriggled away from her and crawled over the coffee table. Keely grabbed Page from off her feet and held her in her arms. She kissed her forehead repetitively. Phil came running up the stairs into the living room. "Who's that Page?" Keely asked her smiling.

Page put out her arms. "Da!" Keely smiled and let Page crawl over to Phil.

"Oh my God!" Phil said lifting her up. He held the baby in his arms. "How long has she being saying it?"

Keely smiled, "That's the third one so far." She stood up next to Phil and looked at Page. "Before she said it I could tell what she was trying to say."

"What do you mean?"

Keely shrugged. "She was pointing to the picture of you on the computer background while mumbling, it was so adorable."

Phil kissed Page's head. "Can you say da again?" Phil asked her.

The baby shook her head and Phil tickled her. "Come on sweetie I got to hear it three times, just one more time?" Keely asked her.

The baby looked at her confused, but seemed to understand. "No!" She said shaking her head again.

Keely looked at the baby with wide eyes. "No way, two in one day!" She leaned over and kissed Page's cheek.

"I'm so proud of you he said cooingly." He handed Keely the baby so she could hug her. "Alright, No and Da, that works for me."

"Me too, they're growing up way too fast." Keely tightened her grip on Page. "Via's going to have her baby any day now."

"Pretty soon we can enroll Page and Madison in a day care." Phil told her. "Then you can go back to work, full time."

"I don't think so. I thought we were going to find a nanny for the baby's?" Keely placed Page on her hip.

"I don't care what we do, but you have to figure it out." Phil said implicitly.

"Nice, Phil." She said jokingly. Page pulled on her shirt and giggled. Keely smiled and twirled around in a circle.

Phil kissed his wife's forehead and placed his hand on her hip. "Where's Madison?" He asked calmly. Keely's eyes widened as she looked around the room. She had been so busy with Page, she had forgotten about Madison. Her heart stopped as she handed Page to Phil again. She went over and looked by the table, she was gone. She wasn't in the living room, or the kitchen. She quickly went into the hallway and began crying. She walked around the corner and saw Madison pulling her self up on the stairs.

Madison had made it half way up and was still going. Keely ran up the stairs with Phil right behind her. Keely scooped her daughter of the stairs and held her against her chest. "Oh my God Phil, I can't believe I did that." She kissed Maddie's forehead. "Oh I'm terrible!"

Phil put a hand on her shoulder. "Keely it's not your fault."

"Hell it's not." She sobbed. "Phil I lost Madison, in our own house. I wasn't paying attention. She could have gotten hurt."

"Keel, she didn't get hurt and she's fine, she knows that you didn't mean to not pay attention to her." Phil sat down on the steps with his wife and kids.

"Phil, how do you know, she could have been mad at me because I wasn't paying attention so she ran away." Keely explained.

Phil shook his head. "She's eight months old Keels, she was just exploring." Phil rubbed Page's head and the Madison's.

"Phil, I'm not so sure I'm willing too let this one slide." Keely cringed. "I did something really bad this time."

"I understand what your saying sweetie, but it was an accident." He sat close to his wife to comfort her.

"Accident or not, this is way too unforgivable." Her mouth fell open and she gasped. "Way too unforgivable, Phil, I just played favorites, with my kids."

Phil shook his head. "Keely, that's not favorites. One of your daughters just said her first words."

"Alright, let's stop this conversation." Keely said shaking her head. She sat Madison on her lap and kissed her forehead at the same time Page shouted Da! Keely smiled at the baby. "Now look who's jealous!" The baby giggled.

Keely and Phil stood up with the baby's in their arms and carried them up toward their bed room. They set the babies down on the floor and watched them crawl around. Phil sat down in the rocker and pulled Keely down onto his lap.

"They're so cute!" Phil said squeezing Keely's hips. "Just like you."

Keely elbowed his side. "Not cute like me, cute in general." Madison crawled over and lifted her hands up for her mother to pick her up. Keely bent over and picked her up.

The baby smiled and spoke. Keely stopped to listen. "Mom-uh!" Madison belted.

