"Billy! This is my wife –"

"Camille, right?" Billy smiled and greeted the woman on Jerry's arm, "Ma told me all about you."

"Did she really? When did you last speak?"

"Just a few days ago. My phone bill makes up for my absence." He said with a wry smile.

"Must be one hell of a phone bill." She said with a smile. "I remember you, from when you still lived here in Detroit…you were on the hockey team "

"No, I just played with them from time to time."

"Really? I seem to remember Coach Fyer being on your case all season."

"Really, I was too busy trying to avoid him to notice. I'd just hear his footsteps and I'd hide behind someone. Good thing about being small is that everyone else is bigger."

"I'll bet." She chuckled nervously. "You must be Tag. Jerry told me about you just now."

Murtagh shrugged, looking scarily like his father, "Not much to tell."

"Aww, don't say that. You're a Mercer. I'll bet you're a firecracker like the rest of the clan."

Murtagh counted himself lucky that he wasn't a blusher – like his dad, not that he'd ever admit it. "I try to stay out of trouble..." he said and shifted uncomfortably.

Bobby snorted, "If you're anything like the rest of us, trouble finds you." Billy smirked wryly, "Even your old man's in on that one, or what Green? Ready to dish the dirt?"

"You got that right! Billy needed bodyguards to protect him from the randy teenage hordes. Half of the school wanted to fuck him, half of the remaining wanted to mother him and the rest wanted to kill him cause he hogged all the attention!" Green barked in laughter.

"Sounds like you Jackie – only the half of the school wanting to fuck you are mostly male!" Bobby teased.

"Drop that shit man, it ain't funny!" Jack whined.

"Actually, Billy had his fair share of awkward moments there too."

"Shut up man!" Billy snapped, "I don't remember you being so tough when Sweet had you against the shower wall."

"Sweet had you against the shower wall?" Bobby parroted, amusement shining from his eyes.

"That is so not cool man." Green said, "That motherfucker was huge!"

"You're not talking about that little punk Victor are you?"

Billy snorted, "Hell no! His big brother Derek."

"I seem to remember him being pretty sweet on you as well, Darley." Green shot back, "Only he kept his paws away because of out loverboy threatening to level him with the ground."

"Loverboy?" Bobby asked with interest.

"Billy and Nick were a little closer than just friends." Green suggested.

"You still believe that?" Billy sighed. Murtagh rolled his eyes. He was the living proof of that they had been more than just friends.

"I know that." Green said with a smirk.

"Fucking hell, first thing that happens when I get home, I a detailed recount of every rumour I ever had going around me!"

Green chuckled, "You don't want to go there." He said, "We better head out. Got work to do –and Darley, don't do anything rash."

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