AN: some of this stuff In this Chapter are not real and I don't know what would happen if this situation happened in real life as I don't know what sort of steps you have go through in order for this to happen so please keep an open mind.

Episode 8

Brian walked into the office holding his suitcase his hair was a bit messed up.

Ted stood by his desk putting some paper on the desk "hey Brian you here late" he said.

Brian put one hand up to silence him "don't" he said throwing the suitcase on the chair "Gus" he called. Gus came running into the room with his backpack and a pad of paper in one hand. He paused by his desk and looked up, Brian put his hand on the top of his head "go over to the table" he said.

Brian walked round his desk pulling his chair out and sat in the seat "Ted you couldn't get Gus a juice would you?" he said leaning on the desk with his arms crossed.

Gus opened his bag and took a box of pencils "Hi Ted" he waved taking out a pencil and opened his drawing pad.

Ted turned to Brian "what is Gus doing here?" he said.

Brian picked the phone up and dialled a number putting the phone to his ear "don't want to talk about it" he said dismissing the question.

Ted walked out of the room

"Adrian tell me the truth what would happen if I took my child away from his mother?" there was a pause on the other end before he spoke.

Brian sighed "well yeah that's what I have done, not until you hear the reason do you think you could grant me a court order?" he said. The person on other end answered straight away "thanks" he said hanging up.

Brian stood up "Gus come here" he said, Gus looked up from his drawing and slammed the pencil down to run over to him. Brian lifted him onto his lap.

Gus leaned back into Brian's arm "Daddy what's going to happen to me am I going away" he said.

Brian frowned "no Sonny boy you're not going anywhere" he said kissing him on the top of his head "who said that to you?"

Gus looked down "Mumma" he replied playing with his fingers "she said that because I'm bad for messing JR'S room up that when I'm 11 she's going to ship me off somewhere and and if I didn't do what I was told I would never ever see you again" he explained

Brian licked his lip and tightened his arms round Gus's body,

Gus looked up from his arms "Daddy am I going to live with you now?" he said.

Brian sighed closing his eyes as he rested his chin gently on Gus's head.

Gus blinked before moving from his arms to hug Brian "Daddy you're hugging me too tight" he said against his neck.

"Oh" Brian said loosening his arms and tickling Gus under the arms "Daddy" he screeched as he giggled slapping his hands on Brian's covered arms "stop it" he said as Brian continued. Gus had moved around so much he had shifted down off the chair.

Brian stopped tickling him and lifted him onto his feet "okay I'll stop why don't you draw some more and we'll go get Justin okay" Gus nodded and ran back to the table.

Brian smiled and pushed himself back to the table.

-QAF-

Emmett coughed as the cab came to a stop in front of the flat "thanks" he said handing him some dollars. He smiled opening the door, the driver took his bag out of the back "thanks again" he said taking the suitcase handle and walked towards the flat.

Emmett shut the apartment door dropping his bag at the door. He picked his letters from the floor and walked over to his laptop on the table to turn it on. He sat on the couch and went through the mail.

Looking through the dating service website Emmett looking at his mail before being disappointed and not had any replies "I give up" Emmett said as he closed the browser There was a knock at the door Emmett dumped the mail in the trash before opening the door "coming"

Michael sighed "hey Em where have you been?" he asked.

Emmett raised an eyebrow "somebody tells me you haven't shown up in a while either" he said "come on in Michael why stand there" he added.

Michael walked in and slammed the door behind him "I have HIV"

Emmett stared at him with his mouth open he put his hands together "oh baby" he exclaimed walking towards him and hugging him round the neck "how's your mother taking it"

Michael sighed "fine like I'm taking a walk through the park" he said stepping back "the thing is I didn't exactly get it from Ben"

"What" Emmett screeched.

Michael crashed to the sofa and sighed.

Emmett turned round and sat on the table in front of Michael "what was you thinking Michael its Ben the guy you've had for the last 7 years and you go and sleep with someone" he said.

Michael covered his eyes "yeah I know" he growled "why was I so stupid"

"Tell me why you slept with someone else" he said.

Michael licked his lip and put his head onto the back of the sofa "it was a few months after Mel and Lindsey left. I started to have these nightmares about never seeing JR ever again and I sort of pushed Ben away. It wasn't my intention in sleeping with Hank it sort of just happened. I felt like I was a bad father to JR because I couldn't see her as much as Brian did and I sort of felt like a total failure with everything." He explained

"Ben was busy with his new book and Hunter had no time to come home because of College, Ma was being too busy with Carl and his heart attack. Everybody had their own lives and mine was falling apart. Ben had sort of an inkling about this but I chose to ignore it" Michael covered his face with arms "I was acting like the one thing I hated" he added.

