As I already said, JaSammers you should be happy for a bit... But I would like to once again remind you that this is Alexis' story, not theirs.

ENJOY and REVIEW.

Chapter Twenty

Sausage Links

Sam grabbed Diane's arm to bring her back into the room.

--- "Oh no you don't!"

Diane smiled innocently at the young woman.

--- "Sam, come on! They had to meet some day! And besides, Jason needed to see me anyway."

Sam let the woman go and gave her a once over.

--- "Looking like that, Diane? You look you spent your night in a barn!"

The older woman rolled her eyes.

--- "If only I had actually been rolling around in the hay—"

Sam covered her face.

--- "Okay, you know what, I don't have time for this. If you're so upset about Max's issues—"

Diane frowned.

--- "I will kill your mother for—"

Sam pulled her hairs up in a ponytail.

--- "Please, my mother didn't tell me anything. Anyone looking at you can see how meat deprived you've been. My suggestion to you, instead of lushing it up, sleeping in my bed, and then calling my boyfriend to entertain you, would be to simply go vegetarian and enjoy a slice of fish."

Diane made a face until Sam raised her eyebrows; she pursed her lips.

--- "I support fish, but I'll have you know that I enjoy a nice juicy piece of bratwurst, kielbasa, even cheddarwurst. I am a connoisseur of all things meaty!"

Sam rolled her eyes.

--- "That's great, but I need to do damage control… and you might want to take a shower and brush your teeth before anyone else catches whiff of you otherwise, no butcher or fisher[ahem]man will want any part of you."

Diane pouted and sniffed herself.

--- "Ew. Well, I suppose I'll find something in your mother's closet to wear."

Sam rolled her eyes and looked Diane up and down.

--- "Hmm, sure she does."

Diane put her hands on her hips and began yelling at Sam as the younger woman walked out of Alexis' room.

Kristina and Molly attempted to run behind Alexis toward the living room, but she was having no part in their antics.

--- "Girls, go to your rooms."

--- "Aw, come on MOM!"

She stopped walking and pointed toward the direction of their bedrooms.

--- "I'm not asking you again. Remember Sam?"

Molly shrugged; she did not care to be spanked.

--- "Sorry Kristina, but I'm not THAT interested."

Alexis looked at her middle daughter.

--- "Well?"

Kristina crossed her arms.

--- "If I let you spank me, would you let me watch?"

She was confused.

--- "Okay, why are you so interested in my date with Mac?"

Molly laughed at her mother.

--- "Mommy, we don't care about you and Mac! We want to see Jason and Sam's father meet."

Alexis jokingly raised her hand to her daughter, who instinctively covered her bottom, before kissing her on the forehead.

--- "Baby, Jason would never come here. And besides, how would he have known that Mati were here? Sam hasn't spoken to him—"

Kristina smiled.

--- "But, Diane has."

She pressed the bridge of her nose. She did not even care about Jason meeting Mati; at that point, she just wanted to hurry up and leave with Mac for breakfast before Sam's father came out and made the situation awkward.

The doorbell rang again just as Sam was walking toward them.

--- "Mom—"

Alexis put her hand up.

--- "Ok, you know what? Kristina, go get your sister some clothes to borrow. Sam, I have to get the door; I already know what Diane has done and I'll handle it. Um, if it's Blinker at the door, I don't want you anywhere in sight while Mac and I are still here."

Molly giggled.

--- "Mommy, you don't want to see this? This is going to be good! Sam telling her father that her boyfriend is—"

Alexis put her finger to her daughter's mouth.

--- "Mol, how about we not mention Jason's 'profession' out loud? Okay? Now, Krissy and Sam, please?"

--- "Fine."

--- "That's fine, Mom, but I swear I will murder your friend if this ends badly for Jason and me."

Alexis rolled her eyes.

--- "How horribly could this possibly be, Sam? I don't like him, and I was the D.A.! I had him arrested plenty of times—"

--- "For things he didn't do."

--- "Please, if he hadn't done what I had him brought to the station for, he would have done something similar eventually. Now, go before I tell your sisters about the mirror."

