I had a lot of PM's when I completed 2 of my stories, Her Fathers Daughter and The Prodigal Daughter, asking if I was going to write anymore, I have already posted a new story called Family Ties and so far people seem to like it.

I told everyone I had some more stories waiting in the wings and basically did a poll about which plot line you all liked and this one was the one you all liked the sound of.

It will only be a short story,maybe 10-15 chapters, it's just a little fun and I already have 6 chapters written for it so it will have regular updates.

This is technically a crossover with the Crossfire series BUT the focus is on the second generation of Cross's & Greys, the only reason I chose the Eva and Gideon characters is because most people who have read Fifty Shades have also read Crossfire, so it's Easier to paint a picture in your head,of what the characters look like.

Thank you all for the reviews for my other stories, I love them!

cheers

Lorna x

ANA's POV

"Ladies will you all please please hurry the fuck up? Their plane will be landing in about 40 minutes" Christian bellows up the stairs, he never did do waiting very well, before I can shout down that we are almost done Kate beats me to it

"Geez mogul keep your hair on we are coming!" she shouts down

"God Ana, I don't know how you have kept that man in check all these years"

"lots of love and sex Kate" I giggle

"ok girls let go pick up our graduates, fucking hell can you belive we have children that are college graduates? I still feel like me and Gideon are in our 20's" Eva has a look on her face like she has only just worked out that she is 46, not 26 anymore

"No it seems like just yesterday we were taking them to their first day at kindergarten,,"

"ANA COME ON OR WE ARE LEAVING WITHOUT YOU!"

"Come on we better go before he busts a blood vessel" We exit my bedroom and make our way down the stairs only to be met by 3 pacing men.

"Finally lets go, get your asses moving ladies" Elliott starts to herd us out the door like sheep making us all laugh, we get in the limo and make our way to the airport to pick up our children, my god I feel old, I now have 2 college graduate kids, where have the years gone, I look around and I smile, Eva is now on Gideons lap whispering in his ear, Kate is smacking Elliott on the arm and he is laughing and beside me is my fifty, still as hansom as the day we met, apart from the sprinkling of gray in his hair he still looks the same, still sexy even after 25 years of marriage.

"You ok Ana? You look a million miles away" Eva ask

"Yeah i'm fine just excited to be having Phoebe home" I smile and she beams back obviously thinking about having her son James home.

If someone had told me 25 years ago that Eva and Gideon would be a big part of our lives I would have called them liars.

Eva and Gideon got married the same month as Christian and I, and the media nicknamed us the golden couples of the east and west, our lives were almost the same, both husbands were billionaires when we married them, both business geniuses, both young and very good looking and sexy, and then us, women who could have stayed at home and been pampered all day but choses to keep our careers, me in publishing and Eva in advertising.

We met at a charity event at the Waldorf Astoria when I was 8 weeks pregnant with Teddy and we all just hit it off, Eva and I became firm friends and Christian and Gideon were like 2 little boys when we would all get together.

WhenTeddy was born Christian had told Gideon that he wanted to work less and spend more time at home but having such a big company made it impossible for him because he could not do it on his own, and that is when Gideon Cross said the thing that changed all our lives

"Why don't we merge GEH with Cross Industries?" Gideon wanted to spend more time with Eva and they wanted to start a family and being a CEO of CI ment late nights and business trips, so they merged the companies became co owners of "Grey Cross Enterprises" and never looked back.

Eva and Gideon packed up their New York penthouse and moved out west to Seattle and bought the house next door to us on the sound, merging the companies ment that it was not all on 1 pair of shoulders, they could each take the slack from the other and having the biggest privately owned company in the world ment they could delegate any job to any one because they had so much choice, they never work weekends, no late nights and have to do very little travel, I thank god every day for the merger because I am positive that Christian would have had a heart attack in his 30's because of the stress of running GEH on his own and I know for Eva it is the same, instead of her children being raised in New York where they did not have any friends there own age who had kids, they grew up here in Seattle with my kids next door, not to mention Elliott and Kate's crew and Mia and Ethan's kids.

