Teddy and Family

Chapter 28

A/N: The girls have arrived! Let the fun begin and Teenage snarky Ana's coming out to play bigtime! Two chapters! Enjoy! ^_-

Disclaimer: EL James and sometimes SMeyer (I love to play with her characters but with my AU spin on them from my other story. Sorry folks I don't do Cannon ever. Like, Love it, Hate it…you have been warned ^^) own it all I'm just having fun with the characters, but the OC ones and story ideas are all mine

Ana

Oh my fucking god! There is a fucking canopy over the goddamn carpet! Do you really hate me up there!?

"Ana, breathe." Bella grabs my hand and gives it a gentle squeeze. "It's gonna be fine."

"Fine! I'm dressed in screaming red! Dante is gonna skin me alive! That parasite multiplied in numbers. Why the hell was that germ snarking about me looking good dead?! And was I a Walking Dead Fan?! There's no way they could possibly know about our secret wedding in Vegas! They all signed NDA's!" Our limo is getting closer and closer and I'm all but jumping out of my skin! I want my Christian!

"TMZ parasites never follow the rules. Jose had his phone still on when he fled for safety…" Bella's checking her phone for Google alerts on any of them and right now the trending theme is about a certain Zombie Wedding in Vegas. It's crashing multimedia sites.

"Harvey's crew is already up shit creek because of the LIVE feed! The only reason that it's even been allowed to keep streaming is because Chris wants to know what's going on."

"It went dark as soon we left the Waldorf…"

"What?!" That can only mean one thing. The feed isn't needed anymore, because our guys are already here!

"Did you honestly think that our guys were going to just sit on their asses and do nothing while we attended a Fifty Shades premiere!?" Bella snorts sarcastically, rolling her eyes at me.

"Fuck it!" I shake off my trepidation. "We're gonna go watch this movie while our guys catch up with Jamie. I seriously doubt that he's gonna wanna sit through it with all those panting women in the audience. Talk about awkward! I'm in it so deep already that shooting spit wads at the screen or heckling it can't get me into any worse trouble. I know that I won't be able to be a good girl and just sit and watch it without adding commentary."

"The last thing you need is coverage of you being kicked out of the theater for vandalizing the screen with spit wads! They'll take you in for observation thinking that you're having a postpartum psychotic break! Hissing is fine! Booing is not! Laughter is okay too, but try and be kind that's if it's even possible seeing as you'd probably fail a breathalyzer test right now." Bella's in full big sister lecture mode and it's beyond annoying.

I cross my eyes and stick my tongue at her.

She continues without missing a beat. "You will politely decline any themed cocktails, as is the norm for events as this one. You will also decline any and all questions and will smile. There will be no lashing out. I mean that literally as you are armed, at the Paps unless they invade your space then they are fair game. This is LIVE…"

I nod rolling my eyes as the lecture continues.

"Do not give anyone a soundbite that's what they're after and you're already in trouble for the airport and the Waldorf. Let's not make it any worse, as it is you'll be lucky if you can sit on the flight home. You will be civil as this is Jamie and DJ's night and you do not want to ruin it for them. Its Erika that you have a problem with not the actors, so please rein in your temper…"

"I'm not a teenager…" I mutter under my breath and fold my arms sulkily in front of me.

"Really, Anastasia? Then act like it! You've been acting like a snarky, rebellious brat all day!" Bella's nearly at the end of her patience and I really don't wanna press my luck, but the teenage side just can't help herself and goes for broke.

"You can't pin this all on me, Isabella! It's like we had some sort of endless bad luck jinx shadowing us everywhere we went today that's not on me!" I narrow my eyes to slits and hiss back through my teeth.

"Yes. Alright. Fine." Bella closes her eyes and counts to ten. Taking deep calming breaths to rein in her temper.

"Sorry…that was…It's just that you cornered me…and I lash out…when someone lays down the law like you just did…" I know that one was below the belt, but I was feeling like a teenager again and I hate that.

