Aegis 3.0

[Wyosch]

Jim let out a silent, annoyed growl and lastly finally shifted back into his human form, his eyes still nervously wide open, alert.
He turned to his son, putting his hands in the pockets of his dark grey jeans, raising an eyebrow.
"You talked to Raven?", he asked, while he made a shadow person appear next to him.
"Watch the door. Nobody gets in or out unless it's a nurse or doctor with a grey shadow."
The creature nodded and disappeared into the wall.
"Okay, now we can get us some pie."

Hunter smiled softly, looking up at Macon with loving eyes.
"I love you more.", she whispered, gently stroking a streak of hair out of his face. "I'm sorry I never told you before, I was just scared you'd start thinking that I feel uncomfortable around you as well because you're an angel. Which of course is total bullshit.", she winked, gently pushing Macon down to the floor and lying down on him, poking his nosetip with hers.
"So... how does it feel like? Being immortal, hm?"

Cole put his hand on Sam's shoulder, smiling confidentially.
"Don't worry, dad. I'm not as sensitive as you all think and I definitely know how to get around when it get tough.", he winked, taking his hand back and looking at him with a soft smirk.
"So how are you planning on giving me your powers?"

Mike growled, his frown only deepening.
"I would even give my life if there were a total stranger next to me right now.", he replied, not taking his gaze off the man. He knew Jake was straight - very probably - and that's why he'd kept silent about him finding the boy cute and nice and pretty and... okay, enough.
"You don't need Jake to get information, just take me and let him go!"

 

[Scripted Away]

Ash ignored his father's first question- the one about raven- for now.
what that talk had cleared up was nothing he wanted to burden Jim with right now. His past few days had already been messy enough. There would be a better time for bad news like that.
"dad, you know you're bein paranoid, don't you?"m he chuckled instead and wrapped one arm around his father's shoulders.
"C'mon old man, time to get you a bit distracted. And myself too. I'm nervous as hell, the twins could come any day now."
smirking softly, he shook his head. "Isn't it weird? At first i was terrified, i thought my life was over but lately i'm just...I'm excited."

"I don't feel the immortality, but i feel like i could demolish a tank with my pinkie", Mac explained thoughtfully. "Like...like a super charged battery, ready to explode any moment. And i suddenly know where every single angel is. one thought is enough and bam- i know exactly where they are, what they are doing, their thoughts...my head is like an... angel mind super highway. so weird!"
he ran his fingers up Hunter's back and smuirked softly. "And don't worry. I'm not doubting you, neither your love or mine."

Sam smiled softly as he looked down into his son's eyes with deep pride in his gaze. "I know you're a strong, tough and intelligent young man, but it's my job to worry about you", he chuckled.
When cole asked him about getting his powers, Sam sighed soundlessly.
"I can possess you and let you have control. we'ds just need to find a safe place for my vessel until i go back into it. and i gotta warn you- the possession grants you full access to my mind. all the pain, the fear from my past...you'd see things i'd never want to see or tell anyone, but rather from the fire into the frying pan than into death, right?"

"See that's the point", the man chuckled."
"Stop babbling, Judas", an annoyed female voice commanded and Raven, all grown up and in a black gown, came into the room.
"Excuse me, your majesty."
"Good boy. Go and grab me a coffee from starbucks, i'm taking this now."
"Yes Ma'am."
With a dark smirk, Raven placed her hands on Mike's shoulders and bent down to his attitude.
"You would rather die than tell anyone what we need to know about that unicorn. but would you let Jake die for him? why should i let my best argument against your dumb little stubbornness go?"
"Mike, don't!", Jake groaned, by now with painful tears running down his cheeks. "For god's sake, keep silent!"
with the last bit of power he had left, he reached over to take Mike's hand and even managed a twisted, painful smile.

 

[Wyosch]

"I'm not paranoid.", Jim replied, his eyes nervously shifting around from person to person, scanning everyone they passed.
No threats.
"It's just being careful."
Only now he realized what his son had called him.
"Old man? Listen here kiddo!", he winked, ruffling Ash's hair, smirking softly.
"I know exactly what I mean. I felt the same way with Jack, and there we were still mid-war."
He smiled peacefully, thinking at how proud he had been once he had seen their son.
"You'll be a great dad. I'd say probably the best one could wish for."