Sam put up both hands in defeat, as Kristina and Molly looked at their sister curiously.

--- "I'm gone."

Alexis smiled.

--- "Thank you, bruiser!"

As she walked toward the living room at the sound of the third ring of the doorbell, Alexis sensed that she was being followed; it was Molly.

--- "And where are you going?"

--- "Um, I'm just going to, uh, get my book—"

--- "No, I don't think so."

Molly made a sad puppy face.

--- "But Mommy!"

Alexis smiled at her daughter, cupped her face, and gave her a kiss on the nose.

--- Molly, go."

She gave her a tap on the bottom and pointed toward her bedroom.

--- "Fine! But, I'm coming out if it sounds like its getting good!"

Alexis made to run after her, but Molly laughingly ran out of the room.

--- "Finally."

She entered the living room to find Mac at her door. She opened the door to let him in before he turned into an icicle.

--- "Hi Mac."

He shivered as he entered the house.

--- "Geez, Lex, I thought you were going to keep my out there! It's freezing!"

--- "I'm so sorry about that. I had three pains in my ass keeping me from answering."

She noticed that it was practically blizzarding outside.

--- "Oh, Mac, you didn't have to come all this way in the middle of a snowstorm! We could've rescheduled breakfast."

He smiled and held up two large bags. She took them from him and looked inside; it was breakfast from Kelly's. He removed his coat and scarf, and hung them on the coat rack.

--- "Lex, please! I figured that since we're in the midst of a snowstorm, and I'm sure that you didn't have anything here—"

She cut him off.

--- "Excuse me, but I've got food!"

He made a face, causing her to roll her eyes and smiled at the man.

--- "Okay FINE, Malcolm Scorpio, I might have rotten milk and old eggs—"

Sam, as she headed toward her bedroom dressed in her sister's jeans and sweater, heard her mother's comment. She stopped and smiled at her mother.

--- "Mom, you are NOT talking about that again! I thought Mac apologized to you for calling you an old refrigerator?"

Mac laughed.

--- "Excuse me, Sam, but I never called your mother an old fridge. I might have accidently and unintentionally insinuated that she was too old to have children, for which I profoundly apologized—"

Sam rolled her eyes.

--- "Sure, with flowers and a note from Robin. What did it say again? Blame it on my male chauvinistic mind?"

Mac laughed.

--- "Something like that, yes."

Alexis put her hand up.

--- "Sam, honey, will you please go into the kitchen and grab enough plates for us. Mac brought breakfast for all of us."

Sam looked at her mother.

--- "Shouldn't I go—"

Alexis shook her head at her daughter; she did not want Mac knowing that Mathieu was at the house.

--- "Oh, Diane? Yea, um, I'll take care of that."

Sam cocked her head to the side as she gave her mother a strange look.

--- "What about Jason?"

Mac thought about the amount of food he had brought to the house.

--- "Uh, I actually bought breakfast for you, Lex and the girls. I didn't realize that Diane was here as well, and I definitely didn't know that Jason was coming by. Does he even eat?"

Alexis smacked his arm.

--- "He doesn't speak Mac, but I'm pretty sure he eats."

Sam crossed her arms.

--- "Thank you Mac, but I think that we'll just be leaving—"

Alexis pointed outside.

--- "Honey, there's a blizzard outside. I think we're unfortunately stuck here."

Sam ran to the door to check for herself.

--- "You have GOT to be kidding me."

Alexis closed her eyes and shook her head as she imagined what the next few hours would be like.

--- "Sam, believe me, I wish I were kidding."

Mac laughed.

--- "Do you people not look outside of your windows? How did you not notice this?"

Alexis poked him.

--- "Be quiet, you! We were too busy talking about… stuff! Anyway, when Jason gets here, honey, you'll just make yourself scarce."

Sam smiled coyly at her mother.

--- "Oh, I can arrange that."

Alexis rubbed her eyes.

--- "God, give me strength not to hurt this girl."

As if on cue, someone knocked on the door. Sam raised her eyebrows to her mother before opening it.

--- "Hi Jason."

He smiled slightly and awkwardly kissed her as Alexis and Mac both stood in the room watching him.

