-chapter 5- (GTA)-

I woke up...my head was burning...I thought I was litterally in hell, for a brief moment, before I realized it was all just a dream.

Phoebe was standing over me..

-concerned- Phoebe:"Good, you're awake..."

-disoriented, just woken up- Me:"Ba...baby girl?"

Phoebe:"It's 1:00pm, you've been asleep for almost half the day."

Phoebe:"I was starting to get worried."

I sat up and pulled her onto the bed with me.

-worried- Phoebe:"Whoah...Cj...not right now...please, Charley's awake.."

I kissed her, and held her tight.

-somewhat worried- Phoebe:"What are you doing? I said no sex right now."

-lovingly- Me:"Relax...I know.."

-lovingly- Me:"I had the worst dream last night..."

Me:"I'm just glad, I have you back..."

-unsure- Phoebe:"Oookay."

Me: "I just want to hold you baby."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, Ok...if that's all you want right now."

She settled down and we snuggled together under the blankets.

Me:"Where's Charley?"

-calmly- Phoebe:"He's downstairs watching tv."

Phoebe:"He's been asking where you were all day."

-imitating Charley- Phoebe:"Whe dawey? Why dawey tywo...mawa whe dawhy? Cawey wa see dahwy..."

Me: "Hehehe.."

-concerned- Phoebe:"Are you going to be ok?"

Me: "Yeah, just let me take a shower, give me a chance to get it out of my mind."

Phoebe: "I can erase it from your mind if you want."

Me: "No, leave it..."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Me: "Two reasons..."

Me: "One, so I never have to go through it again, and 2, because it will allways remind me of, how much you really love me."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Huh?"

-curious- Phoebe: "What did you dream about?"

Me:"It's a long story."

-concerned- Phoebe:"What happened?"

Me:"Was what happened last night real?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"There's no side effects are there?"

Me:"My body isn't going to be completely numb or anything?"

Phoebe:"No Cj, the only side effect is just you sleeping till 2:00pm."

Me:"Good."

Phoebe:"Are you going to tell me what happened?"

Me:"I woke up, you were gone because you had taken Nina to school, you came back , we snuggled for a bit and then you went to get Charley while I went to take a shower, but there was a side effect to what we did last night, and it made me crippled, but because you love me so much, you never left, and you blamed yourself for everything, and the kids grew up and left us, and you..you..never left me, even when I wanted you to, so you could be happy...you'd rather hate yourself, then let me suffer because of something you did..."

Phoebe:"That's what I dreamed before you woke me up, Cj...except I was disabled because of what happened in Quiet Valley, because in the dream I tried to fight triangle face head on. "

Phoebe:"But after that, even though I was bed ridden, you took it upon yourself to look after the kids, you went on Devon missions on you own, Nina went off on her own, and Charley became an agent like you, and you two became partners, and one day, you both left for a mission, and, you didn't come back, and I was alone..."

Phoebe:"That other dream I had, had nothing to do with the first but I was too tired to realize it."

Me:"Charley became an agent in mine too, but, I don't think you partnered up with him."

Me:"In my dream he went looking for Nina."

Phoebe:"That was your mission..."

Phoebe:"You two had to find Nina together, because she was working for team galactic."

Me:"Hehehehe Nina, in team galactic?"

-unsure- Me:"Why?"

-jokingly- Me:"She'd rather butcher them then join them."

Phoebe:"Yeah I know, it's silly."

Me:"In mine, she went off on her own, trying to become a trainer, and we just never heard from her again, then Charley quit his job, went to look for her, gave up, and then went to Sinnoh to see the Gardevoir city that we hadn't been too since he was a baby. "

Me:"We spent the rest of our lives never knowing what became of either of them."

-softly, teary eyed- Phoebe:"Cj..."

We held eachother close.

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I guess those were more then dreams."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I think, in a way, they were really our worst fears."

Me: "No babe..."

Me: "My worst fear is losing you."

Phoebe: "No...Cj..."

Phoebe: "Honey your worst fear, is not being able to repay everything I've done for you."

Phoebe:"According to your dream, you were fine with losing me as long as it would make me happy."

Phoebe:"I'm the one that's afraid of losing you."

Me:"Why?"

-unsure- Me:"You're not afraid of making me unhappy?"

Phoebe:"That was part of it too Cj, I did everything I could to try to get you to move on, I tried to set you up with one of Nina's friends, so you could atleast have someone to sleep with but you wouldn't..."

-interupting- Me:" You what?"

Phoebe:"One of her friends from school...extremely cute 18 year old human girls..."

-somewhat disturbed- Me: "Nina's 14 sweety..."

Phoebe: "I know, this was after some time had progressed..."

-unsure- Me: "Oooookayyy."

That still just seemed weird, me dating 18 year old girls...especially since by that time in Phoebe's dream I would have been closer to 30 than 20, but...whatever.

-solemnly- Phoebe: "And before Nina left..."

Phoebe:"But you would stay with me though, even if you married her you'd still look after Charley and me."

Me:"Baby girl I wouldn't marry anyone else to begin with."

Phoebe: "I know, because you thought it would make me happier..."

Me:"I wonder, if that's why you stayed with me too."

Phoebe:"I don't know Cj, lets just, try to put it behind us."

Phoebe: "They were just dreams after all, nothing about them is for certain."

Phoebe:"Besides I'm pretty sure Triangle face was partially behind them, there's no way we could have had 2 very similiar, depressing dreams like that and not have something wicked behind it ."

Me: "Do you think we'll have them again then, is he gone now?"

Phoebe: "I think so, now that we've shared our dreams."

Me:"Allright then."

Phoebe: "Now honey if you don't mind, I need to get back to Charley, why don't you go take a shower?"

Me: "Ok."
She kissed me on the cheek and got up. I got some clothes from the dresser and followed her out. Relieved I could walk without wobbling around everywhere.

After I got out of the shower, I headed into the kitchen to get something to eat before joining Phoebe on the couch.

Phoebe:"Charley...daddy is awake."

-excitedly- Charley:"Dawhy!..."

He looked away from the tv.

Me:"Hey little guy."

He crawled towards me, very nearly standing up. He could stand, if he had something to hold onto, but he didn't quite have the balance to stand on his own yet.

-lovingly concerned- Phoebe:"Careful don't fall down."

Phoebe:"That reminds me, he should be learning how to walk anytime now."

Me:"That's good."

-cutely- Charley:"Gomawey..."

Me:"Goodmorning little buddy, how are you?"

