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Chapter 20 Sneak Peak

The next chapter is a very long one, and for making you guys wait so long for it, here’s a sneak peak. 

Friday, January 30 2015, 7:30am

St. Mary's Hospital, Private Wing  

The birds chirped outside Arabella's hospital window along with morning traffic. Harry looked out the window to see an empty road, which wont be empty once the news got out that Arabella was in an accident last night. Her communication's team worked hard all night to produce a press release as well as a post for her social media accounts detailing what had happened which will be released at 8 that morning.

'Half an hour before the chaos starts.' Harry thought to himself. His grandmother and grandfather went back last night after the doctors gave their news with the promise to come back again today once they got their rest. The same goes with his father, brother and sister in law. Willem-Alexander however is in the room next door getting some much needed rest.

Harry on the other hand, for the life of him, can't shut his eye for a second. He did fell asleep for a couple of hours next to Arabella's bed holding her hand but then he woke up at seven with a nightmare that Arabella died. It was safe to say that he couldn’t go back to sleep afterwards.

Willem-Alexander called Maxima after they received the news from the doctors and she is set to fly to London and arrive by lunch time after telling the girls about what had happened.

Jane told Harry that they have informed Arabella's cousins, grandmother, godparents, and best friends about what had happened last night. They also kept them up to date with what's happening. Jane also told Harry that they are adamant of coming to London today, even though a lot of them have countries to run, to see Arabella for themselves.

It kind of opened Harry's eyes a little to see so many people cared for his fiancé. Of course in true Jane fashion, she listed down the people who said that are flying to London to visit Arabella the next few days.

HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands - Princess Arabella's Grandmother

HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands - Princess Arabella's uncle

HRH The Grand Duke of Luxembourg - Princess Arabella's Godfather

HRH The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg - Princess Arabella's Godmother

HRH The Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg - Princess Arabella's best friend

HRH The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg - Princess Arabella's best friend

HM The King of Sweden - Princess Arabella's Godfather

HM The Queen of Sweden - Princess Arabella's Godmother

HRH Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland - Princess Arabella's friend

HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland - Princess Arabella's friend

HRH Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland - Princess Arabella's friend

HRH Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland - Princess Arabella's friend

HRH Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland - Princess Arabella's best friend

Mr. Christopher O'Neill - Princess Arabella's best friend

HRH The Princess of Hanover - Princess Arabella's Godmother

Ms. Charlotte Casiraghi - Princess Arabella's best friend

HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark - Princess Arabella's close family friend

HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat - Princess Arabella's close friend

HRH The Crown Princess Mary, Countess of Monpezat - Princess Arabella's close friend

HM The King of Norway - Princess Arabella's close family friend

HM The Queen of Norway - Princess Arabella's close family friend

HM The Queen of Spain - Princess Arabella's close family friend

HM The Queen of Jordan - Princess Arabella's close family friend

And of course, that doesn’t include Harry's family and their friends. All in all, Harry feels like the next few days are going to be a long one with a lot of love pouring in for Arabella.

Harry was still looking out the window when he hears a groan from behind him. Spinning so fast, he turned around and rushed to Arabella's bedside and held her hand. Arabella furrowed her eyebrows before groaning some more. She then opened her eyes for a little bit before shutting them again.

Arabella tried to open her eyes for the second time and squinted a little bit because the lights was quite bright. She opened her mouth to say something but realize that her throat is dry.

"Water." She rasped. Quickly Harry pushed the button that pushes her upper body up and brought the glass closer to her mouth. The glass already has a straw connected to it, as do all hospital glasses for the patients and Arabella took a few sips. "Thank you." She said much clearer.

"Hey." She smiled at Harry. "What happened?"

"You were in an accident babe." Harry said smiling while holding her hand. "You had to have surgery. I was so scared I was going to lose you."

"What?" Arabella furrowed her eyebrows? "Aw baby, I'm here now okay?"

"I love you so much, do you know that?" Harry said, holding Arabella's hand close to him.