--- "Hi Sam. Uh—"

He tried to stop her, as she went to close the door; someone stopped it from closing. Sam was shocked.

--- "Maxie? What are you doing here?"

Mac fumed at the sight of his daughter with Jason.

--- "What are you doing with this hitman?!"

The young woman smiled at her father and waved her hand dismissively.

--- "Daddy, please! I practically live with—"

Alexis interrupted the girl who clearly had a death wish. Considering the snowstorm, she did not need Mac murdering Maxie, thus leaving her family staring at the girl's body for the day.

--- "Maxie, can I take your coat? Jason, I assume you'll keep your leather jacket on?"

Jason stared at her as Sam wrapped her arms around him.

--- "Mom, quit it."

Maxie shivered.

--- "You know what, Alexis, I'll hold on to my coat. Some people are rude, and they left me to walk in the cold!"

Jason looked at the girl.

--- "Do you see what you're wearing, Maxie? I didn't tell you to leave the house dressed that way."

Everyone turned to look at the girl's attire. Mac shook his head at his daughter, as he led her to the couch.

--- "Maxie, why exactly do you have three inch heels in the snow."

She looked at her father as though he had several heads.

--- "Daddy? Really? I'm sorry, but poor weather is no excuse to walk around looking unfashionable!"

Mac looked to Alexis, who shrugged her shoulders and smiled at the man.

--- "I guess you're right, honey. Please excuse my ignorance. I didn't realize that it was fashionable to walk around in the snow in heels so early in the morning. Now, can you please tell me what you're doing with this… with him this early in the morning?"

--- "I wasn't with Jason, per se! I was with Spinelli—"

Mac turned bright red.

--- "MAXIE!"

She shrugged her shoulders.

--- "Mac, I'm a married—"

--- "You are not married to him!"

--- "Practically. ANYWAY, the reason I'm here is because I heard that Sam's father was here—"

Mac was shocked.

--- "Mathieu's here?"

Sam bit her lip as she looked at her mother who cleared her throat; she decided to change the subject.

--- "Um, I guess that means there are about nine of us for breakfast then? Do we have enough food?"

Suddenly a knock was heard. Alexis rolled her eyes; she did not have any space to accommodate any more people. She was shocked to see her daughter's father at the door.

--- "Mati? What the hell are you doing outside?"

He held two bags in his hands; he smiled at Alexis, but scowled when he noticed Mac, who returned the glare, standing in the room.

--- "Er, Samantha, I hope you don't mind, but I took your car to buy breakfast for the family."

He ensured to stress the last word for Mac's benefit. Sam smiled at her father.

--- "Thanks Mathieu. No I don't mind at all; that was actually really thoughtful of you."

Sam pushed Jason forward to take the bags from her father.

--- "I'll take those."

The Frenchman nodded his head and handed the bag to the man.

--- "Thank you."

He leaned forward and gave Alexis, who was still standing at the door, a kiss on either cheek.

--- "Bonjour Cherie, ca va?"

Alexis blushed slightly before responding in English, so as not to be rude to the many people in her house.

--- "I'm fine, thanks. You?"

Mathieu nodded and grinned widely.

--- "I'm very well, Cherie. I'm sorry I just left the way I did; I didn't want to wake you this morning seeing as we had a very late night."

Sam leaned her head into Jason's arm, as Maxie's mouth hung open, and Mac's face reddened. Alexis rubbed her eyebrows together; she realized that it was going to be a very long day if she didn't get these men out of her house, or at the very least, to separate parts of it.

--- "[ahem] Thank you for being considerate Mati; SAM and I were actually woken up by—"

Kristina and Molly walked into the room; they had actually been eavesdropping and figured that with all the people in the room it would be alright to make their presence known.

Alexis smiled in a 'you're busted' type of way at her two youngest daughters.

--- "Ah ha, and enter my little eavesdroppers. We were woken up by these two. Girls, I'd like you to meet Mathieu LeGros, Sam's father. Mati, these two are Kristina and Molly, my other two daughters I told you about."

He kissed each of the girls' hands, causing Molly to giggle.

