This story came about after talking with Wildirish about when my grandparents first got together. This is very loosely inspired by their story and I hope you like it.

The title is a favorite song of my grandfathers that he always liked to sing to my grandmother, it has no real baring on the story other than that.

Disclaimer: I don't own Revolution or any of it's characters...Although there has been some talk of a David Lyons time share, nothing has really come of that...yet :)

Charlie was excited when she heard the knock on the front door; she was having the best weekend. Miles was coming to visit today and she hadn't seen him in a couple of years. There was the occasional phone call and texts, but they mostly stuck to email and Facebook.

And then after spending a day with her uncle, she had a date the very next night. Charlie is a kindergarten teacher and the guy was the much older brother of one of her students. They had flirted for a couple of weeks before he finally asked her out and she was excited because he was nice and really cute and she had a really good feeling the night was going to go well for her.

"Miles!" Charlie cheered as she opened the front door to her parent's house to find her favorite (and only) uncle on the front porch.

"Hey kid, gonna let me in or do I have to wait out here all day?" Miles asked as he hugged Charlie with one arm around her shoulders, the other holding his overnight bag.

Charlie moved aside to let him through, only then noticing the man standing behind him. "Oh, Bass came with me, hope your folks don't mind." Miles said.

Charlie smiled at Miles and shook her head. "I'm sure they'll be fine." She said with a chuckle, knowing they would be happy to see their old friend.

Charlie held the door for both of them as they walked by. Bass stopped long enough to give her a smile. "Hello Charlotte." he said, using her full name like he used to when she was a kid, knowing she hated it. "It's been a long time. It's good to see you." He said.

Charlie nodded, her smile still in place. "Yeah, you too." She managed to get out, finding herself flustered and feeling like she was once again that twelve year old that thought her uncles lifelong friend was the greatest looking man in the world.

Turns out, twelve year old Charlie was not wrong.

…

Bass couldn't believe it. That couldn't be little Charlie Matheson. There was no way. It hadn't been that long had it?

Ten years. It had been ten years since he had spent any time at all around the girl, and back then that's exactly what she had been, a girl. Now it was obvious she was all woman, and a beautiful one at that.

He had seen Ben and Maggie a few times over the years, but the last time he had seen Charlie or Danny either one was right after Charlie's fifteenth birthday.

He tried to reconcile the teenager he had known with the woman that had just shown them in, and he had to shake his head, the pieces just didn't want to fit together.

"You ok man?" Miles asked. "You look like you're trying to do long division in your head again." He joked.

Bass rolled his eyes. "Haha, so funny." He shook his head again. "I guess I was just not expecting Charlie to be all grown up." He said and chuckled. "But I guess we all get older huh?"

Miles nodded and watched his friend as a thought formed. "Yeah," he said. "Ben said she's been working really hard lately too, never seems to leave much time for herself to have some fun."

Bass nodded. "Well maybe we can fix that for her while we're here." He said, knowing how much Miles cared for his niece. Which was the main reason for getting those traitorous thoughts of her out of his head.

Miles nodded. "Yeah, I was just thinking that same thing." He said before opening the door to the guest room where they had just stashed their bags. "Come on, let's find her, see where everyone else is at." He said, walking out and leaving Bass to follow behind, still slightly thrown by the fact that Charlie was all grown up.

"So where are they?" Miles asked Charlie after they had found her in the kitchen.

Charlie offered them each a glass of lemonade. "Dad and Maggie are at the store, they said something about fixing a big home cooked meal because, and I quote "Miles can't cook to save his life and the women he brings home aren't really the domestic kind." So Maggie made a list and took Dad with her." Charlie said and chuckled at the expression on Miles face.

Bass leaned against the counter and laughed. "They've got you pegged pretty good Buddy."

Miles glared at him. "Shut-up." He said. "What about Danny?"

Charlie shrugged. "Not sure, doing something with his girlfriend probably."

Miles nodded and walked over and wrapped an arm around her shoulders and gave her another one armed hug. "Well at least you were here to greet me." He said and winked. "I can always count on you kid."

Charlie smiled and glanced at Bass before dropping her head and letting her hair hide her face from him. But not before he saw the flush on her cheeks and he smirked. He couldn't help but wonder if, just maybe, she had been having the same kind of thoughts as him.

…

Miles walked into the family room and glanced around to make sure they were alone.

"Bass." He said getting his attention as he walked over to the couch to sit down.

Looking up from the book he held, Ben had a great collection and Bass always loved to borrow one when he came for a visit, he raised his brows. "Yeah?"

Miles smirked. "So you're kind of into Charlie right?" he asked, catching Bass off guard.

"What?" Bass asked in surprise.

Miles chuckled. "It's ok man, I saw the way you were looking at her, you weren't exactly subtle about it, and I'm pretty sure she's always had a thing for you." He said.

"Really?" Bass asked with interest.

Miles smiled and pointed a finger at him. "I knew it." He said in triumph.

Bass chuckled. "Alright you caught me." He said as he rolled his eyes. "What do you think about me asking her out?"

Miles frowned. "Dude, that's my niece." He said.