"Of course I know that, babe. I love you too." Arabella told Harry before pulling him in for a kiss.

Their kiss was not short, nor was it a make out session. It was a kiss that shows how much one loves the other and how much they can't live without the other. Even though Harry could kiss her all day long, he knows that he has to go alert Willem-Alexander that his daughter is awake, as well as the nurses and doctors who, throughout the night, made sure that she was recovering and that there is nothing wrong with her.

Harry reluctantly pulled away. "As much as I love kissing you, I have to go tell your father that you're awake and everybody else."

"My father's here?" Shocked, Arabella said. "When did he arrive?"

"About an hour after the accident. He flew in as soon as he heard what happened. Maxima waited till morning to tell the girls, before flying over. Her flight should arrive before noon." Harry said before pecking her lips once more.

"I'm going to call them now, get everything into motion. Granny and Grandad are coming at nine after breakfast, the news are going to be released about the accident at eight so photographers and well-wishers will start pouring in. Scotland Yard are barricading outside and prepared for the crowds. Will and Kate are coming tonight, they plan to wait until everything calms down a bit. Dad and Camila are coming in the evening and we've informed everybody who is concerned." Harry told Arabella.

"Like who?" Arabella asked, still a little delirious from the anesthesia.

"Your godparents, their children, your best friends, your relatives, and basically every office of a monarch in the world. Not all confirmed to come, but a few get well soon gifts have arrived early this morning." Harry said walking towards the door. "They're all in the other room, the gifts. It’s going to get chaotic around here, you should get some rest while I call the doctors."

With that, Harry left the room and walked to the nurses station on his way to Willem-Alexander's room as well as Arabella's household staff's room.

"Arabella's awake." Harry leaned over the counter a little.

"I'll notify the doctors right away." The nurse smiled before picking up the pager. With a nod, Harry continued on his journey to Willem-Alexander's room.

Knocking a few times, Harry waited for his future father-in-law to answer the door. It's rude to just barge in without being allowed to enter, first rule that Gerrit told Harry during his etiquette refresher. Especially if the person on the other side is a higher rank than you. Once Harry marries Arabella, this rule applies to Kings, Queens and Heads of states only.

"Come in." Willem-Alexander exclaimed after a few moments. Harry took that queue to enter the room.

"Harry my boy, what can I help you with?" Willem-Alexander asked from his seat on the couch. While he was waiting for his daughter to wake up, he was doing some paperwork about his country that was brought over.

"Arabella woke up a few minutes ago." Harry said smiling a bit. Hearing that, Willem-Alexander quickly put the papers he have in his hands on the coffee table infront of him and rise from his seat.

"She's awake? How is she?" Willem-Alexander asked taking long strides towards the door where Harry was currently standing.

"Yeah she's awake. I just informed the nurses to page the doctors and I guess they'll examine her once we're there as well." Harry told the King of the Netherlands.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go!" Willem-Alexander said passing Harry and out the door walking towards Arabella's room in a really fast paced. Harry smiled before following behind him. When he passed the nurses station, he asked them to tell Arabella's staff the good news before following behind Willem-Alexander.

Entering the room, Willem-Alexander took big strides to his daughter's bed and hugged her tightly.

"Don't you ever scare me like that again young lady." Willem-Alexander whispered to Arabella as he hugged her. "I love you so much Dochter."

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The Whole Plot of Jasper in Deadland (from the script)- Act 1

As much as I’d love to just share the script instead, it’s not in mine to share. SO here is the whole plot of Jasper in Deadland (I’ll mostly focus on what happens in between music numbers because that’s the part most people don’t know)

-The musical opens to have various people in Jasper’s life yell at him or complain at him, like his coach berating him for not going to swim practice or his father begging him for another pill.