I love our life, we have fantastic friends, wonderful children, more money than we will ever be able to spend, we spend every summer on holiday as a big group and every winter on the sound or Aspen, I know money is not everything and I know we would all love each other the same if we lost everything but seeing Christian and Gideon get so excited over some expensive toy that they have bought is half the fun for Eva and I, 2 years ago they spent over $150,000,000 on a yacht! Called the Evastashia after Eva and myself, they both have helicopters which they can fly themselves and both have more cars than a dealership.

I am so excited to see Phoebe, 4 years of college is a long time not to mention that she has spent the last 3 summers with James and Ava backpacking across the world, the first year they did Europe, then it was China and Australia and last year they did Africa, to say they are 3 well traveled 21 year olds is an understatement.

I do worry about Phoebe though and I know Eva and Kate have concerns about James and Ava too, but for different reasons

Phoebe Grace Grey has always been out going, but some times in certain situations she can be shy like me when I was younger but she was the co-capitan of the cheerleading team after Ava encouraged her to join, to Christians delight she never once brough a boy home when she was in high school, I don't know if she has dated in college but she never mentioned anyone, I don't know why because she is a stunning looking girl, even if i do say so myself, she is about 5'7 with my long brown hair and her fathers big gray eyes and is funny as hell.

Ava Marie Grey, much to Elliott's horror, is her mother reincarnated, a party girl, got her heart broken about half a dozen times before she left for college, she is popular and very beautiful, about 5'8 and looks just like Kate only she has Elliott's baby blue eyes.

James Gideon Cross is the spitting image of his father, standing about 6'2 he has the most shocking blue eyes I have ever seen and his hair is the blackest black. He was on the track team in high school and is very athletic, even though he has never said anything Eva and Gideon suspect that he is gay, they sat him down age 16 and said no matter what they would love him but he just blushed and left the room, 1 week later he brough a girl home for dinner, when she left he walked her out and Eva watched from the window, when she went to kiss him he gently pushed her away and shook his head, that was the last time anyone mentioned his dating life, I know that Ava and Phoebe would know the truth because they have all shared an apartment at college the last 4 years but neither one of them would ever betray his trust, I just hope he comes out soon so he can start living his life without fear of rejection.

"What are you smiling about Steele?" Kate ask me just as we pull on to the tarmac of the airport

"Just thinking about how proud I am of not only Phoebe but Ava and James too, they are all so bright and smart, I'm looking forward to this summer, having those 3 home and we have Hawaii and Aspen to look forward too" I smile

"Ready to greet our daughter Mrs Grey" Christian leans over and kisses me on the mouth

"Yes Mr Grey, lets go get the little valedictorian" We had all flown out to New York the week before when all 3 of them graduated from Columbia with honors, Phoebe did not tell us she was valedictorian until we saw her walking across the stage to give her speech, I was so proud of her and Christian cried like a baby when in her speech she said she was everything she is because of the love of her mother and father.

We all get out of the limo and watch as one of the GCE jets land, It pulls up in front of the hanger and the doors open and all 3 of our children come running down the steps, Ava jumps straight in her fathers arms and holds out her hand pulling Kate in, James runs over and picks Eva up swinging her around while she laughs, he puts her down and then shakes Gideons hand before pulling him into a manly hug, Phoebe runs over to us and Christian picks her up and swings her around making her giggle he then grabs me and pulls me into a Grey group hug

"I am so pleased your back for good baby girl"

"Me to mom, it will be nice to just chillax this summer before I enter the big bad world of mergers" she beams.

Phoebe and James will be working for their fathers at GCE and Ava who has a degree in architecture will be the newest executive at Grey Construction which is now the biggest building company in the pacific north west.

"I'm just glad you are not going to be trapesing around the world this summer" Christian says to her and her face falls

"Well actually dad we needed to talk to you about that, um it will only be for like maybe a week but me Jay and Ava are going on a road trip down the west coast" she blushes because she knows her dad hates plans changing without him knowing

"And when was this decided young lady"

"On the jet about and hour ago, we are going to drive my mustang down the coast to California and then Mexico, it will only be for like 1 week, a week and half tops"

"Why don't you just fly down?" she rolls her eyes much to her fathers disgust and my delight, all my kids are so head strong and stubborn like their father that it is nice to see some of my traits coming out.