Phil shook his head into Keely's shoulder. "You've got to be kidding me."

Pulling out of the LD11 parking lot, Keely started for home at nine forty seven. She was tired and felt over worked. She just finished giving the night news, and would have to wake up at four thirty to be back at the station for five forty five the next morning. This wasn't what she was used to doing. Most of the time she was right at the spot she was giving the news report on. She had talked about murder cases, right where the body had been found, and fires, where the fire was in bloom right behind her, but since the babies had been born, her co host Kayle had taken over the hard hitting news stories and Keely was sent to the safety of the station t give back up reports. Her boss told her that as soon as Madison and Page were in day care, she could have her job back.

She pulled up at a stop light and slammed her hands against the steering wheel. She thought back to her conversation with Kayle during the show.

"Now over to Keely Teslow, whose still giving the reports from the station." Kayle beamed into the microphone.

Keely gave a half smile at the camera. "Well I should be back out there soon enough." She told her.

"Well I wouldn't be to sure!" She said with a smile.

Keely stepped on the gas peddle as the light turned green. She pulled into the nearest twenty four hour gas station and quick market to pick up a few things. She walked into the market and grabbed a basket. Running through the short aisles she quickly finished her shopping and headed over toward the counter. The man who was checking out the items was glancing up at her.

"Uh, can I help you?" She asked, kind of freaked out.

"Hm, sorry, you're Keely Teslow, right? I just saw you on the news." The man stated pointing to the mini TV.

"Oh Yeah, nice to meet you." Keely handed him a twenty dollar bill.

"You know, you really have to get back to the real stories. That Kayle Morison is ruining the show." He said deafeningly.

"I know, well you see, I've been out on maternity leave for eight months now. I really had no choice."

"I know, I heard about your twins, congratulations." He said handing her the bag and change. Keely started to walk away, but he called after her. "There was a guy in here last week who watched the show with me. He knew a lot about you, said you use to be friends."

"Really, what was his name?" She asked confused.

"Um, it started with a T, Tommy er something like that."

Keely's heart dropped. "Tanner Kirtspatrick…"

"He said two timing you was the worst thing he's ever done."

Keely turned back to the door and then back at the man again. "Don't believe a single thing that guy tells you. He's bad, and just don't let him talk to you." She walked out of the market an out to her car. She glanced in the back seat before hopping into the driver's seat. She threw the bag on the seat next to her and drove on towards her house.

She pulled into the driveway and slammed on the breaks as something ran out in front of the car. She glanced up and saw Tanner standing there looking fluttered. "God damnit," she screamed. He walked over toward the window and motion for her to roll it down. She did as he told her, but only a crack.

"I need you Keely!" He told her. "I can't have a life without you."

"Tanner, get the fuck away from my house and my family, and ME!" Keely screamed. "You fucking stay away, I'm calling the cops, you hear." She pulled out her cell phone from her pocket and showed it to Tanner.

He laughed. "Keely I don't think you understand. If I can't have you, then no one can!"

He pulled something out of his pocket. It was an eighteen inch metal rod, a gun. Her heart stopped. "Oh shit," she muttered under her breath. "What do I do, what do I do?" She said to her self. She opened the door fast so that in knocked Tanner on his back. She slammed the door closed and speed down the drive way. Leaving the car running and the bags on the floor, she ran to the house, turning the handle and locking the door behind her. She slid a table in front of the door, for god knows what reason and started running for the stairs.

"Phil!" She screamed. "Shit Phil!" She reached the bed room and saw Phil standing in the door way.

"What Keel, the baby's are sleeping!" Phil was silenced as he heard an approaching gun shot.

"Grab the babies and bring them up to the attic. I'll grab the phones." Keely held her cell phone in her hand and grabbed the house phone and Phil's cell phone from of the dresser. She went into their walk in closet and pulled down the string that pulled down a ladder to their attic. Phil came up behind her with the babies.