- (Goodbye Jasper starts). We are in Jasper’s bedroom, Jasper at the edge of his bed and Agnes under the covers. Face in his hands, he sings how he doesn’t deserve her. When he doesn’t respond when she says, “I love you, Jasper. Do you love me?”, she gets up and runs off

-Jasper dives in and : “(Music swells to: drop cloth falls. JASPER dives as —a swinging punk guitar groove, a little sadistic, blares—and suddenly JASPER is falling... endlessly... into another world, and the proscenium rises up.)”

-As he falls endlessly, multiple girls holding red hoodies (like Agnes’ hoodie) approach Jasp and inform him he’ll see memories of his life. A different girl plays Agnes in each memory (end of Goodbye Jasper)

-Jasper wakes in a boat crossing the River Lethe, steered by the  skeletal Ferryman. Also Virgil, a middle aged man in a suit, is in the boat, and gets Jasp to wake up

- “VIRGIL    Ha. Kid, you think that “old softy” is scary...just wait till you see the three-headed dog. Now,let’s get you checked in,    CASE NUMBER (sings) SIGMA J THETA Q 2714.”

-Jasper thinks this whole thing is a prank Agnes cooked up, and that she’s off somewhere laughing

-the river occasionally repeats words or phrases Jasper says and it kind of ticks him off

-They arrive at the Gates of Deadland and Virgil points out Cerberus to a very confused Jasper (What Is Life begins)

-A queue of corpses are filling out paperwork on clipboards as the heads of Cerberus reflect on life. Very much DMV-esque, they are getting their pictures taken for their IDS (Virgil is the one who yells “KEEP IT MOVING!”)

-Some corpses pass Cerberus into Deadland, first having to tell Cerberus how they died

-Jasp of course tries to talk his way out of it when he sees someone with a red hoodie (Agnes’ hoodie). He asks where she got it and the corpse says from some girl inside Deadland

-now with motivation, he begs Cerberus to let him into Deadland (What Is Life ends)

- (The Killing begins) Jasp recounts why life sucks for him, until he begins to talk about Agnes and mentions that some good is there (The Killing ends)

-(Mark This begins) Cerberus lets Jasper past into Deadland with the warning that as time goes on he will forget more and more about himself (Mark This ends)

-Jasp enters Deadland, but not before Virgil wishes him luck with his girlfriend, to which Jasper responds “She’s not my girlfriend!”

- “(LIGHTS shift at we enter Deadland. The City Circle Streets: the mainstreet of a most spectacular city. At ends classic and nouveau, its steel spires and silver skyscrapers stand proudly on pale marble streets; a perfect high-noon sun beams down. JASPER looks in awe at the city.)”

- (Deadland Welcome/ Tour Song/ Jasper in Deadland [Medley] begins) Mr. Lethe’s ad for water comes on the sky as if the sky were a giant Jumbotron

-As Jasper is in awe of the city, on comes tour guide Gretchen along with a group of tourists

-Jasp asks her for help- he touches her shoulder and we see for the first time Jasper can bring back ppls memories

-”SOME DOUCHE (Frederick)(Sung like a stupid recitative.)HEY! I GOT YOUR TEXT THIS MORNING, YOU SENT IT AT LIKE 4AM—

GRETCHEN Ahhh! Who is that douche? Why is he here?

SOME DOUCHE YOU WERE WASTED WEREN’T YOU? YOU WERE! I KNEW IT!

JASPER Wait, who’s here? 

GRETCHEN Nobody... it must just be a memory..

.SOME DOUCHE DO YOU WANNA SEE A PIC OF MY JUNK?(GRETCHEN is zapped back to reality.)”

