Disclaimer: nope. Don't own it, but just a thought, wouldn't dolls of them be amazing? Or creepy, hmm, time to analyse my obsessiveness....

A/N All the 5th formers had to go to some drivers thing today, it rained all day, and we still had to go outside, I got saturated needless to say. Thanks to all my reviewers. The ideas are jisbon-sessed and Koezh, read and review =]

Grace sat at home, completely bored, it wasn't very often that she had the house to herself, but all the kids were over at friends houses, Autumn was at dancing and Teresa was with Patrick. She was deciding whether or not to take advantage of the empty house or not, when she heard a knock on the door. She went down to open it, to see the last person she ever expected to see.

'Hello Grace'

'Dad?' she said confused, stepping back a bit to grab the bat, used to hit Brandon down.

'Grace please, hear me out' he said, noticing the bat

'Fine, you got 2 minutes, then I'm calling the police, you are breaching your restraining order'

'Can't we just forget about that?'

'We could've, if you hadn't bet me half to death in a bush'

'Look, I am really, truly sorry about that, I want to apologise, and tell you some things'

'A minute thirty' she said

'Ok, after the incident, I went to attend anger management and parenting classes, I am a changed man, I have seen the error of my ways, please, accept me back into your life' he said

'I don't know, that is not my decision, I'm sorry, I will need time to think, I can't make up my mind right here right now' she said

'I completely understand, but please, call me when you know' he said handing her a piece of paper with his number on it.

'I have to go, um pick up Hayley' she said, as she felt things starting to get awkward

'By all means, and Grace, I do love you' he said as he left.

Grace sat down against the wall shaking, there was no way she was going to let herself forgive him, not after all she had been through, yet still she felt herself starting to, she picked up the phone and rang Wayne, he would know what to do, he always did. She text him, and within minutes, he was pulling up on his bike outside her house.

'Grace?' he called

'In here' she said back

He came in and saw her surrounded by family photo albums

'This is me when I was 8, ballet performance, I hated ballet, I had screamed that to my dad, and he hit me, all it did was make me hate ballet more' she said, running her finger tips over the picture

'I think you were more of a gymnast, am I right?'

'Yes, you are, Hayley does gym'

'So, what's up?'

'My dad came around today' she started

'Oh my god, but he has a restraining order out against him!'

'I know, I told him he had 2 minutes to talk before I called the cops'

'What did he say?'

'He said he had taken anger management and parenting classes, and wanted to involved in our family again, I told him I would need to think about it and I wasn't the one to make the decisions, when he left, I told myself there was no way in hell I was letting him back into my life, but there was that little bit wanting to, have I gone completely mad?'

'No, I just think you were confused, I think you need to talk to your mom though' he said

'Ok'

They lay there for about an hour, looking over photos, when Grace's mom came home.

'Hello hon.' she said

'Hi mom, can I talk to you?' she asked

'Course, what's up?'

'Dad dropped by today' she said quietly, causing her mom to drop the bags she was carrying

'Oh god' she muttered

'He said he had taken anger management classes and better parenting ones too. He said he wanted to be involved in our lives again'

'What did you say?'

'I said I wasn't the one to make the decision'

'Oh Grace, I'm sorry he came around'

'I told myself there was no way in hell I was letting him back into my life, but there was that little bit wanting to, what's wrong with me?'

'Nothing is love, you are just confused, you can teach a old dog new tricks, but it still remembers the old ones'

'I was stupid, I should have just called the police'

'No, it was good, you did nothing wrong'

'But now I have that annoying little voice in the back of my mind that won't shut up until we do something to prove he has changed, and it can only result in being good or bad'

'Tell you what, why don't we talk to everyone else about this and maybe go out to dinner with him, see if he has really changed'

'This weekend?'

'Sounds like a plan, did he give you a number to contact him on?'

'Yea, I forgot' she said getting the piece of paper in her pocket out

'We will talk this over dinner'

After a very intense dinner conversation, they all agreed to go out to dinner with him, and the call was made, that he of course accepted

That Saturday night they went out to the restaurant that the James and Brianna fiasco had gone down, which made Teresa and Grace laugh. Dinner appeared to be going well, he really did look like a changed man, but Grace kept her mother's words in her mind. Just as they were preparing to leave, Hayley complained that she needed to go to the bathroom.

'Gracie, I need the potty' she said

'Can't you wait until we get home?'

'No, I need to go now'

'Fine, come on'

'No, I can go by myself!'

'Ok then, hurry back'

Grace watched as Hayley went towards the bathroom, turning away for just a second as her phone dropped out of her hands, muttering a quick curse, when she looked back, Hayley had gone, Grace assumed that she had already gone into the bathroom, but 10 minutes later, when Hayley hadn't come out, Grace knew something was wrong. She went in, but saw no sign of her, and then she looked in the mirror, where a note was stuck to it.

Van Pelt family-

Hayley has been taken because of your unwillingness to accept change, if you want her back, you are going to have to prove your worthiness, Yours sincerely,

-well, that would be stupid to leave a name, but I think you know who I am around

Grace ripped the note off the mirror, and ran with tears streaming down her cheeks, as she thrust the note into her mother's hands.

A/N don't crack your knuckles people! Came back from radiology today, the x-rays show I have quite literally cracked about 4 of them!!! It hurts alot and there is nothing they can do for it, I was told to take it easy, taking it easy involves typing lots, ae? Hmmm, no, oh well... R&R =]