Stacey comes back on board
The twins were three months old and they were thriving and Merrill was going to be doing his portrait with Merritt on the next cruise cause he wanted her to build up some muscle so they could be on the floor and she was doing really good as well and she was holding her head up as well
"I don't believe it" Merrill says when he sees his ex-wife coming aboard the princess that cruise
"Who is it dad?" Vicki asks him as she was holding Georgina and Gopher had Merritt right now cause she wanted daddy Gopher cause Gunnar had to go back on his ship right now, and Trig went with him cause he had to weight the pro's and con's of living on each ship right now and he knew Merrill would want his biological grandchildren close to him and Vicki had her close family as well there so the decision was unanimous that Trig and Vicki was going to live on the pacific princess
"It's my ex-wife Stacey she doesn't know about you or the girls" Merrill says as he sees her look in that direction of where her ex-husband was, and it looked like he had a love child and it looks like he was a grandfather as well
"Oh, we better stay out of her way give me Georgina and we will go to the bridge" Vicki says as she looks at him cause the bridge was going to be her safe haven right now from Stacey and she was not going to meet the girls
"Yeah you better I will be up later to be with the girls" he says as he was going to have Gopher take Merritt to see Doc and have him check her over as well cause she needed another check-up cause her weight has been all over the place lately and he wanted to see if she could be started on solids as well and if she could when was going to be the best time to start her cause he wanted her to put on some weight as well cause she was still light for her age as well
"Oh, look who it is" Stacey says when she saw Merrill and Gopher and it looked like he was passing the baby off to Gopher as well
Merrill just holds Merritt in his arms right now cause she wanted pappy right now and he was going to hold her until the ship had sailed
"Oh hi Stacey" he says a he was looking at her right now cause she was looking at him and of course Merritt as well
"Who is that runt?" Stacey asks him
Merrill was hurt that Merritt was called a runt even though she is smaller then her sister she is not a runt she is a baby that needs a lot of love and care right now anyway
"This here is little Merritt and she might be small she is mighty, and she and her sister was born on this ship" Merrill tells her cause he had to defend Merritt
"Whose the mother some poor woman" Stacey tells him
"Stacey that is enough I am going to have you go to your room and just stay there Merritt and her sister don't need to be bullied by you on this cruise and when we meet again I hope you say something nice about the babies and not anything mean cause Georgina and Merritt are my granddaughters and I love them to death better then I loved you I am going to be there for them and since you did not want kids and I wanted kids I also have a daughter her name is Vicki and she is the twins mother as well and the two of us are a pretty good team and she is seeing someone as well and he is helping raise the girls as his own and there is Gopher who is the back-up dad and the girls love him too" Merrill says as he was going to head to the bridge with Merritt who was crying a little bit cause grandpappy yelled and she hates yelling as well and he did not blame her either
(bridge)
Merrill puts Merritt in her little wrap and she calms right down as she has some milk that daddy Gopher brought for her to have
"How is little Georgina?" he asks Vicki cause he was worried about her as well
"She is just fine dad a little more clingy and she wants Trig so I am going to see if he can come on-board cause she is his girl like Merritt is yours and Gopher's" Vicki says as she was going o call Trig and see if he can come on board quick and help cause she felt hurt as well cause her dad's ex said those things about the girls as well and she needed some comfort to
Merrill was going to hug all three of his girls right then and there and he did not care that much about getting the ship out on time as well his girls needed some comfort and some extra love too and he was going to give it to them and Gunnar was going to come on board and sail the ship as well
"Don't worry Vicki I am going to make sure Stacey stays away from us even during dinner cause if she doesn't say anything nice she is going to go right back to her room and she is going to stay there for as long as I say" Merrill tells Vicki cause he was not going to have her feelings hurt by his ex and have the girls feel like they are not loved by mommy, daddy Gopher, daddy Trig, grandpappy Gunnar, grandpappy Merrill as well
Vicki was glad that her dad was going to protect her and the girls at all cost right now
"I think a family dip in the pool sounds good to me after the life boat drill of course" Merrill says as they left the bridge to go change