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Going home after dinner was exactly what didn’t happen. Mary-Margaret wouldn’t even hear him when he said they were leaving and he was taking the kids home. In fact, she had her kids take Rachel and Charlie and clean them up, and afterward, she fed Charlie his bottle and tucked him in her bedroom in a playpen she’d set up in the corner.
“Look, I appreciate all you’ve done, but we need to go,” Eric said again as Mary-Margaret clapped her hands and shooed the kids running down the hall back to their bedrooms. She followed them, and Eric could hear her taking charge, getting them settled.
“Eric, we want to know everything that happened. Just stay for a bit, please,” Joe said as Mary-Margaret strode in and sat on the sofa beside him. He set his arm around her, pulling her closer, and tha
