This was not good. This was soo not good! He wasn't planning on staying a few weeks and then wandering his merry ass on down the road, oh hell no. He was planning on sticking around and being Mr Mom Indefinitely. I was trying to stay calm and rational as I thought about how to approach the problem without creating a brawl and requiring the intervention of my self appointed keepers. "Do you really think this is a good time to be just stopping everything in your career and dropping out of sight? I mean, you are on your way up and your career is really taking off and now you are just going to stop everything? That's kinda a dangerous move don't you think? Fans are fickle creatures and they will always be looking for the next big thing. You could lose it all if you quit now." He just looked at Spence and said, "I don't care. If it all goes away, then I will either start over or do something else. I haven't been to college, maybe I should do that? I have time to figure things out with my career, but time with him his fleeting." Dammit! He had me there and I couldn't blame him for wanting to have time with his son, but I just had no idea how it was all going work with him being around ME constantly. He seemed like a good sort, and we obviously had something that worked, at least in bed, but I did not want a keeper.

I decided to play a trump card with him that I thought would give him a bit of a impetus to at least consider that living with me wasn't going to be the easiest thing to deal with. " You are going to have to quit smoking…everything. You are going to not only be living with a baby, and the chemicals get into your clothes and on your skin, but you are going to be living with a cop, a very high ranking cop, and anything that is even remotely illegal will not be tolerated." He just looked at me wide eyed for a minute and then he said, "Understood and I have already started quitting and I wont be buying anymore tobacco." I didn't bother to tell him that the smell of his cigarettes were driving me crazy with cravings and if I had to smell them much longer I was going to cave and start smoking again and that would get me more hassle than I wanted to deal with from everyone. "You need to clear anyone you plan to have over, with me. Friends, family, whatever, I need to know who, what, when , where , all that kind of info so no one gets hurt. You know how I react to unexpected people around my home." He nodded and said, " I am not planning on having anybody over, I don't really know anyone here and if the guys come up here, I will go to them to prevent anyone getting hurt."

That brought up another issue that was going to be difficult for me to learn to deal with, him taking my baby places without me. I had to accept the fact that he was going to have rights and he was going to want to take his son places and do things with him, but I wasn't really prepared to deal with that though I wasn't sure how I was going to prevent it. I figured the only thing I could ask was for him to be safe and respectful when he did it. " You will need to learn how to correctly install and use his car seat in your car so when you take him places, he will be safe. His car seat will be used each and every time he is in a car. That is a non-negotiable point, and he is never left in a car alone. I would ask that if you do take him someplace, that you let me know so I do not worry." He nodded and then shocked the hell out of me by saying," I was wanting to trade in my car on a vehicle that would be safer and more practical for carrying him around, would you be willing to help me pick one out that would be good for that?" Car shopping? Oh this should be fun, but I had to admit, the kid was trying and maybe I should try a little too, but I wasn't going to relish the idea of a barely housebroken stray mucking up my house with his boy stuff and being around constantly and more than likely interfering with my routine and habits and my general "situation normal". I was going to have to see how he behaved over the next few days before I really decided whether or not I could handle putting up with him on an extended basis for our sons sake. It was late, I was tired and getting crankier by the moment, so I said, " Its time to tuck him in for the night, I don't want to ruin his schedule, or mine, so lets get him down to bed." He carried him down the hallway to my room and tucked him in to the bassinette, I changed in to my pj's and pulled back the covers on my bed as he stood there looking at me as if he wasn't sure what to do. " Uh…Bella? Can I sleep in here or do I have to sleep in his room on the cot?" I sighed. He didn't want to be away from his son, and that cot was an uncomfortable bitch to sleep on, so I just grunted and scooted over so he could have the side near the baby. As he stripped off his clothes I groaned. " Tomorrow we are going to buy you some underwear and some pj's ok? I do have a teen daughter living at home and we don't need to give her a free show of what she fantasized about for the last few years!" He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me to him, " I know this is difficult for you, and I want to tell you how much I appreciate you being so kind and supportive of me getting to know him and trying to be a dad. I know I will fuck up at times, but I will try my best." Well, hell! If he was going to try, I guess that was all I could ask for, and besides, I had a hot young man cuddled up next to me and that tended to go a very long way towards persuading me to be nice. The baby was sound asleep but suddenly I wasn't quite as tired as I had been before young Rock start climbed into bed beside me warm, willing and very, very naked. He had these remarkable powers of persuasion that sure seemed capable of coaxing me into the most insane of situations.