"No…." Bella sighs heavily and opens defeated chocolate brown eyes. "You're right. There are times when my bad luck streak strikes and today was one of those days. We're both a fault. We'll show them that book Ana doesn't come close to Real Ana. Let Erika eat crow on her big night while supporting our friends on their accomplishment. We can and will do this without causing a scene."

"Love ya, sis." I hug her fiercely. "I'm just stressed out of my mind because I've never walked a carpet without Chris as my shield. I might act fearless, but I'm a fraud. Rhian hypnotized me to help with my extreme stage fright at public events. Chris and only Chris is the only one who can say the trigger word to keep me from losing it. We're talking full-blown panic attack."

"Think of that dress and the weapon around your waist as your armor. Channel that feeling and you'll be fine. Draw on your alpha side. Let it empower you. It's what I do. Channel Mistress Anastasia. Nothing and no one can shake her resolve. You command that carpet…"

"Jose switched dresses didn't he?" I'm in awe of her.

"Yes, but then he thinks and so does Alice that you need to embrace your inner diva and that dress screams diva. You've been in Kate and Mia's shadow all of your life and he just wants you to take a flying leap from the nest. That's what I gleaned from him during his panic out the doors. My dress has the illusion of being innocent until you see the back of it, and that's its shock factor. Instead of letting you tip your toe in the water. Jose tossed you in the deep end of the pool and it's your choice whether you carpe diem the hell out of it or not."

"When Chris sees me in this it won't survive to be worn again, so this will be its one and only chance to shine." I grin wickedly.

"OH!" Bella's eyes light up with wicked delight. "That's right it's been over six months hasn't it…he'll lose his mind when he sees you in that…" She giggles, eyes dancing. "The only thing going through his mind besides the obvious is MINE. He'll go all primal. You might be able to sit down after all…"

"Why do you think that our big brothers are sporting casts, braces, contusions, and war wounds? Pent up frustration will cause anyone to snap."

"Please, paired with the puppy dog eyes, and pout doesn't work on you?" She arches a brow.

"Not when all I have to do is look outside and that mini-cruise ship is blocking the view of my cove it doesn't. Pair that with the Feds powwowing with him in his office over his freelance spy stint and it was easy for the most part to ignore his pleas for me to forgive him. I wasn't that cruel. He got to sleep in the same bed with me. No touching, but that never really works when you're attracted to each other like a pair of magnets, so cuddling was allowed while sleeping…Had I known that the true reason for the boat was our son's longing for his own Chuck-E-Cheese and waterpark then maybe I would have forgiven him sooner…Chris wanted a Cat, but Teddy saw the model on Dad's desk and there was no stopping him after that…I was punishing him for making a decision without me again and all along it was Teddy. Chris confessed all yesterday as if he was on Veritas serum and we were back on track until Ros called…now it's me in the hot seat. I should have called Sam. Jose got hacked because we were impulsive. It wouldn't have happened if security had been in place…" My voice trails off as the limo door opens. It was our turn and I hadn't even noticed that we'd even moved.

"Damn right it wouldn't have. You're in big, big, big, trouble, baby sister." Luke growls, offering his hand to me, so that I could get out. My jacket has no buttons, so big brother's eyes have nearly popped out of their sockets and he's gaping at me like a fish out of water. I think he's lost the ability to think, either that or he's in panic protect baby sis mode major.

"Um…Luke…I need to get out." I blink innocently up into stunned blue green eyes. "So does Bella…"

"Is there a problem with the girls, Sawyer…?" I want to roll my eyes. Jamie has ditched the interviews to try and offer his assistance and now his brain has gone tilt too! Only he's snapped out of it and is making to offer me the jacket of his suit.

Men!

"Move! You are holding up traffic! It's a dress! It's red! It's hot! Get over it!" I take matters into my own hands, as now we've got DJ coming over to see why Jamie ditched the interview. She's grinning wickedly and highly approves of my dress choice. She pushes them aside and helps me by offering her hand and finally I step foot on the red…no scratch that…black carpet. How fitting. They're going for monochrome for the opening.

