This Chapter contains cannon things however will be slightly altered for it to make sense to my story.

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Dave came home at the end of a really long day. He had found out about Joy. His daughter whom he didn't know existed at all. He had gone to the airport to talk to her after he had confirmed that she was certainly his daughter and found out that he had a grandson as well. He had told her about why he and her mother hadn't worked out and told her about the family he had here which she knew about from the research she had done on him.

Joy told him how she hadn't known he was her biological father until the man who raised her was dying and he told her that he wasn't her biological father Joy had gone to her mother after that who confirmed it and told Joy about Dave.

The two exchanged numbers and agreed to arrange a time for Dave to go out to California to visit her and her family.

When Dave came in the door the house was in a bit of chaos. He could smell something being cooked in the kitchen. He could hear some music in one of the rooms upstairs being played louder than necessary. Coats that should have been hung up and bags that should have been brought to bedrooms were strewn all over the front entrance. Dave shook his head, this was a common occurrence when neither Dave nor Hunter was home right after school. He went into the kitchen where Rosie was filling the dishwasher still in her clothes from rock climbing.

"Hey Rosie," he said

"Hey dad," she said

"Just get home?" Dave asked

"About twenty minutes ago," Rosie said

"Dishwasher isn't your chore this week is it?" Dave asked

Rosie took a breath, "nope, it's Maddy's, but the sink was overfilled before I started making dinner so I couldn't just leave it and Maddy was refusing to do it."

Dave nodded, "I trust that your bag and coat are not on the floor at the front entrance?"

"Definitely not," Rosie said. "I did tell them all to pick up their stuff I'm not sure if anyone did."

Dave nodded

"They just don't listen to me," Rosie said.

"I know," Dave said. "Papa and I will talk to them about it."

"Because you haven't already tried that a dozen times," Rosie mumbled.

"Rosie," Dave said warningly.

Rosie took a breath, "sorry, just overwhelmed and frustrated and sad."

Dave opened his arms and Rosie went over and hugged him. Dave hugged her tight and kissed her head.

"Why sad?" Dave asked

"Pierce is so pissed at me and I hate it," Rosie said

"Because you didn't tell him about Taylor smoking weed?" Dave asked

"Yeah," Rosie said.

"I'm sorry bambina, I assume you have tried talking to him about it?" Dave asked

"Multiple times, but there is more going on there that I didn't know that involved family drama with Pierce and his mom and her new boyfriend that I knew nothing about," Rosie said. "Had I known I would have told him right away."

"You didn't know though, I'm sure Pierce is just frustrated about whatever is going on and being so far away from home," Dave said.

"I get that but it feels like he is blaming me for the whole thing," Rosie said

Dave nodded, "have you told him that's how you feel?"

"No," Rosie said. "I don't want to push things and make it worse and lose one of my best friends, and don't want it to affect Pierce and Noel's friendship. Or Hayley and Pierce's relationship."

Dave nodded, "yeah it's hard when you are connected in different ways."

"And Hayley is annoyed with me, Nate is frustrated with me, Noel isn't thrilled I kept all this a secret either," Rosie said as tears welled in her eyes

"Rosie I'm sorry," Dave said hugging her tighter.

"It's not fair, I tried to do what I thought was best, and it feels like everyone is angry with me now," Rosie said. "I feel like I'm losing all my friends."

Dave nodded, "I think you need to talk to all of them and tell them how you are feeling and about how you didn't know what was going on and had you, you would have handled it differently."

Rosie nodded a little.

"I will finish dinner go shower," Dave said

"Okay," Rosie said and she went.

Dave finished dinner and called everyone down.

"Before you sit if your bag or coat is in the front hall put them away," Dave said.

There was a chorus of groans and whines but a look from dad sent the twins and Scarlet moving quickly to the door to do what they were told.

Hunter came into the house just as the three were coming back downstairs and they all sat down to eat dinner.

"How was everyone's day?" Hunter asked

Everyone but Hayley and Rosie answered the question.

Hunter looked at Hayley, "Hals? Good day?"

"Wasn't great," Hayley said

"Oh?" Dave asked.

"Got two test marks back, neither were what I expected, boxing after school I had to box with someone I don't get along with and well let's just say it didn't end well, for either of us, got yelled at for twenty minutes by coach, and it's stupid but Pierce didn't text me this morning and it's the first day since we started dating that he didn't text me good morning…" Hayley said.

"That's not stupid," Rosie said.

Hayley looked at Rosie.

"Noel does the same thing, and if he missed even a day I would be sad too," Rosie said.

"Have you talked to him at all today?" Hunter asked

"No," Hayley said.

"He probably just had a busy day," Dave said.

Hayley nodded.

"Did you text him?" Rosie asked

"Yes," Hayley said. "He has not responded at all."

"Dad is probably right, he has a lot going on right now not just at school but family stuff you know about," Rosie said

Hayley nodded, "yeah. I wish he would let me help with the family stuff. But he said it's something he has to deal with and doesn't want to burden me with it."

"Is there anything you think you could do to help?" Rosie asked

"Yes, I have offered something specific and he said no," Hayley said.