"Right of passage dad, it will be fun, a proper road trip with my 2 best friends, it will be the last time we will be able to do it before we become adults"

"Hate to burst your bubble baby girl but you are an adult, 21 means you are a grown up"

"Yeah yeah whatever daddy, now are we going to argue or are you going to take me to a expensive restaurant and feed me? I hate to burst your bubble but the staff you and uncle Gideon employ on those jets can't cook for shit" she crosses her arms and he burst out laughing putting his arm around her and leading her to the limo, when we get everyone is laughing there asses off

"What is so funny?" I ask as I slide in with Phoebe next to me and Christian next to her

"James was telling us how Phoebe went all "Christian Grey" at the steward on the jet" Eva laughs

"Aunt Eva you know me,I am not a bitch, but I asked for a pudding cup and she brought me jello, I would have understood if it was just a mistake but she only did it because she was ogling James AND the lid was off already so when she practically threw it at me, it spilled all over my white jeans and I had to change" Phoebe is a lot like Christian in this way, she demands perfection from everyone, including herself

"What did you say to her Pheebs?" I ask

"Let me tell you Aunt Ana, but I will bleep out the naughty words "You bleeping idiot, are you now done eye bleeping my friend or are you going to bleeping do your bleeping job and bring me a bleeping pudding pot or do you want for Ava and I to leave the cabin so you can butt bleep him on the bleeping table" and then she fired her" Ava howls with laughter and phoebe blushes, I have only heard her swear about 3 times.

"You fired her?" Christian looks shocked and amused

"Yes I fired her, shes your staff on your jet and you are my father so what is yours is mine you have said it for years so I fired her because if she is as brazen as that to the boss's son, what would she do to the executives that use the jet for business?" Phoebe shrugs

"God Grey, she is going to be a fucking shark at the office" Gideon looks so pleased with this latest development

A half hour later and we are all at the local sports bar that Gideon and Christian bought a few years back, we are going to have a pool party for everyone tomorrow but for today it is just us 6 parents and our 3 returning offspring.

The waitress comes over to take our drink orders and she is blatantly eye fucking James, he orders a beer and acts like she is not even there, to my compleat shock Ava and Phoebe also order bottles of Budwiser

"Since when do you both drink beer? Ava I though you liked martinis and Phoebe I though you didn't drink" James and Ava burst out laughing

"Ha that is funny, Phoebe doesn't drink my ass" Ava chuckles

"I do have the odd beer or glass of wine every now and then mom, I'm not 1 drink short of needing to attend AA meetings unlike Someone I know" she shoots Ava a glare

"Whatever, it was you that got me on Budwiser Phoebe, I used to be a Tequila girl but then we decided to swap drinks remember? I tried a Bud... you licked salt off of that guys abs and then did a shot"

"You dared me and Phoebe Grey don't walk away from no dare" they both giggle

"You licked salt off of some mans abs?" I ask with a raised eyebrow and to her credit she does blush

"Um well it was a party and you know how it goes" she shrugs

Phoebe is different, she seems more confident but it seems like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders and finding out that she did a Tequila shot off of a mans abs has thrown me a bit.

I don't think she has ever had a boyfriend so I always assumed she was a virgin but perhaps she is not, it is none of my business she is 21 after all, what she does on her own time is her business, I just hope she practices safe sex, perhaps I should have a word with her?

But when I take a closer look at her I see how tense she is in her shoulders, and again she looks like she has the weight of the word on her shoulders, to anyone else she looks fine but I am her mother and I know my daughter, I make a mental note to ask her whats bothering her when I get her on her own.

The waitress comes back with the drinks and hands them all and much to the shock of the whole table apart from Phoebe and Ava, James pulls her up on her staring

"do you want me to just get naked here on the table so you can take a picture or are you content with just staring" he drawls in a fake southern accent, she goes red as a tomato and makes a fast exit, causing the girls to break out into giggles

"And the Cross man strikes again!" Ava says raising her bottle of Bud in his direction

"I couldn't help it, I felt like her eyes were burning into me when she asked what I wanted to drink and did you see? She is wearing an engagement ring, I pity the poor man she goes home to, all I would have to do is click my fingers and I could get her to go in the back room with me, no thank you, I like my women focused on just me" he takes a long drink of his beer and starts to text something on his phone.