Hunter sighed happily, gently kissing Macon's forehead.
"I love you honey.", she whispered, and just as she was about to say something else - a white haired, young baby boy appeared in front of her, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Misha?"
"Mommy, Heather is gone! I can't find her! And I can't contact her mind!"

Cole nodded calmly, his eyes fiery and determined to do something good.
"Trust me, you're not the only one who has seen or experienced things they would make horror movies about. I can handle it."

Mike looked at Jake with big, sad eyes, a tear rolling down his cheek.
"I can't let them take him... but I don't want you to get hurt either...", he whispered painfully, looking back at the woman.
"Why are you doing this? Do you like seeing people hurt?! If you so desperately need to kill somebody then take me! Nobody to miss me."

 

[Scripted Away]

"Oh yes dad, you are paranoid", Ash chuckled and swatted his father's shoulder. "Seriously, this is a hospital, people come here to be helped. there's probably no place mom and William could be safer. Hakuna Matata, 'kay?"
smirking softly, he looked up to the ceiling for a moment and them back at Jim.
"Y'know, I had my last appointment at the youth welfare office today", he explained with a proud smirk. "did you know it's actually possible to be announced full age before you reached that age? You undergo a hole lot of tests, psychological ones and so on, have a lot of talks to a lot of people... it takes ages, and i swear, they put you through the hoops with everything they have. whatever, long story short: I made it. Officially got announced full age today. Means Emily and me also won't have to worry about the child custody anymore. I can't even put in words how relieved i am."

"Misha, Misha, take a deep breath", Mac said as he gently pushed Hunter off him and wrapped his arms around Misha to comfort his little son. "Okay, breathe calmly. Listen, when i got my abilities, they were as hard to control as yours. but you can trigger visions, to spot people, for example. Just think of the one you want to see. Every single little detail, take it all in. The vision will come. Try it, okay buddy? you scan east and south from here, i scan north and west. we will find her."
immediately, his eyes turned white as he tried to reach Heather with a vision.

Sam nodded slowly and cracked his neck and knuckles. "It's been a while since i've really used my power", he said, actually more to himself.
all of a sudden, the ground started to shake and opened up until lava flowed out of the massive gap in the earth, and slowly formed a sphere.
Sam stepped into it and it immediately turned into pure diamond.
Inside, he left his vessel and floated through the feet-thick wall of diamond, out of the sphere, leaving his body behind in there, secured by the indestructible walls.
Never seen your old man in his true form before, have you?
His voice seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time, causing Bailey to flinch surprised.
she looked into the pure golden light with big eyes.
"And you're sure you're not some sort of god...?", she mumbled in awe, causing the bright light to make a sound like gentle chuckling.
Not in this world.
as the light floated right into cole, Bailey watched with big eyes.
use my power wisely, Sam said in cole's thoughts, his voice gentle and faithful.

"You still don't get it, do you?", Raven hissed, straightening up again and turning her back to Mike. "I don't do this because i like to see anyone suffer. Nobody would be suffering right noew if you'd just tell me how to ice that unicorn. i'm just fixing what my father broke."
"...Raven...?", Jake whispered weakly. "Of course! Wait, Bailey told me about you. you're the sister of Emily's boyfriend, aren't you? she...hhnnngg....she said you're a sweet little girl...what happened?"
Raven turned around with flarin eyes, pure hate in her death glare.
"i have to do this. if you want to blame anyone, blame my father!"
Jake groaned painfully as the decay fastened, and grasped Mike's hand tighter in pain.
"No...you...you don't have to this..."
"Shut up!"
"...Raven..."
"I said SHUT UP!"
And all of a sudden, in a burst of blood and flesh and pieces of bones, Jake was gone.

 

[Wyosch]

