So I think that this was one of the fastest updates that I have ever had... Anyway I was floored by all the reviews that I received and I just want to say that they were awesome! Actually that you guys are awesome! So enjoy this chapter and I am hoping to have the next one up soon!

Christian's POV:

I spent most of my day after the Elena incident trying to think of what to do. Phoebe was beyond pissed at me and I knew that the only thing that could make it better was time. So now I was in the middle of a waiting game with her while I tried to figure out what to do about Adam.

It was a tricky situation. From what I had learned, Adam was the new me in Elena's life. She took him to different clubs and flaunted her find around, consequences be damned. Now I was dealing with how to get him out of that situation without Elena following through on her threat. All I knew right now was that until the Elena situation was rectified Phoebe was not going anywhere near her 'son'.

"Mr. Grey your mother is on line one, she said that she was returning your call." My secretary said over the intercom and I picked up my phone.

"Thank you." I said as I took my mother off hold and leaned back in my chair.

"How is Phoebe?" My mom asked and I sighed.

"She was in a little bit of pain this morning but she took a few Advil and then went off to school like nothing happened."

"That's good, so if this isn't about Phoebe, what is this phone call concerning?" My mom asked and I knew that I had to just get right to the point or I was going to chicken out.

"Elena Lincoln." I said as the line went silent for a moment.

"What about that woman?" My mother asked in a low tone that showed how sore of a subject this was with her.

"She adopted a son not too long back, and her son happens to be Adam, the boy Phoebe went out with." I stated and my mom sighed.

"I'm guessing that was why Phoebe's hand went through the glass table last night. How in the world did she even adopt, is there anything we can do about it?" My mom asked.

"I have to talk to dad to see about it but unless we bring up everything that happened with me I don't see a way to get Adam away from her, and trust me there is nothing I want more than to get that boy away from her."

"I'm sure your father would be happy to help out." My mom said as I ran a hand through my hair.

"I will call him later and see what he thinks, I'm just worried about Fee, mom. She doesn't understand why I am so against her dating Adam, not that there is anything wrong with Adam, it's just that I don't want her anywhere near Elena."

"I know sweetie. Have you thought about telling her about-"

"No, she doesn't need to know about that." I snapped not wanting to even think about that possibility any more than I already had.

"It would help her understand though."

"Be that as it may, I can't let her know about that, not just her, any of the kids. I had a hard enough time telling them about being abused when I was a kid, I can't handle telling them about Elena."

"I understand. So how is Teddy doing with working for you? I mean I know that he was a little hesitant about it at first, is he at least doing a good job?" My mom asked and I smiled as I thought about how well my son was doing with the tasks I had given him.

"He is excelling with everything that I give to him, I am amazed." I said as I opened the most recent email that he had sent and re-read the work that the email contained.

"That is good to hear, and how is Ana? She isn't stressing too much is she?"

"No mom she isn't stressing any more than usual, even with the whole Elena thing."

"Good then you and Ana will be in attendance of the benefit next weekend?" My mom asked and I couldn't help but smirk at the way she slipped that into our conversation.

"Mom do you even have to ask? You know that Ana and I have attended every year, this is actually one of the benefits that we look forward to going to."

"Great, and Phoebe and Teddy are coming as well?" She asked and I shook my head as I chuckled slightly.

"Of course they are coming, Gail is watching the two younger ones and Ana is taking Phoebe to go pick out a dress this weekend."

"Alright then. Look Christian I know that this isn't really my place but go easy on Fee. It doesn't matter if she just met Adam, it was her first relationship son and she is going to hate you and Ana for a while because you broke it up, but she will come around." My mom said and I sighed.

"I know, I just hate that she is mad at me."

"Yeah well at least she is mad at you because you did something that was in her best interest and not because you were just being mean." My mom teased.

"Me be mean? I think you are thinking of your other son." I joked and she laughed.

"I'm sure. Be sure to call your dad about the whole Adam thing."

"I will mom."

"I love you Christian." She said and I smiled.

"I know, I love you too." I said before I hung up the phone and turned my attention back to work.

At about three Ana called to let me know that she was heading home early and I decided that I would join her. For the most part I had gotten as much done at the office as I could so I didn't feel too bad about heading home early.

When I got home Ana was sitting at the table coloring with Blake. I walked over to her and gave her a kiss before I turned and ruffled Blake's hair.

"You're home early." Ana said as she got up and I nodded.

"I am, as are you."

"Yeah well I was worried about Fee-"

"You shouldn't worry about me, I'm fine, pissed, but fine." Phoebe said as she walked through the room towards the kitchen.

"She seems like her old self to me." I joked and Ana lightly hit my arm and then followed through with a look.

