Disclaimer: I don't own any part of the Nanny…yet.

A/N I just love to put the ideas out there. Niles and CC are my favorite TV couple…This story is a little bit out there. But it's fun…so stay with me…Please R&R Story tellers POV…usually…

Daddy's Little Girl

Chapter 3

"Are you alright?" He asked me as I woke quite disoriented. It was dark but familiar. Again I lay on a sofa I remembered fondly.

"Daddy?" I whispered looking up at his handsome face. "Oh…" I popped up on the sofa. "I'm sorry, I was just thinking about my father." I looked around and smiled. There I was…back in the home I shared with Tom.

"Rightly so, Princess." I heard his deep baritone voice practically sing to me.

I couldn't believe my ears or my eyes. "Daddy?" I was speechless, which as anyone will attest as the child of Niles Brightmore and CC Babcock, was a nearly impossible feat to accomplish.

"Yes, Princess…it's really me." My father was really there. His deep blue eyes still sparkling, his once reddish blonde hair was the silver gray I remembered. It was him.

I grabbed him and hugged him as if he would disappear any moment. I felt the tears falling, but there would be no stopping them. "But…I don't understand…how…how can it…?"

"You save me, too, Princess." He smiled at me with that silly lopsided grin. "Fran never could keep a secret. She told me everything. But mostly that you wanted me to take better care of myself." He pulled me back and wiped the tears from me cheeks with his thumbs. "I thought if you took the time tell me, that I'd better listen."

I cried from the sheer joy of his presence. In my time he'd passed away nearly three years ago. But somehow…he was here. Then I realized… "Daddy, where's Joseph?"

"He felt it was better that I explain things now that the timeline has changed again." Daddy helped me to sit up. "You managed to put everything right. Then, just as you were returning home, you tossed out that little request for Fran. That altered the timeline again and…well I didn't die three years ago."

"But that's a good thing. It has to be a good thing. I didn't make things worse, did I?" I looked around my home. "Where's Mom? Tommy and the kids, are they alright?"

"Sleeping, Princess, everyone is fine." He reassured me. "Joseph is your descendant. He hasn't arrived yet."

I was confused and it showed I'm sure. "Daddy, how can you know Joseph, if he's my descendant and hasn't been born yet?"

"Princess, it's hard to explain. I'm not sure I understand it myself. Save it to say, he came to me just before your return. He wanted you to know why he was there that day." He sat next to me.

"I saw him, in the lobby of the medical building. He looked very determined to meet Gramma BB." I explained what I'd seen.

I felt Daddy nod. "Yes, well, he'd heard the stories too. He knew all about BB and how terrible she could be. He wanted to see her for himself. He had no idea that when he bumped into her he'd broken the timeline. BB stopped and yelled at him for his carelessness just long enough for Mom and me to miss her outside of Dr. Jaffe's office."

"I still don't understand how not running into Gramma BB could've been life threatening to Danny and me." I looked up at my father as I used to when I was a child, waiting for all the world's answers to spill from him.

He sighed. "I guess it's safe to tell you now that it's all over. You know about Mom's problem with high blood pressure during her pregnancy, well running into BB caused some fluctuations but nothing serious. However, the anxiety that built up finally brought on labor and you and Danny were born on Mother's Day."

"Daddy, I know all that. I want to know what happened when you and Mom didn't run into Gramma BB." I could feel him tense up like he always did when he was really uncomfortable. Like when I first asked him where babies came from.

He looked away. "Lauren, I don't think it's important, everything worked out fine and we're all together again."

"Daddy, I need to know." I could see the pain in his eyes. I don't know how he could hurt from something that didn't happen. "Why do you look so sad, Daddy? It never happened, right?"

He shook his head. "No, Princess, it never happened, but…"

"Please, Daddy." I hated causing him pain, but I really did feel like I had to know.

He leaned back into the sofa. "As I…understand it…your mom was on her best behavior, no work, she stayed in the residence, ate well and rested a lot. So much so, that you and Danny decided you'd hang out a while. When Mom went into labor, you and Danny were too big for a natural delivery so I couldn't deliver you, I couldn't do anything. By the time we got to the hospital and Dr. Jaffe did the C-section…it was…I lost all three of you that day." He was crying. My father was crying and it was my fault.

"I'm sorry, Daddy." I was crying now too. "I…I don't understand. How can it hurt so much…it didn't happen?"

"We're still in the middle of the timeline. I have those memories…until the new ones take hold, and the others disappear." He seemed to be calming down.

I wrapped my arms around him. "Daddy, how did Aunt Fran remember to tell you what I said? I mean if the timeline changed and all?"

