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Thanks!
And yes you did hear Hummerhome! It's about freakin' time too.
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Hummerhome, next morning
Katie: COLTON GET BACK HERE!
Colton: *running*
Katie: GIVE ME THAT BACK!
Colton: I got Katie's diary! *waving it around*
Katie: YOU'RE SUCH A JERK, COLTON! *jumps* AH! *falls over*
Colton: *runs to dinette* Ha!
Katie: *sits up* You suck.
Colton: Ooh what's this page say? *flips page* Dear Diary, today, I-
Katie: DON'T READ THAT! *grabs at diary*
Colton: *swings diary away* Haha, you're such a baby.
Katie: Seriously, I'll murder you.
Calleigh: Nobody's goin' to murder anyone. Colton, put the diary away.
Colton: But I'm reading it.
Calleigh: *sigh* Colton...
Colton: ...I want to see what she wrote about me.
Katie: I didn't write anything about you, you loser!
Colton: HEY now, you want me to start reading this out loud?
Katie: NO!
Calleigh: *stands* Okay I have a solution. Colton, you give her the diary and Katie, you apologize.
Katie: How the hell is that a solution?
Colton: I'd rather just read the diary.
Katie: *frowns*
Calleigh: Eric, help me out here.
Delko: Okay. Colton, give me the diary.
Colton: *hands over diary*
Delko: *flips page* Ooh there's a page about me in here.
Katie: OH MY GOD! ERIC!
Calleigh: *grabs diary* Enough.
Katie: Give it.
Calleigh: Not until you promise to behave.
Katie: I'm not two years old.
Calleigh: You're acting like it.
Katie: Give me my diary! *stomps*
Calleigh: *crosses arms*
Katie: ...Please.
Calleigh: If you insist. *hands over diary*
Katie: *hugs diary*
Colton: Yeah well that's the last you're ever gonna see of it because I'm gonna burn it.
Katie: Good, then no one can read it.
Colton: I'll read it first.
Katie: JERK!
Colton: B-
Katie: Don't you dare.
Colton: Sorry.
Calleigh: Be nice to each other.
Delko: Yeah, you should act more like Calleigh and I.
Katie: ...How. You guys barely say anything to each other.
Delko: Exactly.
Miami Lab
Josh: *runs in* HEY!
Speed: *lifts head*
Josh: You're here. Big brother. My favorite brother. My only brother.
Speed: What do you want.
Josh: I have a court date.
Speed: And?
Josh: And I need to leave the kids with you.
Speed: How many do you have?
Josh: I left Alena with Anni's mom.
Speed: That's...Cruel.
Josh: She loves kids. So I brought Ethan and Cait over. You mind watching them for a while?
Speed: *sigh* Are they going to pee anywhere?
Josh: *lifts brow* No, they come fully lab-trained.
Speed: Good because I'm not cleaning any messes.
Josh: CAIT!
Cait: *runs in* Yeah?
Josh: Stay here. I'm going to put Ethan in the lounge.
Cait: ...Do I have to stay here?
Josh: Yes.
Cait: Why?
Josh: Because I said so.
Cait: But daddy, this lab is too clean.
Josh: So mess it up and make uncle Tim clean it up.
Cait: *smiles* Okay.
Josh: Good girl. *leaves*
Speed: *rolls eyes*
Cait: *grabs beaker*
Speed: Don't.
Cait: ...*puts beaker down*
Speed: *writing things down*
Cait: *places hands behind back, rocks back and forth on feet* So um...Uncle Timmy?
Speed: yeah.
Cait: Do you have food?
Speed: *frowns* No. This is a lab.
Cait: Oh. Do you have any drinks?
Speed: You're a little young for alcohol.
Cait: *giggles*
Speed: *frown fades*
Cait: *runs over* I gots a question.
Speed: Go for it.
Cait: How come you sit here all day? Don't you do anything?
Speed: *smirks* Right now I'm doing paperwork.
Cait: Oh. Why?
Speed: It's part of my job.
Cait: What's the other part?
Speed: Catching criminals.