He looked at me in silence for a little bit.

-unsure- Charley:"Cawey...es...fi..?"

Me:"You're fine?"

I was kind of surprised he tried to answer the question with something other than 'Cawey Dunno'.

Me:"That's good."

Me:"You want me to hold you?"

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey wa pwa bwocks..."

Me:"Ohhh...ok, have fun."

Me:"Watcha going to build?"

He started to crawl towards his blocks.

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Me:"Hehe...ok..."

Me:"Pheebles, Do we have to go see Dr. Nash today?"

Phoebe:"No, I called in for us, we have the day off."

Me:"Really?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

-cutely- Charley:"Dawhy pwa bwa?"

-unsure- Me:"What?"

-lovingly- Phoebe:"I think he wants you to play with him."

Me:"Oh, ok sure."

I got down on the floor with him.

-playfully- Phoebe:"Can mommy play too?"

-cutely- Charley:"Mawa Pway...!."

Me:"I think that's a yes."

Phoebe:"-giggles-, allright then."

We played blocks with him until we all had to leave to pick up Nina. Oblivious to what we had went through last night, he was in an infectiously cheerful mood that quickly made both our nightmares fade to the back of our minds. It seemed that as long as he was happy, it was hard for us not to be.

Once we picked up Nina, we got some dinner, and then headed home. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, it was really cold out today, so we stayed inside with Charley. Nina spent most of the afternoon outside with her pokemon, as usual.

The next day we headed to the lab after dropping Nina off at school again. Phoebe was a bit worried we might come across something like last time, but I tried to reassure her that the chances of ending up in another place like "quiet valley" was highly unlikely.

Dr. Nash: "Good, I'm glad you two came back."

Phoebe:"Before we go in, we need somebody to look after Charley"

Dr. Nash:"Don't worry about that mam, I've already taken it into consideration."

Dr. Nash:"Dr. Rambler has volunteered to look after him for you."

Dr. Rambler:"I'm Dr. Rambler, it's a pleasure to be of assistance."

-unsure- Me:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"Do you have any experience with children..."

Dr. Nash:"Of course he does, he has his own..."

:"Yep see..."

He showed us pictures of his own kids.

Phoebe:"Um...ok."

-concerned- Phoebe:"Ok, just one thing, before I hand him over...You see this little bracelet on his wrist? Don't remove it, if you remove it he'll teleport around unpredictably and it will be really hard to stop him."

Dr. Rambler:"Ok...

Phoebe:"Other than that he's not much different than a regular human baby."

Dr. Rambler:"Good to know."

Phoebe:"Charley be good ok? We'll be back in a little bit."

-anxiously- Charley:"Cawey wa mawa holb..."

-calmly- Phoebe:"Sorry sweety, but we need to work."

-calmly- Phoebe:"It will be ok..."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Stay calm for mommy."

She gave him a kiss before handing him over to the Doc.

-playfully- :"Allright come on, let's go over here...you can watch you parents work."

Phoebe:"So what are we exploring today?"

Dr. Nash:"Well, we're currently probing the portal on the right, as you can see, but we're having issues because it seems to lead to another city, but there's traffic this time so, we're having a hard time keeping the probe from getting squashed."

Phoebe:"Ok..."

: " There's lots of traffic and lots of people, I think we may have found an actual city..."

Dr. Nash:"Yes, but what city is it?"

Me: "I guess we'll just have to see."

Dr. Nash: "Allright, go in there, find somebody and ask them question."

Dr. Nash: "Phoebe I think it's best if Cj goes in alone on this one."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Dr. Nash: "It's a human city, if you go in there you'll stick out like a sore thumb."

Dr. Nash: "But Cj will blend in perfectly."

Phoebe:" Ok..."

Phoebe:" But I Charley back."

Dr. Rambler: "I got him over here."

She went over and reclaimed Charley.

Phoebe: "Come on Charley, let's watch daddy explore.."

-cutely- Charley: "Esplo..."

Phoebe: "mhm."

Phoebe: "Cj wait a second."

Me: "What?"

She came back over and kissed me.

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Good luck."

I kissed her back.

Me: "Don't worry babe I'll be right back."

Phoebe:" I know..."

-playfully- Me:"Charley, keep an eye on your mother."

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno."

-cutely- Phoebe:"-giggles-."

I gave him a kiss on the cheek before turning back towards the portal.

Dr. Nash: "Ok, you got your radio."

Me: "Mhm."

Dr. Nash: "And your camera."

Me: "Uh huh."

Dr. Black: "Probe is comming back through right now."

The probe rolled out of the portal.

Dr. Nash: "Allright then, go ahead."

I cautiously entered the portal, and found myself in an alleyway. There was a lot of noise from traffic, and people, though nobody seemed to notice me. The warm temperature was somewhat comforting.

Anyway I left the alley, and headed out into the street.

Everything was busy, many cars were waiting at a stoplight, they looked strangely familiar, but I couldn't quite place where I had seen them before. There was also a ridiculous amount of taxicabs waiting as well, more than I had ever seen at once. They were a very rare sight where I was from, even in the larger cities. Well, Goldenrod had quite a few, but still, I've never seen this many in one place. Anyway, I continued to walk down the street, looking for someone to talk to, everyone seemed to ignore me when I tried to speak to them, I figured it was because they were busy, so I started to look for somebody that wasn't. A man waiting by a bus stop up ahead seemed like a good candidate. Until I began to notice a few things that were off. Two men walked by, with the exact same clothing and face, they looked like twins, and initially, I thought they were, until I later came across three women who also looked identical.

-into radio- Me: "You see this?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Yeah, I don't think that's a coincidence."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "It appears you may be in another game world."

-into radio- Me: "Where? Sim city?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "What?"

-into radio- Me: "Nevermind that, I can't get anybody's attention, they keep ignoring me."

-on radio- Dr. Nash:"Does this city have a name?"

-into radio- Me:" Um, maybe..."

-into radio- Me: "I don't know."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Look for a newspaper."

-into radio- Me:" Ok."

I eventually found one in the trash, the Vice City Inquirer, it didn't take long for me to realize where I was after that.

Me: "Crap, I'm in Grand Theft Auto..."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Huh?"

Me: "I should come back, it can get really dangerous really quickly."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "How?

-into radio- Me: "Pheebles, if you can hear me, get Charley away from the screen, this game can get violent..."

