Originally Posted by Tomasina Riddle

She could see the whole family getting into a fight involving loads of oatmeal. It would be fun and it would bring them all together. Even stuffy Paris wouldn't pass that up.

She had to giggle. The family would eat anything, but Egypt could not stand KFC. She just couldn't stand it. The chicken didn't taste like chicken to her and the place always smelled of grease and it took months to get the smell out of her clothes and hair. "Pizza it is then. And Paris would grumbled about anything she set her mind to." Nathan knew his daughter well enough to agree with him. "But not even she could turn her nose up at pizza," neither could Egypt. She had always been a healthy eater as a child. But being married to Nathan had taught her the delicious world of fattening foods. And she loved him all the more for it.

She pulled a face, "A bow-tie Nathan. When have I ever made you or the boys wear a bow-tie?" That was just cruel and she would never make any of her men wear a bow-tie.

Egypt smiled at his assessment of the family. "I think Paris would whole hardily agree with you." she told him. "I do think that you really need to have a one on one with her Nathan." Yes Paris had forgiven him but sometimes with Paris she thought she was over something only to explode about it later on, and Egypt didn't want the relationship between her daughter and her husband to be damaged. "Do you want me to come help you pack up?" She hated him living there in the first place and anything to get him home faster was a good idea in her book. "Just what the house needs another pet," she grinned. The boys were hoping Nathan would be brining another dragon hatchling home. Egypt was hoping that Nathan wouldn't. They had only just finished rebuilding the pool house after the last dragon landed on it. "I think a party with just the family will be enough for us to handle." It would be an event. The kids could decorate the house, and Nathan would do all the cooking and Egypt would make sure everything was set. The family would freak out if she stepped into the kitchen to cook anything other than cereal or cream of wheat.

They sat there holding hands and gazing into each other eyes. She had missed him so much that it physically hurt her heart but now her husband was back and her family was intact. She had forgotten that little Superman swoop that his hair did when he wasn't looking. She let loose a giggle as she looked at him. Oh Merlin how she loved that man. She was never letting him go. Ever.

She blinked back the tears that had sprang up in her eyes when the food arrived. She was glad that they were happy tears that were trying to spill down her face and not that sad ones. Egypt had to remind herself what she had ordered. It seemed her and Nathan had been in their own little bubble while they were talking. It was gone now but they were getting back to their normal selves. She took a bit of her food, it was delicious and she was going to have to come back to this place. She took a moment to chew her food before she answered her husband. "Well my father. Loves my mother. I can't begin to understand how he could love her, but I guess she says the same thing about our love." It was the first time she did understand what her mom was thinking when she thought about her and Nathan. Not that she forgave her for what she did. "So he is torn between his soulmate and his child. I don't want him to be in that position. All Ic an do is love my father and maybe with time forgive my mother. But I can't do that right now." Egypt had never before in her life failed to forgive someone of whatever transgression they caused her. She felt horrible about that, but to look into her mother;s face and beg her to tell Egypt why she would try to rip her family apart and have her mother sneer in her face and storm off had been too much for Egypt to forgive.

She was really enjoying her food and she looked up at Nathan."Nathan I want to have another child," she told him finally. She had been thinking about it for a few months, and while they never talked about not having children or having them she wanted Nathan to know that she wanted to keep having his children. "I still want another girl." The house was full of boys and the girls were out of the house.