-Suddenly some tourists recognize Jasper and start taking pictures. The paperboy comes on and we realize that Jasper has begun to stir up a frenzy of action

-Jasper is looking for someone to help him and there are just people touching him left and right. He’s begun to struggle to remember what Agnes looks like

-Jasper, lost in a sea of “reporters and Jasper groupies,” sees a girl who might be Agnes. She drops a red knit hat and he goes after it. Hat in hand, he runs off to escape the crowd  (Deadland Welcome/ Tour Song/ Jasper in Deadland [Medley] ends)

-In Mr.Lethe’s office, he complains to his assistant Hathaway about Jasper ruining the balance of Deadland. Also how much Mr. Lethe wants more power

- ”MR. LETHE I helped betray the Titans and look what happens? Jupiter gets the earth, Neptune gets the sea,Pluto gets the Underworld and oh...What does Cousin Lethe get for his troubles? A little teensy-weensy f*cking river!”

-(Jasper in Deadland [Lethe Style] begins) Lethe tells his secretary that he needs to get Jasper out of Deadland

-He gets Norse Godess and God Hel and Loki on capturing Jasper and bringing them to Mr. Lethe’s office ( Jasper in Deadland [Lethe Style] ends)

-On the other side of town, Jasper dejectedly sits at a bar. Gretchen is there too

-He complains of horrible headaches and she gives him some water from the Lethe, which he downs

- “GRETCHEN Wow...I’ve never met anyone “alive” before. You’re so dangerous. It’s really doing it for me. I’m like, into it, but I’m like, afraid of it...I like, wanna get near you, but I think I wanna stay over here.”

-He again denies that Agnes is his girlfriend (”No...I’m not gay...I’m very straight and we’re “best friends”...”)

-Gretchen offers to listen to Jasper so he can vent

- “JASPER Look. Agnes and I aren’t like that. Because, Agnes has everything. Perfect family. Famous doctor for a father...Beautiful Step-Mom...Agnes is too good for anyone...Me? I have a cheating mother and a drug addict for a father.......How could she possibly love me -- Look, the best part of my day? I get up every morning and I go for a dive. There's this cliff...it's called....it's called. I can't seem to remember....And I always invite Agnes to come, and she hates to...She jumped in and...Why am I having a hard time...”

-(The Forgetting begins) “JASPER It’s weird, it’s like there are these pictures of my life on a wall...Except, someone keeps taking them down....Dusty squares and rectangles where my life used to be...”

-Gretchen explains the steps of how people forget their lives in Deadland (The Forgetting ends)

-Jasper laments his task in having to find Agnes in this massive city before he forgets everything. Gretchen notices the red hat he’s holding and recognizes it, saying she’s seen it before, but can’t remember where. He begs her to take him to all the spots where it could have been

-(Living Dead begins) Gretchen takes Jasper to multiple parts of the city, starting with...

-A Hookah lounge. Jasp talks to the bartender, to no avail. He does recommend the arcade as the next place to look

-At the arcade, there is some good ol’ dance dance revolution going on. Agnes is not there, but a shady character (no her name is literally ‘Shady’) mentions that Boss Rhadamanthus might know something and takes the two of them into the back room

-Jasp would have to arm wrestle Rhadmanthus, but can’t because of the whole memory thing. Agnes arm wrestles instead and wins, making Rhadmanthus tell them that he might’ve seen someone at Club Helheim, decked out for the Osiris concert

-At the concert, Jasper searches furiously among the clubbers, asking questions and looking for Agnes while Gretchen dances and enjoys herself

-Jasp finds Agnes’ bracelet and turns down Gretchen’s offer to dance. Finally they leave the club (Living Dead ends)

-Outside, Virgil finds Jasp and delivers the news that Agnes’ soul has been marked to move onto Elysium, meaning she is truly dead. Virgil also tells Jasper that Lethe is offering him a free pass back to life, but only this once.

-Jasp doesn’t know what to do. Virgil mentions Dante, a “half-life” like Jasper who had traveled through Deadland. He mentions that Jasper might try and find Beatrix Portinari, who might be able to help. Virgil leaves.

-Gretchen comforts a confused Jasper when all of a sudden, Hel and Loki enter with the booming of drums. They announce that they must “seize the boy”

- Gretchen distracts them by asking what their last name is, and while Loki is reciting it Jasp and Gretch sneak off

-She leads Jasp to the sewers. Jasp says he has to find Agnes before he forgets. The river running through (the Lethe) echoes some of his memories.