I heard police sirens in the distance, were they after me? I doubted it, I hadn't really done anything after all. But if they weren't after me, they were after someone else, so I hid in an alley way behind a dumpster, and seconds later a muscle car came blazing through, firing bullets like crazy, killing a few unlucky pedestrians, and making the others scream in a somewhat annoying and idiotic manner. While atleast 2 police cars with "VCPD" printed on the sides gave chase.

-into radio- Me: "See what I mean?"

I cautiously left the alleyway, a car was stopped in the street, with the driver slumped over the wheel.

The car didn't look like any I had seen in a gta game before, so maybe this was as alternate universe version as well. Everything also looked completely real as well, details that would even blow gtaIV out of the water. GTAIV of course, was the latest in the series that was released before the disaster.

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "This may sound crazy, but find that guy that just drove passed."

-into radio- Me: "Yes you're crazy.."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "He may be sentient."

-into radio- Me: "He may try to kill me."

-into radio- Me:" He didn't have any issue killing these other people."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Well then try to find the police."

-into radio-Me: "We'll have just as much problem with them as the other guy."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "What do you mean? The police should be the good guys."

-into radio-Me: "Normally yes, but this is gta, the police aren't here to help, they're here to kill you..."

I heard a explosion in the distance.

I looked over at this car that had been stopped, and thought about taking it. The door was open and the driver was dead, so, knowing typical grand theft auto game mechanics, I didn't think the police would mind. It was a nice looking car, a big four door that kind of looked like a 60's thunderbolt crossed with a 59' caddilac. The name "Vampire", was emblazoned in chrome along the rear roof pillar. Anyway, I slid the corpse out, and got in.

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "What are you doing?"

-into radio- Me: "Well, I'd be alot safer in a car...it's alot safer than walking."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "I don't think it's that dangerous, it may have just been a random event."

-into radio- Me: "Even so, as far as I know these people aren't sentient, they're npcs, and...well...free car!."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "You know you can't keep it, it won't fit through the portal."

-into radio- Me: "I know."

-into radio- Me: "But still."

I shut the door and pressed on the gas, it lurched forward, and surprisingly was just like driving a regular car, with 50's brakes and steering, so ...yeah it wasn't actually that fast, or practical, but it looked cool.

-into radio-Me: "So what am I doing again?"

I got distracted...

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Go see if that criminal is sentient."

-into radio- Me: "You know he might be another npc...that does happen in this game sometimes.."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "If you keep disobeying I'll send your wife in..."

I waited there for a moment...

-on radio, somewhat frustrated- Dr. Nash: "Well go on..."

-unphased- Me: "Send her in.."

-annoyed, on radio- Dr. Nash: "-sighs- Go back by the portal and wait a few minutes..."

I drove the car back to the portal, it wouldn't fit in the alleyway, and npc traffic, which had oddly returned to normal as if nothing had happened, was making everything a hassle.

Phoebe came out of the portal a few minutes later, and got in the car with me...

-playfully- Phoebe: "Smooth..."

-playfully- Me: "hehe yeaaah..I know right?"

Me: "Is Charley ok?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me: "Good."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, My powers aren't working.."

Me: "Not so good."

I pulled back into the street, and we cruised around for awhile, taking it easy, not trying to cause an accident, even though the npc drivers were terrible and on more then a few occasions seemed to have complete disregard for the rules of the road. Our car was tough though, so it shrugged off the minor collisions., which happened on a few occasions even though I was driving as safely as possible. Eventually we spotted a roving police car, so I pulled up along side it, and put the window down.

Me:"Hey officer, you awake?"

-awkwardly- Me:"Hello..."

He wouldn't even look at me...

I tapped on his window and he still didn't react, in fact he just drove away when the light turned green.

Me:"Ok I don't think he understands..."

Phoebe:"Yeah..."

Me:"He just ignored me like everyone else has so far."

The car behind us beeped its horn.

-annoyed- Me:"Shut up!"

Phoebe: "They didn't ignore you."

-jokingly- Me:" Not the way I wanted to be noticed."

-jokingly- Me: " 'The guy that didn't leave the second the light turned green.' "

-jokingly- Me: "Sorry jerk, have fun driving around in circles for eternity."

Phoebe: "-giggles..."

I rolled the window up and slowly pulled away, while the average looking car behind me looked like it was about to run into me.

I know this was a game, where you could drive as fast as you want without any penalties, but unlike just playing the game, a serious accident could be a real danger for us, and, well it was hard enough avoiding accidents driving completely normally.

I pulled into a parking lot for a fast food restaurant, to keep the traffic from beeping at me. Everyone in this world was so rude.

-into radio- Me:"Ok I don't think the cops are intelligent, you saw that right? I tried to get that officer's attention and he didn't even respond."

-on radio- Dr. Nash:" Yeah, we're making note of that."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Ok, now what about the criminal?"

-into radio- Me: "We don't even know where to find him."

-into radio- Me: "He may have despawned."

-on radio- Dr. Nash:"Also check with another cop if you find one, that guy may have just been having a bad day..."

-into radio- Me:"I have my doubts..I don't think he knows what day of the week it is."

Phoebe: "Honey?"

Me: "Yeah?"

Phoebe: "Do you have your phone?"

Me: "Um...no why?"

Phoebe: "Look at this..."

She showed me her phone, which for some reason now displayed a map.

Me: "What the heck?"

I pulled over.

Me: "Can I see it?"

Phoebe: "Sure."

I looked it over for a minute, sure enough it seemed to be a map of the game world, though, not one I could recognize, I don't know why it took over her phone, but, it did.

Also on her phone were new apps to buy weapons, cars, aircraft, and a web browser that led to several joke websites, like in gtaiv.

Me: "Weird."

Dr. Nash: "Fascinating, your cell phone changed to reflect the parameters of a cell phone in this world."

Me: "What numbers do you have?"

-unsure- Phoebe: "The same ones I usually do?"

Me: "Let's see."

Me: "Armando? "

Me: "Who is Armando?"

-unsure- Phoebe: "I honestly don't know..."

Me: "Well you have his number, and Henry's, and Jimmy Garcia's and Michale Tarconi's and ..."

-jokingly- Me: "You've been cheating behind my back?"

-somewhat worried- Phoebe: "Cj, I don't know any of those people, I swear..."

-lovingly- Me: "-sighs-...I know.."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, you goofball."

Her contacts list was full of names of people neither of us recognized, gtaiv was the only one made that had cell phone features, and none of these names belonged to characters of the game, indicating that this was a version of Grand Theft Auto we had not seen before. Somehow, this excited me.