"Phoebe honey we are going to be eating dinner in a little bit." Ana said following Phoebe into the kitchen and I knelt down so I was on the same level as Blake.

"Blake, let me tell you a secret to having a happy and long life, don't have daughters." I said and Blake smiled.

"Okay daddy!" Blake beamed and I laughed.

"Go play with Ryan, I think you have colored enough." I said and Blake bolted from the table as I loosened my tie and walked to where the bickering was coming from in the kitchen.

"Well I don't really care what you think, I have kick boxing tomorrow and I am going, whether I can participate or not." Phoebe snapped as I rested my hand on Ana's tense shoulders.

"Christian tell her she can't go." Ana said turning to me and I sighed.

"You can go Phoebe but do not throw any punches." I said and Phoebe gave her mother a smirk before she walked out of the room leaving me alone with my irrational, hormonal, pissed off wife.

"What was that?" She hissed and I shrugged.

"She wanted to go-"

"Yes and I told her that she couldn't."

"Ana, as long as she doesn't participate in the class she will be fine."

"And did she tell you that she was going out with Ava afterwards?" Ana asked and I shrugged.

"Better Ava than Adam. Look Ana, Phoebe is pissed off and if we don't let her out she is only going to get more upset. We know Ava and as long as she is hanging out with her cousin I have no problem with it." I said as I gave her shoulders a tight squeeze.

"I guess you're right."

"I usually am." I teased and Ana rolled her eyes. "Did you just roll your eyes at me?" I asked and Ana shook her head as she bit her bottom lip and I let out a low growl. "You have no idea how lucky you are that our kids are just in the other room, rolling your eyes and then lying about it, so lucky." I said and she smirked.

"It's still early, I bet I could get Gail to watch the kids for a few hours." Ana said and I let go of her shoulders and walked into the other room in search of Mrs. Jones.

Phoebe's POV:

"Our parents are gone." Teddy said from my doorway and I gave him a thumbs up as I continued to work on an email to one of our dad's clients. "What are you doing that you aren't jumping for joy?" Teddy asked as he walked over and started to read over my shoulder.

"I'm in the middle of a business deal with some of dad's clients in Kansas, I was just trying get this email out in the next few hours." I said as I turned from my computer and Teddy nodded as he walked over and sat down on my bed.

"So did you get everything printed?" He asked and I nodded as I got up grabbed the manuscript and then threw it at him.

"Does it look like I got everything printed?" I asked and he nodded as he flipped through a few pages.

"When are you going to slip this into mom's things?" He asked and I shrugged.

"Well if our parents are gone right now then I guess that I could do it right now." I said as I grabbed it from Teddy and walked out of the room.

"Are you sure that it's still a good idea?" Ted asked as he scurried after me and I turned to face him.

"If you don't want to do this then we won't but if that is the case you are taking over for dad, you have no other option." I stated and he sighed after taking a moment to think things over.

"Go ahead." He said and I smirked as I headed down to where mom had piled her work when she came home earlier.

Once the manuscript was blended into the pile I headed back upstairs where my email was still waiting to be completed. I was able to finish it up and get it sent before I had to call Ava to go over my plan once more.

I had talked to Ava earlier in the day and told her about the disaster that was Monday night's dinner. From there it took a while to convince her to help me see Adam against my parent's wishes but in the end she caved and agreed to help me out tomorrow as long as I promised to cover for her the next time she wanted to hang out with someone her parents disapproved of, which surprisingly happened often.

"Hey Fee, say hi to my dad." She said and I rolled my eyes knowing that this was not the time to talk about what we were calling operation camouflage.

"Hi Uncle Elliot."

"Hey baby, why are you calling?" He asked and I paused for a second before I came up with the perfect cover up excuse for my call.

"I was just calling to let Ava know that my dad said that I could still go to kick boxing tomorrow and then we can do dinner afterwards."

"Didn't you get stitches?" My uncle asked.

"I did but my dad said as long as I didn't participate in class I could still go."

"Dad this is my conversation." Ava whined and I heard Uncle Elliot laugh.

"I'll talk to you later Phoebe, it was good to hear from you."

"Bye Uncle Elliot."

"Text me later, my mom just got home and if you don't hang up now you will be talking to her for an hour about last night." Ava said.

"Bye Ava." I said as I hung up and then put my phone to the side and went to read through the rest of the work that I had to do for Teddy.

The work that I had to do was actually pretty fun. I had no idea why Teddy hated it so much but there was just something so thrilling about being able to close a deal, coming in hundreds of thousands of dollars under what was estimated. I think that it was one of the first times that I felt like my dad was proud of what I was doing, I mean of course the praise emails that he sent were addressed to Teddy but I knew that they were meant for me and that was all that mattered.

