A/N: Well, well, third chapter! Thank you all again for the wonderful reviews! Would it be okay to say I'll post again when I get 100? No, I'm kidding, I'll probably post at, um, how about 11 or 12?. Just a warning, it may be a little bit longer wait because I had the first three written and not the fourth yet. Also, I'm leaving mid-day tomorrow (but I might post tomorrow before I leave) to the 19th, and when I get back school starts a week later pout. That isn't to say I won't post, it's just I have teachers next year who give a lot of homework and there's a test in the first week! Gah! Just so my lurvely readers know, I'm trying to elaborate on Joren and Kel's characters because as one of you very special people said, they're an unlikely pairing (which is probably why I like them so much lol). Most of this will be done through flashbacks and dreams, as you see in this chapter. I'm trying to develop them at a realistic pace so that it doesn't seem out of character, unrealistic, or rushed. If it does seem like this to you, please point it out in your REVIEWS, and please say the specific sentence/word/paragraph/anything else that you think is OOC/unrealistic/rushed. Also, the scene with Joren and his daughter is partly based on a memory, not just some corny thing I came up with. Well, maybe it's corny, but it happened (at least in part)!

Review responses:

Contagiously Funny: oh, stop. You make me blush. Well, don't stop. And you don't make me blush, but it sounded good lol. Thank you for R&Ring!

Rhiodanthe: I sent you a message talking about most of the stuff you said in your review, because I had a long response. But once again, thank you for putting your CC in CC form and not a flame. Thanks for the review!

Princess of the Rogues: Thank you! If you're considering getting into KJ, please know: I am not the first of the KJ's, there have been some before me, and you can probably find them through searching summaries. I didn't really consider KJ either until I read other fics. Thanks for the review!

Arachnomadness: Thank you for pointing that out about the "the exact second" line. Urg, that one's bad. I think Kel in a too-tight skirt is very funny, too. Thanks for the suggestion and the review!

Green Flames: I love KelJoren too. A lot of people don't like it because it's an unconventional pairing, it's good to know I'm not alone lol. Thank you so much for the review!

It was funny, thought Joren as he watched Keladry putting her daughter Natalie to bed, that someone who dealt with hardened criminals could be so loving. She lifted her daughter up by her armpits, smiling. Kel planted a last kiss on her daughter's forehead before handing her to Joren.

He sat up, placing his daughter in his lap and putting an arm around her. She giggled, her hazel eyes full of mirth. He leaned forward and tweaked her nose playfully. "I suppose you're too smart for that now, huh?" he asked her.

Natalie---called Nat----smiled proudly. "Yeah, daddy, I'm too smart now! Now, enough of this stupidness! Give me back my nose!"

Joren dutifully put her nose back on and pinched it into place. "Good night, Daddy!" squealed Nat, and bounced of off the bed.

As she left, the door opened so that they saw their son Neal walk on, his signature scowl on his face. "Goodnight, Neal," said Kel, opening her arms to her son. He stiffly hugged back, blue eyes darting out to avoid meeting his mother's. Instead, he looked his father straight in the eye. Father to son, blue to blue, their eyes met, and they didn't have to say anything.

"Sleep well!" called Kel after his back.

She then collapsed against her pillow, tired after a long day of bank robberies. She was asleep the moment after.

"Girls can't do anything!" Joren yelled at her back. Even at the age of five, his father's opinions ran strong in his mind.

Kel simply turned, looked at him, and then turned again, her mousy brown hair flipping over her shoulder.

He yelled in frustration and ran after his father.

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"Why do you think you'll be able to be co-Chief? Do you, Mindelan, honestly think that you could beat me?" sneered Joren.

Kel's face didn't show her anger. She gestured for him to follow her. She walked to the shooting range calmly. Once there, she drew her gun, looked at a target, and shot. She shot a rain of bullets onto the target, not outside the second circle once. Joren sneered again, copying her actions, except for the fact that when he was done, he dropped his gun and lunged forward to punch her in the face. Keladry easily blocked it, kicking him in the stomach. The fight continued for five minutes, the two sparring equally until Kel simply asked, "Do you think that I could leave now?"

Joren smirked. He shoved her backwards and Kel rolled her eyes.

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"Yeah, right," Joren muttered as the Chief announced to him that they were going to workd together "well, and without too much fighting". Even after his father was dead and the msygoynistic ideas weren't being poured into Joren's head, it wasn't like he liked Keladry. The sparring fight had been annoying. Obviously she had cheated. Otherwise, how could she have almost beat him?

(People, the dreams were Joren's, because Kel is not a mindreader. The line 'stupidness" was done on purpose.)