-Gretchen mentions the one way to leave Deadland is through a back entrance guarded by Ammut, which one can only enter when they’re ready to go to Elysium

- “JASPER Look, we get past this demon thingie and then what...Elysium?

GRETCHEN Sure...but what are you going to do when you find Agnes? She can’t go back.

JASPER I know it’s been done. That guy, Orpheus, he was alive, just like me, and he came down here to take back....take back...

GRETCHEN You mean, Eurydice?

JASPER Yeah. Her...

GRETCHEN There’s only one problem with the whole Orpheus scenario...Orpheus loved Eurydice...(then)So...if you don’t love Agnes then how –

JASPER I’ll find a way around that.”

- Jasper asks Gretchen to simply point him in the right direction and then go, he doesn’t want her mixed up in this

-She tells him and Jasper leaves. Gretchen laments that she had fallen for him because he does not love her, and wishes she could forget him so she could move on faster

-Jasper enters the gate area and is confronted by Ammut, who tells him that she must weigh his heart against a feather, and he must confess his greatest misdeed. Only then can he enter

-(Hungry for Your Heart begins) Ammut plunges her hand into Jasper’s chest and pulls his heart out to put on the scale. Jasper begins to die

-Gretchen rushes, plucks out her own heart, and places it in Jasper’s heart. He revives

-Together, they face Ammut as she sings about justice

-Jasper begins to unload his greatest misdeeds, including that he didn’t hide his father’s pills when he got out of rehab, or maybe that Jasper was the reason his mom left the family. The scale gets lighter and lighter, but isn’t enough.

-In a burst of desperation, Jasper declares that he’s the reason Agnes killed herself. His heart is now light enough and floats. (Hungry for Your Heart ends)

-Sore loser Ammut can’t take this though, and grabs Jasper’s heart and crushes it. She and her blind justice leave to go get Thai food

-Gretchen tells Jasper he can keep her heart, she wasn’t using it

-Jasper responds in Portuguese, and they both realize Jasper is at phase 3 of forgetting

-Loki and Hel again burst in, throwing lightning bolts at Jasp and Gretch. Jasp and Gretch sprint off, the gods in hot pursuit

-Back at Mr. Lethe’s office, Mr. Lethe is getting ready for a commercial shoot. Hathaway enters and tells him that the boy exited the gates, also mentioning that the news about Agnes moving to Elysium was faked

- “MR. LETHE I am grumpy.”

- “MR. LETHE Hmmmm...This boy is actually starting to impress me...He may be the one thing I’ve been waiting for. Find him! This is all going according to plan, Hathaway! First, I’ll overthrow those nimrods Neptune and Jupiter and then I’m comin’ for you, Pluto...Oh, yes, your days are finally numbered!!! You stuck me with a river in hell? I’ll do you one worse! How’s Cleveland, sound?Now, let’s continue on with the next commercial. I’m looking for happy but not saccharin. I want BROADWAY but not Broadway. I want girl next door but two doors down. Do you understand? Action!”

-Jasp and Gretch have made it to the Great Gulf, having escaped Hel and Loki. Jasper is on and off in Portuguese

-The Great Gulf is a giant pit. If you fall in, your soul could be lost in the Wasteland for all eternity. There’s no bridge or anything. Just a riddle stating: “To cross the gap, there is no map, No chance to bridge the parts. The way to pass, is clear as glass: The meeting of two hearts.”

-Jasper’s head hurts more and more. He drinks more water but he keeps losing his memories

- “All the picture are almost gone...It’s all becoming so cloudy. The cliff, the water, that day...(HE downs it, but it’s empty) There’s one picture left, but I can’t barely see her. It’s the night before...We are on her couch,talking about Star Trek. It’s the beginning of everything... I told her about the swimming pool.“Let’s be the first to feel something real”...I can still see it...It’s the last picture on the wall...Me and Agnes...I was happy with her, wasn’t I? I lose this and she’ll be gone forever...”

