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Elliot woke up to find Indianna cuddled to his side watching TV. He kissed her head and held her a bit tighter. "How long have you been up?"
"About an hour." Indianna said rubbing her eye with her sleeve. "The New Adventures of Old Christine is on."
"It's only eight." Elliot said looking at the clock. "Why'd you get up so early? You are usually in bed when Casey and I are eating lunch."
Indianna smiled. "Well, I'm finally home. I've missed it. I've missed you."
"I missed you too." Elliot grinned and leaned back into the couch to look at the TV. "I don't think we've ever watched this show. What's it about?"
"It's about this girl named Christine. She's trying to deal with her brother living with her, her son, her best friend, her job, relationships, her husband, and his new girlfriend named Christine. They call her new Christine. I love her brother, Matthew. He once came up with this scenario where he and Christine had a baby together."
"New Christine or his sister Christine?" Elliot asked confused.
"His sister." Indianna said. She looked up at Elliot and laughed. "They were trying to figure out their family tree if she married new Chrisine's dad."
"What the hell? Wait, she was going to marry her ex-husband's girlfriend's father?" Elliot asked.
"No, they were just waiting. Later on, she married her best friend Barb to keep her in the country, but that didn't work so they got divorced. So, Barb married Christine's ex-husband, Richard, who got new Christine pregnant." Indianna explained.
"Again, what the hell?" Elliot asked. "That sounds messed up."
"It is, but it's so funny." Indianna chuckled. She looked over in time to see Casey drop onto the couch and lean on her legs. "Hey Case."
"Hey, what are you doing up?" Casey asked. "Are you feeling okay?"
Indianna smiled. "I'm fine. I just wasn't tired."
"Okay, something is seriously wrong. I've never heard you say that." Elliot said feeling his daughter's forehead. "Ash, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Indianna reassured her father. "I'm just happy to be home and I'd like to be awake to enjoy it." She rested her head on Elliot's arm as he wrapped his around her.
Casey looked at Elliot and they shrugged at each other. She patted Indianna's leg. "Why don't we go make breakfast? We can make those pancakes you have the hardest time making."
Indianna chuckled. "Alright." She stood up with Casey and was about to follow her.
"Hey." Elliot smiled. Indianna turned to him. "Are you forgetting something?"
Indianna remembered what Ashton had told her about Elliot when she left a room. She smiled and kissed Elliot's cheek. "Love you, Daddy."
"That's better." Elliot grinned and kissed her nose. "Go have some fun with Casey. This afternoon, we'll go out a ride the horses. Macklemore has missed you."
"Okay." Indianna smiled and went after Casey to help her with breakfast.
Later that day, Indianna and Elliot were out riding their horses when they stopped by a river for them to drink at. "It's so nice out here." Indianna smiled.
"Yeah, it is." Elliot grinned watching his daughter. "Something changed about you. I thought I sent you to a volleyball camp, not a manners camp."
"Eh, Ashton taught me a few things." Indianna smirked. She patted Macklemore's neck softly and took a deep breath. "Hey Dad?"
"Yes squirt?" Elliot asked.
Indianna smiled softly and paused. "Why don't you ever talk about Mom?"
Elliot looked at his daughter for a moment. "Well, you never really asked a whole lot about her. There's no reason to talk about her."
"There's probably millions of reasons to talk about her. Like why I've never really met her. Or, why did you two split in the first place? What happened where she never came around to see me?" Indianna asked. She replaced all the her questions with the ones Ashton wanted to know the answers to. Her questions were the same, they were just about Elliot.
"Your mother loves you." Elliot said. "Don't ever doubt that. It's just...when your mother and I split...we had an agreement. You'll meet her one day; I promise you that. Trust me, she loves you so much it hurts. I know she misses you like crazy." He reassured his daughter. He knew Olivia was feeling these things because he was feeling the same way about Indianna.
Indianna smiled lightly. "Why'd you two split?"
Elliot paused again and thought over his answer carefully. "Your mother and I were young. We were stupid. We blamed each other for things that we missed out on. I don't regret our marriage or your mom. She gave me you. I loved your mom. It...it just didn't work out the way people hoped."