Me: "So if we were criminals running from the cops, where would we go?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, somewhere they wouldn't look for us..."

I kept looking at the map.

Me: "There's train tracks, maybe there's a tunnel."

Phoebe: "What if there is a train?"

Me: "Well we'll just look out for it."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "But why there?"

Me: "Because the police won't normally go there, if I was playing the game and they were after me, that's where I would hide."

We headed to the train tunnel, avoiding the roads as much as possible, because the police didn't care if I was on the road or not, and the traffic was stupid and unpredictable, at a few intersections, we saw four or five cars end up crashing into eachother, causing a chorus of beeping from the ever growing line of cars behind them, if it wasn't for the cars apparently dissapearing once we got far enough away from them, the city would probably be one giant car accident. But the big, slow sedan we had held together, and we eventually made it to the train tunnel, which we proceeded to creep inside, as the ride was rough, and I was trying to cause as little damage to the car as possible in case we needed to run away. Eventually we passed a light rail train, consisting of two white, electric passenger cars with green stripes and "Vice City transit" on the sides, and oddly no passengers, we had plenty of time to move to the adjacent track so it wouldn't hit us.

Phoebe: "What a weird looking train..."

Me: "It's an lrv, light rail..."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "It looks like a bus..."

I never remembered one of those being in a gta game either. San Andreas had trains, but they were more of the ordinary kind. I kept wondering if this was intended to be some kind of alternate version of Vice City...maybe even a more modern remake that never came to fruition in our world. Gtaiv was a remake of liberty city, maybe this was supposed to be gtav?

Regardless, we didn't find anything in the tunnel but the train, and when we came out the other side of the tunnel, we found ourselves at a station right next to a beach. We used a convenient railroad crossing to get back on the road.

Me: "Well he wasn't in there."

Phoebe: "Well where else should we look?"

-unsure- Phoebe: "Do you think he went to the beach?"

Me: "I doubt it."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Can weee go to the beach?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "No, you two are not here on vacation..."

Phoebe: "Awe..."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "But, I would be interested if you could get a sample of the sand."

Me: "Why?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Well, another lab is interested in comparing it to regular sand..."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "So we can go?"

Dr. Nash: "To get the sand, yes."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Come on..."

Me: "-sighs-, ok."

I drove onto the beach, I wasn't really bothering with traffic laws anymore either, I was now just trying to be safe.

Me:" Wait, a minute what are we going to put the sand in?"

Phoebe: "Um...I don't know."

Phoebe: "Hmm..."

Me: "What?"

She opened the door and slipped off her shoes before stepping out.

-intrigued- Phoebe: "This is weird..."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe:" It feels like sand..."

-unamused- Me:"Yeeeeaaaaaah."

Phoebe: "But I can't burry my feet in it...it's like it's solid, but it still feels like I'm walking in sand...I can even feel it between my toes."

Phoebe:"And I can't pick it up either even though it feels like I can."

Me: "Weird."

She slipped her shoes back on, realizing they wouldn't get dirty.

Phoebe:"And now I can feel it in my shoes even though my feet are completely clean."

-on radio- Dr. Nash:"I thought this would happen..."

-into radio- Me: "What do you mean?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Because it's a game world, all the surfaces are simulated, they all have completely smooth surfaces, but they feel and look real, it's most noticeable with normally loose surfaces like sand, it's hard to tell with concrete and asphalt, because they're hard and flat to begin with. "

-into radio- Me: "So you understand that we can't get you a sample?"

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Yep."

Just then, a speedboat charged onto the shore, for once I recognized the name..."JetMax"...

Me: "What the?"

Me: "Pheebles get in the car."

Phoebe: "Right."

I heard an obnoxiously loud voice as the boat's driver jumped out...

?:"Hey what are you doing?"

The voice seemed to be disembodied, not comming from the driver, but not not comming from him, it just seemed to emanate from his poorly animated face, stranger still was that it seemed to belong to a child.

Me: "I have an idea..."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "Just watch."

I got out of the car.

Me: "I take it you're some kind of player character..?"

?:"I'm a player...noob..."

?:" How'd she get her hair green like that? I didn't know you could do that in this game?"

He pointed an Smg at me...I took it from him.

?:"Hey how'd you do that?"

?:"Give me my gun back."

He tried to punch me, he drew another gun (literally from nowhere) , and once again I Stoll it from him, this continued until he ran out of weapons...This ended up with various weapons being scattered around everywhere, so I had to keep him from picking them up again as well. This wasn't difficult as his character was slow and clumsy, and had somewhat limited and predictable movement, that simply couldn't match a normal human.

?:"Hacker! That's not fair...I paid for those guns!"

-upset- ?:"I hate this game!"

I heard a crash and the character stopped moving.

?:"What the hell is going on, why won't you shut off?!"

-unsure- Me:" You tried to turn the game off?"

?:" How...how do you know that?"

Me: "You sound like a kid."

Me:" Listen we're not exactly part of this game...what is this game anyway?"

-noticeably freaked out- ?:"Grand theft auto VII."

Me: "Look just relax, we're not evil, Pheebles, pay attention we're about to get our questions answered."

Phoebe: "Comming..."

-even more freaked out- ?:" What the hell, she's ...shes not human!"

I guess she must have been too far away for him to notice till now.

Me: "You don't know what pokemon are do you?"

-unsure- ?:" What's pokemon?"

Me: "Look, kid, we probably shouldn't tell you much, as it might explode your little mind, but, we're not from your world, so we have a few questions about it."

Phoebe came up behind me.

-into radio- Phoebe: "Can you hear us doctor? We've made contact with another sentient being."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "Yes, I see...good..."

-into radio- Phoebe:"What did you want to know again?"

Me:"I got a list baby girl."

Phoebe:"Oh, ok."

I pulled the list out of my pocket.

Me: "Allright, first question..."

Me: "What do you call your planet..?"

?:" Earth.."

Me: "-sighs-, another earth..."

?:"There's more than one?"

Me: "yeah...I'm from earth too, but a different earth, where, this game never existed."

?:"Wow...that's sad."

Me: "Grand theft auto still exists, but it only goes up to the forth.."

?:" Oh, the one set in london...?"

?:"That one's so old."

Me: "No...,well...uh I guess the games are different too, weird."

?:"What? "

Me: "Multiverse theory, google it."

?:" What's google...?"

Me: "Moving on."

Me: "What year is it?"

?:"2025..."

Me: "Ok so no disaster, few years ahead of mine."

?: "Disaster?"

