A/N: Jumping into the future for this one. I saw the 'tissue trick' in a YouTube video and knew right away I needed to use it for something and I finally found a place for it.

Enjoy!

((Edit: Caught a mistake with my timeline I hadn't realized I made. Hopefully everything is fixed now))

"In 1000 feet: take Exit 95-A onto Southern State Parkway."

The GPS could barely be heard over the voices coming from behind her and over the wailing infant in the carrier to her right. They had literally just gotten onto the highway, and already this drive was going to be a long one; Danielle could feel it.

Their annual summer pilgrimage to the Hamptons was underway and nearly everyone was coming except for Deacon, who was on tour with his band and would be stopping by when he could. She, Ashley and the kids had gotten in a few days ago, and were already settled at the beach-front home.

Danielle, Miyana, and a few of the kids (Macey, Jaycee and baby Henry) had been volun-told to drive back into the city to pick up their youngest sister from the airport; and once Finn arrives, everyone in their family would be there, just like old times.

"Mommy?" Macey calls, from her spot next to her cousin in the very back.

"What, baby?" Danielle answers, meeting her daughter's eyes in the rearview mirror.

"Baby Henry is crying," the toddler says, pointing out the obvious fact about her baby brother.

Danielle meets Miyana's eyes, from the passenger seat next to her, and the two sisters share smiles and an eye roll.

"I know, baby." Oh, she knew. Her son had been crying ever since Ashley had strapped him into his car seat before they left the house. "But there isn't anything I can do about it right now."

"Hold on," Miyana says, then un-hooks her seatbelt and crawls between the front seats and into the second row; completely illegal, but necessary. She sits in the middle seat, strapping herself in once again. "Henry," she croons, trying to get her nephew's attention. But despite all her attempts, the infant's cries continue.

"Hand me that, will you?" Mia directs Danielle, pointing to the backpack that replaced her body in the passenger seat. She reaches behind her and hands it to Mia, who reaches in and pulls out a pack of travel tissues.

"What are we gonna do with that? Wipe his snotty nose?" Dani questions, changing lanes.

"No!" Mia cries. "It's this trick I learned when Jace was a baby. She used to cry in the car all the time and I was telling my friend Cat about it–"

"Isn't that the one who works at Drag shows?" Danielle questions, trying to remember her sister's friend.

"Yeah," Mia nods. "Anyway, she told me about this trick she used on her son. You take a tissue and run it over their face. She said she doesn't know how it works, but it puts them to sleep and they stop crying. So I tried it on Jace, and it worked! Like I couldn't believe it."

"So that's what you're going to do?" Danielle asks, looking over to her crying son.

"Yes!" Miyana answers, and starts running the tissue over Henry's face. At first, he doesn't care, just keeps on crying. But after a few minutes, his focus is shifted and his cries have been reduced to whimpers, then nothing at all.

Ten minutes later he's asleep.

"Magic," Miyana whispers once the crying stops, causing her sisters to laugh and they quickly slap hands over their mouths to keep from waking the sleeping baby.

The little girls in the back are occupied with a DVD on the player over their heads, of which the adults remember loving when they were young, and now with the infant asleep, the adults can finally carry on a proper conversation.

The sisters catch up on events of the year: Mia extending her contract for the play she's currently in, Danielle enjoying her hiatus before gearing up for the new season of the television show she's on the crew for. They talk about their kids, because nearly every conversation lately seems to end up on that subject, and eventually start jamming out to the radio.

Before long they are pulling off the highway and onto the long drive leading to the airport, and Mia starts giving her older sister direction on where to go to meet their youngest sister. Dani changes lanes a few times, and after getting cut off by a jerk of a driver, she lays on her horn and flips him off.

"Learn how to drive!" Danielle yells at the guy.

"Seriously," Miyana agrees. "Um, pull over here," she points out. Danielle does as she's told, pulling up next to the curb by the correct airline. She puts the car in park and rolls down all the windows, letting the summer air, and the sounds of a bustling airport to flow through.

"Macey! Jace! Are you guys looking for Auntie Finn?" Danielle calls back to her daughter and niece.

"Where is she?" Jaycee asks, looking around and leaning a far forward as her car seat would allow.

"You gotta look for her," Miyana replies to her daughter. "She's coming out of that door," she points, "very soon."

The little girls take their job of looking for their aunt very seriously and every time the sliding door opened, they pipe up, hopeful, but fall back disappointed when it wasn't their Auntie Finn. Finally, fifteen minutes later, the first shout of "There she is! Auntie Finn!" echoes through the car, and soon the door open revealing the young woman.

Finn follows the shouts of her nieces and approaches the car smiling.

"Hey!" she calls, watching her sister get out and round the car to her.

"Hey!" Danielle is the first to reach the baby of their family and wraps the small woman in a hug before pressing a kiss into her cheek. "Flight okay?"

"Yeah," Finn shrugs. "As good as it can be."

"Oh, I can only imagine," Dani chuckles. "Come on, put your stuff in the back."

The two turn the back of the SUV where Mia is waiting with the trunk open. Mia hugs her sister then holds her at arm's length. "Oh my god! You look fantastic!"

Wearing a pale purple sundress and white sandals, large, round sunglasses over her eyes and her hair curled into loose waves, Finn looked gorgeous, in the girlie-bohemian way she always has.

"Shut up," Finn replies, shaking her head and looking down at her toes.

"It's true!" Miyana insists.

"Hi, Auntie Finn!"

"Hi, Macey!" Finn replies, stowing her suitcase and moving around the car. She sets her crutches at her feet before getting in herself. She leans over the seat to her nieces and blows kisses at the excited little girls.

"Auntie Finn! Grandpa helped us build a sandcastle! And it was this big!" Macey explains, stretching her arms as far as they would go.

"Really? Did he show you how to dig a moat around it and fill it with water for the alligators?"

"No," the young girl replies. "You can do that?"

"Sure you can! If it's still early enough when we get home, I'll show you how."

"Jaycee Rene! Get back in your seat right now," Miyana scolds her daughter who had unbuckled herself and was standing up, playing with her cousin and aunt.

"No!" Jace whines.

"Yes," Mia insists.

"No!" More whining, close to tears.

"Yes." This time Finn jumps in, trying to help. "The sooner you get buckled, the sooner we can leave and I can play on the beach with you guys."

Eventually Jaycee complies and a minute later, Danielle is pulling back into traffic, heading towards the highway.