"My bunker is safer than the hospital.", Jim replied, flinching as a random person walked by. To everyone on this planet, her shadow looked black - which was normal.
But since Jim was the devil now, which had made his powers stronger, he was able to see three different colors of people's shadows: grey, dark grey and black.
People with a grey shadow were his family and friends, people with dark grey shadows were nice, innocent people - and people with black shadows were evil.
He immediately turned around to the woman who had just walked by, petting the side of his jeans looking for his gun - when he remembered that Macon had destroyed that.
"Ma'am?"
"Yes?", the woman turned around, raising an eyebrow. Hadn't it been for her shadow, she would've just looked innocent. She probably did to Ash.
"Are you licenced to carry a gun?", Jim asked, seeing the woman nervously looking at her closed jacket.
"Ma'am, as US Military Inactive General of the 10th to 450th Squadron, I ask you to turn around and put your hands behind your back."
The woman blankly stared at Jim for a moment, and when she put her hand in her pocket, he didn't even think long before he fly-kicked her to the ground.
"Call the police and DEA.", he said, some people around them already taking out their phones.
Taking out his pocket knife, opening her jacket - the people around them all starting to scream and run away - he just calmly started lifting up some chords.
"C4...red, red... green... poisonous...", he mumbled to himself, until just cutting through the blue chord.
Nothing.
"Disarmed."
He got up again, made a shadow creature appear which would make sure if the woman would wake up before the police or DEA arrived that she would stay where she was, and turned back to Ash, casually walking on.
"So that means you're of legal age now?", Jim asked, wrapping his arm around Ash's shoulders. "Well well well, that's something.", he winked, smirking. "So how is Emily doing?"

Hunter gently put her hand on her son's shoulder to comfort him, but it didn't help much.
He kept crying and panicking.
Who did he have that from? No time for jokes.
"Calm down, honey. Take deep breaths and try again, okay?"
Misha did what his parents said, and just when he wanted to turn back to his father to tell him he couldn't do it - his eyes turned plain white and he just stared in front of him for a moment.
"Water."
"What?"
"She is in water... THERE IS A SHARK SWIMMING BEHIND HER! HE'S GOING TO EAT HER!"

Cole felt as if he'd drunk a dozen energy drinks, and as his eyes turned into that strange orange clock-likely again, he knew Sam's abilities were truly arrived in his body now.
"Of course, dad.", he replied, looking over at Bailey for a moment.
"I need your help, babe. Can you call my sister and ask her to quickly come over? I'll call somebody else to help me. I want you to stay here with Sam's body, 'kay?"

Mike let out a painful, long scream, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"JAKE!! No!", his voice was shaking, filled with fear, sadness and rage.
"Why did you do that!? He didn't do anything wrong! Do you think killing people will make up what's lost?!"
He looked down for a moment to let his tears stream down, until he looked up at the woman again.
"What kind of monster are you?!"

 

[Scripted Away]

Ash stared at the woman and then at his father with big eyes for a moment, before walking after jim who just acted as if that hadn't happened.
"That eh...was an impressing roundhouse kick...", he mumbled, before shaking his head and rtrying to focus on the actual topic.
"Yup, quoting one of the peeps who worked there: 'you are more grown-up than a good amount of grown-ups we encounter here. We are sure we can trust you with your kids and the law.' and he looked at me as if he was about to jump on me and hug me", Ash chuckled.
his smile softened as he thought of Emily, and with a happy sigh, he looked at the ceiling once more.
"Emily's doing great. y'know, the kids could come any day now, and while she is the one who will have to go through that pain and all...i'm pretty sure i'm more exhilarated than her. oh eh, dad, by the way..."
scratching the back of his head, he frowned for a second.
"Y'know, it's a pretty big city where we're living right now, and, i don't know, i don't think city life is ideal for a little kid. i've already earned about 25 million dollars in just this year, more than i could ever spend, and now that i'm about to be a father, i don't want to spend all my time in the gym and on the field. i wanna be there for my family, so i was thinking...maybe we could move to Aegis. Build our own little house, be around our families... what do you think Emily would think of it if i'd suggest it?"

"Hunter, you can talk to animals", Mac said while his heartbeat fastened immediately. he didn't think long befre he teleported himself and hunter right beside heather into the water, leaving a mist-copy of himself with misha. "We'll get her out, be right back in a second", Mist-Macon said with a soft smile to his son.

"Forget it, I'm coming", Bailey growled. "That's my brother in there, you don't really expect me to sit and wait hile he could be killed."
she crossed her rms and lifted her chin, her typical 'don't-dare-to-talk-back-now' pose.
"I will call emily though, for whatever reason you want her to come here."
she took out her phone and dialed cole's sister's number, pacing up and down nervously.
"Emily? emily! Come here, Mike and Jake are in danger and cole asked me to call you and tell you to come...for whatever reason."