I enlisted the Captain and J.D. to go car shopping with him. I had reports to catch up on and it would be a great boy bonding experience for him to spend the day running around with them, what was funny though was watching Cullen fold himself into the clown car that the young Rock star owned. I may have taken a picture or two for later black mail use. Once they were gone, I sat down with daughter to discuss what to do about her friends and Ali, since he obviously was not going to be leaving any time soon. "Mom, its already all over the web that he has vanished! Rumors are flying thick and crazy, everything from lovers spat with one of the other guys,(oh that was priceless) to rehab for alcohol abuse. There are rumors he was spotted downtown here, so he is going to have to either change his appearance or he's just going to have to count on being stalked by crazed fans." Changing his appearance? That was a possibility. He tended towards the scruffy, and if we cleaned him up, cut his hair short, got him some adult clothes, he would look vastly different. I would have to talk to him about that. " We need to find him something to do. He cant just sit here at the house all day long, I told her. He will either need a job or to be in school because if he just sits around here with Spence he is going to go nuts in short order, so I need your help in encouraging him to find a hobby or something that wont attract a lot of attention." "If we tell Ali who he is, she is going to flip the hell out. She wont be able to keep it a secret at all. We are going to have to give him an alias and figure it out from there, until maybe he isn't so popular of famous anymore, until he is just like a normal guy or something.' Whoa…daughter was making plans on keeping him around long term wasn't she? I told daughter we would talk to him about it when he got back from his shopping expedition with the guys and we would see about coming up with an cover for him.

It was late afternoon when they finally got back, and they came in laughing, which I figured was a good sign. "Bella, you have got to come see what they talked me into! Please, come see if it meets with your approval." He scooped Spence out of my arms, kissing him on his head and grabbing up a blanket to wrap him in against the biting Portland cold and we went out to look at what had him so amused, and I have to admit, I was a bit surprised, though I could see the Captains stink all over the decision to buy the monstrosity that was parked next to my car. " An H3T? Really? You go from your ugly little eco-friendly car to a substa-penis? Those boys are rubbing off on you really bad." He laughed, "Check out all the features, his seat will go here, and in fact we already picked him up a new one that can just stay in place, and it s the best on the market!" He was really excited about all the features and such, so I smiled and patted him on the back and said, " Looks like you did good, and that's a great seat, I feel much better knowing you guys will be safe in the crazy traffic out there." He gave me one of those grins that I have absolutely no resistance against, and hugged me. "Lets get back in the house before the baby freezes, daughter and I have some ideas we need to talk to you and the guys about and we want your input."

Daughter started in on him right away about how his disappearance was sparking a huge commotion around the fans of his movies and band, so he was going to have to change how he looked if he wanted to stay hidden, so she was thinking of giving him a makeover. The Captain and J.D. guffawed at the thought of daughter giving him a makeover and as she glared at them, she seemed to click on something mentally. "Mom! I have it! He will be J.D.'s brother from Texas! They look similar and we can say he and you hit it off and are dating, even though that's still kinda just…ick!, but it will work!" I looked at the guys, and said, " What do you think? Can we swing that and will you be willing to make some changes to how you look and dress to help keep things quiet and sane around here?" He was nervous but agreeable, and before he knew what was happening, daughter had shoved a ball cap on his head and was dragging him out the door to the mall for his "Makeover" the Captain yelled after him, "We'll pray for you man!"

They were gone for over 3 hours and I was beginning to get a bit worried, but just as I was considering dressing the baby and calling in reinforcements to help me hunt down the young Rock star and my daughter, I heard his truck pulling in to the space in front of the apartment. I was standing in the kitchen as my daughter came though the door with a man I would have sworn was a stranger, and not the young Rock star she left with. He looked like a grown assed man! His hair was cut like J.D.'s and even highlighted to match, he was shaved except for a mustache and he was wearing a black snap button shirt and a pair of jeans that actually fit on his ass, as well as a pair of boots and most unusual, a pair of glasses. If I thought he was good looking as a scroungy young man, then I was damn sure done for seeing him as a grown up looking man. Daughter walked over and lifted my jaw into place, I guess it was hanging open a bit, and said, " I don't think anybody will recognize him like this do you?" I just shook my head. I was stunned speechless. He smiled at me and said, " So do you approve?" I didn't know what to say, other than "I didn't know you wore glasses."

They had managed to pick up enough clothing and things to keep the economy of the local area afloat for several months, so he was outfitted rather well, and I was amused to see that he had bought his son a few outfits and toys that were very uniquely him. I told him, "It will be a little while before he is ready for guitar lessons, but he will enjoy slobbering on it quite a bit I am sure." He blushed and just said that , "I wanted him to have his first from me." I smiled at the sweetness of that, and I knew I had to reinforce him just a little, "You are going to give him quite a few of his firsts, I am sure. You are his first father, and how about we get that taken care of tomorrow by making it official?" He smiled as he took his son , cuddling him up and getting slobber all over his pretty new shirt,(it was going to take him a bit to figure out babies were messy critters) "I think I am ready for that."

He had all the proper identification and everything filled out in advance before we even headed out for the courthouse, and I had brought a copy of the original birth certificate and all the other papers we would need to get things handled. He gave them my address as the location to mail the corrected certificate to, and he insisted on ordering and paying for half a dozen copies. He was given a temporary copy that the clerk printed up and he stared at Spences name as if it was the best thing he had ever seen next to the baby that had to carry that monster around, " That poor kids name is bigger than he is!" I laughed. It will take him half his life just to learn how to write it all out and God forbid he ever follows in your footsteps and becomes famous, he will never get away from fans if he stops to sign autographs!" I was seriously cracking myself up as he looked at me with a bit of a smirk, "Initials tend to fit nicely on boobs and things." he said as he headed back out to the truck.