--- "Mommy, he's just like the Cyrano—"

Mathieu frowned at the girl.

--- "I hope you don't think I look like him, mademoiselle? He wasn't very cute."

The youngest Davis girl laughed.

--- "No! I mean you're just as suave as he is. You're actually quite handsome."

He smiled at the little girl who resembled his own daughter.

--- "Well, thank you very much."

Alexis smiled at Mac who continued to glare at the man who was putting a severe damper on his date with her. She lipped to him that she was sorry. She then turned her attention to her eldest daughter.

--- "Sam, honey, would you care to introduce your… would you care to introduce Mati to… would you—"

Sam shook her head at her mother.

--- "Mathieu, I'd like to introduce you to Jason; he's my boyfriend. Jason, this is my father Mathieu."

The Frenchman looked the man over; he could not say that he particularly cared for the man who was apparently made of steel. There was something about him that bothered him; but he realized that it was not his place to say anything.

--- "It's nice to meet you, Jason."

Jason nodded his head.

Mathieu then awkwardly kissed his daughter on either cheek; he felt embarrassed afterwards for being presumptuous. Sam however smiled at the man, which put him at ease.

--- "Good Morning, ma belle."

--- "Morning."

He loved to see his daughter smile, as she looked like Alexis in that moment; they both had dimples on their cheeks. He lovingly looked at his daughter; he could not believe that she was standing in front of him. He had longed for this day all of his life.

--- "How are you feeling, Samantha?"

Maxie smirked from across the room.

--- "Samantha? No one calls her—"

Sam glared at her friend.

--- "Maxie, if my father wants to call my Samantha, it's fine with me. Mathieu, I'm feeling much better, thank you."

He looked back at Alexis.

--- "I suppose your mother took good care of you?"

Kristina scoffed.

--- "She took care of her alright!"

Alexis went over to her daughter and wrapped her arm around her and rested her chin on the top of her petite daughter's head.

--- "Don't mind this one. She just wants me to take care of her as well as I did her sister. And yes, I guess I did take care of Sam; we beat the hell out of that fever."

Sam smiled and rolled her eyes at her mother.

--- "Thanks Mom."

Alexis let go of her daughter.

--- "Okay. So, there are how many of us? Nine of us? Okay, so um, we're all obviously not going to be able to sit at the table so—"

Diane walked into the room wearing Alexis' newly purchased sweatsuit.

--- Geez, these are the only things in your mother's closet that fit. My goodness, she's got 'off the pole' written across the backside. I don't think that's all that true in regard to Lex; she wasn't exactly on it to… begin… with."

She looked around the room, not realizing the amount of people in the room; she had expected to find one of the girls in the living room. She smiled as she looked from Alexis to Mac, then back to Alexis to Mati. She grinned widely as she looked at Sam with an obviously uncomfortable Jason and back again to Mati, who himself stared back and forth between Alexis and Sam.

--- "My, my, my, there sure is a lot of meat in here."

Molly looked at her mother. Alexis squeezed her daughter's chin and twirled her finger around her own head to indicate that Diane was crazy.

Maxie, on the other hand, laughed at Diane's comment.

--- "Well, considering the weather outside, you all have the option of frozen sausage links, or warm ones. I, for one, am taking a pass for the day."

Kristina sat on the arm of the couch.

--- "Yea, me too."

Sam and Alexis glared at the girl.

--- "Excuse me?"

--- "Krissy?!"

Kristina blushed and bit her lip as her mother and sister tended to do when they were nervous.

--- "Oh, ha ha, I meant, for a really REALLY long time."

Molly looked at her sister.

--- "Kristina, you love sausage. Why wouldn't you want any?"

Everyone in the room snickered to themselves, earning them glares from Alexis.

--- "Baby, um… never mind. They're just being silly. Kristina can have all the CUT-UP sausage she wants. Isn't that right, angel? You don't have it whole."

Kristina nodded her head, as Sam laughed to herself.

Alexis pointed her finger at both of her daughters before once again attempting to turn her attention to the people in the room.

--- "OKAY! Let's try this again without interruption? There are nine of us here. The table seats four, and three people can sit on the couches—"

Diane interrupted her best friend.

