AN: I said I would get it up in this afternoon or in the next couple days, and by God I did!...I got it up tonight! That's really impressive, I think! I felt a joke about erections coming on, but I lost it…I figured the fact that I still mentioned it after the first sentence is kinda funny… Anyways…here you are!

After a few more minutes of discussing nothing, Allison and Remy emerged from Allison's room.

Allison was in a white sweater that fell off one shoulder and jeans. Her hair looked fine after she ran her fingers through it. Remy was in her "Hold Me Closer Tony Danza" shirt and a pair of ripped…obviously she wasn't prepared for this moment; she was prepared for a night in with her lady..and no one else.

Allison's mother had been pacing behind Allison's couch. Her dad and brother were watching some football game. Judy hit David's shoulder when they came out, telling him to turn it off…David muted it.

"Allison, dear…" Judy didn't know what to say.

"I know..I'm sorry mom. I just completely forgot the date…it's all my fault. So, let's just have ThanksChristmas and that'll be that." Allison said as she walked over to her and hugged her. She then leaned down to her father and hugged him from behind the couch, "Hi Daddy." She kissed his cheek.

"Baby girl." He said…he was still half invested in the game he was watching.

Allison moved around the couch to Daniel, "James Daniel!" She pulled him up and hugged him, "How's everything?" She asked.

"Oh you know." He said in a tone that told her that their mother was as crazy as usual around this time.

Allison smirked and walked back over to the awkwardly standing Remy, "Family, this is Remy. Remy…this is my family." She squeezed the brunette's hand. "That's Judy, my mom. David, my dad. And James Daniel, my brother."

David looked up from the screen, "Oh, I see you put some clothes on…Good choice." He kept his face blank as he sat forward, "Allison's mother is a bit of a prude, and she'd be jealous because she wouldn't have all the attention." He sat up quickly for an older man.

He was just out of reach from Judy, "DAVID!" She tried to hit him.

She kept an angry face as David laughed and walked over to Remy, "I'm just playing. It's nice to meet you." He said with a genuine, warm smile.

"Yes, he does that a lot…most of the time at my expense." Judy crossed her arms.

"Oh, now…" David growled slightly as he walked over to his wife, "I know where the lines are Dear. You've trained me well." He kissed her cheek, then turned to Allison and Remy, "If it wasn't for Judy here, I would still be a tramp…" He thought about his words, "Like the dog from the Disney movie…she's my Lady."

Allison and Remy looked at each other. Both thought about their earlier conversation…Allison was a little disgusted…because they were her parents, but Remy thought it to be a good sign.

Daniel gave his parents a look, then stood up, "You can just call me Daniel..she's the only one that uses my real first name." He said as he stuck his hand out to shake.

Remy took it, "Okay, I'll keep that in mind…you can call me Thirteen or Remy or Hey You…I'll pretty much answer to anything…" Remy said.

"Thirteen?" Judy asked as she walked over.

"Yeah, it's what everyone calls me…" She shrugged, "Nickname from when I first started at PPTH."

"Oh, was that your number? Allison told us about House's antics when he was weeding all of you out." Judy smiled.

"Yeah, yeah it was." Remy nodded. "Turns out, 13 is a pretty lucky number…" She shrugged and sat down on the one seater she was standing next to. Allison sat on the arm rest and propped her elbow against the back of it to hold herself up.

Judy laughed a small laugh…it was almost exactly like Allison's, "Because you got the job?"

"Well, more than that, I got the girl…" She looked up and over at Allison and grinned as she placed her hand on her thigh. Allison gave her a bashful look as she placed her hands on top of her girlfriend's.

"Yes, well…" Judy looked away. "Let's get on with it. Remy, will you be joining us?"

"Uhh," Remy looked at Allison, making sure that the blonde wanted her to stay, "Yes. I am." She nodded.

"Alright," Judy stood up, "Allison will you come with me and help me with the food?" It sounded like a question, but it was a command.

"Yeah, mom." Allison sounded a little timid, but went with her mother anyways.

"I can help too." Remy started to stand.

Remy felt like she couldn't move when Judy held her handout and said, "No, dear…you stay. It's fine." Judy smiled at her, and motioned for her to sit down. Remy sat down and stayed where she was.

David leaned forward, "She wants to talk about you…" He rolled his eyes.

"I see where Al gets the eye roll from…" Remy smirked.

David looked back at her from the now un-muted game, "I haven't a clue what you're talking about." He gave her a look that told her she did.

Daniel had taken out his phone. It looked like he was texting or watching something, "Okay…something's going to clatter in…3, 2" Daniel pointed instead of saying the last number; as he motioned, something was thrown or 'dropped' in the sink and right before that everyone heard a, 'No mother…!' from one Miss Allison Cameron.

Remy was staring at the kitchen, "Do they do this a lot?" She asked.

"Just about every year…especially when she has someone with her." Daniel nodded, "A girl, specifically. Mom was actually quite pleased with Chase." He rolled his eyes.

Remy laughed, "I see you roll your eyes too." She said.