Crap. I'll stick out like a red hot poker in this dress! Forget blending in that's impossible! I channel my inner bitch. Turn and seeing as the men are still in shock offer my hand to help Bella out of the limo. Hudson and Frankie were too enthralled by DJ to offer any assistance, but after being roared at in their ears they sprang out of the car to take their positions.

Jamie's got his phone out and is frantically texting someone and looking down the road at the other limos in line. Traitor. Chris must be in one of them and he's reporting in.

"Anastasia! Bella! Why didn't you text me that you were coming?! We could have had a girl day!" DJ gives me a hug and then Bella.

"It was a last minute thing. I'm filling in for a close family member who's taken ill, well, his whole staff has, and I couldn't say no to the man. He's like a father to me." I smile warmly at her.

"You're here to review Fifty Shades?!" DJ's eyes pop wide and her mouth drops open. "Does Christian know that you're even here? I mean, this is going viral as we speak. You're Anastasia Steele-Grey!? We're good friends and even I don't feel comfortable with you having to sit through this."

"She's fortified herself sampling the spirit enhanced treats that we made to mellow our guys. CEO Ana isn't in play tonight or all day really. She had Sangria just hours before we had to catch the redeye to the City so that she could give a speech at the Publishers symposium…" Bella's faster than I am at trying to reassure DJ on her big night, but she's only making it worse.

"I'll try and give my best unbiased take on this and the whole night. I can put aside the fact that I would rather, no offence, go on a black AmEx no holds barred shopping spree weekend with the girls and Jose than have to watch Erika's take on me and my man play out on the screen. I'm here to do that favor for Papa K to the best of my ability. I run my own publishing empire. I think that I can manage to write an article for the Seattle Times on Fifty Shades and be objective." I try and appease her a little.

Bella rolls her eyes not believing a word.

I will rein it in! DJ and I are friends and have been since we were teenagers and she got involved with some of our charities. I would never in a million years wish to ruin this night for her or Jamie. I knew she was going for it and that she got the part five minutes after she got the call. I was happy for her, because this would be a major milestone in her career. The books had a cult following so the movie would also follow suit. Chris was at a golfing charity event and struck up a friendship with Jamie the same time that I was at a luncheon with Millie. He actually asked Chris first before saying yes to this part. Honestly, neither of us really cared. The book wasn't us. It's the book that shall never be named, mentioned, read, or shown in the eyes of our family. Then again knowing all that I know now, it's a little too close to home for the majority of them.

"Teenage Ana's on the prowl? Like Vegas?" DJ's eyes light up with wicked mischief. "I was wondering what got you out of your comfort zone enough to channel Katie or Mimi! Can't say that you're not channeling your inner mistress! Is that a real whip around your waist as a belt? I've been crazy busy all day with publicity, but I have seen the LIVE feed where you've insinuated several times that you both dominate the bedroom…"

I will my face not to turn fire engine red and bite my lip. "Bella? I haven't been that bad today have I?"

"Let's put it this way, baby sis, even if you haven't come out and called him your submissive. You've made it clear that you're both equal in the bedroom. That there is not a submissive bone in your body, you all but crammed that into Erika's face earlier today. Luckily, you've been reined in enough not to call Chris your pet in the bedroom, but it's not from lack of trying." Bella takes a deep breath and then tries to break it to me as gently as possible.

"Oh, god!" I bite down hard on my lip and my eyes keep looking towards the arriving limos with dread. "I mean that's not what I was trying to say at all! I was just meaning that he more than satisfies me without adding all the kinky fuckery into the mix! We're equals. He treats me like his queen not his pet and that's all that I was trying to say! Really! I would never make Chris submit to me that's degrading in my eyes! Like being called a Good Girl or Good Boy what's with that crap?! No! We are equals and if I made it sound otherwise then I've gotta set it straight!"

"It's okay Ana. We all have shitty days. It happens." DJ wraps an arm around my waist on one side and Bella does the same on my other and the three of us head down the gauntlet where there are camera's flashing everywhere and reporters screaming at the top of their lungs as soon as we reach the line where they are being corralled.

"Ana! Are those videos real!?"

