Thank you tengland2 for reading and commenting, thank you to everyone else for reading too.

This was meant to be one part, but I got carried away when writing it so decided to make it a continue, I'm sorry.

ooOoo

Several days later.

Joseph awoke to find Clarisse was already up, hearing her move about the suite he slipped out of bed and headed over to the bedroom door seeing her rushing around the room.

"Clarisse, slow down." he smirked while she looked over.

"I can't!" she said grabbing a pile of books and started putting them down one by one.

"What have you lost?" he asked while walking over to her.

"The file I was working on yesterday," she sighed in frustration "I have to leave in 10 minutes for a meeting and I can't find it anywhere." she said slamming the last book down.

"Ok, first of all, please calm down." he said walking over to the shelves and grabbed a file "And second, Is this it?" he asked as she stopped and looked over.

"Yes," she exclaimed while rushing over and grabbed it while kissing his cheek "You're a star, thank you" she smiled and started rushing of when he grabbed her arm.

"What's wrong?" he asked pulling her back to him.

"Nothing," she shrugged with a smile "Everything's fine." she said looking down at her file.

"Clari? Don't lie to me." he whispered as she slowly looked up.

"I don't know," she started while walking away and sat on the couch "I just have a gut feeling something is going to happen today," she said watching him move and sat beside her "It doesn't help that today is the anniversary of Rupert's Death and Pierre is in a foul mood." she sighed.

"Oh dear," Joseph whispered while extending his arm around her shoulders, pulling her to him "I'm sure he's just sad because of what the day is."

"Yeah, but he's never been in a mood on this day before." she said looking up at him "He has his Father's temper which we don't see often." she looked back at the file.

"I know, I remember." Joseph nodded "Remember I have been apart of this family for some time now Clari." he chuckled as she looked back up at him.

"I know, it's been a strange morning so far, I'm sorry." she said leaning closer and kissed him while putting her hand on his thigh "I better get going now or he will be up here to get me."

"Ok, well call me later on, maybe we could meet for lunch or something?" he asked as she stood up.

"I will see what time we get back," she said walking over to the door "See you later on." she waved and headed out the door.

"Well," Pierre exclaimed coming through the front door "That was a waste of time." he snapped as Clarisse came in the front door and watched as Pierre stormed into her office as Joseph came into the hall.

"I take it, it didn't go well then?" Joseph asked as Clarisse shut the door.

"You guessed right!" she sighed and slipped her jacket off, putting it over her arm as he walked over and gave her a kiss "And Pierre's mood has got a lot worse since leaving this morning." she sighed looking at him.

"I'm sure he will be ok soon, it is a hard day for him today after all." he said as she took his coffee and took a couple sips.

"Yeah, you're right." Clarisse nodded and looked at him "Can we skip lunch? I have a killer headache and still have a few things I must do." she asked as he put his arm around her waist taking his coffee back as Pierre came back out.

"Of course." he nodded and they both looked at Pierre.

"Are you coming or what?" he snapped while looking at them "We have lots too do!" he exclaimed.

"I think you need to go and chill before we continue this afternoon." Clarisse snapped back "Because I'm not doing anything with you when your in this mood so go for a walk or something," she snapped and walked into her office slamming the door behind her.

Pierre stood in surprise then looked at Joseph before walking out, slamming the front door behind him as Joseph chuckled while shaking his head in amusement at the pair as Sofia came in.

"Was that Mom?" she asked looking at him.

"Yea, but I wouldn't disturb her just yet." He said looking over at her.

"Why?" she asked.

"Put it this way, she's not in the best of moods and shes got a headache." he smirked.

"Oh." she answered.

"Anything I could help with?" he asked while looking at her and sipped his coffee.

"Oh no." she giggled "Just woman's stuff." she smiled.

"Ok, well that's all your Mom," he said looking at the door then back at Sofia "I'd wait a while first." he nodded with a smirk "I will say though, those two are not good together when they are both in a mood." he laughed while walking back through to the kitchen.

Sofia watched him, then went off to do what she needed.

"Mom," Pierre said appearing at her door as she looked up "I'm sorry, can I come in?"

"Well that depends, have you calmed down?" she said looking at him while taking her glasses off "Have you been crying?" she said standing up as he came in and shut the door.

"I realized while I was over at the house that I was a jerk, and I'm sorry." he said looking at her as she walked over to him.

"Pierre, what's that matter?" she put her hand up cupping his face for a second, then put her arms around his shoulders "Are you missing your Father?" she asked while rubbing his back.

"Yea," Pierre nodded "I know it's been a few years since he's been gone, but I've just been thinking about him lately, you know with everything going on with Karen and that." he said pulling his head back and looked at her.

"I understand that, he kept something so big from his family back then, when he shouldn't off." Clarisse said cupping his face again and wiped away his tears.

Pierre nodded "I could never do that to Charlotte, I can't understand how he could do that to you." he said starting to cry again "I'm so sorry for what he done to you, Mom."