Cait: Oh. So you help people.
Speed: Yeah.
Cait: And do paperwork.
Speed: It's not always glamorous.
Cait: *giggles*
Speed: *flips page*
Cait: Can I help?
Speed: This is a job for grown-ups.
Cait: *places hands on hips* I'm not stupid.
Speed: I didn't say you were.
Cait: ....Daddy never lets me help him.
Speed: Nice try.
Cait: *sigh*
Speed: Why don't you go play with your brother.
Cait: He's not very fun.
Speed: Why not?
Cait: He's a boy. They're icky.
Speed: I'm a guy.
Cait: You're my uncle, you're not a guy.
Speed: *smiles*
Cait: *grabs pen* I wanna help.
Speed: *hands over paper* Put a big 'X' on the bottom lines of those pages.
Cait: *lifts brow* How's that gonna help?
Speed: It will, trust me.
Cait: *scribbling on page*
Speed: *staring at Cait*
Cait: *scratches head* This is hard work.
Speed: Someone has to do it.
Cait: *looks at Speed* I got a question.
Speed: Shoot.
Cait: When am I gonna get to see Lori again?
Speed: ...She went home.
Cait: To Columbo?
Speed: Colombia.
Cait: Oh. How come she won't live in Miami?
Speed: I don't know.
Cait: OMG! Guess what happened on the bus at school the other day!
Speed: What.
Cait: Some kid spit a spit ball in my hair!
Speed: Why did he do that?
Cait: He's an icky boy.
Speed: *nods*
Cait: And then he made fun of me and called me blondie.
Speed: Kids are cruel.
Cait: He's always making fun of me. He said my accent was funny.
Speed: Well you tell him he smells like a monkey's butt and you'll be even.
Cait: *giggles*
Speed: Nah, he just likes you.
Cait: *crinkles nose* EW.
Speed: Don't worry about it.
Cait: I got a question.
Speed: You have a lot of questions.
Cait: Since daddy used to be gay, how come you aren't?
Speed: Um...Well it's really a matter of how you feel.
Cait: Oh. I got a question.
Speed: *sigh*
Cait: Um....Okay I forgot what it was. But it was a good question.
Speed: I'm sure it was.
Cait: OH! Wait...No. *rubs chin* Hmm....I knew there was somethin'.
Speed: It's okay. I think you've asked enough questions for today.
Cait: Yup.
Speed: *writing things down*
Cait: *stares at table*
Speed: *flips page*
Cait: ...
Speed: *writing*
Cait: *starts to cry*
Speed: *looks at Cait* What, what's wrong?
Cait: *crying* I miss mummy.
Speed: *sigh* She'll be home soon.
Cait: *crying*
Speed: *looks around*
Cait: *wiping nose*
Speed: You want...A hug or something?
Cait: *hugs Speed's arm*
Speed: ...Oh...Kay.
Cait: *sniffs*
Hummerhome
Katie: COLTON! *slaps Colton*
Colton: OW! OW! STOP IT!
Katie: GO AWAY!
Colton: Stop hitting me!
Calleigh: BOTH OF YOU KNOCK IT OFF!
Delko: YEAH! What she said!
Carly: *rubs temples* It's just always the same thing with those two. I'm going to have a hernia.
Katie: Oh pfft like we all haven't had one before.
Colton: You've probably had billions.
Katie: You're goin' down busta. *attacks Colton*
Colton: AH! *falls over*
Katie: MRAWGH! *slapping Colton*
Colton: OW! OW! OW!
Katie: TEEHEE!
Colton: GET LOST!
Katie: NEVER!
Delko: Get a room already.
Colton: NO! I LIKE CALLEIGH! C-A-L-L-E-I-G-H!
Calleigh: *smiles*
Katie: WHAT?
Colton: What?
Katie: What? Wh-What? Who said what?
Colton: You said what.
Katie: I didn't say what.
Colton: Yes you did say what.
Katie: Yeah well I'll tell you what's what, mister what what.
Colton: *lifts brow*
Katie: WHAT!
TBC...............