"Don't listen to him, just do it," Rosie said with a smirk.

Hayley chuckled, "he'd be so pissed."

"Yeah, maybe, but you see a future with him right?" Rosie asked

"Yes," Hayley said.

"So if you choose to do it and when he gets upset tell him that if things go the way you are picturing then his family will become your family and therefore becomes your problem," Rosie said.

"Is that what you told Noel after you donated your kidney to Mia?" Hayley asked with a smirk

"Yup, and he has said it to me before," Rosie said.

Hayley chuckled

"And if you choose to and he gets annoyed you can blame it on me, he's already pissed at me," Rosie said.

"Have you two even talked since that weekend?" Hayley asked

"Not since he went back to school," Rosie said.

Hayley nodded

Soon dinner was done and everyone went off their own ways.

Hayley stopped Rosie "I know you did what you thought was best, I'm not upset with you anymore just so you know."

Rosie nodded, "Okay, thanks."

"Have you talked to Nate since then?" Hayley asked

"Yes, and he is upset but he said to give him time and he would get over it, as long as I keep an eye on Taylor and make sure she has stopped which I will do because he asked," Rosie said.

"Pierce will get over it too," Hayley said.

Rosie nodded, "I just miss talking to one of my best friends."

Hayley hugged her. Rosie hugged her back.

"Do you want me to yell at Pierce?" Hayley asked

Rosie chuckled, "no."

The two broke the hug before they both went to their rooms.

An hour later Rosie's video chat started to ring. She looked to see it was Pierce calling. She took a breath before answering.

"I haven't purposely been avoiding talking to you," Pierce said.

Rosie sighed, "I told Hals to leave it alone."

"Don't be upset with her, she just wanted to help," Pierce said.

Rosie nodded. "Pierce had I known what was going on I would have told you right away. I'm so sorry."

"I know, and I should have told Hayley and you what was going on. You know what it's like being the oldest and feeling like you have to handle everything," Pierce said.

"I do," Rosie said.

"And I thought I could handle everything on my own, from here but I can't. It's why I have been busy trying to figure out what is the best choice moving forward," Pierce said.

"Oh?" Rosie asked

"I'm looking into transferring to a school there to be closer to Taylor to keep her from throwing her future away," Pierce said.

Rosie shook her head, "Pierce, come on. You worked so hard to get where you are. Rely on the people who are here to help you, now that I know what's going on I can help you, I'm already keeping a closer eye on Taylor at Nate's request. And let Hayley help."

Pierce sighed, "this isn't your problem or Hayley's."

"Do you see a future with Hals?" Rosie asked

"Yes," Pierce said.

"So your family will become hers one day anyways. And you will become mine so let us help," Rosie said. "You know very well I don't listen to no when it comes to helping my family. I donated a kidney even though I knew Noel didn't want me to. I will help you whether you accept it or not. And I'll convince Hals to do the same."

Pierce laughed. "you are a pain in the ass."

Rosie laughed, "Yes I am."

"Okay, I'll let you both help," Pierce said.

"And are we okay?" Rosie asked

Pierce nodded, "I realize you were stuck in a hard position and did what you thought was best. I'm just so upset that Tay got caught in our mother's bullshit and well I was surprised and you were the easy target for my stress, I'm sorry. It wasn't fair to do that to you."

"It's okay, I get it, it's forgiven," Rosie said.

"Okay, good. Now, what is going on there?" Pierce asked

"Did Hayley tell you she was sad about anything in particular?" Rosie asked

"No, more to do with her mother?" Pierce said.

"No. You didn't text her good morning this morning, and it's the first time since you started dating?" Rosie asked

Pierce sighed and put his head in his hands. "fuck."

Rosie nodded.

"How upset? Do you think flowers will fix it?" Pierce asked

Rosie smiled, "why is that always the go-to?"

Pierce smiled a little, "I don't know."

"You know you could just apologize, a simple sorry fixes a lot of things," Rosie said

"Fair enough," Pierce said

"And try not to miss again," Rosie said.

"I will not miss again. I didn't even realize how important it was to her," Pierce said.

"It is very important," Rosie said with a smile.

Pierce nodded, "does Noel do it?"

"He does, and if he missed even one day at this point I would wonder why," Rosie said.

Pierce nodded. "I'll talk to her."

"Good," Rosie said.

"How is everything else going for you?" Pierce asked

"Been very busy, starting to realize what you were talking about how senior year can seem like such a blur, I have not had a day with nothing to do since Thanksgiving and it's just going to get even busier," Rosie said.

"I'm sure you have been asked by several people but how are college applications coming?" Pierce asked

"Yeah, that's what my next two weekends are going to be filled with, Ms. Stein has been on me about that deadlines are coming up," Rosie said.

"Where are you applying?" Pierce asked

"Harvard of course, Stanford, University of California, NYU, Penn State, University of Florida, West Virginia University and Maryland University," Rosie said.

"All good school," Pierce said.

"I was only planning on Harvard but Ms. Stein didn't seem to think that was very logical," Rosie said.