"Comes with the territory of having our mother…she means well but she smothers a lot, and she wants things how she wants them not necessarily how they pan out." Daniel said.

"How old are you?" She asked.

"18."

Remy raised her eyebrows, "Wow…you're a very smart kid, but oh so young, young Daniel." Her eyes bugged then went back in place, "I think I've found my nickname, young Daniel."

"I'll take that. I like it better than James Daniel." He shook his head.

"Thirteen." David spoke up, taking his eyes away from the screen to look at her. She looked over to him, "Now, I don't want to get all serious, but I am the father. It's my job…How long have you been fucking my daughter?" He asked. She was caught off guard with both his timing and his word choice, "Come on. I know my daughter is no angel. She doesn't do relationships that often…well," He thought about it, "She doesn't do them that well. I understand that you two are probably just uhh..what were those movies..Friends with Benefits..?" He looked at her, "No Strings Attached? Ah, hell they're the same thing. I assume that's what you two are?"

Remy stared at him for a second, "You weren't paying attention as to why your wife went in the kitchen were you?"

He gave a guilty look, "Selective hearing." He said.

"Ah, selective. Well. No Sir, on the contrary, I'm actually falling quite hard for your daughter…"

He looked impressed, "Is that so?" He asked, "Give me a reason to believe you."

"Uhh…well." She looked up trying to think of the best possible reason. She decided to just go with the truth, "I've umm…I've never been tied down. I've always wanted to be free…I've frankly taken risks that I shouldn't have with my life and it was because I didn't care about it…I'm on the short track anyways, why play it safe?" She looked at him, then realized she needed to explain, "I have Huntington's Chorea. It's a genetic disease comparable to Parkinson's." She took a breath, "So, I have just never cared about consequences or what I do with my life while I'm here…I guess it's been like my big, 'Fuck you' to God—pardon my French."

"Sounded like good English to me.." David said.

Remy liked him…she liked him a lot. He was fun, and wasn't afraid of her daughter's sexuality… She smirked at his remark, "So that was the track I was on, and one day Allison comes up to me, this was like a year and a half ago by the way. She comes up to me and says, 'House told me. I'm sorry.' She had those big grey-hazel eyes of hers just oozing with concern. Then she said, 'I know it probably means nothing, but I think you should change the way you live your life. The way your living now…it's toxic.' And those words…they got to me, you know?"

"She does that to people a lot." David nodded. "She has a way with words and emotions.."

"But it was after that one little conversation, I knew that I wanted to change. I knew that I wanted to live for something. Turns out, after fast-forwarding to now, the thing I found to live for was the very thing that wanted me to live." Remy shrugged.

"I like you." David said rather bluntly, "I think you're my favorite of all the ones I've met…" He nodded, "You better be here next year and the years after…even after you die you better be coming with her to ThanksChristmas." He gave Remy a stern look.

She smiled, "No problem."

"Yup, Allison is her mother's daughter, whether she likes to admit it or not. Both of them are like spiders. They've got patience and stillness about them, but once us hopeless flies are caught in the web, we're all theirs. They're in charge of our lives and we simply have to wait." David said, "And I tell ya, I'd be lying if I said I wanted to be anything but the fly caught in Judy's web…despite how morbid that sounds."

Remy squinted at the man before her. Then she heard another clatter. She couldn't take it, and she got up and went to the kitchen.

~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~

Meanwhile back in the kitchen…

"What do you think you are doing young lady?" Judy asked quietly once they were in the kitchen. She began taking the dishes out of the travel packaging.

"Okay…" Allison started, put off, "If you're going to do this, I'm going to go back in the living room. I don't need this again. I'm a grown-ass woman…"

"Obviously not if you're still living in that college phase of yours. Allison, it's wrong. We've been through this. I know you think you're a…a.." She whispered, "A lesbian, but Honey, what about Chase?"

Allison could not believe she was hearing this…Fucking ever since I introduced her to Chase she's taken like 300 steps backwards!, "NO MOTHER—!" She was cut off by her mother throwing one of the glass lids in the sink, and continued in a softer voice that still held her harsh tone, "There is no Chase. As far as I'm concerned he was a chick with a dick, okay? That's how feminine he was!"

"Allison, he was a man!"

"He picked out my clothes! It was odd!" Allison didn't let her mom speak again, "No, Mom, listen to me. This thing I have with Remy…it's real—AND I know that I've said that before…" She looked out the doorway, hoping to get a glimpse of her, "But this time I mean it." She turned back to her mother and paused. She took a breath, "I am falling in love with her..I think I've already fallen, Mom." Allison shook her head, "Rem's it. She is it." She closed some of the distance between herself and her mother, "And I will not have you do that thing that you've done to my exes, you hear me? You are not banning her from family functions. As far as you're concerned…now, she is family."

"How long have you been with her?" It pained Judy to say it, but deep, deep down, no matter what she wished for, she knew her daughter loved women. She knew—as much as it grossed her out to say—from the moment she heard the noises coming from her daughter's bedroom that she found the person that finally made her understand what life was about…she just did not expect a woman…not after Chase that is. She saw they way she interacted with the younger doctor…it was exactly like she and her husband did way back when. She knew that Remy was going to make her daughter happy.

