AN: Sorry it's taken me so long, school is so busy matter a fact crazy than ever before! Okay let me answer a few questions. I need a place for Dan to meet Verena. She gets into an accident, needing a hospital, and where do blood drives take place? Hospitals! Yay cookie for those who understood. Yes RL are together in this fic. DS are about 30 in this fic and Verena will be turning 16 at some point in the fic so the age is a little off but I didn't want DS to be too old but Verena to be old enough to fight back. I really don't like what I did with this chapter FYI, but it needed an update. Enjoy and review =)

Verena looked up at the Palace hotel and examined each window, wondering which one would lead her to her new room. Dan had yet to tell Serena that they had a new house guest and she knew things wouldn't end well. She was prepared to hit the road in search of her birth father. All she was ever told was that her mother gave her up right at birth, that the father knew nothing about the adoption. She often dreamt of the reason why she wasn't good enough to be kept, why she wasn't what her mother had planned, She had lost the crumbled poem her father had written for the mother. She had wondered if it came out of a book or freshly written. She hid the locket behind her long dirty blonde hair. Dan motioned to Verena as if he was grabbing her suitcase. She was reluctant and walked through the revolving door. Dan hit the button to Verena's new floor. Somehow it felt like every other time, a new family, a new house, a new disappointment.

"Hey Serena, I have someone I want you to meet. This is Verena, our new houseguest." Dan said put his arm against Verena's back.

"Dan, I told you to pick up milk, not a teenage girl." Serena said annoyed as she hobbled off the couch.

"She needs a home."

"Don't make me sound like a mutt." Verena pushed Dan's arm off her.

"Look, the story you told me of what you did was sweet and heroic, but we have a child to think about, I can't be raising a teen too."

"Serena she doesn't have anyone, she was given up at birth."

"Look, like I told your husband, thanks for the blood but I'll survive."

"How do you plan on paying for the meds you need to take for three months? They make sure your platelet count is good enough to stay out of the hospital."

"You asked about my medicine? I'll be fine, I always am."

"Look Verena, I'm concerned, I don't want to walk away."

Dan and Verena shared a look that captured the emotion of the room. They were both scared to admit that Verena needed them. That she needed money and a home to get by. She couldn't put on this facade anymore that she was this tough person that could make it on her own. Just as Verena's mouth started to open Serena interjected.

"Fine. You can stay, but there are some rules you must follow." Serena started. "First, you will respect both Dan and I. We both know you favor him cause he was nice, but I learned being a pushover doesn't end well. Next, you will have curfew, you're 15 so that means 11:30 pm and you will tell me where you're going and with whom. I don't need to be wondering if you're in an alley somewhere dying. Are you enrolled in school?"

"I was, my last foster parent couldn't afford so they took me out."

"Fine, then I will put you in Constance. I know it's a rich bitch school to you but you need to learn and maintain an honor average. If at anytime you break these rules...."

"I'll be sent away, I've heard this speech before."

"No, you will be grounded, 2 weeks should be the most likely punishment."

"Okay." Verena replied and turned towards her new room. She gently shut the door and fell into her bed. She ran her hands over the bumps in her comforter. She never had a bed to herself before.

"Wow."

"What?"

"You sounded exactly like Lily at that point."

"I have to practice being a mom, I mean this baby is coming in about 4 months."

"You ready to be a mother?" Dan replied as he rubbed her stomach.

"Someday. You ready to be a dad?"

"I think Verena will be good practice for us."

"Why must you be so good to her, now I'm the evil bitchy foster parent."

"One day she'll like you better, you two are girls, you'll bond more." Dan said as he kissed Serena's forehead. Her smiled peered through the crack of her lips and she turned to couch to rest her feet.

Verena woke up as the sun shined through her room. There was a note attached to a beautiful spread of breakfast foods on a tray by her door. It told her to get ready for a tour at Constance's and that she had to dress to make a good impression. She put the sun dress that was on the chair towards her closet. She quickly combed through her hair and put a tie on her arm incase it got hot and her hair started sticking to her. She emerged from the room and Serena yelled for her to get into the cab. Dan had a meeting with a few construction people redoing the loft. Verena ran down the steps and into the elevator, before she knew it the cab pulled up into Constance and Serena was with the Headmistress. There was a portion of the interview that Verena was allowed to hear. She had to wait outside the building for Serena to finish speaking. She didn't care, she fed the Headmistress the lines Serena told her in the cab and smiled at all the right moments. She was just keep her promise so she had a nice place to stay. She noticed this 5'9 ft kid glaring at her. He had had dark brown eyes had they were peering through her. She wanted to tell him to fuck off but she had to maintain a lady like composure in case Serena heard. He grabbed his bag and hopped off the table. It was like his eyes never left her.

"Don't get messed up with a kid like him."

"Huh?"

"I knew a kid that like once, never ends well."

"So did I get in Serena?"

"Yeah, she said you had charm. I think it was just bullshit and she just wants my check, but we'll see how you do."

"You really could care less."

"It's not that, and I don't want you to think I hate you. I just want Dan to think about our baby, you know? The future, but if he sees something in you, it's worth the try."

"Yeah, I guess."

"We'll have lunch tomorrow and get to know each other, some girl time will do us well."

Verena gave a half ass smiled. She finally found someone who told her the truth. Serena cared for Verena as another life not as her responsibility. Dan and Serena didn't seem like the couple that didn't put their heart into something unless it was worth it. So, for now, she would give these two people a shot. Hell, they were going to pay for everything she needed, if anything, it was a free ride for awhile.

AN: Don't throw rocks at me if you don't like the chapter *hides*