Sorry it's taken SOSOSOSOSO long to update. I've had a ton of work to do so I've been up against it, but here it is.

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Jade knocked on the door of the townhouse, idly touching her ever so slightly enlarged stomach with her free hand.
The door opened and Elena did a double take as she saw her daughter standing there in a black maxi dress and a chunky grey cardigan, her hair in a messy bun and an awkward smile on her face.

Faith was on her hip, wearing a little purple dress.

'Hi...I should have called first...sorry if this is a bad time'. Elena looked surprised but shook her head, moving aside in the doorway 'no, no, come in. I was just watching the news'.

Jade followed her into the living room, which wasn't decorated that differently from Jade and Luke's own on the other side of the City.

Jade carefully placed Faith on the floor with a colouring book and sat on the sofa opposite Elena, taking a deep breath before she started to speak.

'You and my Dad…look, what you two did was just…wrong…wrong on so many levels. He was a really messed up teenager and you were a friend of his mother. He wasn't going to say no was he? And I mean, what you two did, it wasn't a normal relationship was it? You can both try and explain and rationalise it all you want, but I'll never quite understand it. There's rough sex which you know, we all like a bit of, but you two were doing way more than that, you both still are. Whatever you want to do in your private lives, that's irrelevant, do what you want. But you both have a child and a second grandchild on the way- you need to realise that. What you both did…you're lucky I didn't turn out as fucked up as bad as my Dad...'.

Jade glanced at Faith, who was happily colouring in the colouring book Rory had given her.

'I understand to a point why you left me, I'd rather risk leaving them on the doorstep than chance leaving them with Lincoln James. As a mother, however, the idea of leaving my little girl- I could never do it, I'd rather go through what happened in Israel again than ever leave Faith. But I'm willing to give you a chance, I know I shouldn't and a lot of people will call me foolish for doing this, but I want to be able to give you another chance. Do you want to see Faith?'.

Elena looked up, eye bright and she looked both happy and amazed 'are you sure? Of course I would'.

Jade smiled slightly 'Okay. You need to know that you only get one chance here. She needs a grandmother as much as this little one will'. Jade touched her belly lightly 'Dad only got one chance and he's managed to hold on, I'm giving you the same chance. Okay?'.

Jade could see the absolute happiness in her mother's eyes, feeling relieved that she'd agreed.

Jade had been invited to a late lunch with Lexa and Rory and decided at the last minute she wanted to go, wanting to satisfy her cravings and spend some time in normality.

The valet took her car and Jade carried Faith into the restaurant, the little girl gently playing with her hair and sucking her thumb with her other hand. Jade saw Rory and Lexa only just sitting down and came over 'Sorry guys, changed my mind'.

They looked happy to see her and both kissed her on the cheek 'Well, well, well miss Sawyer, decided to join us in the end'.

She laughed and placed Faith in the little booster seat she'd brought with her, sitting down beside her.

'Yeah, I decided I needed a little bit of normality, it's been one of those days'.

Lexa shook her head, looking at the menu 'And I thought the Sawyer family was complicated, you Grey's just make everything more complicated don't you'.

Jade laughed 'can't argue with that, anyway, how are you doing?'.

Lexa looked up and Jade could see how much healthier she looked, cheeks pink and some colour in her face 'better than I've felt in months'.

Jade knew what she was actually saying- she wasn't sick anymore.

Lexa stood up to go to the bathroom and Rory sat back in his chair 'So, how did the conversation with Elena go?'.

She sighed, shrugging 'as I'd expected. She didn't take it too badly, we didn't really 'speak', I just told her how I felt and she took it. I said my piece and she's vaguely agreed that I was right. Told her she could see Faith and I think that was a good step. Anyway, I don't want to talk about that, how are things with you?'.

Rory nodded then smiled widely 'you know when you were in hospital? Well, thanks to munchkin over there I got myself a date' he nodded at Faith 'she thought I had a cute niece and I got myself a date. Well, we've been going out since, it's going well actually, Luke's been teasing me relentlessly of course but I really like her, and it's actually lasted, which is a novelty'.

Jade smiled 'well, I'm glad to hear it. Do I get to meet her, dinner at our house maybe?'.

Rory nodded 'sure, I'll sort something out'.

Jade smiled, sitting back in her seat, happy that for once, things were going well for their little messed up family.

Would you give Elena a chance with your children?

coming up- we meet Rory's new girl, Elliot and Kate take another step, and Ana and Christian start planning their wedding.

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