Doing this work for my dad made me feel that in a way I was closer to him than I had been in a while. I mean it's not that my dad and I aren't close but I don't know, lately things have changed it I just feel like we are going in two separate directions. He has his idea of how things should be and then I have my idea of how things should be and it's hard to meet in the middle a lot of the time so we fight, but with this work we both want the same thing. It's simple, like things used to be between us.

I was reading through the emails when I can upon one that made my heart drop. My dad wanted me, well Teddy, to take the lead on a conference call tomorrow afternoon. There was no way that I could do this, I mean first of all my dad was going to be listening in and on top of that I had my date with Adam tomorrow. How had I let this slip by me? I mean I had been on top of everything and then this, what was I going to do?

I shot up from my desk and headed down the hall to where Teddy was on his computer playing around.

"We have a problem Ted, like a major problem." I said and his head shot up.

"What kind of problem?" He asked.

"You have a conference call with dad tomorrow, we're screwed."

"Can't we just talk dad into not listening in?" He asked and I shrugged.

"We could possibly do that but I have plans for tomorrow and I just pitched a fit in order to keep those plans." I said and Teddy put his computer to the side and started to pace.

"This is not happening, can't we reschedule it?" He asked and I shook my head.

"Not with the deal that is sitting on the table, either we close this tomorrow or we walk away."

"Shit!" Teddy said and I sighed.

"I have an idea but you are going to have some catching up to do." I said and Teddy stopped in front of me.

"What?" He asked.

"I have done all the foot work for this deal. The seller wants about two hundred thousand more than what dad is willing to pay. The thing is if we can somehow convince the seller that he is selling his business, not to Grey Incorporated but to a member of the Grey family who is trying to support his family and grow his business so that his family doesn't have to worry about money we have a shot. The thing is dad is looked at in the business world as some monster who just collects businesses for sport and we have to change that image, do you think you can do that?" I asked and he sighed.

"I guess I can try, but I have no idea how this is going to work." Teddy said and I smiled.

"We can do this Teddy, just get ready to absorb more information in the next few hours than you have in your short life.

Teddy's POV:

I felt numb, that was if you could call what I was doing feeling. Phoebe had grilled me on the stupid deal until I couldn't hold anymore information in my head. All through dinner the only thing that was floating through my head was the stupid facts in information that we had drilled. The only thing that I dreamed about was what I had to say to the client to get him to sell his company. I had to say that Phoebe really knew her stuff when it came to dad's business and when everything was said and done I was going to have to talk dad into giving Phoebe the job over me.

After school I rushed home so that I was relaxed by the time I had to call into the meeting. Phoebe had told me that I could text her if I had any questions but I knew that for the most part I was alone in this endeavor.

When the time came I called into the conference call. My dad was already on the line and he explained what was going to happen before he patched the seller through to our call.

I was so glad that Phoebe had forwarded all the email conversations that she had with this seller to me. I mean he was eating the crap that Phoebe had said up. He was all about the family stuff and Phoebe had hit the nail on the head with her assessment. It only took twenty minutes for the seller to lower his price to a ten thousand below what my dad was willing to pay.

"Good work Theodore." My dad praised when it was just the two of us on the line again and I couldn't help but grin.

"Thanks dad."

"I can't believe that you closed that deal in twenty minutes, do you know how long I have been in negotiations with them? I mean how did you know what to say? You were brilliant." He said and I couldn't help but feel guilty, I was only getting this praise because Phoebe had done her homework and she prepared me.

"Again, thanks dad, but I was just going off of what I was given."

"Don't be so modest, tomorrow night when everyone is together we are going to go out and celebrate, this is a big deal Teddy and it deserves to be treated as such." My dad said and I sighed.

"Alright, but I have some homework I need to get done, I will talk to you later." I said as I hung up and then sent a text to Phoebe to let her know that I had closed the deal. I figured that she didn't need to know that dad was making a huge deal out of this so I left out that little detail.

When I did get a response from her she was thrilled and told me that she was proud of me for going in and closing the deal.

Mom came home around six and she laid the stack of manuscripts on the counter. I could see that she was in the midst of reading my manuscript and just looking at it made my heart pound. I mean what if she didn't like it? This was the real thing, she was in her element here and this was the true life and death moment of my story. If she liked it there was a chance that it got published, but if she hated it that was the end. I would be going off to Harvard in the fall and then going into business with my dad, something that I was not looking forward to. I mean yeah it felt good to close a deal today but everything that had to be done in preparation for the deal was terrible and I couldn't do that for the rest of my life. Writing, that was something that I could do forever so I took a chance.