-Gretchen sees now that Jasper really does love Agnes, even if he doesn’t know it, and realizes she won’t ever be able to replace her. She goes to leave.

-Jasper calls her back, asking why she thinks he’s there.

- “GRETCHEN You’re so naive...You wanna be like Orpheus....but, you know what? Orpheus failed. Just like you will...

JASPER As long as we don’t look back...We won’t fail...”

- (Stroke by Stroke begins) While singing, Jasper goes to the edge of the Gulf and looks over.

-At “We’ll never know we’re alive ‘till we jump, ‘till we dive,” Jasper closes his eyes and steps forward- and they realize it was merely an illusion and a glass floor connects the two sides

-Jasper holds out his hand for Gretchen to take to follow him. Hesitantly, she touches his hand (Stroke by Stroke ends)

- (The Remembering begins) Gretchen sees her memories and realizes that she is Agnes

-She embraces Jasper, thanking him for coming for her and how she knew that Jasper loved her. Unfortunately, Jasper has now completely forgotten everything- who he is, where he is, even Agnes.

-Because they no longer fulfill the requirements of the riddle (Jasper no longer loves her because he doesn’t know her, the glass breaks and they fall into the Great Gulf (The Remembering ends)

END OF ACT ONE

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Season 6, Episode 14 - “The Hike”

Jess and Robby make an unexpected discovery about their relationship while on a hike; Winston plans a party for Aly; Schmidt and Cece fall short of impressing their new neighbors.

“The Hike” opens with Robby at the loft preparing for a hike with Jess, Schmidt continually comparing himself to Andie MacDowell as he eats pasta out of something Jess and Robby made in a clay class—seriously, what the hell is that compartment for?—and Winston announcing that Aly will finally be moving back to LA. Since the loft is falling apart, Cece and Schmidt offer to host a welcome home party at their house. Queue the short intro that makes me wish they would reshoot the original with the expanded cast.

“Hike, hike, baby,” Jess and Robby sing as they make their way to a fork in the trail. Of course they choose the road Jess-traveled because, “Uh, waterfall!” Every sentence that comes out of Robby’s mouth is pure gold. This is pure, unadulterated Robby, straight from the tap. I will not let that line go.

The rest of the gang are getting ready for the party at Cece and Schmidt’s house. In the dining room, Cece and Schmidt set their table and discuss how they are going to handle house rules. Cece suggests that they not have any because all of the cool houses growing up didn’t have rules. I’m going to take a wild guess that Jess’ house was not one of the cool houses. Then again, they grew up in Portland, right? I can’t imagine it being that cool. Chill out, Portlandians, I’m only judging your city based on Portlandia like the rest of America. Schmidt argues that he never went to the cool houses growing up because his only friend was his high school math teacher who ditched him for a guy with a Trans Am. That was probably for the best. Cece feels bad for young Schmidt and he ruins the moment by having an immediate collapse in orgasm.

Meanwhile Nick is helping Winston work out his nerves in another room. Winston is not having any luck. His hands are dripping and his mock greeting for Aly’s mom is a little too comfortable. “Hmm, hmm, not today, honey,” accompanied with double cheek kisses. My brother does the double cheek kiss sometimes and let me tell you it is not the move. His second attempt does not go much better with, “Hey, how are you? I’m Winston, it’s uh, pleasure to do it,” and finally tries, “You’d do well to be friends with me.” I think I’ll start using that last one. Nick encourages him to shake it out and offers to mill about and tell his stories, but not the one about the time he fell asleep in the tub because that’s not a story, even if he did wake up wet. Their second attempted handshake is just as bizarre as the first. Nick describes Winston’s hands as, “dripping wet and now they are piping hot.”