Me: "My earth faced an apocalyptic event around 2012 because the pokemon world crossed over into ours and our world wasn't ready for it."

?: "What year is your world now?"

Me: "Uh...2016...I think."

Me: "Anyway..."

Phoebe:"Uh Cj...you know you're telling him more than he's telling us.."

-on radio- Dr. Nash: "That's enough information, seeing as he's merely a child I don't think he'll be able to answer our more advanced questions..."

Me: "Allright then."

?: "Can you fix my game?"

Me: "I think it should be fixed when we leave...I honestly don't know..."

Me: "Anyway, I'm sorry, but I have to make sure you don't follow us."

I raised my gun...

-loudly- Phoebe: "Wait Cj!"

?: "Please don't."

I shot his character in the head. He "died", and then his body dissappeared shortly after wards, leaving a small bit of cash behind and a small pool of blood behind."

Phoebe: "Why did you do that?"

Me: "I'll tell you in the car, let's go before he comes back."

We ran to the car, got in, and headed back to the train station, backtracking our way to the portal.

-in the car-

Me: "First, off, I don't think I actually killed him, he probably just respawned at the nearest hospital, secondly, he's an unstable 10 year old kid, I couldn't just walk away and expect him not to try to kill us both."

Me: "Trust me, he's fine, all I did was kill him in the game."

Phoebe:" -giggles-, I know, it just, it fooled me for a second, i thought you actually killed him."

Me: "Also..."

I showed her my newly aquired assault rifle..

-excitedly- Me: "More free guns!"

Phoebe: "Cj, you really need to stop collecting every gun you come across..."

Me: "Awe.."

Phoebe: "You're running out of room in the safe sweety...and you can't just leave them around the house."

Me:" Yeah, I know.."

-determined- Me: "I'll have to get another safe..."

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe:" -sighs-...oh you..."

Phoebe: "How are you even going to get more ammunition for that thing.?"

Me: "Um..."

-awkward silence-

-unsatisfied- Phoebe: "Well..."

Me :"You got me..."

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

Me: "Fine I'll leave it in the car..."

Phoebe: "Ok then.."

We made it back to the portal, safe and sound, leaving the car behind.

Me: "Goodbye faithful vampire...you served us well."

I gave it an affectionate tap on it's hood.

Phoebe: "Cj are you comming?"

Me: "Yeah, I'm just saying goodbye to the car."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, ok."

She went through the portal, I followed her shortly afterwards, when I came back through she was speaking with Nash, so I went to collect Charley from Rambler.

Me: "Charley, how are you little guy?"

-playfully- Rambler: "Here you go kiddo, your dad wants you back."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Say goodbye to Dr. Rambler, Charley.."

-cutely- Charley: "Go...gobye..."

-amused- Me: "Hehe...wait, we're leaving already?"

-playfully- Rambler: "Goodbye kid, see you tomorrow."

Rambler: "Have a nice afternoon you two.."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe thanks..."

Phoebe:"Thanks for watching Charley for us too."

Dr. Rambler: "It's no problem mam."

Phoebe: "Yeah, we can go home now, there's so much going on in that world they'll need the rest of the day to report things and they'll be running experiments on it for weeks."

Me: "Using drones right?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Allright let's get going."

Me: "Allright, come on little guy."

After we arrived at home, Charley was tired, so we layed him down for a nap, and not much later, when it was time to pick up Nina, Phoebe stayed behind to keep an eye on him while I left to go get Nina on my own.

When I arrived at her school, I waited patiently for her in the parking lot, as usual. Some busses pulled up, which was also normal, and not long after the doors opened and countless teenagers streamed out. I waited for several minutes, before starting to get a bit worried, to my knowledge, Nina hadn't come out yet, and the crowd was starting to thin out. Another five minutes passed and I knew something was up, but what?

After nearly everyone but the teachers had left, I got out and headed inside the building. I went to the office, and asked the secretary where Nina was. She replied by saying she didn't know, but did show some concern, and put out a message on the pa system requesting her to come to the office, but even after waiting a few more minutes, she still didn't show up.

Secretary:"She might have gone into the arena, alot of students hang out there after school, and it might be to loud for anyone to hear the PA over there."

Me:"Ok, I'll go check it out then."

I headed over to the arena, there were alot of kids here, and a pokemon battle going on between them. I didn't have to find Nina among them, she found me first.

-unsure- Nina:"Dad, what are you doing here?"

Me:"Well, I came to take you home, but you never came outside, so I had to come find you."

Nina:"I'm sorry."

Me:"It's ok, but you probably should have told us you were planning to stay awhile."

Nina:"Do we have to go now? I was planning on battling one of my friends..."

Me:"You brought your pokemon to school?"

Nina:"Everyone does..."

Me: "This doesn't look like the entire school."

-worried- Nina:"Don't tell mom..."

Me:"You know it doesn't matter if I tell her or not, she'll find out anyway."

-panicked-Nina:"But...but.."

Me:"Look, I'll let you battle your friend, but after that, you're busted sweety..."

Me:"Now I have to go explain to your mother that we're going to be a bit late comming home."

Me:"So, just do your best, ok?"

Me:"I know you're starting to take your training seriously, that's why I'm not dragging you home right now, but I don't think your mother will be willing to let this slide..."

Nina: "Why can't you bail me out?"

Me: "Because it's her rule...and I think it's perfectly fair"

Nina:"-sighs-, okaaaay."

She hugged me.

-grateful- Nina:" Thankyou for letting me battle though.."

Me:"Mhm..."

Me:" Now go on, do your best."

Nina: "Ok."

I walked out of the arena and sent a few text messages to Phoebe, only for her to call me.

-on phone- Phoebe:"What is she doing?"

Me:" She's watching some battles, and battling one of her friends..."

Me:"We're going to be about an hour late."

-on phone- Phoebe:"You're letting her stay?"

Me:"Why not? Besides it will help her train her pokemon."

-on phone- Phoebe:"Are you mad?"

Me:"No, are you?"

-on phone- Phoebe:"Not really, just a bit annoyed she took her pokemon and didn't tell us anything about it."

Me:"Is Charley awake yet?"

-on phone- Phoebe:"No, he's still asleep, he'll probably be awake by the time you get home."

Me:"Ok.."

Me: "So we're on the same page then?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Mhm."

-on phone- Phoebe:"Love you ."

Me:"Love you too baby girl."