"What the hell is going on?" He said as he heard another gun shoot. Keely climbed up on the ladder and shoved the phones on the floor by a few boxes. Phil handed her a now fully awake Page and she genteelly set her up there, followed by Madison. Keely climbed up after them and turned on the light. Phil came up behind her and pulled the door closed. She placed a few boxes over the entrance and carried the babies toward the back of the house. Phil grabbed the phones and followed her. They sat down in a corner of the room and set Page and Madison down on their legs. Keely took her cell phone out and dialed the police.

It rang twice before someone picked up. "Pickford police department, state your emergency."

"Hi my name's Keely Diffy and theirs this guy with a gun out side of my house."

"Do you live on 54 Crandon Lane?" The woman asked.

Keely shook her head confused. "Apparently some neighbors near by heard gun shots and called the cops. They're on their way over as we speak."

"Oh thank you so much!" Keely said crying.

"I'm going to have to ask you to keep the phone on, even if you have to put it down, only hang up with me after the police get there."

"Okay, we only have one problem!" Keely told her, tears still falling from her eyes. "Um, my husband and my twin babies and I locked our self in our attic."

"I'll connect you to the police car on your case. It'll take like five minutes." Keely held the phone between her shoulder and her head as she held Madison in her arms. Repetitive gun shots were fired and Keely feared that Tanner was in the house.

"Keel, who is that guy?" Phil asked her.

Keely glanced at him for a second. "Tanner…" That was all she had time to say before a man answered the phone.

"Hello, Ms. Diffy." A man asked.

"Yeah, this is her." She replied, out of breath.

"Okay, we're at the top of your drive was right now. There's two police cars, and four police men total. You said the man had a gun, and it was fired."

"Yeah, like ten or so times. I think he might have gotten in the house. I haven't heard anything in a while."

"Okay, where are you and your family located." He asked.

"On the top floor, in the master bed room closet, and then up to the attic." She explained.

"Alright I think I've got it. Please stay on the phone with us, while we investigate." There was a short pause and the he said. "Yeah, he's defiantly in the house."

Keely's heart sank to her stomach. "Find him quick please." Madison began to cry, making Page cry. She tried to comfort the babies to make them stop crying.

"I'm sorry to have to ask you like, but try and keep the babies quiet, it's your best chance." He whispered.

Keely heard an echo coming from a speakerphone. "We have the place surrounded, drop your weapon and come out with your hands up." They heard.

Keely sobbed as she held onto Madison. Phil wrapped his arms around Page, his wife and Madison. She rested her head on his shoulder. Something broke down stairs, she could hear a shattering noise, there was another, and another.

After about three minutes of silence a different man answered the phone. "Ms. Diffy, we have a Mr. Tanner Kirkpatrick locked away in the car, deprived of his weapon."

"Are you serious, thank you so much?" She said sobbing.

"Okay, we're coming up to get you." He said. "You can hang up now."

Keely shut the phone and took Madison in her arms. "It's okay we can go back down now." Running with the baby in her arms she kicked the boxes off of the door just as it was opening. She handed the babies to the police officers and they safely took them in their arms.

Walking down stairs, Keely realized what the shattering noise was. Her pictures. The wedding pictures and there first family picture were all a broken mess on the floor. She turned her head into Phil's chest and balled.

Grabbing her cup of coffee from the counter, Keely sat down at the kitchen table next to Phil. He wrapped his arm around her waist and she sighed. The babies bounced their chairs picking put cheerios and mashing them in their faces. Keely and Phil both dicided that Cheerios were a good starter food for babies.

"Thank you so much for staying home from work today." Keely said softly.

Phil kissed her head softly. "Well I wasn't going to go to work after you stayed up the entire night crying."

"I didn't mean to, I was just scared, you know." She sipped the steaming liquid from the cup.

"Well, I don't blame you at all!" He said pulling her closer to her body. "I mean the babies were screaming all night."

"I don't blame them either!" Keely told him sadly. "I'm really sorry I didn't tell you about Tanner." She told him for the hundredth time this morning.

"It's okay, I just wish you had." Phil kissed her head again right as Madison belted her every so favorable, "Ma!"