Aly’s sister, Leslie, is the first to show up and she brought the entire family with her. And I truly mean entire, there are so many of them. Did they all drive separately? How much street parking is available in Cece and Schmidt's neighborhood? I assume none now. The sudden influx of guests takes Schmidt by surprise and he starts freaking out, “We don’t have enough china! Or forks! Or prawns! You can’t ask someone to split a prawn.” Cece attempts to get him to chill out to no avail, “We’ll just come in tomorrow with a power washer and hose this whole friggin’ place down!” I haven’t laughed at someone saying friggin’ since middle school, but my Lord, Schmidt cracks me up every friggin’ time. Thankfully Aly arrives shortly after and Winston leads her inside, eyes covering her eyes, to reveal her entire family, not Furguson in a tuxedo. Lowkey upset we didn’t get to see that, that would have been so cute. Aly is of course pissed, not even Winston’s impression of her surprised face can cheer her up.

Back on the trail, Jess and Robby are lost. “Why did you let me chase a waterfall, you know what TLC says!” Jess yells at Robby. She is upset, lost, and hungry and doesn’t even have anything to eat because they both ate the peanuts and chocolate out of their trail mix and are left with the gross raisins. Jess, exhausted, wants to head back before it gets dark. When the pair turn to leave, Robby runs into a tree, knocks off his glasses, steps on them, kneels down to search for them, and knocks Jess over causing her to hurt her ankle, all in one swift move.

Aly tells Winston that her family drives her crazy. He reassures her that she has back up now, even though he let her down in that mix-double tournament. He asks her for what he needs to know to deal with her family so he can write it down in his phone. Too bad his touch ID keeps messing up which is all too real so I’m glad we are switched to Nick and his attempt to tell the bathtub story to one of Aly’s relatives. Cece and Schmidt are holed up in the kitchen, worried about the state of their house. It’s clear they are losing control since someone took a shower in the bathroom without soap or towels, and they are forced to boil up barley to feed their guests.

Nick’s storytelling quickly derails. “And I saw with my own eyes, one day Winston saved those kids from a burning building including a little boy. A little boy who’s dad left when he was young, named Wheelchair Timmy. Wheelchair Timmy was a heavy set boy, ginger, black eyes. He grabs the kid and the chair, lifts him up above his head so that the fire doesn’t burn this little heavyset boy. That’s the power of adrenalin.” A relative asks, “What happened to Timmy?” “Timmy, he’s dead.” “What?” Another guest questions. “He’s alive. I’m Timmy. Look at me now. Because of Winston, I’m telling you this story.” Nick crashes and burns before our very eyes. When the relative points out that he’s Nick, he immediately flees the situation. As Nick struggles, Aly and Leslie’s conversation turns into a full-out sibling argument complete with teasing and a mean robot impression. Aly notices that Winston saw their fight and runs off in embarrassment.

Unfortunately for Jess and Robby, it begins to thunder, spooking Robby. They quickly hobble to a nearby cave for shelter. Nothing good happens in a cave, I cannot emphasize that enough. Jess asks Robby if he thinks it’s not good how similar they are to which Robby responds, “I don’t know. My great uncle, Shep Wallingford, used to say if you buy the horse, you see in the mirror.” In a weird way this makes sense. Jess nods in agreement and tells Robby that she has Wallingford’s in her family as well, out near Boston. Robby’s Wallingford relatives are from Newburyport and known for making women’s watches. Though he doesn’t even need to tell Jess that part because she finishes that sentence for him and the pair sing the jingle, “Wallingford’s watches, cause the time is now, and the look is wow!” Jess puts together that they are related. I wasn’t completely blown away, but I think it’s hilarious that being related was the way the writers chose to break these two up. May as well go all in. They compare their families and figure out that they share an Uncle Tony—the one with long fingernails and always wears a whistle around his neck—making them third cousins. Robby pointing out that at least they’re not second cousins is so Karen making out with her cousin at Cady Heron’s Halloween party.