Raven stared at the chair where jake had just sat a second ago, before her gaze wandered to mike. "Shut...up...before the same happens to you!"
by now, waves of different times were emerging from her, causing a velociraptor to suddenly appear in the room.
"i'm the monster my father created, i'm all his mistakes and none of his light. im the darkness, i'm all the bad in the world.
and i don't know mercy."
her gaze flicked to the raptor for a moment, who at first seemed startled, but then pleased by the two snacks in front of it, apparently realizing at the same time, that the female could kill him easily.
his gaze flicked to the other one, who seemed tastier anyway.
"get the unicorn here or you're goulash for the raptor."

 

[Wyosch]

"I'm a lil' rusty.", Jim replied, casually running his hand through his hair. "Haven't trained since a couple months now."
As Ash mentioned moving to Aegis, his eyes widened and started sparkling.
"That would be amazing! I'd be near to help you guys out as well, and your siblings wouldn't miss you that much anymore and Emily would be nearer to her family as well, just as the kids would grow up in nature away from the pollution and street criminality and everything... sounds like a great plan to me.", he winked, smiling softly. "And I believe Emily will think just the same. Don't worry too much."

Hunter didn't do anything though, when she saw the shark approaching her little daughter. Instead she just started smiling softly, shifting into her mermaid form as well.
"I think Misha was a little too quick to judge... look."
The shark booped his nose against Heather's back, turned around and immediately started swimming into the other direction, Heather following him.
"They're playing fetch."

Emily had picked up her phone, which she had been carrying around her at all times the last few weeks, and groaned painfully as she got up to grab herself another glass of water.
"I'm so sorry, sweetie-", she mumbled, more sounding like an adult now instead of a 16-year-old teenager. Not only Ash had grown up in the past months, she as well. She had already made lists for the babies, what they'd need to buy for them, food, what they should and shouldn't eat, how many vitamins they should get...
"I would love to help you two, especially since my brother is captured too, but I can't. Teleporting in my condition isn't the most clever thing to do, and I'm saving that last bit of energy I'll need to teleport to get to the hospital once it's time. I was due yesterday, so the babies could come any day now. What's happened then? Did they get themselves in trouble?"

Cole sighed soundlessly at Bailey, though he could very good understand why she wouldn't let him go on his own.
While she was calling Emily, he took out his phone and called the guy he'd once tried to steal his car from.
"Hello?
Davis here, who am I talking to?
Cole Anderson... I tried to-
You're that kid who tried to steal the baby, I remember. What's up? Did you get yourself in trouble? I told you to get out of that business, kiddo.
I am, it's something different this time! My brother and my girlfriend's brother are in danger! They were captured by some timelords trying to get my dad!
Calm down kid, and stop screaming in my ear. Again. Your brother and your girlfriend's brother were taken? Kidnapped by timeplayers?
Yes! And since you showed me some tricks back then I'd hoped you could help me because we can't do this on our own and-
Kid, my wife's in the hospital right now. She's about to give birth! I can't just leave.
But it's my brother! Please! I can't save him! You'd know what I mean if your brother would be in the same situation! You gotta help us!"
Cole had to keep himself together not to let any tears come through.
"I'm on my way." - and he hung up.

Mike looked up at the woman with rage in his eyes, tears still streaming down his face.
"America doesn't negociate with terrorists.", he mumbled, his voice determined.
"Forget it you piece of shit. I'll give you none. Rather be eaten by a fucking raptor than be a traitor to my family."
He turned to the raptor, another tear rolling down his cheek as he saw his life flashing by. He'd never get to see his sister's babies. He'd never get to see his little brother become an IT specialist. He'd never get to see his baby brother marry Bailey. He'd never get to see his unborn sibling.
"I'm all yours."

 

[Scripted Away]

Ash smiked softly, but frowned when his father picked up his phone. of course his ears were good enough to hear what the other side of the call was saying, and what he heard there made his blood freeze.
"that was cole", Ash gasped with wide eyes. "Emily's brother! Her family! My family! Mike!"
immediately, his eyes turned black and shifted into some creepy shadow.
"I will help.", he said with his demonic double voice. "And don't discuss with me now, i'm not asking you for prmission."
His plasma, buzzing like lightnings and sizzling like fire, floated around him in several small spheres, a bit like electrons surrounding the core of an atom.
"Let's kick ass. i'l already teleport to cole."
and he disappeared and appeared again right in front of cole. "hi cole. dad will be there in a second too."