Keely pulled away from Phil and set her coffee cup on the table. "Yes Maddie, what is it?" She stood up and lifted the baby from her chair. She threw her hands on her mothers face. They were covered with baby slobber and wet Cheerio crumbs. "Thanks sweetie, I really need that." She grabbed her bottle from the fridge and stuck it in Madison's mouth.

"I have bad news!" Phil said suddenly.

Keely turned and looked at him. "My mother knows you have the day off?" She asked.

He shrugged. "Yeah she wants me to come over and take a look at her car; how did you know?"

"She called while you were in the shower." She wiped the baby's hands, as in both of them, with a wet rag, and then their messy faces. "Don't worry about it."

Phil stood up and kissed her head. "Why don't I go now and get it over with?" He suggested.

"Sure, you'll be there for hours anyway." She said laughing.

"If I'm not back in an hour, you can bring the babies over there, okay?" He grabbed his keys and wallet from off the counter.

"Alright, works for me." Keely stopped for a second. "Can you actually stop at the police station first, and give them that paper work."

He bit his lip. "Where is it?"

"On the desk, I finished filling out the restraining order information for Page and Madison earlier this morning." He walked away and came back a few seconds later, only this time, Keely had two babies in her arms, both sucking on bottles.

"Alright, I'll see you soon, but if I'm not back in an hour, you call me and I'll tell you whether or not to come over." He kissed his two daughters foreheads and pulled his wife in for a passionate kiss with out squishing Page and Madison. "I love you!"

"I love you too." She said watching him walk down the stairs to the garage. After standing in that spot for a while, Keely dicided to go sit on the couch in the living room. Carefully she set the babies into the large play crib filled with stuffed animals. She went over to grab the phone from the hallway charger when the taped bullet holes caught her eyes. Several pinky sized holes had been severed into the door. She grabbed the phone and quickly walked away.

Falling to her knees in front of the crib, she held her breath to keep her self from screaming. She pressed her face against the crib hole covering. Page and Madison slapped at her face and giggled. Keely gave the twins a half smile and pulled the play pin out into the kitchen so she could watch them from the office. As she sat down she looked at the babies looking back at her. It made her feel guilty to have the babies all the way other there, looking back at her with those eyes. She stood up and pulled them into the office, and then sat back at the computer. She went and checked her e-mail; there was only one e-mail in her inbox. It was from Via. Keely clicked on the link and read the e-mail to her self.

Keels,

You've got to be kidding me what a slez bag, and after what he did to you and your family last night. Don't worry, Phil called Owen and he told me all about it. Phil said you didn't want to talk about it, so I won't ask unless you want me too! By the way, has LD11 called you yet today? If they haven't, tell them that you're not telling them crap because that Kayle girl drives me up the wall. We need to see you back out there soon. I can't believe that I'm going to be a mom any day now.

Love Ya,

Vee

Keely responded with, "I don't want to talk about it." She sighed and turned off the computer. She sat there for a few seconds, pondering on what to do. She wanted to get her mind off things. Maybe she was better off just going to her mom's house to hang out with the babies for a while. She was constantly afraid that something going to happen.

The door bell rang. It was sudden and scary. It was awkward, just knowing that someone could see the bullet holes in the front door, just knowing that something happened. She shuddered as she stood up. She ran her hand across the lining of the play pin as she passed.

Looking through the window Keely saw an old man. He didn't look completely old, maybe late fifties. She guessed about the same age as her mom. She pulled open the door and half smiled. She didn't know the man and he didn't have a busyness suit on of a delivery uniform on.

"Hi, um, can I help you." She asked standing in the doorway.

He stood their awkwardly. "Um, yeah I was uh looking for Keely Teslow, but um I seem to have found you."

She blinked. There was something strangely familiar about him. His blonde hair and blue eyes, it all seemed to fit. She fought back tears. "You've got to be kidding me." She said softly. "I don't know if I can take much more of this.

"Yeah Keel it's me." He held open his arms expecting a hug. He tried to step inside, but she put her foot in the way.

