"You're more beautiful than I thought you'd be," Mandie choked out caressing her daughter's face.
"I thought you and Daddy were dead, Mommy. Bo said you were," Megan said, the tears falling on Mandie's hands.
"Baby, we wanted to find you and tell you that we were alive, but the FBI thought that it would be best if we didn't have contact with Bo or tried to find you," Mandie said, kissing her daughter's cheek as she hugged her again.
"Do I get a chance to kiss our girl too, Mandie?" Jim Duke asked, his blue eyes sparkling with humor.
'Mama, Daddy might cry if you don't let him," Bo teased.
"Very funny, Beauregard," Mandie said, giving her daughter over to Jim. Jim hugged her tightly, squashing her face in his shoulder.
"Daddy, I can't breathe," Megan said, her voice all muffled. Jim pulled her face from his shoulder and looked in her blue eyes like Mandie had done.
"She looks like ya, don't she, Jim?" Uncle Jesse asked, standing next to his brother.
"Yep. Right down to the blonde hair," Jim said.
"My hair won't be blonde for long, Daddy. I'm thinking about dying it," Megan said. A stunned feeling entered Bo. When was she planning this?
"This is the first I've heard of it," Bo said, folding his arms over his chest.
"Since the chemotherapy and radiation didn't cause me to lose my hair. I just decided to. Also I'll be able to go to town without the Griffins' recognizing me. My hair would give it away," Megan said. Bo couldn't argue with her logic, but what would his parents say about her new idea?
Megan kept hugging her father her real father and not an adopted father. She couldn't beleive her real parents were right here in front of her and alive. This had to be a dream, but it wasn't they were here.
She should have known that dyeing her hair wasn't going to be a good idea to Bo. But she had to do it, for personal reasons. She didn't want to get kidnapped again and miss more years of being with her real family. Dyeing her hair and getting a makeover would be the best thing that she could do to protect herself. She hoped that her parents would see the real reason why she wanted to dye it and she would explain further if she had to.
But there was no reason for a further explanation "I don't see what's wrong with Dyeing her hair. I mean, we can't risk losing Megan again after we just found her". said Mandy still holding Megan this time, both parents were holding her.