"Don't be darling," Clarisse said as tears pricked her eyes "You don't need to be sorry for your Father's mistakes." she said and hugged him, blinking away tears.

After a few moments she opened her eyes to see Joseph and Sofia stood in the door way, she shook her head at them to leave them alone then watched them leave while she gently rubbed Pierre's back.

"Come on, let's sit down." Clarisse said taking Pierre's hand and led him to the couch "Talk to me Pierre," she whispered "As even though it has been a few years, we never really talked did we?" she asked as he shook his head.

After talking for a couple hours, Charlotte brought the kids over, not knowing they were talking and as Charlotte stood at the door, James and Lilly rushed over to Clarisse and Pierre sitting on the couch.

"Is everything alright?" Charlotte asked as they looked over, upon seeing that they had been crying she looked at James and Lilly "I didn't mean to disturb you, James Lilly, come on?" she held her hand out for Lilly.

"No Charlotte it's alright," Clarisse said and looked back at Pierre as he hugged Lilly "You don't have to leave." she half smiled as Pierre stood up, with Lilly and walked over to Charlotte as James and Clarisse watched from the couch.

"What's going on?" James asked as he turned his head to look at Clarisse as she put her arms around him.

"I don't know," Clarisse shrugged and smiled at him before they both looked back at Charlotte and Pierre.

"Charlotte, you know I would never ever ever hurt you like my Father did with my Mom?" Pierre started as James looked back at Clarisse for a second then back at them.

Charlotte nodded "I know." she looked up at him as he put Lilly down "Pierre, your scaring me a little." she whispered as Lilly rushed back over to James and Clarisse as she pulled her onto her lap Pierre put his hands up, cupping Charlotte's face.

"Don't be scared, you know I love you and always will right?" he asked as Charlotte nodded "Good." Pierre smiled and started kissing her slowly.

"Um, Hello?" Clarisse gasped and covered Lilly and James eyes up with her hands "Young Children here people?" she laughed a little as Pierre and Charlotte pulled apart.

"Are you sure with what we talked about Mom?" Pierre asked while putting his arm around Charlotte's shoulders.

"Of course, go and enjoy yourself." Clarisse smiled "The children will be fine." she smiled.

"What's going on?" Charlotte asked while looking at Clarisse and the kids then at Pierre "Pierre?" she questioned as he smirked at her.

"We are going on Holiday, just the two of us." Pierre smirked and kissed her cheek "Come on." he said taking her hand and led her out the office.

"Are we staying with you Grandma?" exclaimed Lilly.

"Indeed you are." Clarisse smiled and hugged her "Come on, let's go and let Grandpa know." she smirked while standing up.

After telling him he took them out on their horses with Jason and Sofia, so Clarisse could catch up with her paper work. But not long after Sasha knocked on Clarisse's door.

"Come In." she exclaimed while looking at Sasha come in.

"Is it a bad time?" she asked "It's just I needed to talk to you about something?"

"Oh no," she shook her head with a smile "What's wrong?" she asked sitting back in her chair as Sasha came over.

"This letter I had from my Mom." she said handing it to her and watched her read it to herself "Do you know?" she watched her look at the letter.

"If you want to know who your father is, ask your Aunt?" Clarisse said again, then repeated it to herself before looking up at Sasha.

"Do you know?" Sasha asked while folding her arms.

"No, of course not!" she said starting to shake her head when suddenly something clicked, she read the letter again then looked back at her "Of course," Clarisse said slowly standing up "It makes sense now." she shook her head and grabbed her keys, passing her the letter back "I need to go somewhere, I will be back." she said rushing from the room.

"Aunt Clarisse?" Sasha said following her, outside onto the stairs.

"I won't be long." she called back and rushed over to her car, speeding away seconds later.

Sasha sighed while watching her drive off then came back in, not long after Joseph came in Clarisse's office, looking for her but found Sasha with the letter in her hand.

"What's wrong Sasha?" he asked as she looked up at him.

"I had this letter from my Mom," she said looking down at it as he stood next to her "Just saying that if I want to find out who my Dad is, ask Aunt Clarisse." she said looking up at him as he took the letter "When I asked her about it she said she had to go somewhere, then ran out the room." she sighed.

"Maybe she does know." he said looking at her "But she wants to make sure first?" he said looking at the letter then back at Sasha.

"Maybe." she shrugged.

Meanwhile the other side of town, Clarisse pulled up outside a house, braced herself and headed up to the door, put her hand up to knock wondering whether she wanted to find out or not, then put her hand down turning away when the door opened.

"Clarisse." Lena exclaimed as she turned back to her "What's wrong?" she asked.

Clarisse took a deep breath while looking at her "Tell me honestly, Lena." she said taking another deep breath as Lena stood putting her hands together.

"Ok." Lena said watching her lift her head and looked her in the eyes.

"It's Sasha, isn't it?" Clarisse asked looking for any sign in her eyes.

To Be Continued...