I headed back inside, figuring I might as well watch her battle. Currently, some kid's quilava was fighting some other kid's tyranitar. The tyranitar wasn't much taller than it's young trainer, but obviously it was still a strong pokemon.

However, the tyranitar's size was not an advantage is this battle, the quilava was fast and the tyranitar was having problems landing hits. It managed to knock out the quilava in one shot, but only after it had been hit several times and was having difficulty standing. After that battle, Nina emerged from the stands, as well as another girl I did not know, but they seemed to be friends.

It was kind of awkward being surrounded by a bunch of teenagers, I was probably the only one over twenty in the entire room.

Anyway, Nina sent out Matches, and the other girl sent out a Flaaffy. And the battle quickly began afterwards.

This looked like it was going to go on for awhile, both pokemon were pretty even matched, and for the first few minutes, neither one of them seemed to gain an advantage. They were so evenly matched they didn't even finish the battle, as Nina's friend decided to switch pokemon, recalling her Flaafy and sending out a marill in its place. Marill was slower, but was able to use water gun. Even though Matches was weak to water, Nina decided to keep him in play. A strong takedown attack knocked the marril onto its back, and a subsequent bite attack finished it before it could even manage to land a hit.

Her friend returned the injured mouse, and replaced it with a clefairy.

The clefairy was surprisingly tough, it's double slaps kept hitting without fail, and even when Matches managed to bite it, it's disarming voice attack made him so unwilling to fight, he wouldn't follow Nina's commands. This prompted her to switch him out with Cobalt. A good choice since he could easilly take clefairy's doubleslaps. Cobalt eventually knocked clefairy out with it's overpowered takedowns, so Nina's friend sent her flaffy back out in it's place. Cobalt was pelted with many thudershocks, but managed to land one more take down before being weakened to the point he could no longer fly, flaffy was having issues standing back up, but eventually managed to do so. That said, it's trainer swapped it out for a sunflora, while Nina switched cobalt out with Spike, her ferroseed.

This match up was a lot like the first, both pokemon were grass types, and neither of them could do much damage to the other. Spike eventually won only because of his durability, realising how much time had passed, Nina decided to call it quits, fortunately her friend agreed.

Me:"You ready to go sweetheart?"

Nina:"Yeah, but can we heal my pokemon first?"

Me:"Of course."

By the time we left it was about 4:30.

I brought Nina to the same pokemon center we usually went to before heading home.

-on the way home-

Nina:" Am I in trouble?"

Me: "Just ask us before you take your pokemon to school next time? Ok?"

Nina: "I didn't think you would let me."

Me :"Well, still, you shouldn't just go around us like that."

Me:"Ok?"

-sincerely- Nina:"Ok."

Nina: "Can I still challenge the gym again this weekend?"

Me: "Now wait a minute, we never said anything about that."

-whining- Nina:"but...Dad!..."

Me:"We'll just have to see ok?"

Nina:"ok..."

Nina:" Dad?"

Me: "Mhm?"

Nina: "When am I going to be able to start my own journey?"

-hesitantly- Me: "Now's not the time to be asking that, ok?"

Nina: "Why not?"

Me :"your mother and I, we had some dreams last night where you left.."

Me:"And..well, you never came back..."

Nina:"-giggles-, You think I wouldn't come back?"

Nina:"I would come back Dad...after I win the league."

Nina:"I'd never forget about you."

Me:"Good to know."

-sincerely- Nina:"I love you dad..."

Me: "I love you too sweety."

Me: "But still, it's just, the similiaritys..."

Nina:" I understand..."

Me:" Maybe we can tag along with you.."

Nina: "What?"

Me: "Your mother and I, we could challenge the jhoto league too."

Nina: "But then I'd have to beat you in the silver conferance.."

Me: "True..."

Me: "You scared about that?"

-cutely- Nina: "Not as much as mom..."

Me: "Huh?"

Nina: "She beat you remember?"

-defensively- Me: "It was a close match.."

Nina: "Still."

Nina: "She beat you..."

Me: "So? We both made it to the finals, we were some of the best trainers in Kanto at the time."

Nina: "Maybe not anymore, mom won it 2 years ago, somebody else won last year."

Me: "Yep."

Me: "Even so I just think it would be nice to go traveling around again."

Nina:"I wonder if Mom feels the same."

Me:"Who knows?"

Sometimes I still missed the old days, traveling around the country during the disaster, comming across new adventures almost every day, but earth had stabilized now, and was on a steady path of reconstruction.

Eventually we made it home, where Phoebe was watching tv on the couch with Charley.

Phoebe: "So...how did it go?"

Me :"Well...she won."

Phoebe: "Ok.."

-confused- Nina: "You're not mad?"

Phoebe: "No, not this time, next time,."

-sternly- Phoebe:" You're busted missy."

-worried- Nina: "O...k."

-playfully- Me:"Hey Charley, how are you?"

-cutely- Charley: "Dawhy!"

Me: "hehe..."

Phoebe:"He was worried you went to sleep again."

Me :"Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "Hi Charley..."

Charley: "Gomawey Newa.."

Me: "goodmorning?.."

Nina: "It's not morning anymore silly."

Nina:"It's the afternoon."

Phoebe:" I don't think he knows the difference."

Phoebe: "Anyway Nina why don't you sit down and watch tv with us?"

Nina:" Um ok..."

We both sat on the couch on opposite sides of Phoebe.

Charley: "Mawa, cawey wa dow..."

Charley: "Cawey wa go pway.."

Phoebe:"Well, I have been holding you for awhile haven't I?"

Charley: "Cawey wa pway Newa..."

Phoebe: "Awe...ok."

Phoebe: "He wants to play with you sweety."

Nina:"Um...ok..."

Nina: "I'll go get some toys for him."

Phoebe: "Ok..."

She got up, and headed upstairs to his room.

Phoebe set Charley down on the floor.

Charley: "Whe Newa go?"

Phoebe: "She went to get you some more toys to play with."

While Charley started to crawl towards the stairs, he didn't seem to know where she went and kept looking towards her room, possibly thinking she could have gone in there as well. I guess he thought he was going to follow her up, but like most parents, we tried to keep him away from the stairs for his safety. This time we didn't have to do anything though, because Nina came back down before he even made it halfway there.

-playfully- Nina: "Charley what are you doing?"

-excitedly- Charley: "Newa!"

Me: "I guess he was trying to follow you up."

Phoebe: "Charley you can't climb the stairs, silly, it's not safe for you."

Nina set some toys in front of the tv, then went back to get Charley, who was just starting to crawl back towards the tv now.

