Bella grinned, and liquefied, then resolidified.  Her hair was now perfectly dry.  "Tell me something I don't know, Dad.  I'm a little of each of you, after all."

Bill smiles. "That you are, You hafta know he can sleep till the cows come home if you let him. Had to wake him up for dinner a couple times. He has trouble sleeping alone a lot though, now that he's used to having me next to him."

  Bella giggled, and said "Yeah, well, he gets a little insomniacish when you're out and about too.  So he makes up for it with snugglecuddles when you are in.  Or he'll liquefy and wrap around you under your clothes so you can do whatever, and he'll sleep that way."

Bill smiled "Now THAT is just plain adorable. He really sleeps under my clothes? Thats SO cute"

  Bella giggled, and said "It is cute.  Makes it hilarious when you forget he's there and go looking for him too . .. "

Bill laughed. "Oh my GOD that sounds hillarious, at least tell me he wakes up when I start calling his name"

 Bella giggled, and said "Yeah, he does.  Usually says something along the lines of 'Not deaf, love, just sleeping.  What?"

Bill wa laughing for a minute before he recovered enough breath to talk. "Oh my god thats funny. At least he makes up for the sleep he loses while I'm out doing whatever."

  Bella grinned, and said "Not only that, but he gets to make sure you know where he is when he does that too.  If you don't forget!"

Bill smiled checking his watch. "Well I'm off to drop a bomb in your grandmas lap." He grabbed his coat and stuffed a couple of the letters from the kitchen. He gave Bella a hug. "Don't be shy about waking your Dad up. I'll be back in a couple hours at most" Heading downstairs Bill caught the bus

>>To Mall>>

"I don't know the future she came from apparently doesn't exist anymore so she's stranded maybe it was one where we never rescued you?" Bill led his mom up to the apartment Darren and he shared opening the door and walking in with Erica in tow. "Honey I'm home! And I brought someone with me."

  Darren grinned, and called "Why am I not surprised?  Bella's been showing me something, but she swore me to secrecy . . . "   He came padding out of the guest bedroom with a grin, and Bella was behind him.

Bill smiled as he stepped over to Darren wrapping his arms around him and placing a quick kiss on his nose. "Your ALREADY sharing secrets? Man I got some catching up to do, and I spent the whole night with her."

Erica stood in the doorway smiling at Bella. "Hello, you must be Bella, I'm your grandmother." Erica looked like she could barely contain her joy.

  Bella blinked, and smiled shyly, even as she tossed a book back into the other room.  "Umm.  Hi."  She was blushing, and ducked her head a bit.  She'd swiped some of Bill's clothes (she'd done a shower before Darren got up) and they looked a little tight, and short, on her.

Bill watched as the book went flying "You were reading one of MY books, you can show them to him and not me?"

Erica stepped forward "Are you wearin your DAD'S clothes oh this simply won't do we absolutely HAVE to get you some cute outfits of your very own"

  She looked at Bill, and said "If you read it, you can't be sure you aren't changing time.  It's different if Dad-D sees it."  Then she looked at her Grandma, and said "Well, umm, I wasn't planning to get stranded when I made the Jump that got screwed up, so . . I didn't have any clothing, and I didn't want to run around the house naked.  We do have those big balcony windows you know."

  Darren chuckled, and said "I wasn't actually getting to read it, she was telling me about the reviewer's comments of your books in the front."

"Well thats not going to last long, grandma has GOT to take you shopping a figure like yours DEMANDS to be shown off" Erica circled around Bella getying a good look at her

Bill laughed "Thats even WORSE, this is SO not fair." Looking over at his mom Bill frowned "Hey don't show off my Daughters figure too much the fewer boys I have to Dangle from 390 stories up the better"

  Bella giggled, and said "Well, I could sure use some other clothing.  And.  Um.  Bras. And panties.  And stuff."

Erica smiled "And while some stereotypes may disagree your Dads aren't really 'equipped' for that kind of shopping trip, plus they're funds are a bit tight, grandma has NO problem footing the bill"

  Bella nodded, then looked at her Dads.  "Is it okay?  Do you want to come too?"

Bill still holding Darren shrugged. "If you want some 'girl time' with your grandma I won't object the two of you can at least do the clothes shopping with your grandma and your Dads can get you whatever else you may want"

Erica smiled broadly. "Its settled then! What are grandmas for other then spoiling their grandkids ROTTEN?"

  Bella shrugged, and said "Okay, if you're sure you don't want to go shopping too . . . "

Bill waved a hand. "Go ahead, have fun we'll be here when you get back I'll give Hunter a call while your out see when its best for you to go over and meet Diantha"

Erica took Belka by the hand. "Lets get moving then sweetie no sense in putting off a sshopping trip"

  Bella smiled, and gave Bill and Darren huge hugs (yep, she had his superstrength!!) before she let Erica lead her away.

Around the same time that Shadow was facing down Andy and Icepick over at the Gysbourne family estate, a confused Rodger Eskin was not so calmly seated at his desk in the living room. Something was off with his checkbook and he couldn't put his finger on it. He'd noticed the discrepancy - a mere $13.22 - after comparing his receipt from the ATM this afternoon with his checkbook. What had he forgotten to enter, or entered the wrong amount on?

In the background, an old song, No Milk Today by Herman's Hermits, played as a counterpoint to his disturbed mood.