"Just a week and a half…officially since Thanksgiving, but it has been a long, long time coming. I think deep..deep down that I might have been plotting this to happen for the last like year and a half…" Allison was staring off into space.

"And why do you say that?" Judy asked as she leaned against the counter.

"It was right after I found out she had Huntington's…I remember thinking that she was just a party-girl whore. I mean, I thought that there might have been more to her, but she's just so mysterious that I didn't know for sure…that is until House told me about the Huntington's…" She was traveling memory lane, not really paying attention to her mother, "When he told me, it was an instant click. I realized that she was going out and doing what she did because she didn't think she had anything to live for…I told essentially that I would care if she died." She stopped and looked up.

"Huntington's…how bad is it?" She asked.

Allison let a tear fall from each eye…she didn't even know where the tears came from, they were so sudden, "It's bad mom." She said quietly. She let her mom hug her for a second then pulled from her, "So do not do anything to jeopardize my time with her. Please."

"Honey I would never—"

"Yes you would mom! You've actually done it before!"

"But Allison, they weren't right for you…"

"I didn't know that! Mother, you're a meddler. I'm asking you to just…not this one time. Focus on James Daniel…" She threw her brother into the fire….Sorry little brother.

"I'm not going to meddle." Judy said.

"Just like that?" Allison was not convinced.

"Yes, just like that. Allison, Sweetie…" She shook her head, "I can finally see it."

"See what?" Now the younger Cameron was confused.

"I can see that you know the real meaning of life…that you've finally found someone to love more than yourself…All of those other girlfriends and the boy…you didn't love them..you thought you did, but you just appreciated them. They were warm bodies…"

Allison stared at her, "Mom…how do you know what I'm always thinking when I think about my relationships" She said, "I don't know how you've always done that, but that's scarier than when I walked in on you and daddy.." She shuddered as she turned back to the dishes finally and began taking lids off.

"Believe me that's no treat the other way around either." Judy said.

Allison dropped her lid, causing a bigger crash, "Mom!" She gave her mother another disgusted look.

"Well, I'm just sayin' is all." Judy replied.

Remy entered the kitchen, but stayed in the doorway, "I'm sorry, there just seems to be a lot of crashing going on in here…I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help…?" She asked.

"Well, Remy…you could explain your shirt…" Judy looked at her.

That was maybe the last thing she was thinking would come out of the woman's mouth…Strike that, she didn't even think that would come from Allison's mom's mouth. She looked down, "Uhh, it's uh," she laughed, "It's from Friends…at least that's what I first heard it on. It's actually Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer'…yeah, it sounds like he says—well, sings, 'Hold me closer Tony Danza' but the real lyric is 'Hold me closer tiny dancer'…" She said as she moved into the kitchen.

Remy was now leaning against the counter on her elbow next to Allison. Her fingers had a mind of their own when the blonde doctor was near. She found Allison's belt loop and hooked her middle and ring finger in it. She then caressed the small patch of skin that was just barely showing between Allison's pant line and the bottom of her sweater.

As soon as the brunette came over and leaned down, Allison had her hand gently scratching her back as she spoke.

Allison's mother watched all of this happen. She saw them look at each other and get lost…just like her and David still did sometimes… She grinned and stood up, "Well." She said breaking them up, "I think our food is ready. Let's eat." Judy went to the doorway, "Boys? Food's ready." Immediately her husband and son were headed to the kitchen.

~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~

As they ate lunch, Judy asked Remy all kinds of questions. And the thing that surprised Judy most was how easy it was to fall head over heels for that girl. She was the entire package. She had the wit of a honey badger…not that that really makes sense, but she does. She's also as strong as the honey badger…If that girl were an animal, she'd be a honey badger…a honey badger that acted like a dog…defensive and protective, but cuddly to the people she loves.

By the end of ThanksChristmas, Judy had got Remy cell phone number and they had made plans to go to lunch.

Allison, Daniel and David were rather impressed with the brunette outsider as well. As they left Remy got the bigger hug from her mother too.

Remy turned to Allison, "Your mother likes me." She said all cocky.

"Yeah…she likes you more than she likes me…" Allison agreed. She didn't really care. If her mother wasn't down her back, that was a welcome relief… "You know…you are a very good weapon of defense against her. I'm gonna have to keep you around for a while."

Remy laughed as she plopped on the couch and reached for Allison, "Oh, yeah?" She asked.

"Mhmm…plus you smell good all the time, you cuddle when I want to, and you give a phenomenal orgasm…" Allison said.

"Is that all?" Remy asked.

"No…" Allison looked at her, "You make my heart go boomp, boomp, boomp."

All Remy could do was smile and nod, telling her that she felt the same, and that she knew that the blonde was repeating her words. She pulled Allison up and kissed her. They snuggled into the couch and stayed there the rest of the evening.

AN: Hope you liked it! I'll be working on the next installment in my free time and I should get this last chapter done by the end of the week!