Mau Loa

Chapter 14

The next day Maria went looking for dresses with friends and family. Leaving Danny with the two girls.

Riding in the car with her mother, and soon to be mother-in-law was fun and embarrassing. It didn't help that Emily and Misty were in the car too.

When they arrive at the dress shop they looked around before someone helped them.

"Hello, I'm Alice, how may I help you." The sales lady asks

"Yes we are looking for a dress, but need it done quickly." Maria's mother says

"Ok and just who is the bride to be?" Alice asks

Everyone points to Maria.

After describing what kind of dress she is looking for Alice takes her to a changing room and brought her dresses to try on. After an hour of trying on dresses Maria decides on one. Making a few appointments for fittings and a promise that the dress will be done the week of the wedding

After they leave the dress shop they decide to go shopping for a bit.

After shopping for a few hours, Maria decided it was time to head home, to help Danny with the girls and pack some more.

They had decided that the only furniture that would go was the china cabinet that Maria's grandmother gave her and the table her grandfather had made her, plus a few more things that her mom would send once they found a house.

When Maria had got home she found it a mess with mud on the floor. What looked like to pairs of small feet and a larger pair of feet followed by what looked like four paw prints? Following the muddy prints to her room Maria finds Danny asleep with Kiana and Grace on each side of him and a black puppy at their feet.

The puppy gets up and starts wagging its tail, it jumps off the bed and begins licking her leg. Checking her watch she goes into the kitchen to start getting dinner ready. At half past 6 Danny and the girls come out of the room rubbing their eyes and smelling the food. Maria was sitting at the table talking with Lisa and Alex while petting the puppy. The three stop and pause when they see the puppy in Maria's lap.

"So when was I suppose to find out about this little guy?" Maria asks

"Umm, well Danny said we could." Kiana says

"Ya it was all Danno's idea." Grace agrees with Kiana.

Danny looks confused and like he had just been betrayed.

"He looked so cute babe, and he was the last one in the box." Danny tries to explain

"Have you named him yet?" Maria asks

They shake their heads.

"Good." Maria says, "Because I named him Captain Jack."

The three look confused for a moment then happy.

"So Captain Jack the pirate or Captain Jack the immortal Torchwood guy." Danny asks

"The immortal Torchwood guy." Maria says

"I figured as much." Danny said

Ever since they had been in New Mexico Maria has made Danny watch every Torchwood episode that has come on TV. So he knew her obsession with Torchwood, Doctor Who, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The girls come up to pet the dog.

After dinner was over and cleaned up the soon to be complete family started packing again.

Kiana's room was almost done along with most of the living room.

TWO AND A HALF WEEKS LATER

In the last two days Maria's house had been full to capacity with family. In just two days she would be getting married. They had shipped everything that they didn't need to Steve in Hawaii for him to store till they got there.

Poor Danny had met just about ever member of her family and all of her friends.

The dress had been picked up and was waiting at her mom's house. The week before when Emily, Misty, Alex, and Maria had been making wedding plans Emily announced that her and Justin had eloped the weekend before.

They were all happy that the couple had finally gotten married; they had been engaged for the past two years.

That night they were going to have a large family bbq then the next night was the rehearsal and the dinner for everyone. The Hawaii team had flown in at the beginning of the week and were staying with Maria and Danny, until the night before when Chin and Steve would take Danny to a hotel, while the girls had a girls night at Maria's.