Fortunately Cece and Schmidt are not cousins, but unfortunately they have retreated to their garage to escape their out of control party. Before they can make their time worth their while, Winston interrupts them as he searches for Aly and asks if they’ve seen a kid in a wheelchair. “It was me,” Nick startles the trio, suddenly appearing in the car. Enter Aly with the line we’ve been thinking for six seasons, “Are you guys ever not together?” Schmidt simply answers, “Rarely,” in a put-off tone, but didn’t get just make the guys get a scrotum waxing? Anyways, Cece and Schmidt get into the car in the garage of their own home to give Winston and Aly a moment alone to talk. Aly explains that she’s embarrassed he saw that side of her and if he wants to run for the hill, she understands. She returns inside the house before he can respond. Meanwhile inside the car, Schmidt notices that the car’s running and asks Nick how long he’s been in there. In Nick’s defense, he was cold. But really, how long?

“Did you ever go to one of those big Wallingford family cookouts?” Jess continues to question Robby in the cave. “Just one, in ’92. I remember they had a really competitive three legged race. They paired me up with a little boy who had a helmet on, his skin was so translucent, it was like he was a jellyfish.” “Did he play an imaginary trombone?” She asks, knowing the answer. “Yeah, he kept saying, “it’s better to be safe than speedy.”” Robby’s impression is hands down one of the funniest parts of this episode. And of course that little boy was Jess. Yeah, Jess’ house was definitely not one of the cool ones. Jess wishes to be excluded from this, “I don’t want to die with my cousin-lover in a cave,” narrative and tells Robby she’s going to get on his back so they can get back to his car. She gives him her glasses since he still can’t see and of course they have the same prescription. Not to mention, their glasses are identical.

We near the dramatic conclusion back at Aly’s welcome home party. Aly apologizes to her sister and Winston gets on a table. He tells everyone how weird he is including the fact he has inside jokes with his cat, he is a member of the Puzzling Guild of North America, how he shaves his face cold and brushes his teeth hot, and how on one very late and very desperate night he used Furguson’s cat box as his own box, and of course that he once fell asleep in a bathtub. This draws raucous laughter from himself and Aly only. Nick mentions that maybe he needs to hear it again. Winston finishes his speech with, “So who cares if you’re crazy? I don’t care. I’m crazy too. Watch this. I’m going to put a carrot behind my ear like a bunny reporter and I’m gonna do this dance I’ve been working on for five years.” It’s at this time that Aly’s parents make themselves known. Thankfully they are appreciative of how much he loves their daughter and leave Winston and Aly to have a sweet kiss.

Their moment is interrupted by the police knocking at the door. Cece and Schmidt play dumb and Nick asks why they’re acting like they’re in a porno. The couple clearly did not take into account that Winston and Aly are police officers. They notice Winston and Aly right away and are invited to join the party causing Schmidt to take the law into his own hands. “Shoes off, coasters down!” He shouts to the room.

Robby drops off Jess at the party. He makes sure that they are definitely broken up and tries to give Jess her glasses back. She lets him keep them and says a final, “I’ll see you around.” Robby tries to get in one last awkward joke with, “Maybe at the next family reu—” Jess cuts him off with a “too soon” and heads inside. Schmidt answers the door to see a filthy Jessica Day. She tells them him and Cece that she and Robby broke up in a cave. Cece hugs her and goes to get her wine while Schmidt goes to get her paper towels. As they leave, Nick approaches her. Jess reminds us that she’s still starving and all she has is a bag of gross raisins. “Gross raisins? Are you kidding me? Raisins are the best. I love raisins.” There’s a Raisin joke here somewhere. “Of course you do.” Jess laughs. “Yeah, sometimes I just tuck ’em in my cheek, and I go about my day, so if I ever need the flavor of raisins, I already got it.” Jess can’t imagine what it’s like to need the flavor of raisins, but she gives him her bag and tells him to go nuts anyways. “Go raisins. You said, “Go nuts,” I said, “Go raisins.”” This moment is just too innocent and endearing. They are made for each other.

Originally Aired 1/24/2017