Did he just confirm he likes girls?

I see Eva and Gideon share a look but no one says anything.

We enjoy a nice meal of BBQ ribs and fries, Christian never used to eat stuff like this but when he and Gideon became friends it pulled him out of his 90 year old man shell and back into his at the time 28 year old shell.

Half way through desert Phoebes phone rings, she looks at who is calling and excuses herself from the table slinging her purse over her shoulder as she walks out the front door, I see her take a seat on the out door table and start talking into her phone, she is quite animated and then she throws her head back in a laugh, I love seeing her like this, carefree young, has the rest of her life ahead of her, I see her looking through her purse while she jams the phone to her ear with her shoulder, I start choking on my wine when I see what she pulls out

"You ok baby you almost choked?" Christian pats my back and rubs circles

"When did Phoebe start smoking?" I gasp

"WHAT?" he flips his head around and looks at Phoebe through the window, sat down, swinging her legs under her chair, phone in one hand puffing on a smoke with the other, I think Christian is going to pop a vain his face is so red and his jaw is clenching, before I can stop him he stomps outside, we all look on as he takes Phoebes phone from her cutting the call and takes the smoke and stamps it into the ground, we can't hear what they are saying but it is clear they are arguing.

"Ava how long has Phoebe smoked?"

"Umm aunt Ana that is not my place to tell" she looks down into her drink

"Ava do you smoke?" Elliott ask her

"I do sometimes" she shrugs

"Well quit it, it is so bad for you" he growls

"Ok chill out, it's not like we smoke crack"

"James what about you?" Gideon ask his son, they all detest smoking, Christian more than the others

"Well not all the time but on like a night out sometimes I do, and sometimes if me and the guys are playing poker we have a cigar" Gideon just nods, we all know that by telling your child not to do something means they will do it for spite, apparently Christian was never told this as he is still out side arguing with his daughter, after another 3 minutes of heated debating they walk back in both red in the face.

"Anastasia when we get home please call my mother and have her bring over some patches or gum or what ever a person needs to quit a filthy disgusting habit" he attacks his chocolate cake with aggression, thank god he did not see the eye roll that just came from his daughter

We leave the bar and make our way home, Elliott and Kate will be staying at ours tonight with all their kids for the party tomorrow, we say good bye to Eva, Gideon and James as they walk next door, both houses are completely gated and have walls all around them but the men had a path put in linking both houses to make it easier to just pop between both houses.

When we walk in Phoebe is jumped on by Teddy, Alex and Madison our twin 17 year olds and Paige our 5 year old baby girl, we never intended to have any children after the twins were born but for our 20th anniversary we recreated our honeymoon in Europe... 9 months later Paige rocked up into the world, she truly is the cherry on our family cake, she is loving and polite and she is spoiled by not only Christian and myself but her 4 older siblings as well, Phoebe picks her up and swings her around

"I missed you so much Fee-bee" she locks her little arms around her big sisters neck

"I missed you too munchkin but I am home now for good, no more school" she promises, Teddy is next, he takes Phoebe in a choke hold and rubs his knuckles in her hair, Phoebe grabs his hand and flips him on his back and as fast as a flash she sits on his chest with her balled up fist at his throat

"What the fuck Phoebe!" he is in shock, he just got over powered by his 5'7, 115lb little sister

"4 years of Krav Maga training big bro" she smirks

"You do Krav? Since when?"

"since the day before I left for college and you said goodbye to me by pulling my hair and tripping me up the floor, pay backs are a bitch big bro" she gets off of him and then extends her hand helping him up, she hugs the twins and then calls it a night, I don't blame her, from graduating last week and then having to pack up her apartment and then the flight over she must be exhausted. I feel strong arms creep around my waist and my sexy as hell husband plants a kiss right on the spot behind my ear making me shiver

"well that is 2 down and 3 to go Mrs Grey, are you happy to have your prodigy home?"

"Yeah, I can't wait to spend some time with her, but have you noticed she seems different, I don't know, more confident somehow,But like she has somthing on her mind, do you know what I mean?"