"I haven't seen you since I was six years old, at my birthday party, when you left with some other woman." She glared at him. "And you just waltz over to my house eighteen years latter expecting a hug."

He tried to speak, but she put her hand up. "I god damn know who you are, but I advise you to get the fuck away from me Jack Teslow."

"Keel, I've come back to make it up to you." He said innocently.

She laughed. "I've been through way too much in the last twenty four hours to fall for that one." She gripped the door with all her might and muttered under her breath, "This has got to be a nightmare."

"Keel," He said again.

"No, no, no," She said hysterically. "Only my family members and close friends can call me Keel. And you, Jack Teslow are none of those. So, to you I'm Keely, but I would prefer Mrs. Diffy."

"Married I see!" He said happily.

She shook her head. "Like you didn't know. You seem to have failed to make your presence at the banquette, or did your invitation get lost in the mail? Mom's married too, but you should know that."

"Keely, it's really complicated." He said shoving his hands in his pockets.

"You wanna talk about complicated!" She said angrily. A cry broke through the house, and soon two. "I have to get them," she said walking away. "You can come in, but don't move anywhere."

Keely bent over the crib and picked up each baby in her arm and placed them on her hips. She kissed each of their heads before walking back out into the hallway. "You're a mother? Don't you think you're a little too young to be a mother?"

"Uhhh no." She said with a tone.

"Did your husband put you up to this?" He asked her seriously.

"Are you here to judge my life, or did you have a legit reason for showing up at my house?" Madison grabbed onto her hair and pulled. Keely replaced her hair with her finger and than Page grabbed on to her shirt. "You wanna know what, when I was six and you left all the way up until high school all I wanted was for you to come back, but in high school you wanna know what happened?" She didn't wait for him to ask. "I found a guy, a guy who started off as my best friend and because the best thing that ever happened to me."

"So you let him replace me?" He asked hurt, and angry.

"Yeah, I did. And after Phil came into my life, Phil, that's my husband's name, I never thought about you again until right now." She said smiling. Madison and Page continued to fuse around in her arms.

"So what, I'm going to leave right now and never see you again?" He asked.

"I don't know!" She yelled angrily. "This is so out of the blue, I don't even know what."

"Why don't I give you my phone number and you can call me when you do?" He asked.

She nodded. "That would be more appropriate, yeah."

He handed her a card as he back out of the house. "I'm sorry I hurt your mother and you." He left softly. Keely place the babies on the floor for a second as she slammed her hand against the door, locking it, and cried. She slid down against the wall and the two babies cried to her.

"Mom-uh," Madison flailed her arms towards her mother and Keely lifted her up and place her on her lap, followed by Page.

She whipped her tears against her shoulder and kissed the babies on the head. "Do you guys want to go see your Nana?"

When they didn't respond she stood and carried them back over to their play pin. She set them down carefully and called Phil's cell phone.

"Hello?" Phil answered awkwardly.

"Well, obviously you didn't look at your caller ID!" Keely said trying to make herself happy.

"Oh sorry Keel, I wasn't really paying attention when I answered."

"Its fine, um anyway, I think I'm going to head over right now, if that's okay?" She asked him.

"Sure but, is everything okay?"

"I'll talk to you when I get over there, bye." She hung up the phone and glanced quickly at the babies before running up stairs to grab the babies diaper bag. This was one of the things she did once to never with the babies. She got scared that something would happen even when she was in the room with them. She hurried back down stairs and pulled the play pin back into the kitchen so she could stock the diaper bag with baby food and bottles. She hung the bag off her shoulder and lifted the babies from the pin. She grabbed her car keys and carefully walked down the stairs to the garage.

She buckled the babied into their car seats and set the bag on the floor. She ran back inside to set the alarm and close the door Walking around toward the driver's seat she realized how lucky she was that Tanner hadn't shot up her car. She pulled out of the garage and closed it behind her. As Keely drove down the driveway she saw bullet shells left behind by the evidence troops. She shuddered and tried to take her mind off of last night by talking softly to the babies in the back seat.