-lovingly- Nina:"Come on baby brother."

She picked him up and brought him back to the tv.

Me :"You know what this means?"

Phoebe: "We have the couch to ourselves.."

Me: "Mhm."

We snuggled together.

Nina: "-sighs-...weirdos..."

-cutely- Charley: "Hey Newa, es mawko..."

Nina: "Mhm..."

-playfully- Nina: "Is he going to try to get the pizzas again?"

-cutely- Charley: "Mawko no wa peesah, he no huhwy.."

-cutely- Charley: "Mawko wa towa..."

Nina: "He wants a tower?"

Nina: "Ok."

Nina: "Go get your blocks..."

-cutely- Charley: "Bwaaahh!.."

He grabbed a few of his blocks which were close by, they were scattered all around the space between the couch and the tv.

Phoebe and I just snuggled together on the couch and watched them play, occasionally chiming in when Nina got too dark with her imagination or if Charley wandered too far away.

Me:"So where we going to get dinner tonight baby girl?"

Phoebe: "I guess I could make something..."

Me: "Or we could all go out."

Me: "Or I could make something."

Phoebe:"Mhm...no.."

Me: "Why not?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Because, it's my kitchen."

-playfully- Me: "So I'm not allowed to make anything."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Did you ever learn to share..."

Phoebe: "No..."

Me:"Pheebles, come on."

-cutely- Phoebe:"Yes,... but no."

Me: "What's that supposed to mean?"

-cutely- Phoebe:" I don't know."

-unsure- Nina: "What are you arguing about?"

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Nothing sweety."

-lovingly- Me: "Mhm."

Me:"-sighs- I love you."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Love you."

-softly- Phoebe:"You know if you want to make something, go ahead."

Me: "I know, but, I kind of feel like going out, what about you?"

Phoebe:"I think that sounds good."

Phoebe:"But I also kind of feel like just laying here with you all evening."

-grossed out- Nina:"Ewww mom..."

-sternly- Phoebe:"Nina..."

-nervously- Nina:"Sorry."

Me:"Well one of us has to get up to make dinner then."

Phoebe:"-sighs- I know."

Nina:"I could make dinner."

Me:"I don't think so."

Phoebe:"Noooo."

Nina:"Why not?"

Phoebe:"You barely know how to cook."

-cutely- Charley:"Newa, Cawey nee mo bwahs!"

Nina:"Well go get some then."

Nina:"But you showed me..."

Phoebe:"I didn't show you everything."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, I guess if you really want, I could make dinner and you can help me..."

Nina:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"Allright then."

She kissed me on the cheek and got up from the couch.

Phoebe:"Come along sweety."

Nina:"Ok."

Phoebe:"Cj watch Charley."

Me:"I know."

Charley:"Newa whe gowee?"

Newa:"I'm going to help mom make dinner."

-upset- Charley:"Newa!"

She followed Phoebe into the kitchen.

Me:"Charley, settle down."

Me:"Here, I'll play with you."

I got down on the floor with him.

-unsure- Charley: "Dawhy?!"

Me: "Watcha doing?"

Charley: "Mawko wa towa...Cawey bill."

Me: "Oh...ok..."

He tried to place his murkrow plush on top of the tower of blocks, but ended up knocking the tower down."

Me: "Ooops."

-unsure- Charley: "It fa..."

Me: "Are you going to build another one?"

Me: "Why don't we build something different?"

Me:" Like a chair he can sit in that won't fall down as easilly."

I began to arrange the blocks into a vague chair shape.

Me:"I'm think I'm going to need more blocks."

Me:"Do we have any more?"

Charley: "Mo bwahs?"

Charley: "Cawey go geh bwahs.."

-somewhat surprised- Me: "Ok… you go do that."

He gathered up a few more blocks and brought them over to me. It surprised me for a moment he understood so well.

Me: "Thanks little guy."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey geh bwahs."

Me: "Mhm."

I finished making the chair.

Me: "See and now you can set him in the chair..."

Me:" And pretend he's the king of all the world or something."

Charley: "Kee ah awl theh worhl uh sumfee."

-unsure- Charley:"Dahwy, wa kee awl worhl sumfee?"

Me:" I don't know, you tell me."

Charley: "Cawey dunno kee aworl sumthee."

Me: "Well he's a king, he rules over things."

-unsure- Charley: "kee ruls...or..thees."

-a bit upset- Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "Hey..don't worry about it."

-cutely- Charley:"Doh wohwy."

Me:"Hehehe."

-cutely- Charley: "-giggles-"

He had so much to learn, but it was so hard to explain things to him, it was amazing how many questions he asked that were simply over his level of comprehension.

Charley:"Mawko es kee awl worl..."

Me:"Mhm."

Me:"Now is he a good king or a bad king?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Me:"You don't know the difference?"

Me:"A good king cares about the people he leads, a bad king only cares about himself."

Charley:"guh kee...ca..."

Charley:"Cawey dunno wa dawhy ses..."

Me:"A good king cares about the people he leads..."

Charley:"guh kee...cah...bow...pea-po "

Me:"a bad king only cares about himself..."

Charley:" Bah...kee...cah...bow...issel.."

Me"himself."

Charley:"emself.."

Me:"There you go."

Charley:"Guh...keee..."

Charley:"Guh...keee cah bow pea-po..."

Charley:"Mawko cah bow pea-po?"

Charley:"Mawko cah bow emself?"

Me:"I don't know...what do you think?"

Me:"I care about you..."

-unsure- Charley:"Dawhy cah bow Cawey.?"

Charley:"Cawey cah bow Dawhy?"

Me:"I would hope so..."

Charley:" Cawey dunno cah bow..."

Charley:"Doh wowhy?"

Me:"Hehehe...Yeah, don't worry."

Charley:"Mawko es kee awl worhl."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "Let's just leave it at that for now."

We played together until Phoebe had dinner ready. She made spaghetti with help from Nina, it was a nice dinner, and then afterwards Nina retired to her room to finish some homework she hadn't told us about till she was at the table. Phoebe decided to give Charley a bath, so I decided to play my old xbox copy of grand theft auto San Andreas. Nostalgia came back to me as I loaded up my game, started in San Fierro, entered a bunch of cheatcodes I knew by heart, and stole the skyline lookalike elegy from the nearby car dealership. Of course, I only had about fifteen minutes or so before Phoebe came in with Charley and I had to turn the game off, but it was a nostalgic 15 minutes none the less.

Phoebe:"Watcha playing?"