"But you just said…" Bass said, confused.

Miles laughed. "Man I'm just joking with you, if you want to ask her out, go for it. Like I said before, she needs to have a little fun." He said with a smirk.

Bass threw one of the throw pillows at Miles and shook his head. "You're a dick." He said.

Miles shrugged. "Yeah well, that's nothing new." He said. "But you asking Charlie out is new, and even though I'm alright with it, as long as you treat her right," he said pointing a finger at his friend. "I'm not too sure how Maggie or Ben will feel about it, so you might not want to make it obvious."

Bass nodded. "Right, so no asking her out at the dinner table then."

Miles chuckled. "Probably not the best idea."

…

"I need you to get to Dad's house right now!" Charlie whispered harshly into the phone.

Danny frowned. "Hello to you too." He said. "What's going on?" he asked, worried that she and Maggie had gotten into an argument. It had been awhile since they had a good fight.

"Miles is here." Charlie said as she shut the door to her old room and sat down on the bed.

Danny still wasn't sure what the big deal was. Charlie had been looking forward to this visit for weeks now. "OK? What's the big deal?" he asked.

Charlie sighed. "He brought Bass with him." She said.

"Oh" Danny said. Now he got it. Charlie had been half in love with Sebastian Monroe since she was just a kid, and one side effect from that was the case of extreme awkwardness she got whenever he was around.

"Alright." Danny said with a chuckle. "I'll be there in just a little bit, Dad and Maggie gonna be home soon?" he asked.

Charlie nodded then remembered he couldn't see her. "Yeah, they should be home any minute now, but I need you." She said and groaned. "I swear, I'm a grown woman, I'm twenty-five years old, and the mere sight of one man throws me back to puberty again." Charlie sighed again. "Just hurry up and get here." She said before hanging up the phone.

"I just have to get through today." Charlie said to herself as she reached for the door knob. "Without making a fool of myself."

…

After dinner Danny walked Charlie to the front door.

"So, you didn't make too much of a fool out of yourself during dinner sis." He said as they stood in the entryway.

Charlie rolled her eyes. "Haha, you're hilarious." She said as she started to open the door. "I better get going, I'll see you guys tomorrow." She said as she stepped out onto the front porch.

Just as she started for the steps, she was stopped when the door opened up once again. "Charlie?"

She paused before turning around to find Bass standing in the open door way, an easy smile on his face. "Hey." She said, hoping the smile on her face looked cooler than she felt in that moment. "What's up?" she asked as she took a step closer to him and away from the steps.

Bass stuck his hands in his jeans pockets and cocked his head to the side slightly, the smile growing a little wider and showing off his dimples that Charlie had always loved to sneak looks at when she was a kid.

"I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tomorrow night, with me?" he asked.

Charlie felt her eyes widen. "What?" she said and then felt like slapping herself at that brilliant response.

Bass shrugged, smile still in place as he took his hands out of his pockets. "Well your dad said you've been working a lot lately, and Miles and I thought that maybe you could use a little fun." He said. "So what do you say?"

Charlie chuckled a little at her own stupidity. Of course, her dad and Miles were both in on this. They just wanted her to hang out and have fun, this wasn't about Bass feeling anything for her, this was about Bass doing something nice for his friends niece.

She shook her head once and smiled at him. "That's really nice of you." She said. "But I uh, actually have plans tomorrow night." She said, hoping that the disappointment wasn't evident in her voice as she let him off the hook. "So you can tell my dad and Miles not to worry about me." She said.

Charlie smiled one last time before turning and stepping off of the porch. She was half way down the walk before she turned around. "Goodnight Bass." She said and turned around once again and headed for her car.

Bass just stood there and watched her leave. Not really sure what had just happened. He hadn't expected her to turn him down, especially after Miles said that she had always had a thing for him.

…

He was still on the porch when Miles found him a moment later.

"Dude," Miles said as he shut the door behind him. "what the hell was that?"

Bass looked at his friend and realized that he had left the door open and Miles must have heard them. "She turned me down." He said, still not sure why things happened gone as he had planned.

Miles rolled his eyes. "Yeah that's not surprising after the horrible way you just asked her out. You've picked up plenty of woman, I thought you were actually good at this?" he said.

Bass frowned at him. "What are you talking about? I just asked if she wanted to hang out, what's wrong with that?"

Miles shook his head. "No, you didn't just ask if she wanted to hang out, you made it sound like you were asking because her dad asked you too."

Bass thought back on what he had said and grimaced. Miles was right; he hated it when Miles was right.

"So what do you suggest I do then?" he asked Miles.

Miles shrugged and looked at him like it was obvious. "Ask her again, and don't be an idiot about it this time." He said.

Bass shook his head slightly. "She's already got a date." He said.

Miles smirked. "Since when have you let a girls date stop you from asking her out?"

Bass nodded and smiled. "You make an excellent point there brother."

He would see Charlie tomorrow, and as they say, tomorrow is another day.

This will probably be two chapters, maybe three...And then when this is done I'll be back with another story for the Red Camaro Series. :)

I hope you liked the start of this and I hope to have the next chapter up sometime this next week.

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