"Yes I noticed that too, let me tell you she better fucking quit smoking other wise I will ground her until she is 30"

"You can't ground her dear, she is a 21 year old adult remember"

"My house my rules Mrs Grey"

"Do you think she will want to move out and get her own place? Teddy moved straight into Escala when he came home from Harvard"

"she has not mentioned anything I assume that she will get a place with Ava or even James at some point" I feel him shrug

"Yeah, I am glad she has such good friends, those 3 have always done everything together, kindergarten, Elementary school, middle school, high school, now college, they are like the 3 amigos" I chuckle

"Come on Mrs Grey, lets get the rugrat in bed and then I want you upstairs in our room, on your knees, you are getting punished tonight" I spin around in his arms and look in his eyes

"And what pray tell have I done to deserve a punishment?" I fold my arms across my chest and raise my eyebrow at him and he just smirks

"I saw that scrap of fabric that you call a bathing suit and you are out of your mind if you think you will be parading around tomorrow by the pool so Teddies little horn-dog friends can eye fuck you all day"

"It's not that bad"

"It has no straps and the back of it says "juicy" your juicy butt is for me to look at and me alone Mrs Grey" he thinks he has won, little does he know that I confiscated that bikini from Madison this morning when she told me she was wearing it to the pool party and my reply was over my dead body, so knowing It would earn me a bit of rough play from my husband I laid it out on our bed this morning after I got ready knowing he would find it, I high five myself mentally. Good job!

"Ok Sir, I understand" I try to look contrite but I just can't pull it off and I start giggling and then just to add insult to injury I dart out of his grasp and spank his butt just once and run up the stairs with him hot on my heels.

PHOEBE'S POV

I throw myself down on my bed and sigh, it is so fucking good to be home! Don't get me wrong I loved my time in New York but Seattle is my home, I love hiking and fishing thanks to my grandpa Ray, I also love cars and sailing and, now that I have access to part of my trust fund, the first thing I have done is have a custom designed boat of my very own made and it should be delivered next week and I can not wait , I love just sailing out in the middle of the sound dropping anchor and just listening to the waves.

I know that my parents were shocked today about me smoking and to a lesser extent drinking but after everything that has happened this last year i'm surprised that I don't drink all day every day, it is about time they saw the real me, not the fake me that I have portrayed for years and it will make it easier for me when they find out what I have been doing all these years when they thought I was at the library or out jogging, or at the beginning of the year when I told them I was in the Hampton's when really I was...god I can't even think about it now,,,, I am pulled out of my thoughts by my phone ringing, when I look at the caller ID I smile, that didn't take him long

"That was fast"

"Well my beautiful sexy brown haired goddess, I just can't wait anymore...do you want to meet me in our old spot by the lake?"

"Well there is an offer I can not refuse, give me 20 minutes, I need to shimmy down my drain pipe like I did in high school"

"Hmm I love the thought of you shimming baby...Speaking of high school, do you still have your cheer leading outfit?"

"Yes I do, I will put it on if you wear your letterman jacket.."

"Deal, meet me at the treehouse and we can recreate some highschool memory's"

"See you soon"

I end the call and can't help the grin that comes across my face, god I love that man, always have, always will.

I locate my old uniform at the back of my closet and then throw on a hooded sweater, I lock my bedroom door from the inside and make my way out on my balcony, I climb down the drain pipe and keep my back plastered to the wall, I have been sneaking out of this house since I was 14 and I know how to avoid the cameras, I start running down through the meadow and make my way to the shore line of lake Washington, the moon is out and is casting a bright light across the water, god I love this place!

I jog up a small incline behind some trees, I am still on my parents property but our house sits on about 40 acres making it the biggest property on the lake, after a couple more minutes I come to a clearing in the woods and look up at the swiss family Robinson style treehouse.

My father and Gideon had this made when we were in the 2nd grade, it has real working lights, bedrooms and small kitchen, a living room it even has a bathroom with working toilet and shower, my ever safety minded father had safety nets installed underneath it so if we were to fall out for what ever reason, we just used to bounce on the net.

I see a small glow coming from the main room of the treehouse, I make my way up the wooden steps and open the door, when I open it I am greeted with a glass of wine in the hands of my own personal adonis, wearing nothing but a pair of Calvin Kline boxers and his letterman jacket.

"Good evening baby, I have been waiting for you"