A.N. The way I'm portraying Nancy (or at least some of the stories I will be telling about her) is based in truth. Not from my Mom but from my Yiayia (Grandmother) there about 3-5 stories (depending on how you look at it) and two are true. Yiayia loves attention no matter what kind of attention and she loves chaos and causing chaos. As I was working on this chapter I got struck with this is how Nancy is and I realized about half-way through that I was modeling her after my own crazy Yiayia.

Chapter 16

20 minutes later

Liz called Maria, Kyle, Michael, Jim, and Amy to come on back to the Crashdown and begin the party. She explained to her three friends that everything is civil between Cole and her Dad. As she got off the phone with Maria the back door opens, her Mom smiles at Liz carrying the birthday cake.

"Hi Mom," Liz rushes up to her and takes the sugary confection from her. After she took it she wondered if she should have let Mom keep the cake. When she finds out about her relationship with Cole she might not do something if she's holding the cake…or she could throw the cake at Cole. Ok taking the cake is a better idea.

"How's my birthday girl?" Nancy kisses Liz's cheek. She remembers when Liz was a little girl; she would follow Jeff everywhere. One Halloween she dressed up as Jeff, it was so cute, and she wore a pair of jeans and a t-shirt exactly like his then stuffed her brunette locks into a baseball cap.

Strands of her hair would peek out from the hat but she was so pleased with herself that she was dressing like Daddy. "Oh, great Mom. Umm, Mom?" A questioning tone is in her voice.

"Yes sweetie?" Nancy leans against the entryway to the kitchen of the Crashdown. She can tell it's something big or Liz wouldn't be twisting the dishtowel she grabbed so hard.

Liz takes a deep breath, "When I was in San Francisco I met somebody. We went out on a few dates while I was there." No way is she telling her mother she also had hot demon sex with him, which would be far too much for her to handle.

Nancy smiles at that news. "Oh that's fantastic honey. It's great to see that you're getting back on the dating horse especially after that Max Evans boy." She's happy for Lizzie but why bring this up now, did something happen to her and only now does she feel comfortable in coming forward.

"Well, we've kept in contact with each other for a month and I invited him to my party and—"

"And he stood you up didn't he honey?" Nancy automatically assumes the worse. It's a rarity that these silly teenage boys mean anything they say, and if Liz is ready to talk she'll be here for her when she cries out her heart.

"Liz shakes her head negatively, "No Mom, he's here. Daddy's met him and while doesn't quite like him, is ok with him being here and going out with me." She left out a lot but that is to be expected. Can't exactly tell Mom that Cole's the mighty Belthazor and she's pregnant with his baby. That wouldn't go over too well.

"All right sweetie. What's his name?"

Smiling Liz tells her. "His name is Cole Turner. And Mom he treats me so well, I feel so safe with him." She tries to play up his good points before Mom realizes that she's heard that name previously. "Cole is handsome, kind, has good job that he loves, and he's even moving to Roswell so we can continue to date."

"But honey what about his parents? Won't they miss their son? And how good of a job can someone have when they're just starting out in the world?" Nancy understands that any job to a teen is a good job but Liz needs to see reality and not throw all her ducks in one pond.

Liz sighs out shaking her head and now we get to the portion of the show when Mom gets information to help piece together this puzzle. "His parents are dead Mom, so they won't miss him. And his job is very good, he's an attorney."

Mom stares at her with such pity in her eyes that Liz wants to shake her mother and scream. Her mother thinks she's a naïve little girl that needs protecting. "Lizzie I'm sure that's what he told you but sweetie I didn't know you to be so gullible."

Rolling her eyes she turns away from her mother letting out a loud frustrated growl. Liz hadn't realized how loud it was until Cole rushes into the kitchen asking her if she is all right.

"Yea, I'm fine honey. Cole, I'd like you to meet my mother Nancy Parker." Cole turns from her to her Mom; the woman he brushed passed without a second glance. "Mom I'd like you to meet Cole Turner, my boyfriend." She hopes he understands why she introduced him as her boyfriend as opposed to fiancée. When he holds out his hand to Mom's Liz knows he does.

"Mrs. Parker, it's a pleasure to meet you." Nancy shakes Cole's hand more because of instinct then anything else. She stares at Cole as if not quite believing this is the boy Liz is ecstatic over.

"Umm, hello. How old you? You seem far to old to be dating my daughter." Nancy sneers out.

"He's thirty-three Mom, Dad's fine with it, go talk with him." Please leave. Mom is getting on her last nerve. Liz gets that her Mom is kind of freaked out about Cole being fifteen years older than she is but so what she's eighteen now.

Reluctantly Nancy leaves the kitchen and enters the restaurant. Jeff is setting more streamers up on the ceiling and Michael, who arrived five minutes ago, is blowing up balloons. "Hi honey, when did you get back?" Jeff greets.

"You're letting our daughter date a thirty-three year old man? Jeff what the Hell are you thinking? Liz is at a very impressionable young age. Who knows what that Cole has made her do." Nancy fumes taking no mind of Michael inching out of the room and to the backroom where Liz and Cole have moved too.

"Whoa Parker, your Mom is getting to her breaking point." Michael smirks.

"Why do you think I sent Mom outside to talk to Dad, he can handle her, he's used to her tantrums." Liz glances up at Cole. "Honey, if I become like my mother smack me really hard and telling me I'm acting like my mother. Trust me I'll never do it again."

"Oh she's not that bad Liz." Cole argues. She doesn't seem as insane as Liz and Michael are making her out to be.

"You've only just met her. Trust us, she's a lot worse than that." Michael leans against the lockers. "First off it kills her if she's not the center of attention, don't be surprised if she tries to make this birthday party about her somehow." He runs a hand through his long hair, it finally grew out after that mullet nightmare.

Michael picks at a his shirt, "She's sane every once in a while, if you're only around her in spurts Nancy can seem completely normal. But when you've lived with her or spent excessive amounts of time with her she'll start showing that 'I'm nuts' part of her personality."

"And she's dying every week from something, ninety-nine percent of the time it's bullshit." Liz picks up the conversation letting Cole in on Mom's idiosyncrasies. "Oh and don't be surprised if she tries to hit on you, she can't imagine why you're with me so she'll try to get with you."

"She hit on me once, that was scary. Had nightmares for a month after that." Michael shivers, he's with Liz in having Cole know exactly what he's going to have to deal with.

Maria, Kyle, Jim, and Amy come through the backdoor seeing Liz, Cole, and Michael chatting easily. "And as soon as Michael told me about Liz's Mom coming onto him I couldn't stop laughing." Maria teases him.

Out of the blue a loud thump is heard from the restaurant, a second later Jeff enters the backroom carrying Nancy in his arms and she's out cold. "Jim, Amy. Hi, umm Nancy fell and hit her…"

"Don't worry Jeff, Maria and Kyle told us everything—" Jeff's eyes widen and Amy continues "—Nancy is prone to fainting when she doesn't get her way." Amy tells Jeff.

Liz shoots a wink over to Maria. Amy doesn't even know about aliens yet, let alone a single bit about demons. She's glad her friends though of something to tell Amy about Jeff knocking Nancy out with spell. It saves them from coming up with an excuse at the last minute that would sound an awful lot like a lie.

"That's right. I'm going put Nancy in our bed then we can get this party going." Jeff tells them heading upstairs to put Nancy into their room. He's upset with her; this is their daughter's day and all she can think about is how Liz dating Cole is going to affect her. He won't let Nancy ruin Liz's birthday party.

TBC