a/n: Real quick we jumped forward a few years, about four so Emily is 49, jj, 44, iz and Tara are 27, Jaden and Lydia are 16, Paige is 5, and Zack is 2, Zack by the way is the newest addition to Tara and Izzy's family.

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Jaden looked at Lydia, his girlfriend of over two years. He just heard what he really wasn't expecting, she was expecting. He looked at her and his jaw dropped, sure he figured he'd spend the rest of his life with her but a kid, before they were out of school?

"I… we need to tell my parents." Jaden said and Lydia nodded suddenly the front door opened and Izzy, Paige, Zackary and Tara walked in.

"Hey Jaden, Lydia, the rents on their way home?" Jaden nodded and Izzy looked at him. "You ok dude?"

"I'm…"

"He's gonna be a daddy." Lydia said and Izzy's head whipped around.

"My god…" Izzy said. "I'm gonna be an aunt?"

"Yup." Lydia smiled.

"So you're keeping it?" Tara asked, calm like she already knew.

"Thought never crossed my mind." Lydia said and Tara nodded.

"Come on," Tara said, "let's go get a drink." Tara took Lydia into the kitchen. "Kids go play upstairs ok?" she smiled as Paige took Zack upstairs.

"Jaden do you want this?" Izzy asked looking at her brother.

"Yes, I'm not running." Jaden nodded.

"Ok, then lets start dinner."

"Why are you guys here?" Jaden asked.

"Well it's still my house, my family, so we came over for dinner tonight instead of tomorrow cause Tara and I have a date tomorrow." Izzy grinned and Jaden smiled at her.

"You know growing up I always wanted to have a relationship like yours and Tara's filled with so much love, and trust." He said as he grabbed the steaks from the counter opening the package, he turned to Izzy who made the marinade he dropped the steaks in.

"Really?" Izzy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, you grew up with our moms as you grew up, and really they had a perfect relationship, I had it but…"

"Hey, don't worry kido," Izzy ruffled his hair. "You might have a rough road ahead but you and Lyd, you'll make it."

"How are things looking for you and the job raise?"

"I'll be getting it." Izzy smiled, looking over her shoulder she saw Tara walking toward her.

"Didn't scare her did you?" Jaden asked.

"Naw, I just talked to her, she's really worried that the… everything." Tara said putting her hands on Izzy's hips.

"Oh, that's my cue to leave." Jaden said walking out of the kitchen.

"About everything?"

"Her mom had really bad morning sickness, she wanted to know what she had to be worried about." Tara said smiling down at Izzy.

"Ah…" Izzy said before Tara kissed her.

"Why is it every single damn time I walk into my house, we walk in on you two kissing?" Emily said putting the go bags down on the floor.

"Cause we're just that great at timing?" Tara said looking at Emily. JJ walked in with a scowl on her face.

"Mom, you ok?"

"No, someone decided to dent my car."

"You don't want to talk to her, she's unreasonable today." Emily said grabbing a coke from the fridge.

"Unreasonable? Really? So asking my wife to take me out to lunch is unreasonable? Wanting to know who put the dent in my brand new car, is unreasonable? Wanting one day where I don't have to listen to a cop yell at me, is unreasonable?"

"Mom… maybe we should go sit down…" Izzy said taking JJ into the living room, taking the coke Emily was drinking on her way.

"Hey… I was."

"Don't." Tara warned and Emily stopped.

"Mom is everything ok?" Izzy asked sitting down on the couch, Ra came trotting up to them, and JJ started to scratch him behind the ears.

"No."

"Do you maybe want to tell me what's wrong?"

"Your mother's turning fifty soon…"

"Yeah I know?"

"You remember the gift I was telling you about?"

"Yeah, the trip?"

"Yeah, guess who has a meeting on the third day? That I have to be at?"

"Um… you?"

"Yes!" JJ yelled and Izzy clamped her hand over her mother's mouth.

"Do you want her to know?"

"Right, sorry, yes I have to go to this stupid meeting."

"You know… mom is more of a homebody anyway, maybe you should just take some days off, go in for the meeting and stay home, we can take Jaden in for a few days."

"Really? You'd do that?"

"Yeah, no problem." Izzy grinned and JJ hugged her.

"Oh Thanks Izzy." She said tears coming to her eyes.

"Is that it?"

"Not really… Raiden has a tumor…"

"What?"

"On his side, they say he'll be ok, but he's getting short of breath."

"Oh mom, he'll be ok." Izzy said hugging JJ again.

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Meanwhile back in the kitchen Tara and Emily worked on making redskin potatoes for dinner.

"You think everything will be ok?" Emily asked Tara.

"Yeah, it's JJ." Tara reassured smiling.

"You're right." Emily said looking down at her work.

"Have you thought about maybe moving to a smaller house?" Tara asked.

"No, if anything a bigger one."

"Really?"

"Yeah, we still have Jaden, and the grandkids, and you guys come over a lot, plus the dogs. Which by the way I need to ask you and Isabel a favor."

"Oh you pulled out the full name, it's a big favor."

"Jennifer's birthday is coming up and Jaden and I are getting her a puppy, thing is there is another litter coming a week before her birthday and the breeder wants him out of their before the puppies are there."

"Oh god…" Tara dropped her head in her hands.

"It's not a wolfhound."

"What?" Tara's head snapped back up.

"He's a German Shepard."

"Really?"

"Yes, he's from the same breeder where you and Izzy got Anubis."

"Please dear god tell me he's not from the same parents."

"Oh he's not." Emily chuckled, if there was one thing her daughter was horrible at it was picking a dog that wouldn't demolish everything in sight.

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a/n: Sorry about the really slow updates, this summer has been crazy, two jobs, a few horrible relationships, a loss of a good friend, so in general life has gotten in the way and then throw in I have lost my muse.