--- "Yes, and so that leaves two people without space to eat."

Jason entered the conversation.

--- "You know, I could leave, and take—"

Alexis shook her head.

--- "No, unless one of you men have some kind of magical defrosting liquid for the snow out there that is undoubtedly covering our cars and streets, we're all, and I mean any person that came from my loins, stuck here for a while. I mean, if you want to leave, Jason, that's fine, but Sam's isn't going with you."

Mac interrupted.

--- "I second that opinion in regard to Maxie. I'll be taking her back to her place when the storm clears."

Maxie shook her head.

--- "Excuse me, Mac, but my husband—"

--- "HE IS NOT YOUR HUSBAND!"

Mathieu decided to stir the pot for his own amusement.

--- "That's a lovely ring you have on your finger, Maxie."

The girl smiled at the man.

--- "Why thank you!"

Mathieu smirked.

--- "Your husband is very generous."

Sam noticed Mac's ears steaming.

--- "Um, okay! Back to the topic at hand. As disgustingly put as my mother put it, I'm not even going to argue with her because I actually agree; it's nasty out and I don't think any of us should be leaving. I mean, we have food here! I think we have popcorn and chips, and we've definitely got cookies, so at least, we don't have to worry about starving. So let's make this best of this interesting circumstance."

Alexis winked at her daughter.

--- "See what a bedtime persuading can do for your child?"

Sam crossed her arms.

--- "Mom!"

Alexis smiled and thought for a moment.

--- "Okay, I guess Molly and Kristina can sit on the floor at the coffee table to allow the adults—"

Sam cleared her throat.

--- "Mom, can I talk to you for a minute?"

She eyed her daughter.

--- "Sam, I'm sure everyone is hungry"

The people in the room nodded in agreement, but Sam rolled her eyes at them.

--- "Mom, this will take two seconds."

--- "Fine."

Alexis followed her daughter into her bedroom and sat on the bed.

--- "Honey, what is it?"

--- "Mom, I'm pregnant."

Alexis nearly fainted.

--- "WHAT?"

Sam crossed her arms.

--- "No, not really, but I will be if you don't get out of there!"

Alexis covered her mouth in shock.

--- "What the hell is wrong with you, Samantha? You scared the crap out of me! How does me, being in the living room, mean that you'll end up pregnant?"

Sam bent close to her mother's face so that she could whisper just in case her nosey little sisters were at the door.

--- "Have you noticed the two men, one being my father, staring at you this whole time? Have you noticed that their guns are about to be drawn and ready to aim? They're vying to prove who's got the biggest gun and lethal bullet. If you don't get out of that room with one of them, it's going to be a creamy mess in there and they don't seem to care where it lands. Mom, I have to say, I don't want to be hit with anybody else's—"

Alexis put her hand up.

--- "That's enough. Okay. Where exactly do you suppose that I go?"

Diane opened the bedroom door and smiled as she held a blanket, and Kristina and Molly followed behind her with a glasses and plates.

--- "Right here. You have a date, and you're not missing it."

Molly nodded in agreement.

--- "Yea, Mommy, we've got eggs and sausage—"

Sam smiled.

--- "Yes indeed!"

Alexis poked her daughter's side.

--- "Will you quit it?!"

Sam shrugged and helped Diane fix the blanket on the floor.

Alexis ran her hands through her hair.

--- "What about Mati?"

Sam shrugged her shoulders.

--- "What about him? I know he's my dad, and all, but I suppose I can keep him entertained while you have your breakfast date with Mac. I mean, there's always lunch!"

Diane looked around the room.

--- "Hmm, isn't this ironic?"

Alexis looked at her best friend.

--- "What is, Di?"

Diane smiled at her friend.

--- "The scene of the crime which led to this encounter was quite similar to this? Perhaps he'll have his hard drive with him, and maybe you can work it?"

Molly looked at Diane.

--- "Di, my Mom already has her own computer. She's on it all of the time."

Sam, Diane, and even Kristina, looked at each other before bursting into laughter. Diane passed her hand along the innocent child's cheek.

--- "I'm sure she is, honey."