Me:"Ohhh just some grand theft auto."

Phoebe:"Really?"

Phoebe:"You just had a first hand experience with it and now you're playing it normally?"

-playfully- Me:"Yeah? So what?"

Phoebe:"Nothing."

Me:"It's a good game."

-protectively- Phoebe:"Not for Charley."

Me:"That's why I shut it off you goofball."

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

She sat next to me as I turned the tv back on.

Phoebe:"You feeling tired yet Charley?"

Charley:"No mawa, cawey no tywo, cawey wa pway…"

Charley:"Dawhy wa kee?"

Me: "Hehe..you still remember that huh?"

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "We were playing around earlier, I was trying to explain to him what a king is."

Charley: "dawhy ses Goo kee cah bow pea-po."

Charley:"Cawey dunno cah bow…."

-unsure- Phoebe:"oooookay…"

Phoebe:" Daddy teaches you a lot of things, doesn't he?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

Charley:"Cawey wa mawa kes."

She gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Phoebe: "There you go."

-cutely- Charley:"Ageh ageh…"

Phoebe:" Nooo Charley only one, they're special."

Phoebe:" I'll kiss you again when it's your bedtime."

Charley: "Cawey no tywo…"

Phoebe: "Well then you'll have to wait."

I kissed him on the cheek.

Me: "There you go I'll give you one too."

Phoebe:"hehe."

Charley:"Cawey wa teephee?"

Phoebe:"Yeah, for a little bit I guess."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, I wonder what we're going to do tomorrow."

Me:"I don't know, what do you think?"

Phoebe:"Maybe we'll end up n capital city again?"

Me:"Meet up with our friends...?"

Phoebe:"maybe.."

Phoebe:"It gets me sometimes, that we might not ever see them again."

Me:"Yeah..."

Me:"You know I was thinking, when Nina's ready to leave, maybe we should travel around with her?"

Phoebe:"No..Cj..we can't just follow her around, she needs to learn to live on her own."

Phoebe:"She needs to learn to make her own decisions."

Me:"Ok..."

Phoebe:"I'd like to challenge another league, but, I don't think it would be good for Charley."

Phoebe:"It's hard enough raising him and working at Devon anyway."

Me:"True."

Phoebe:"But..."

Phoebe:"I heard every decade, they have a tournament of champions from around the world."

Phoebe:"And the next one is comming up in 3 years."

Phoebe:"You wouldn't be able to participate, but I would."

Phoebe:" I would like to see if I could win."

Me:"If I could beat a league tournament before then, I could compete too...right?"

Phoebe:"Yes, but, we don't have the time anymore Cj."

Me:"Yeah, you're right."

Phoebe:"Charley...you ready for bed now?"

Charley:"Teephee seewee."

Phoebe:"Mhm...you feeling tired yet?"

Charley:"No mawa, Cawey no tywo."

Phoebe:"I think you're lying."

-grumpilly- Charley:"Cawey no tywo!"

Phoebe:"ok...ok."

-cutley- Charley:"Mawa tywo, mawa go beh..."

Phoebe:"I can't until you go to bed silly."

Me:"But what if Nina wins a league tournament?"

Me:"Then you might have to compete against her."

Phoebe:"I know that, and I would be really proud of her if she won the whole thing."

Phoebe:"Even though chances are neither of us would win."

Me:"True."

Phoebe:"Charley come on, you have to feel tired, I can see you nodding off."

Charley:"Cawey...-yawns-, no tywo."

-sarcastically- Phoebe:"U...huh..."

Charley:"Cawey wa was...teephee."

Phoebe:"You look like you're about to fall asleep."

-tiredly- Charley:"Cawey no...slee."

Charley: "mawa..."

Phoebe:" Mhm...?"

Charley: "Cawey...es...tywo.."

Me: "hehe.."

Phoebe:" I thought so."

Phoebe: "Come on then, lets get you to bed."

-tiredly- Charley: "Gonigh...dawhy..."

Me: "Goodnight Charley..."

We took him upstairs to his rood and layed him down in his crib.

Phoebe: "There you go...little guy..."

We kissed him goodnight and headed back downstairs.

-lovingly- Phoebe:" He was being so stubborn."

Me: "Well we both kinda are so it only makes sense for him to be.."

Phoebe: "Ohh I'm stubborn?"

Me: "Sometimes."

Phoebe:" Ok whatever.."

Phoebe:"Let's check on Nina."

Me: "Ok."

She cracked open the door of her room,I heard some familiar music playing.

Phoebe: "Nina honey, you got your homework done yet?"

Nina:"Not done yet mom."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Phoebe:" We just put Charley to bed so don't turn the music up too much ok?"

Nina:"Ok."

She quietly closed the door.

Phoebe:"You want to go to bed?"

Me:"You tired? It's still a bit early."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Maybe we could fool around a little bit?"

Me: "Hehe...maybe."

I followed her upstairs, and it wasn't long after that all our clothes ended up on the floor, and we ended up on the bed, holding each other tight.

-lovingly- Phoebe:"-sighs-, that was fun..."

-satisfied- Me: "Yeah..."

Me: "I love you."

Phoebe: "Love you more."

Me:"hehe.."

We kissed.

Me:"Hey baby girl... do you think we should check on Nina? Make sure she gets to bed?"

Phoebe:"-sighs-, you're right... I'll go down and check on her.

-lovingly- Phoebe:"You better not fall asleep on me."

-lovingly- Me:"I'll try not too baby girl. "

She got up, after slapping me with a pillow, quickly threw her dress back on and left the room.

-downstairs-

She cracked open the door of her room.

Phoebe:"Nina, are you finished yet?"

Nina:"No..not yet."

Phoebe:"Ok, well, your father and I are going to bed, so, don't stay up too late ok? You still have school tomorrow."

Nina:"Ok."

Nina:"Goodnight mom."

Phoebe:"Goodnight sweety."

-back upstairs-

Phoebe:"Ok, hopefully she'll listen too me."

-playfully- Phoebe:"You still awake loverboy?"

Me: "Huh?"

Me: "Yeah."

She slipped off her dress again and got in bed beside me.

Me:"You still wanna be naked huh?"

Phoebe:"I'm just waiting for round two."

Me:"-sighs-, you crazy girl."

-softly- Phoebe:"-giggles-, crazy in love with you."

-softly- Me:"I like that kind of crazy."

Phoebe:"Awwww."

She turned out the lights, and eventually, after a lot of things, we finally tried to get to sleep.