"I don't know, Princess. But I'm certainly glad she did." He hugged me tight. "Now, I think we should get some sleep, you have a birthday to deal with tomorrow."

I shot up from the sofa. "What? But I left after the twin's birthday party."

"I'm not talking about the twin's party, Princess." He had that all too familiar gleam in his eye. "All I can tell you; is that when you wake up in the morning, the new timeline will take hold and we won't remember anything else." He stood and offered me his hand.

I stood and took his still handsome face in my hands. "I've missed you, Daddy. I know that tomorrow, we won't remember this. But I wanted you to know now, how much I missed you."

"Come on, Princess. Help your old man get up the stairs. I need to be there when your mom wakes up." We started toward the stairs.

I stopped for a moment. "Dad, isn't it gonna freak Mom out when you slip into bed with her?"

"Nah…she'll just think she's dreaming." He had that gleam again. "But that would be one great prank…"

The next morning…

"Dear God, Dr. Logan get it out!" Lauren yelled sounding much like her mother.

CC glanced at Niles who sat holding her hand in the hallway. "I'm glad that I'm not Tom. I remember what you were like when Lauren and Danny were born."

"This is different, Lauren isn't delivering servant spawn." CC tossed back at him. "I wonder why she's having such a tough time. The twin's didn't give her this much trouble."

Niles laughed. "She was ten years younger."

"Niles, I was…" She leaned in and whispered. "…in my forties when I had Lauren and Daniel…and I didn't have the luxury of an epidural."

Niles kissed her. "Yes, my love, but you are a witch and I'm afraid that Lauren, while an amazing woman, is still a mere mortal."

"Very funny, Bell Boy." CC leaned into him.

Fran and Max came up the hall. "Hey!" Fran's voice almost drowned out Lauren's yelling from the delivery room. "Well, I guess we didn't miss it."

"Danny, Eve…" CC stood and greeted her son and daughter-in-law. "I didn't think you were coming to the hospital today."

Danny winked at his father. "Please, Mom. Did you really think I'd miss an opportunity to torment Laur?"

Niles shook his head at his son. "Where are Maxy and Claire?"

"We dropped them off at Jonah and Renee's. Val and Fred are visiting and you know how they love Aunt Val's stories about 'the old days'." Eve adored her Aunt Val, but knew full well the kids just liked that Aunt Val was well not the brightest bulb in the box.

"Where are the twins?" Eve asked thinking they'd want to be there for the delivery of the newest family member.

Niles pointed to the delivery room. "In there."

"I don't imagine they'll last much longer." CC offered just moments before Young Niles and Abby came practically flying out of their mother's delivery room.

"There is no way I'm ever having kids." Abby announced, bringing a round of laughter from the adults.

Young Niles just shook his head. "Grandpa, how did you manage to do that in your house?"

"Well, my boy, your grandmother had to rely completely upon me, so she didn't dare yell and curse at me like your mother is doing to your father." Niles eyes sparkled as he fibbed to his namesake.

Fran winked at Niles. "Come on kids, let's go to the cafeteria and get a snack, I think your mom may be there a while."

"I have my cell, CC just call when all that's over." Max waved his hand in the direction of Lauren's room.

CC laughed. "Geez, you'd think Max never heard a woman scream before."

Then almost too suddenly the screaming stopped. Niles looked at CC with slight concern. Then Tom appeared at the door. "He you two, I guess Laur scared everyone else away, huh?" Niles nodded at his son-in-law. "Come on in, there's someone here you need to meet."

Niles and CC stood and started toward the room just as the doctor and nurses came out. "Geez," the older nurse started. "I haven't heard screaming like that since I had my kid." Niles and CC laughed.

When Niles and CC entered the room they made their way to Lauren's bedside. "Hey, Princess, I'm guessing you didn't have an easy go of it?" Niles winked at his baby girl.

"Very funny, Daddy." Lauren pulled herself up to sitting. "I don't know why this time was so different. It was like he just didn't want to come out. I'd swear he'd grabbed on to something and wouldn't let go."

Niles and CC joined Lauren and Tom in a hearty laugh. "Her ya go, Lauren," the baby doctor said as he handed the baby to Lauren. "He's in excellent health, and has a very serious look about him."

"Thanks, Dr. Singer." Lauren grinned at the pediatrician she knew well. "I'll have him in to see you in a month, right?" Dr. Singer winked and left them.

Lauren looked at her father. "Daddy, we'd like to name him after Granddad, is that alright?" Niles nodded and Lauren looked at her mother. "And Stuart, for a middle name, ok?" CC nodded as well.

"May I?" Niles reached for his infant grandson and Lauren gladly relinquished him into his waiting arms. Niles' deep blue eyes looked tearfully down at his grandson. "Welcome to the family, Joseph."