"Sit down before I have Hugo tie you down," Martha warns Angelo as he continued to struggle against Hugo.
"Let me go, I need to find Charlie."
"She's probably in bed fucking Joey," she taunts him.
"Don't you dare say that!"
"You stupid fuck, how could you not see what was going on?"
"Because Charlie would never fuck a woman," he screeches.
"I'd say she has been and for some time." Martha paces, glancing around the now empty club before turning her attention back to Angelo. "Now, do you want to tell me what the fuck you were thinking of with O'Malley?"
He stops fighting against Hugo, furious that a fag was stronger than him. "I handled a problem."
"You don't handle any problem that affects us without talking to me first."
"He was panicking."
"Then tell me and I would have handled it and without having another dead cop."
"No one knows he's dead. I threatened his sister to play along."
"You had her send an email from his computer after he had already missed his shift to say there'd been a family emergency with his parents. Just how long do you think that will last for when he doesn't come back?" Angelo's shoulder's slump. "He was your alibi Angelo and he was useful for covering for you when I needed you to do something while you were on duty."
"Well, at least now he can't recant his statement."
"And don't you think Joey and Graves are going to be a little suspicious that he disappeared so soon after Joey spoke to him?"
"We say he's done a runner."
"Somehow I don't think that will stop Joey thinking the worse."
"You should have let me kill that fucking dyke when I first wanted to."
"See, this is why you're not in charge. I've told you before, we couldn't risk another dead cop," her voice growing colder with every word, "which is why you shouldn't have killed O'Malley." She sighs in frustration. "Don't go anywhere, we're not done. Oh and congratulations on the baby."
"It's not mine."
"How many times have you fucked her since she's been here?" She queries. "You seem to be permanently attached by your dick so chances are, it's yours."
She indicates to Hugo to follow her to the other side of the room.
"Ross is really your father?" He asks, still shocked by all that had gone down.
"I'd rather not talk about it anymore, Hugo."
"Don't blame you." He tilts his head in Angelo's direction, "What do we do with him?"
"We need to keep an eye on him." She thinks for a moment. "We bring him into the next shipment and then we retire him during the exchange." They both glance back toward the sulking figure. "Make sure he stays here even in you have to tie him up. I don't want him ending up in jail because he was harassing Charlie."
"That won't stop him."
"Probably not, but right now, he's likely to do something incredibly stupid."
"Are you going to the hospital?"
"Why the fuck would I do that?"
"It's just that...oh, never mind."
"Hugo, finding out that I was fucking my own father is not something I ever wanted learn, nor do I really want to have anything to do with either of my parents now that I've finally confronted them."
"Sorry."
"Let's just never mention it again. I've got a few things to do in the office, don't let him go."
Coming home from the hospital over five hours later, an exhausted Charlie collapses onto the couch. "I don't know whether to be happy or terrified that he's going to pull through and I feel bad for thinking like that and for feeling nothing but anger and disgust at the moment."
Joey sits beside Charlie, encouraging her to lie down with her, her head nestled on Joey's shoulder. Wrapping her arms around her, Joey kisses the top of her head. "Considering everything that's happened, it's completely understandable for you to feel like that."
"Morag won't even leave his bedside, not even after what he did to her own daughter." Charlie closes her eyes, shuddering. "God, I can't believe that Martha's my sister."
Joey winces, not sure how she felt about having slept with sisters.
"He's given me such a hard time over Ruby, yet all this time, he's had Martha. Oh god, that didn't sound right, I just meant that."
"I know what you meant. He had a child with another woman, one he wasn't married to."
"And then he got her..." she stops, unable to say it.
"He didn't know Martha was his daughter, Charlie."
"It doesn't make me feel any better knowing he got his own daughter pregnant," she manages to get the words out. "Especially as I'm his daughter too. Do you believe Martha when she said she went through with the abortion because she did disappear to the city for a few months at around the time she would have been pregnant, so maybe she had the baby."
"And what if she did? Charlie, that baby was the result of incest and considering who the parents are, don't you think that just maybe, the kid would be better off not knowing?"
Charlie sighs, nodding. "I knew he had been cheating on mum for a long time, I just had no idea and for him to sleep with Martha when she was so young and when Morag was in the room next door. I just can't believe that the man who spent the last 15 years calling me a whore is one himself." Joey chuckles at the description. "He said I was dead to him but what if he still tries to do what he threatened to do?"
"Charlie, your father is finished. Thanks to Martha's rather public revelations, word is already out about his affair with his own daughter and even if he never knew, the stigma sticks and he knows I have something on him that can ruin him."
"Let me guess, an affair with someone he shouldn't be having an affair with."
"Definitely not with this woman." Joey shifts slightly. "Charlie, considering his feelings about lesbians and having his daughter out herself, he's not going to want to show his face around any station."
"Oh god, I can't believe I actually outed myself like that," Charlie says, the events of the night finally sinking in.
"Are you regretting it?" Joey asks a little nervously.
Charlie moves so she could face her, "Maybe about making it so public but I'm actually feeling relieved now that it's finally out." She leans in, capturing her lips. "Now I can be with you whenever I want and not have to worry about someone being suspicious about what we're up to."
Joey grins cheekily, "When can we go to the diner?"
Charlie chuckles, "I think after my father's heart attack, we can do without giving Colleen one." She snuggles back against Joey. "If someone had told me six months ago that I'd be in love with a woman, I'd have had them committed, especially if they told me that I'd feel things I never thought would be possible."
Joey holds her tighter. "I'm glad I met you Charlie. I was starting to think that I'd never get over losing Riley and that I'd always be alone."