"Hey guys, what do you want to do when we get to grandmas?" She sat there like she was waiting for a response, but let her mind wander instead.

On the other side of town…

"Daddy, come on! I'm twenty four years old and you still won't let me date anyone who's not in your view." A tall dark brunette plundered her father.

"Alice, I understand where you're coming from, but this time I've found someone amazing for you." The ex mayor of Pickford boomed.

"Right, who is it this time, the president?" Alice Duiluka joked.

"No, but on the contrary, you went to dinner with him back in high school." Her father fought.

"Hm, I don't recall you letting me go on dates in high school."

"Well you said the two of you had so much in common." He scratched his head. "Anyway, his name is Phil Diffy and he's the CEO for an extremely big company here in Pickford. He is extremely fortunate to have so much money for such a young age."

Alice shook her head. "And how do you know that a rich man like Phil Diffy isn't married."

"Alice, what do rich men want?"

"More money?" She guessed.

"Exactly!"

Keely pulled into the driveway to the house where she grew up. She quickly got out of the car and lifted the twins out of their car seats. They whined in her arms, restless and bored. She held each of them on her hips and left the bag in the car as she ran over to the door and kicked it with her foot. She waited for a few minutes until her mother opened the door and smiled.

"Aw Sweetie, let me take one of those." She held out her hands and lifted Madison from her arms. "Phil told me they spoke their first words yesterday! How amazing Keely."

She nodded. "Yeah, um, I have to get their bag from the car I'll be right back."

She ran back to the car with Page in her arms and took the diaper bag on the other. She slammed the door closed so hard it made Page cry. Keely kissed the baby's forehead and apologized. She carried her back inside and dropped the bag on the floor.

Mandy looked sadly looked at her daughter. Phil said she would be sad, not angry. "Sweetie is something wrong."

"Don't play dumb mom, I know Phil already told you. You don't have to protect me from anything." Tears fell from her eyes.

"Do you want me to take Page too?" She asked holding out her arms.

Keely nodded and handed over the baby. "I really need to talk to Phil."

"He's in the garage." She said pointing toward the door. "Keely, if you need anything, I'm always right here."

"Thanks mom, I'll tell you eventually, I'm just afraid what you'd say." Keely started to walk away but her mom spoke out.

"You mean this isn't about that boy Tanner?"

Keely shook her head. "I'll talk to you in a second." She opened the door to the garage and started sobbing only to have oil covered Phil walk over and hold her.

"Hey, what happened?" He held her head and kissed her nose. "Did something happen after I left?" She let her body weight fall against him.

"I can't take it any more!" She sobbed into his chest. "How could this have happened so fast? This isn't how our life is supposed to be. Everything is just so screwed up."

Phil brought her down onto his lap. "Keel, I know you think it's bad, but at least no one got hurt."

Keely cried more. "He came to the house."

"Who, Tanner, he can't he's in jail!" Phil exclaimed angrily.

"No, not Tanner, my Dad." Keely locked her head under Phil's chin. "He came up to the door, all happy, expecting a hug!"

"Aw Keel!" He stood her to her feet and joined her. "What did you tell him?"

"I told him to leave, but not before shooting him down and telling him that he's been replaced."

"By who Chris? He's never home though. He works in Chicago full time." He said referring to his mother in laws husband.

"No, I was talking about you."

Phil didn't say anything for a few minutes. He was too overwhelmed. "Keel, uh, did you talk to your mom?"

"No, I came right to you." He forced her up the stairs, stepping close behind her.

"You've never really told me anything about your dad Keel; I don't really know what to say." He sighed.

"So what are you saying?" She stopped walking and turned around.

He pushed falling tears from off her cheeks and kissed her forehead. "I think you should go and talk to your mom."

"Fine, but I don't want her to take it the wrong way. I really don't know what she'll do." He pushed her up to the living room and he and Keely took the babies in their arms. "Thanks for watching them for a second!" She gave her mom a half smile. "Can I talk to you for a second?"

So how do you think Mandy will take the news? Please Read and Review! Sorry for the mistakes again!

-Gibbs