"How did you want it to turn out?" Indianna asked looking at him.
"You ask a lot of questions." Elliot chuckled and then became serious. "I wished it would've turned out differently. I wish you could've grown up with a mother. Sometimes, I wonder what would've happened if your mother and I stayed together. But, I wanted to make your mother happy." Indianna nodded and followed her father back to the stables.
"Indianna Benson! What are you still doing in bed? You are usually up before your grandfather. He's going to bed for his afternoon nap." Olivia scolded trying to wake up her daughter.
Ashton groaned. "What time is it?"
"That's your question?" Olivia asked chuckling. "It's almost one in the afternoon."
"I didn't get my full eighteen hours in yet." Ashton whined sitting up and rubbing her eyes.
"I'm never sending you to camp again." Olivia decided. "You haven't been acting like yourself since you got back."
"Well, they woke me up at seven o'clock every morning." Ashton explained.
"You get up at five or six every morning." Olivia said. "You got extra hours of sleep at camp. At camp! That shouldn't be possible. When I went to camp, I lost like two hours of sleep every day."
"Well, maybe a turned into the extreme teenage you." Ashton smirked and stood up going over to her bathroom and grabbing her toothbrush. "I'm just tired; that's all."
Olivia rolled her eyes. "You used to wake me up at three in the morning. You don't get tired."
"Maybe I'm just getting older." Ashton concluded and shrugged. "Do you have to work at the store today?"
"Yeah, but only for an hour. It shouldn't take me too long. We could go see that new movie Identity Thief that you wanted to see." Olivia suggested.
Ashton's eyes popped out of her head. "Really? Yes, I wanna do that."
Olivia chuckled. "Okay, get ready and we'll leave in a half hour." She smiled patting her daughter on the butt and walking out of the bedroom.
Ashton hurried downstairs after getting dressed. She grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge and started drinking out of it. It was hot in the Caribbean. Someone cleared their throat behind her. Ashton turned to see Don sitting at the island. "Hey Gramps!"
"Hey Indy! What are you wearing?" Don asked.
"Um, clothes. It's hot out there." Ashton chuckled pulling her hair up into a ponytail. She leaned over the counter. "Why are you wearing pants and a sweat shirt?"
"It's cold. This is the coldest it's been all summer." Don complained. "You brought the cold weather with you."
Ashton smirked. "You sound like John now." She took another sip of her water and glanced down the hallway to find John and Olivia walking towards them. They were both in pants and a type of jacket. "What are you guys wearing? It's dying hot out there. You're going to have heat strokes."
"It's cold." John said shivering. Ashton chuckled as his jaw jittered together making a noise that sound like an applause from really tiny people.
"What are you wearing?" Olivia asked looking at her daughter. "You're in nothing but shorts and a t-shirt. You are going to freeze."
"OMG! No, I am not. You guys are nuts." Ashton grinned. "C'mon, I don't want to be late for the movie."
"Okay." Olivia smiled. She kissed Don's cheek and waved to John on the way out the door with Ashton. "So, did you make any friends at camp that you are going to be talking to now at three a.m. in the morning."
Ashton smiled. "I did meet one girl. Her name is Indianna."
"Wow, who knew there was another girl with your name. I thought that was pretty orginal for a girl." Olivia smiled lightly.
"Yeah, it is." Ashton nodded and paused. "Will I ever get to meet my dad?"
Olivia stopped dead in her tracks. "Uh, where did that come from?"
"That's not fair." Ashton said. "He's my father and I haven't even met the man. When am I going to meet him."
Olivia shook her head and started walking with her daughter again. "Uh, in a couple of years."
"A couple of years?" Ashton asked. "I will be going off to college. I'll barely be able to see him. Why can't I meet him now."
"It's complicated." Olivia breathed. She wrapped an arm around her daughter. "He loves you very much and I promise that you'll meet him. You know that I don't break my promises."
"Yeah, I know you don't." Ashton smiled softly. She just hoped that they could get their parents back together. How complicated could it get after finding out that she had a twin sister that she didn't know about?
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