Open Arms

Author’s Note: Well here is the sequel to Are You Ready For Love, hope you like.

Disclaimer: Fanfic, so obviously I’m just a fan.

Story Summary: Takes place a week after Are you Ready For Love. A lot of surprises happen to the gang and the new members of the gang; A.k.a Alex and Lorraine. This story will stretch over a five period time so I might jump around a lot. And then it will go into Catch Me If You Can, the third installment. It will center a lot on Lupin and his life after the members of the gang fall in love. And then that might be it. Or I might write a story about what happened to the gang after almost twenty years. Well on with the story.

Chapter Title: Lady

Chapter Summary: Jigen finally gets home to Alex and finds out about what happened at her house. Takes place about a week after Are You Ready For Love.

You're my Lady of the morning
Love shines in your eyes
Sparkling, clear and lovely
You're my Lady

Lady, STYX

(On With The Story)

Alex paced her room impatiently. Jigen had called her from a hotel the others were staying in to tell him he was on the way to her house and that was almost an hour ago. She was starting to get tired of waiting on him.

She sighed when she heard footsteps coming down the hallway, she knew it was him because everyone else in the house was asleep, seeing as it was three in the morning. He opened the door and walked in. Alex didn’t say a single word, she just through herself into his arms and kissed him.

“I missed you too,” he told her when she broke off the kiss.

“Good,” she replied smiling at him. “Where have you been?”

“Can you believe there is actually traffic at Three a.m.,” he asked her.

“Yes, it’s New York,” she told him.

“Good point,” he replied. “Now what’s wrong, you sounded upset on the phone the other day.”

“My mom finally chased Amber off,” Alex told him sitting down.

“What?” he asked shocked.

“Amber moved out the other day, she found out she was pregnant, she knew it wouldn’t be healthy for her to have the baby here, so she left,” Alex told him.

Jigen looked at her shocked.

“Your dad got her pregnant,” he asked shocked.

“Yes, and then my mom told him that Amber had planned it all along. And it was a whole lot of drama, and I think my moms going to do something to hurt Amber, I heard her muttering to herself the other day,” Alex told him.

“Calm down, maybe that’s nothing,” Jigen said leading her to a chair so she can sit down.

“With my mom, it’s always something,” she told him.

“It’ll be fine, trust me,” Jigen told her, wrapping his arms around her.

“I know, as long as I have you here, I’m happy,” Alex told him.

“Same here,” he told her leaning down to kiss her.

(Meanwhile Somewhere Else In New York)

Lorraine lay back on her bed staring at the ceiling. Things had suddenly become confusing between her and Zenigata. Ever since she kissed him in San Francisco, she had no idea what to see in him. She had seen him sing and still she didn’t care about him any less. She sighed and shook her head. She certainly was going mad these days.

She sat back up and started to unpack her suitcase until the phone rang.

“Hello,” she said picking it up.

“Hey Lorraine,” said a woman’s voice on the other line.

“Darrah, what are you doing calling, I thought you were back in Italy,” Lorraine said in shock.

“I was, for about two weeks, then they sent me back home, I don’t know why, all I did was cuss out my boss,” Darrah said innocently.

“Why’d you do that,” Lorraine asked trying not to laugh.

“He pissed me off, told me no woman could ever hope to be a good inspector,” Darrah replied.

“Well good for you, now when you coming to visit, I mean it’s three A.M. I just got home, and I’m not in the mood to talk on the phone,” Lorraine told her.

“Tomorrow afternoon sound good to you,” she asked.

“Of course, bye Darrah, and why did you call so late,” Lorraine asked.

“Your mom called and told me what time your plane came in and I figured you would have just got home so I decided to call you up, I mean I used to call you at four am asking you if you had my house key cause I locked myself out, is it so bad to call a friend at Three am,” she asked.

“Of course not, bye Darrah,” Lorraine said laughing this time.

“Bye Lorraine,” Darrah said and hung up the phone.

Lorraine hung up her phone and shook her head. Her friends were nuts. She unpacked her suit case and went to bed; she knew the next day with Darrah was going to be crazy.

(The Next Afternoon)

Lorraine set Caleb’s lunch on the table just as the doorbell rang.

“Lorraine, your friend is here,” she heard her dad yell.

“Alright,” she yelled back.

She knew her dad wasn’t too fond of Darrah because of what people say about her. The fact that she wasn’t able to keep a boyfriend kinda made her dad not respect her.

Darrah walked into the kitchen and sat down beside Colby.

“Hey kiddo,” she said smiling at him.

“Hi Aunt Darrah,” he replied eating his lunch.

“So how was San Francisco,” Darrah asked Lorraine.

“Pretty good, although I got to see Souta sing,” Lorraine said with a smirk.

“I hope this got rid of your crush on him,” Darrah told her.

“Actually, I’m shocked that it didn’t. Come on, the guy needs to leave Wind beneath My Wings to the professionals,” Lorraine told her.

“Tell me he didn’t sing that song,” Darrah asked her.

“He did,” Lorraine said with a nod.

“Oh god, I have a headache just thinking about that,” Darrah told her.

“So where is your mister wonderful now that you got sent back to New York,” Lorraine asked her.

