-Okay I will admit something. I screwed up on Andy's age and stuff like that considering this would take place mid to late season 9 and Andy was born in season 6. Don't rack your brain trying to figure out Andy's age. Just bear with me and hopefully enjoy the story-

On the way home, Jackie continued to think about her dream. It scared her about how vivid it was in her mind, like it really happened. Sometimes she worried that it wasn't a dream and that Dan did in fact crawl in bed with her but then got up and smoothed over the cover and went back to sleep on the couch before she could wake up. But Jackie seriously doubted that happened, Dan was still hopelessly in love with Roseanne. Every day she could tell that he was in pain and there seemed to be no end in sight for him.

She decided to go to the Buy 'N' Bag where she bought lunch meat and bread for Dan's lunch, and baby food for Jerry. By chance she ran into Crystal who had Little Ed and Angelina with her.

"Hi, Jackie. Funny meeting you here isn't it?" Crystal said with a big wide smile on her face.

"Yeah, it is." Jackie smiled in disbelief about how much little Ed looked like Dan. He had sandy blonde hair, and broad shoulders. Plus he was tall, almost too tall for his age. Little Ed looked at Crystal.

"Mom, can me and AJ please play the arcade games?"

Crystal looked down at her son and daughter. "You're sisters name is Angelina, we've talked about this."

Jackie watched as Angelina rolled her eyes. "Mom, I want to be called AJ."

Crystal looked at Jackie, and then rifled through her purse and took out two one dollar bills and gave one to the kids. "Here you go. You stay there until I check out."

The kids shook their heads and said their thank you's and rushed off to the front of the store.

"I'm worried about Angelina. She's only seven years old but it's getting to be like she's purposely making everything under the sun a challenge." Crystal said as her and Jackie each pulled their carts out of the way of people walking up and down the aisles.

"Don't worry, Becky, Darlene and DJ were all like that. Roseanne used to say it was a Conner thing." Jackie watched as Crystals smiled faded and her body language changed.

"Speaking of Conner things. Now that Little Ed and Angelina are getting older they have a new fascination with Dan."

Jackie was puzzled. "What do you mean they have a fascination with Dan?"

"Well every time Ed comes home, all they seem to talk to him about is Dan. Like did Ed teach Dan how to work on cars and build things? Or did Dan like comic books and collecting baseball cards too? Ed doesn't know what to tell them."

"I guess in their situation it's only natural to be curious about their dads other kid." Jackie was both trying to be encouraging to Crystal and treading in deep water. She was well aware of the relationship between Dan and Ed. Somehow she felt like she was crossing into territory that was best left uncrossed, so she changed the subject. "I take it you didn't hear about what happened?"

"No what happened?" Crystal suddenly got serious.

"Someone broke into Dan and Roseanne's house and robbed it."

"OH MY GOD! That's terrible. What did they take?"

"Pretty much everything. Dan and the kids are all right though. They're staying with me; Dan said that his insurance would take care of him enough. He actually didn't seem too bothered by it." Crystal stared blankly at Jackie.

"Dan isn't upset by it?"

"Uh well I guess he is. But he's still kind of recovering from Roseanne's death and…other stuff so he's sort of distracted." Jackie felt nosy for talking about Dan behind his back so she looked at her watch. "Oh it's almost ten, I told Dan I'd be back in twenty minutes. Bye." Jackie waved and walked off with Crystal waving back.

Dan felt like he needed to do something with his hands, as he had a million things on his mind. He wanted to drink. He wanted Roseanne. He wanted his things back in his house. He wanted to drink. He didn't want Jerry to grow up without a mom. He wanted his mom. He wanted his daughters to be successful without throwing their lives away. He wanted to stop being mad at his dad. He wanted to know for a fact that he'd be able to give DJ a good college education. He wanted to drink. He wanted Roseanne.

Stop it, Dan. STOP! Dan told himself.

Dan buried his head in his hands and then jumped up. Jerry was asleep in the playpen, and DJ was playing with Andy. Dan made his way down stairs. He found a giant box and carried it into Andy's nursery, and then he ventured into the cold weather, and got his tool box from his truck and carried that into Andy's nursery.

When she got home, Jackie found Jerry asleep in the playpen and Andy and DJ watching an episode of Rugrats on Nickelodeon. "Where's your dad?"

"In Andy's room."

Jackie went down the hall. Sure enough she found Dan on the floor screwing two pieces of wood together. She could see that Dan was assembling Andy's baby bed. Dan's entire concentration was on his work.

"Hi, Dan." She said, catching his attention as he twisted his body and looked at her standing in the doorway. "Don't you think it's kind of late to assemble that?"

Dan smiled weakly. "Well it was either assemble this or break something so I could just fix it again. I figured this was less destructive."

Jackie walked around Dan and sat on the floor next to him. "I saw Crystal today. We ran into each other at the Buy 'N' Bag."

Dan kept his concentration on his work and didn't make eye contact with Jackie. "Oh yeah what did she say?"

"Well she actually said something funny. She said that the kids keep asking about you."

Jackie watched as Dan's eyes stopped squinting at the screw and floated until Dan's attention was on Jackie. "Asking about me?

"That's what she said."

Dan relaxed and set his screw driver and the two pieces of wood that were screwed together down on the floor and then stretched out his legs with his hands on his sides. "Well I guess if I knew that my mom or dad had other kids I'd be interested in them too. Did she say anything about Lonnie?"

"No, she didn't." Dan shook his head and went back to the same position he was sitting at before and continued working on the bed. Jackie could sense he wasn't in a talkative mood today.

Once again Mark and Becky stood facing each other in their trailer screaming their heads off in anger. "You get a little extra money and you blow it on pot?"

"Come on Becky, I've been working real hard the last few weeks."

Becky stared at her husband in disbelief. "You work with my DAD! What do you think would happen if he knew what you were doing?"

Mark relaxed a bit and looked at his oil stained boots that were caked with mud. "I don't know and he's not my boss so he can't exactly fire me!"

Becky looked at her shoes too and rubbed her eyes. She was starting to cry. "Mark I can't keep doing this…" She said in between sobs.

Mark's caring nature overtook his anger and Mark took steps close to Becky to comfort her. "I'm sorry Beck." Becky shook Mark off of her and ran into their bedroom and locked the door, leaving Mark standing alone in their tiny kitchen. He sat at their table quietly alone.

David and Darlene sat on their couch holding each other, as they watched a John Wayne classic.

"I can't believe my dad actually dressed as this guy for Halloween." Darlene said, as the Duke shot gun blasted a bad guy on the TV.

"Yeah, that was actually one of his more not so disturbing costumes."

By eleven that night, Dan had finished Andy's baby bed. As soon as he saw it, Andy jumped on it.

"Thank you, Uncle Dan!" HE shouted as he pulled his new Spider Man blanket up to his chest and fell asleep fast.

Jackie looked at Dan. "Thank you Dan."

"You're welcome Jackie. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to bed."