She sighs. "I don't think your sister is too pleased though." Thinking back to Watson's arrival at the hospital and her cold demeanour toward her. "It didn't even seem to make a difference once we'd explained things to her."
"When I was 8, something happened and ever since that day, Georgie's always been there for me and she's always a little slow to get over people hurting me. Just give her time."
Charlie nods, hoping that one day Joey would trust her enough to tell her all the details of her abusive childhood. "I know we have a lot to talk about, but can we leave it till morning?"
"Fine by me."
"Um, ah," Charlie hesitates, before asking, "Can you stay the night?"
"Are you sure?"
"By now the entire town knows about us and Ruby's still at your place, so we have the place to ourselves."
"You look like you're just about asleep," Joey notes with amusement.
"I am. Joey, I don't care if we don't make love tonight, I just want to have you in my arms and wake up with you by my side."
"You don't have to try so hard to convince me Charlie. Of course I'll stay."
Having waited up for Watson's return from the hospital, Dex and Graves now lean back against the couch in shock as she fills them in on everything.
"See, I told you Charlie loved her."
"Yes Dex you did," Watson says, unsure how she felt about their renewed relationship. "She could have saved a lot of pain and anger if she'd told Joey from the beginning."
"I've never met her father, but he sounds kind of like a scary guy," says Dex.
"He's not a very pleasant person and he is kind of intimidating," Graves points out.
Watson sighs. "I just don't want Joey hurt again."
"They're out now, Georgie and everyone knows."
"That's the problem Graves, everyone knows."
"Rosetta was going to have to find out eventually and it sounds like he made a right fool of himself so he'd be stupid to try something."
"Angelo's not exactly the most rational person."
"Joey can look after herself and we'll keep an eye on both her and Charlie."
"Maybe I am worrying too much."
"You wouldn't be you if you didn't worry about Joey," Dex says gently.
"I just wish she'd stop making me worry." The three of them look at each other, all of them thinking the same thing. "I know, no matter how careful she is, she finds a way to get into a situation which has us worrying."
"That is the Joey we know and love," Graves says with amusement. "So Martha is Charlie's sister, that just," she pauses, "That really sucks. Martha is such a bitch, but god, imagine finding out you were pregnant to your father," Graves shudders. Dex puts his arm around her. "I guess finding out what she did can kind of mess you up and maybe it does explain a bit about her."
"It may be some of the cause, but Martha started to change when her mother," she stops. "I guess Roo is actually her cousin now." She shakes her head, clearing her thoughts. "Anyway, when Roo left, Martha started to change and that was a couple of years before all this. There's something else." Watson licks her lips, trying to find a way to break the news. "Dex, Indi is pregnant and Angelo is the father."
"No fucking way!" Graves blurts out, launching to her feet. "That stupid little bitch, she must have done it deliberately. If she thinks she's getting any money out of me to support that demon spawn, then she can think again," she rages.
"Penny, you'll wake Ruby," Dex says calmly, tugging on the sleeve of her robe. "Penny, Indi isn't pregnant, she can't be."
Graves looks down at him in confusion. "She just blurted it out if front of everyone."
"Indi can't have children. She had Chlamydia not long before we met and it damaged her fallopian tubes." He shrugs, "She can't get pregnant, at least not without IVF."
"Oh," she sits back down. "Why the hell didn't you say that before?"
Dex smiles in amusement. "Us on the other hand, chances are high we'll have twins."
"What!" she launches to her feet again.
"Dad had two sets of twins, first with my mum and then with Marilyn."
She sits down again, groaning. "God, twins, that's like double the pain."
"You have five years to get used to the idea."
"Ten years," she reminds him.
He holds his hand up, indicating to Watson, five. Watson coughs, hiding her chuckle, before asking him why Indi would be saying she was pregnant.
"I guess when Angelo went back to Charlie, Indi thought telling him she was pregnant was a way to keep him." He shrugs, "It's what Indi does when she wants someone, she uses whatever lies she has to, to keep them until she's ready to end things and what's worse, is that once she starts the lie, she actually starts to believe it's true."
"Then she thinks she's actually pregnant?" Graves asks in disbelief.
He nods. "Dad and I could remind her about what happened to her, but she'd just think we were trying to come between her and Angelo."
"Should we say anything?"
"If she wants to fool that prick, let her," Watson says dismissively. "By the time that moron figures out she's lying, he'll be in jail."
"Georgie's probably right. As long as Indi believes it, she'll do whatever she can to convince him she's pregnant with his baby and I'd hate to think what Angelo would do if he knew the truth."
"Ok, so we say nothing," Graves agrees.
"Well, I'm going to bed, I'll see you guys in the morning."
"Night Georgie," they say in unison.
Graves gazes at her husband, "Twins, huh?"
"Chances are higher for us."
She exhales, "Ok, 10."
"5."
"9."
"5."
"Dex, you're supposed to negotiate."
"We'd already settled on 5 years before we married and it's not my fault you watched that medical show and wimped out."
Graves scowls, "Fine, 5."
Dex grins, "4."
"Dex, no more negotiating," she warns him, knowing full well he'd be trying to work her down to four and then once she'd agreed, down to 3. "Ruby's going to be happy when she finds out that not only are her mum and Joey back together, but they're out," she changes the subject.
"No doubt she'll be planning their lives; when they're moving in together, when Harley is going to be with them."
Graves chuckles, "Joey did mention that she had a tendency to get a little ahead of herself." She grows serious, "There's still things that Charlie doesn't know."
"I think she'll understand even more now, why Joey kept these things from her."
"I hope you're right." She stands, holding her hand out to him. She smiles when Dex whispers four into her ear as they head to their room.