"Chris couldn't wait, so you eloped a year early?!"

"Yeah, is that why you got hitched in Vegas?!"

"Did you think that he'd stray, so you married him less than a month after you turned eighteen?!"

"We're you knocked up and lost your first kid?!"

"Are you and Chris leading a secret life!?"

"Does he call you Mistress? Is that why you're wearing that tonight?! To make a statement!?

"Yeah, is that why you're here tonight?! To rub it in EL's face that she got it all wrong!?"

"Is Christian Master of the Boardroom and then submits to you as his Mistress of the bedroom?!"

"No! Ana! Ignore them! Don't you even think about feeding the sharks!" Bella's hissing in my ear, but I'm seeing everyone in that corral in a red haze.

I turn on my heel and glower at the sharks behind their corral and narrow my eyes to slits. "Mr. Grey is a Master in whatever he does, not that our private life is any of your business! Just because he's a living breathing Demi-god and the Master of His Universe does not mean that he's a control freak like Book Grey! He's brilliant at what he does! Confidant! If he's a beast in bed, well, none of you will ever and I do mean ever know! He's MINE! I don't SHARE! Our lives are not a reality show! This dress is because Jose blackmailed me into wearing it! This is not me! Bella's dress is me! I am here because my Papa K is down and so is his entire staff with NORO! I would endure another emergency C section without any pain relief awake then have to stand here and listen to the tripe that you are spewing about a video that was illegally hacked by one of you parasites from Jose Rodriguez's phone!"

"All of you with your cameras and phones can just hit delete, because we have an iron clad exclusive contract with Kavanagh media when it comes to any photos, videos, well you get the idea of any of our family or friends in the media! You can't cash in if you're broke, in jail, or have nowhere to sell it too!"

"Yeah, yeah, you threaten us all the time but never follow through! It's all talk!" TMZ parasite snarks.

"I'd check your LIVE feed, Tony is it?" I snark right back at him. "It went dark the second that we left the Hotel, meaning that my Babe is on the warpath and Harvey is going to be penniless along with all of you! I warned you all to back the hell off, but you never listen! It's stalking! Hacking someone is illegal! You are not exempt from the law!"

Someone slinks under the barrier to get a money shot and in seconds the whip is in my hands and his camera is in pieces around him! The worm scurries back behind the safety of the barriers.

"This is my safe space! That's yours!" I lick my whip along the front of the barrier. "Back the fudge off!"

"Fuck! That's real!?"

"Yes, it's real! It's my defense weapon of choice!" I snap at them again and they nearly go through the back of the canopy. "Now, play nice and I may or may not answer some of your questions."

"Why the Themed wedding?" Someone from E news shouts out warily.

"We met on Halloween. He was two and I was one. It's a special day for us. We wanted that to be our wedding date, but our mothers were set against it, so we did something that we wanted, and then had a private blessing a year later. I wasn't pregnant. Chris and I are soul mates. Forever. I am his and he is mine. All of you panting females listening out there hoping, praying, wishing that he'll stray from me? It's never gonna happen. So stop making fools of yourselves with the love letters, underwear, videos, photos…He never sees them…that goes for all of you salivating males too…Never, ever, gonna happen…all of this crap that you send never gets to us! It gets shredded. Recycled. Incinerated. So just stop! Trying! Find yourselves someone and resign yourself to the fact that Christian Grey, living breathing Demi God, eternally mine, is the other half of…" I feel him step onto the carpet and all of my senses react and not even a few moments later hot breath growls in my ear and one strong arm wraps around my waist pulling me back against him.

"Anastasia Grey…" If there was a money shot for all of them then this one would break records. Chris doesn't play for the cameras, unless he's feeling territorial like now.

He trails hot scorching kisses down the side of my neck. Then turns his blazing stormy, pewter grey gaze up at the media in front of us, and makes sure that they get the sound bite as he growls out. "Living Breathing Goddess, is my other half…forever mine…" Then ignores them completely by turning me in his arms. Drinking in the view…then kisses me mindless right there on the black carpet.