Pierce chuckled, "Penn State wasn't my first choice but I think it in the end has been the best choice so you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket," Pierce said.

"I know," Rosie said. "It's just my life has changed so much in the last few years but the one thing that has remained the same was Harvard as my top choice," Rosie said.

"Yeah, but the changes in your life have been mostly good right?" Pierce asked.

"Yes," Rosie admitted.

"So I'm not saying Harvard isn't where you should go but I just think you should keep an open mind," Pierce said.

"Okay, I will," Rosie said. "Now I'm going to let you go to call Hals back."

"Yes, I have some repairing to do there," Pierce said before they ended the call.

Meanwhile, Dave had taken Hunter into the office, he needed to tell him what he had found out that day.

They were both sitting down and Dave took a breath.

"So I mentioned to you the woman who was following me yesterday that I assumed was a private investigator?" Dave asked

"Yes," Hunter said.

"Turns out she's a journalist when she showed up again today I had asked for security to escort her out because I assumed she was just looking for some information on me for some reason but as I walked away she told me something, that I have verified. She is my ex-wife Hayden's daughter, and mine, her name is Joy" Dave said.

Hunter's eyes went wide, "w-what? o-okay." He wasn't sure what to say at that point.

"Yeah, that was my reaction at first, after the case, I verified everything and found out she had a flight leaving to go back home and I went to the airport to talk to her, gave her a chance to ask me the questions she obviously had to have flown here to get, she's married, has a son," Dave said.

"Wow," Hunter said. "You're a grandfather."

Dave nodded.

"How much did you get to tell her about us?" Hunter asked

"Everything, she knows I'm married to you and that we have a brood of daughters," Dave said.

Hunter smiled. "You were with Hayden almost thirty years ago right?"

"About thirty, Joy is thirty," Dave said.

"How come you didn't know?" Hunter asked

"Hayden didn't tell me and Joy was raised by another man who she believed was her biological father, when he was dying he told Joy the truth and Joy spoke to her mother who verified everything," Dave said

"Wow," Hunter said. "Have you spoken to Hayden?"

"Nope, and I'm currently not ready to, I'm angry with her for keeping me in the dark," Dave said

"Don't blame you," Hunter said. "What is your plan? Did Joy say she was looking for any kind of relationship?"

"She wants to get to know me, and all of you," Dave said.

Hunter nodded, "and I know you so you want to get to know her and your grandson."

"Of course," Dave said.

Hunter smiled and nodded, "I'd be very surprised if you didn't."

"I'm planning to go visit her soon, you can come too but I think we should wait and introduce the girls at a later date, it would be a lot at first," Dave said.

"Agreed," Hunter said.

"I however do think we should at least tell the oldest three what is going on before we go," Dave said.

Hunter nodded, "we can do that."

"I'm assuming you will be coming, do you want to?" Dave asked.

"I do," Hunter said with a smile. "As long as that is okay with Joy and her husband."

"She told me to bring the whole family," Dave said.

Hunter chuckled, "brave."

"Agreed, but I will not do that to her," Dave said with a small chuckle.

"How are you feeling about all this?" Hunter asked.

"Shock, anger, excitement, worried," Dave said

"Worried?" Hunter asked

"How the girls are going to take this," Dave said

"Well they all adjusted to the change of adding sister or sisters in Rosie's case, and it's not as if this new sister is going to be moving in, it's different. I think they will all be excited," Hunter said. "Maybe surprised at first."

"Yes, but for Rosie, this is a blood-related sibling and I'm not saying she thinks of the others as less than full sisters but she has always been very interested in knowing as much about her DNA and blood-related family, and Hayley and the others are dealing with their mother moving to the other side of the world and this is another change," Dave said

Hunter nodded "do you think it's better to wait to tell them?"

"No, not for the oldest three anyways, they are old enough to understand and waiting to tell them will probably upset them," Dave said.

"Agreed," Hunter said. "So we will sit them down tomorrow and tell them, and go from there."

Dave nodded.

"They will be okay," Hunter said.

Dave took a breath and smiled, "I know you're right."

Hunter kissed him softly, "and we will help them through the changes that come from this."

Dave kissed him back, "yes. Oh and came home to bags and coats all over the front entrance and Rosie in the kitchen doing dishes that aren't her chore for the week, she told the younger ones to pick up their bags and coats but was ignored."

Hunter sighed, "which kids was it?"

"Twins and Scarlet, they tried to argue when I told them to do so," Dave said.

"Ah, but you have a look," Hunter said.

Dave smirked, "I do, and that is what got them moving."

Hunter smiled, "and who was supposed to be on dishes this week?"

"Maddy," Dave said.

"Okay, well I will talk to them, consequences I think Maddy will have to do the dishes one day when it's Rosie's week again, and for the three of them who didn't do as she asked no friends for the week?" Hunter asked.

"Sounds reasonable," Dave said.

"And I will warn them if they chose to not listen to her again the consequence will be worse," Hunter said.

Dave nodded.

Hunter kissed him again.

Dave kissed him back before Hunter got up and went to talk to the three and made sure they also went and apologized to Rosie before everyone started to get ready to end their night.