Heirs To Queen

A Masterpiece

On a rare night out of the studio, the band needing a break from recording, Brian, Roger and John are playing a game of pool. They play a couple of rounds before Brian notices how late it is and turns to his daughter watching TV on the sofa with Lilliana, "Lissy, it's time for bed."

"But I can't move," She tells him gesturing to the mousey-haired girl leaning against her.

John puts his pool cue on the table and goes over to the pair seeing that Lilliana is asleep on Alyssia, deciding not to wake her, he lifts her onto his hip and her head shifts onto his shoulder, her hand curls into his hair.

Alyssia then gets up and runs over to Brian's outstretched hand, going upstairs with him.

Roger puts his cue away and goes to find Alice and Amelia, Freddie is in the recording barn so the drummer promised to keep an eye on the singer's daughter too.

He finds the pair on the window seat near the front door, both opposite each other asleep with Biscuit lying between them, his head in Alice's lap.

Biscuit raises his head as Roger gets closer to them but relaxes again seeing it's his owner. Leaving Alice asleep, Roger gently shakes Amelia's shoulder, "Milly."

He waits for her to stir and look at him with tired eyes, "The other girls are going to bed and I'm going to put Ally to bed. Would you like me to tuck you into bed too?"

Yawning she nods, "Can I go say night to daddy first?"

"Yeah," He instructs Biscuit to get down, "Go say goodnight to him then come upstairs when you're ready, okay?"

She nods again and hops off the seat, racing out the front door and going to the recording barn. Rounding the door, "Dad," She stops in her tracks seeing the scene before her.

Paul is kissing her dad.

Freddie pulls away glaring at Paul, "Milly, it's not what it looks like."

Shock turns to disappointment and she runs out of the barn back to the house where Roger tucks her into bed.

Amelia was wide awake and facing away from the door when she heard her dad come in and get ready for bed.

"We need to talk about this Milly," Freddie pleads sitting on the bed.

She thought about pretending to be asleep but her questions outweighed her upset, "Why were you kissing him?"

"Paul kissed me," That's the truth of it, "He kissed me just as you ran in, I hadn't a moment to push him away before you saw."

Still facing away from him she thinks about her next question, "But you love Mary?"

"Of course I do. I have no interest in m... in Paul," He corrects himself, "And he knows he overstepped the line."

Finally, she rolls over to face him, "I don't understand."

"I know," That's why he's not going to tell her about his possible feelings towards men until he's certain of what he feels, "But I promise I'll answer any question you have. Just don't mention it to the others, it was a mistake that I want to keep in the past, okay?"

She nods and he kisses her hairline, "Thank you, angel," He pulls her close for a cuddle glad that she curls into him instead of pulling away like he feared she might.

"Daddy?" He hums for her to continue, "Will you teach me to play the piano?"

"I thought I already was?" He'd love to pass on some of his skills to his daughter, he's yet to hear her sing though he's positive she'll have just as good a voice as him.