Emmett bit his lip "Michael why didn't you just talk to Ben instead of pushing him away even though he knew about the affair why hold it in" Emmett's voice was raised. Emmett stood "it's your fault; I thought you were better than this"

Michael looked up with wide eyes "Wh-What"

Emmett shrugged "I'm surprised Ben hasn't left you yet"

Michael stood up "Emmett I never knew you would feel this way?" he said.

Emmett shook his head and walked round the table "you have it so easy Michael you all do, at least you have someone but I have to resort to waiting for mail on a stupid dating website for a date"

Michael frowned "Emmett you're just trying too hard" he said.

Emmett sighed "I'm sick of waiting" he shouted "I want to be alone Michael dump your problems on someone else." Michael walked out as Emmett crashed to the sofa and shouted out into the apartment. His laptop made a sound Emmett looked over at the screen.

INBOX: 1

-QAF-

Brian drove down the street in the back seat Gus was holding onto the seatbelt strap the car was silent as they continued towards Justin studio.

Gus started to singing quietly in the back "On top Of spaghetti, All covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, When somebody sneezed, It rolled off the table, And on to the floor, And then my poor meatball, Rolled out of the door. It rolled in the garden, And under a bush, And then my poor meatball, Was nothing but mush."

Brian raised an eyebrow as he paused at the red light.

Gus continued to sing "The mush was as tasty, as tasty could be, and early next summer, It grew into a tree, the tree was all covered, with beautiful moss, It grew lovely meatballs, and tomato sauce" Gus bobbed his head with the invisible music as Brian pulled up to the curb.

Justin came out of the studio and walked towards the car just as Gus had started to finish the children's song "So if you eat spaghetti, all covered with cheese, hold on to your meatball, and don't ever sneeze"

Justin got in the car "oh you're singing the On Top Of Spaghetti song"

Brian raised an eyebrow "you know this god awful song"

Justin did his seatbelt up "yeah don't you know anything" he said sitting back in the seat "so did you two have fun at Daddy's work today?" he asked looking in the rear-view mirror at Gus who nodded his head.

Brian smiled as he pulled away from the curb "you could say that" he said "except he got bored an hour in"

Gus smiled away at the back and started to sing the song again but Justin joined in as well halfway through.

Brian rolled his eyes as he put the radio to block their noise out "no singing in the car my boys" he said

Justin grinned at Gus as he moved his hand in an up and down motion to increase the noise; Brian had turned into a main street just as they had finished their song and signalled round the corner to park the car. "Alright the car song is over" Brian said turning the car engine off and took his seatbelt off.

Gus undid his seatbelt as well and picked up his backpack and drawing pad from his feet.

Justin grabbed onto Brian's tie and pulled him into a kiss "mm" he kissed him on the lips. Gus sighed in the back of the car just as Brian pulled away from the kiss "what was that for?" he asked.

Justin shrugged taking his seatbelt off and got out of the car.

They walked into the diner Gus ran towards Debbie who was serving a cup of coffee to a customer "Grandma Deb" he smiled gripping onto her leg.

Debbie looked down and smiled "Hey Gus what you doing here?"

Gus grinned up at her "I'm staying with Daddy now look at my picture" he said opening his pad to the right page and showed her his drawing

Brian walked in with his arm round Justin's shoulder.

Debbie looked up "We thought you disappeared off the face of the earth" she said walking to the counter.

Emmett sat on one of the stools.

Brian smirked "you wish" he jibed "Gus go sit down" he said.

Gus rushed to the nearest stall and dumped his drawing pad on the table and took his backpack off.

Brian moved his arm and leant on the counter "So I hear Michael's back from his disappearing act" he said.

Justin went and sat next to Gus.

Debbie froze and Emmett snorted as he said it "what's so amusing?" Brian said "he didn't sleep with someone did he?" he joked hitting Emmett on the arm "fuck off" he cursed as he looked at Debbie's and Emmett's face.

Brian shook his head "wow Michael your fucking screwed" he said turning and sitting in the stall opposite Justin.

Debbie walked over and had her normal pad and pencil in her hand "so what will it be?" She asked smacking her lips with the chewing gum.

Brian leaned back in the seat and put his arm on the back of the chair "nothing for me but get Gus burger, chips, shake and Usual for Justin" he replied "so where is Michael?" he asked.

