Giles looked up at the house with a shrug. It was small compared to most of the estates held my Council families. "Thank you," he said, getting out of the car. He jogged around to her side and opened the door for her before fetching Molly out of the back seat. "Lets get you to the back garden so you can run." Taking Fred's hand, he took Molly and her behind the house and let Molly go in the fenced area before taking Fred inside the house's back door
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Fred felt herself blushing at the way Rupert's mother started gushing when he introduced him, having definitely not expected this kind of greeting. She actually hadn't been sure what kind of greeting she was going to get, but this had certainly not been it, especially when Helen took her hand and pulled her over toward the other side of the parlor while waving Rupert off to go speak to his father
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When Giles came upon the door to his father's study, he saw it was cracked open so he stepped inside. His father was polishing one of the rail cars that belong to one of his train sets. It was something Richard Giles had picked up during his last years at the Council. "Mother said you wanted to speak with me
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Fred told Helen a truncated story about her life, leaving out most of the gory details of her time in Pylea and the time she had spent in Los Angeles with Angel Investigations. What she did tell her, however, was enough to make her understand what she had been through
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Fred's eyes widened when Rupert told her what his parents had done for them, and she looked from him to her soon-to-be in-laws in amazement. "That's...that's so generous and...amazing. I never--thank you so much," she managed to say, hoping as well that they'd be able to give Richard and Helen grandchildren as well in time for them to enjoy them. She knew her own parents would be around for quite a while yet, but Rupert's parents were older
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