“He is flying in at the end of the week, he has some work to do before he flies down here,” Darrah informed her.

“Alright then,” Lorraine said.

“So how is it working with someone you have a major crush on,” Darrah asked her.

“Remember how it felt when you were working with Rico,” Lorraine asked her.

“Oh yeah, I still think about him, he was fine,” Darrah told her with a grin.

“Even when you’re with Chris,” Lorraine asked her.

“Even when I’m around him, but only on occasion like once a month,” Darrah told her.

“Alright,” Lorraine said.

“I’m just glad I’m back, I missed good old America,” Darrah said.

“I know the feeling, all the traveling in Europe didn’t help me cheer up any, I missed my son,” Lorraine replied.

“Well I don’t have kids to miss, I had friends,” Darrah said with a smile.

“We all missed you,” Lorraine told her. “What’s that?”

Lorraine was looking at an envelope in Darrah’s purse.

“Oh it’s a letter to a friend of mine in Mississippi, Casey,” she told her.

“Friend or ex boyfriend,” Lorraine asked with a smile.

“Friend, he was like a brother to me,” Darrah replied rolling her eyes.

“Ok, I was just wondering,” Lorraine replied.

“I know,” Darrah said.

“So you writing to tell him about Chris,” Lorraine asked her.

“And to tell him about my job and all, I haven’t wrote him in a while,” Darrah told her.

“Well, at least you want to write him,” Lorraine said.

“Yeah he should appreciate that should he, at least I write him when I can, unlike him, he hasn’t written me back in almost a year,” Darrah told her offended.

“I’d be insulted,” Lorraine exclaimed.

“I am,” Darrah replied.

“Alright Darrah, let’s get down to business so you can spoil Caleb,” Lorraine told her.

“Sounds good to me,” Darrah replied.

(Meanwhile at a Hotel)

Jigen walked into the hotel room shaking his head. He had let Alex take a nap because she wasn’t feeling good. He figured it was because she stayed up so late.

“What are you doing here man, I thought you would be with your woman,” Lupin said from his seat on the couch.

“She isn’t feeling good,” Jigen replied.

“Really, that’s not good,” Goemon replied from the table.

“She’ll be fine, probably just sick from worrying about you all week,” Fujiko said from beside Goemon.

“Who knows,” Jigen replied sitting down.

“Your girlfriends sick so you come here, that’s real nice,” Lupin said.

“I came here, because I made her lie down and get some rest; let me guess you guys are planning another heist?” he asked.

“Yeah it’s going to be in Kansas City, Lupin wouldn’t tell us why though,” Fujiko muttered.

“All in good time,” he told her.

“Uh huh,” Fujiko replied.

Jigen sat through about an hour of their arguing and finally got tired of it. He wanted to check on Alex and make sure she was okay anyway. He got in his car drove to Alex’s house. When he walked into her room, he saw Alex sitting in a chair with a shocked look on her face.

“What’s wrong, I thought you’d still be sleeping,” Jigen said walking over to her.

“I tried to sleep, but I just couldn’t, so I called Amber to tell her what’s wrong, and what she told me had me worried so I went to the store so I could find out, and well you’re going to get a little shock,” she told him all in one breath.

“Whoa, calm down and tell me what’s wrong,” he said.

Alex took a deep breath and looked at him closely.

“I’m pregnant,” she said.

Sorry if I drive you nuts with Styx songs as titles, but I just went to their concert and well it was an amazing concert, and I love their music.

Psycho-Katrina15, thanks for the review. Sorry it didn’t make you jump out your chair in delight. But maybe this one will. I know you have been waiting for this chapter for a very long time. I know it’s weird to be thanking you for reviews on the prequel, but I thought it deserved it. Same people, same plot, just different story line. So I’m thanking the people who reviewed my other story in the sequel, and I think you deserved this one, and here’s the sequel you were looking forward. And yes Arista is a bitch and just wait till she finds out about Alex’s pregnancy, now that’s going to be a problem.

Whitesepulchre, thank you so much for your support on my other story it meant a lot. I really appreciate it. This is the sequel you were looking forward to, and I hope you finally got everything settled with school and can update your story more often because I really like it. And I’m really glad you like my story, I didn’t know people liked it that much.

J. Lucy-Daisuke, I know you didn’t review the last chapter, but you swore you were going to, so I’m thanking you ahead of time, that way you’re not left out after you review it. I hope you liked the beginning of the sequel, I am quite proud of it. This story I think will have a lot more Lorraine and Zenigata in it, with a lot of her best friend, and a lot of Zenigata bashing. So you got that to look forward to.

Well to all the readers who read this, I hope you like it. I know I like writing it. I especially enjoy writing surprise endings that no one looks for in it. Like this one, if you expected it, then I’m sorry for boring you, but if you didn’t well there you go, Jigen is going to be a dad. Umm, hide all objects that fire bullets.

I’m pretty sure he won’t kill himself but I am sure it is a big surprise. I am sorry I might not update as much because school just started and I just got a job. So it might be hard for me to update. But I am sure at the end of the year I will have the Dairy Queen swirl down. Lol.

Well that’s it the end of the first chapter, and now I’m boring you will a whole lot of babble you couldn’t care less about so tata.