"Hey what are you reading?" I asked as my mom walked over and picked up her work pile.

"Oh my goodness, this manuscript right here has to be the best thing I have read in months. This T.R.G. person knows how to write, I mean of course there are a few mistakes but with a little editing I think that this is a best seller. Sorry I'm probably boring you. I heard you closed a huge deal for your dad today, that is exciting." My mom said and I nodded.

"Yeah but back to the manuscript, you really think that it is a best seller?" I asked and she nodded.

"Yep, I just need to finish it to make sure that the ending is as great as the beginning and then I have to try to find some information on the author, for some reason the company has no information on this particular author. That would be interns for you." My mom said and I faked a laugh.

"Yeah." I said trying to contain my excitement, it was happening, it was really happening.

"So your dad will be home shortly so I need to clean up a bit of my work, but I am really proud of you Teddy. Your dad was thrilled that you have taken an interest in his work and from the looks of it you are doing so well. I'm just happy that you found something that you love." My mom said as she ran a hair through my hair and then kissed my forehead before she gathered her things and walked out of the room.

It was in that moment that I started to feel terrible about what Phoebe and I were doing. I guess in the end the lying and all that was harmless but in the meantime it was eating me alive.

As soon as my dad got home he continued a non-stop rant about how proud he was of me and how I had lived up to the Grey name. It was at that moment that I was so happy that Phoebe wasn't suppose to be home until later, well at least she wasn't suppose to be home until later. Dad was mid sentence when she came waltzing into the house and I quickly excused myself to talk to her for a moment before dinner was ready.

"I thought you weren't going to be home until later." I whispered as we walked up the stairs and she shrugged.

"I got out of class early so Ava and I had an early dinner. Why what is going on?" She asked and I shook my head.

"It doesn't matter I was just curious as to why-"

"Teddy dinner is ready, oh good Phoebe you're home." My mom said as she stopped a few feet away from us.

"Yeah I am, still not sure how good it is." Phoebe murmured as she pushed past our mom towards her room.

"Well your father and I would like it if you joined us for dinner." My mom said clearly not caring if Fee was in a good mood or not.

"I already ate." Phoebe retorted her tone laced with anger.

"I know but you will sit with us at dinner and join in on our conversation, now lets go, it's not up for discussion." Our mom said as she turned with a smile and headed down to the table.

"After you." I said gesturing down the stairs to Phoebe who just slammed me into the railing as she passed me and headed down to the table.

Dinner was a disaster. The entire time mom and dad gushed over how they couldn't believe the work I was doing and how I was a genius while Phoebe sat back and grinned her teeth together to stop her from saying anything. I knew that if she was this upset over the dinner conversation tonight she was going to be more than pissed when the dinner in my honor rolled around tomorrow. Hopefully I would be able to talk to her before it happened but that conversation was clearly not going to be taking place tonight.

As soon as we were dismissed from the table, Phoebe stormed upstairs and locked her door while our dad took me into his office to go over some other deals that he wanted me to take the lead on based on my performance today. I wasn't really paying attention and I was just happy that he said that he was going to email me all the information that I needed being as I didn't catch anything he said.

Once that torture was over I was able to head up stairs where I could hear my mother and sister going at it again. I loved Phoebe a lot but at the same time I wish she could sometimes step back and see the way she was acting, it wasn't a pretty sight, no matter how upset she was. I waited outside of Phoebe's door until our mom left and then I slipped inside to where Phoebe was pacing the room.

"That was some fight." I commented and she snapped her head towards me.

"What the hell do you want oh prodigal son?" She sneered and I held my hands up in defense.

"Look Fee I didn't ask for any of that and I know it's not fair-"

"Nothing in my life is fair. I'm sorry I snapped at you, you're right it's not your fault, but I don't want to go to that dinner tomorrow night, I can't. I mean I almost lost it tonight when it was just us at the table, if we add in the rest of our family I will lose it, there is no if ands or buts about it, it will happen."

"You need to try, I take it from the fight that just happened you can't get out of it." I said and she sighed.

"Mom said I need to be happy for you, she said that I am just jealous of all the attention that you got and that I shouldn't be because you have been working so hard at your job."

"If only she knew." I said and Phoebe cracked a smile. "Look tomorrow night is going to be hard but we can get through it, we are Greys after all. If it gets to be too much just tell dad that you aren't feeling well, he will probably just have Sawyer take you home and I'll make sure of it." I said as I walked over and gave Phoebe a hug which she graciously returned.

"Thank you Teddy." She said into my shoulder and I smiled.

"I love you Fee."