Debbie wrote the order down "at home maybe you could take 5 minutes to visit him from your busy schedule" she walked away and placed the order. Debbie walked back over and stood at the foot of the table "so tell me the truth why is Gus here in the middle of the school week"

Brian itched his neck "I've petitioned for full custody" he said.

Debbie sat in the seat "what about Lindsey and Mel?"

Brian shrugged "what about them?"

"Shouldn't you consult them first?" Debbie asked crossed her arms on the table.

Brian shook his head "it's none of your business Debbie" he said and pointed at Gus's picture "who's that supposed to be?" he asked Gus.

Gus took a moment to think before answering "it's you, me and Justin silly" he continued his drawing by keeping within the lines as he coloured the picture with great detail.

The bell rang Brian turned to Debbie "shouldn't you be working" he stated.

Debbie stood up from the stall and paused for a moment in order to slap him round the head "don't speak to me like that" she leaned on the table with both hands and pointe her finger at him "now tell me son why is Gus here and not with Mel and Lindsey.

Brian looked in her eyes "because he's with me now drop it and take that order to the customer behind me"

Debbie fixed him with a firm stare before standing back upright. Justin looked up from drawing with Gus to look over at Brian's face, his face was expressionless but as soon as Debbie moved away his mask dropped as he stared at Gus drawing.

Emmett looked between Brian and Debbie in their staring contest before his phone rang. He answered his phone "Hello" he greeted the person on the other end of the phone, Emmett hunched his back as he chatted with the person "Yes I have booked the removal's Pops" he said "okay I'll see you next week when I pick you up from the airport. Yeah okay Bye Bye"

-QAF-

Mel walked off the plane with JR in her arms and Lindsey walking behind holding her carry On Bag on her shoulder. They weaved through the crowd towards Michael at the at the baggage claim.

Mel walked towards them "Hey look who that is it's Daddy" Mel said.

JR grinned and reached over to claim him round the neck Michael took her from Mel "Hey Pumpkin" he said kissing her on the cheek.

"Daddy" she smiled.

Melanie and Lindsey got their suitcases "thanks for picking us up at short notice" Lindsey said pulling out her suitcase handle out "we're kind of in a rush to get here"

Michael looked behind them "Where's Gus?"

Lindsey looked over at Melanie with a sour look "he's here already" she said walking away dragging her suitcase behind her.

Michael looked over at Mel "what's this all about?" he asked.

Mel picked her bag from the floor where Lindsey left it "Brian kidnapped him after school and brought him back here" she said.

Michael raised an eyebrow "he would never do that"

Mel snapped at him "well he did and now he's got a court order against us" she retaliated "now can we go?" he said.

Michael nodded and they started to walk out of the airport.

JT-QAF-BK

Michael held JR's hand as they walked up to Debbie's door "go on and knock for grandma" he said Melanie and Lindsey was just paying for the cab behind him. JR reached up and knocked hard on the door "good girl" Michael said.

Jenny looked up at him grinning with a massive smile.

The door opened "look it's my grand-daughter" Debbie exclaimed clapping her hands and picking her up. Debbie kissed her on the cheek and gave her a big hug as soon as she saw Melanie walk up the driveway she stepped out of the house and slammed the door behind her "she's not stepping foot In my house" she pointed at her.

"Ma" he called "why you acting this way?" he said raising his eyebrow.

Debbie hitched JR on her hips "because Michael. Brian, Justin and Gus are here and I don't want her near them" she said.

Michael scrunched his face up "what do you mean they were the ones that took Gus"

Debbie shook her head "is that what she's been telling you" she said.

Melanie stopped halfway up the path "I suppose Brian has been telling you lies again like he always does" she sneered "come Michael take JR off Debbie and we're leaving" she said walking back up the path.

Michael frowned as Debbie's front door opened. Ben stood in the doorway "Ben" he said quietly.

"Come in guys we have some talking to do"

Once they all got in Debbie's front room, Michael, Melanie, Lindsey and Jr were at the foot of the door as the rest of the gang was scattered in the room. Brian, Justin and Gus were sitting in the kitchen table playing a card game. Lindsey watched on looking over Melanie's shoulder as Emmett and Ted were sat on the sofa.

"Gus" Lindsey said.

Gus looked up at Lindsey and froze.

"Hey" Justin put his hand on Gus arm.

Gus looked back at his puzzle forgetting Lindsey by the door and swung his legs on the chair.

Lindsey looked down at her feet.

Michael raised an eyebrow "Can someone please tell me what the fuck is going on?"