"aww thats cute!", Mac chuckled, shifted into his merman form as well and swam after the shark, poking his fin as he reached him. "Come and get me!", he laughed at the shark, with a childish grin on his face.
"Hesy heathie, does your friend here have a name?"

The raptor jumped.
everything was dipped into a bright, soft light.
Jake was kneeling beside the battered body of mike, attmepting CPR.
"Open your eyes, mike!", he growled desperately. "come on, wake up! your siblings still need you. ...mike?"
he took his hand, sighing silently. "come on, please. you can't be dead. god dammit, wake up you idjit! Mike? MIke!"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim teleported to Cole and his son as well, already in his newest shift: the devil..
"Cole, you gotta tell me everything you know. Where are they? How many people are keeping them there?"

Cole flinched for a moment as two demons appeared in front of him, but as they started talking, he knew they were Ash and Jim.
"Ash- they got Mike and Bailey's brother Jake!"
Again, Jim asked to get all the information.
"I don't know how many people are there... I only know they're timeplayers and they're looking for Sam."
"Wait- you're Sam's Cole?", Jim asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah. Do you know him?"
"His sister is my wife - and currently giving birth to Will so let's wrap this up quickly."
Cole nodded, looking over at Bailey.
"Are you sure you wanna come with us?"

Emily had just drunk another glass of water, when she suddenly felt a painful stinging in her stomach.
She groaned painfully, and as she looked down to the floor, panic arrived.
Blood.
Without thinking, she grabbed her phone and called Ash.
"ASH!", she yelled, pushing her hand against her stomach as the stinging got worse. Liquid all over the floor.
Her water had broke.
But why was there blood all over the place too?!

Heather grinned happily as she saw her parents in the water too, and swam up to them.
"Her name is Dolly!", she explained proudly, petting the shark's nose.
"Honey- can you understand them?", Hunter asked, running her fingers over the shark's fins.
"Can't everybody?"

Mike appeared next to Jake and looked away disgustingly as he saw the pieces of a body on the floor.
"I've definitely looked better before.", he joked, immediately turning serious again.
"Jake... it's my fault. I didn't want you to get hurt but I also couldn't let them take my family... you're dead because of me..."

 

[Scripted Away]

But Bailey didn't answer. Instead, she was kneeling on the floor with tears streaming down her cheeks.
she looked up at cole with big, empty eyes, her fingers dug into the grass as if she was desperately trying to get a hold, preventing from falling into a dark pit.
"It's too late...", she whispered brokenly, and at the same moment, the bright light floated out of cole as well and back into his vessel.
"She's right...", Sam whispered as a tear ran down his face- the first tear he had ever cried in his entire life.
"They..."
he pressed his eyes shut and clenched his teeth, turning his face away because he didn't want cole to see him like that.
his golden eyes had turned into dark grey, rainy clouds.
"I should've just...I should've gone there and let her take me, at least Mike and jake would still be here then..."
he looked at cole with big, empty eyes. "I'm so sorry i wasn't able to protect you all. i thought i could, i thought i... but i failed..."

Ash got the first shock when emily yelled at him through the phone, and the second one when Bailey and Sam said mike and Jake were dead.
He coughed a breathless "what...", before he shook his head and teleported home...where he slipped in something liquid.
"Shi...Emily what's going on?! oh shit! fuck!"
he picked her up and teleported to the hospital immediately, growling at every passing person.
"Hey you! help her!", he hissed at the next nurse, just like his father had done before.
"One wrong move and you got a hand less! help her! now! and don't you dare hurting her!"

Mac chuckled softly and ruffled his daughter's hair.
"Nope", he explained with a proud smile. "That's an ability. you got that one from mommy. she can talk to animals too."
he watched the shark for a moment, and then turned to hunter.
"Hey honey, i just had an idea. i bet heather would love the sparkliness of our place."

"Don't apologize for that", Jake sighed sadly as he turned around to Mike's ghost with a sad gaze. "protecting Sam from the timeplayers is more important than my life. i mean, sure, i will miss this. i will miss my friends... but hey, at least i died knowing that i did the right thing. i 'rest in peace', more or less. and as it seems..."
he winked at mike, a very slight smirk on his face. "You're resting in pieces, buddy."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim looked at them with big, sad eyes, turning back into his human form.
He put his hand on Sam's shoulder, looking into his eyes and only seeing an expression he knew too well.
"Sam, this is not your fault. Do you really think those timeplayers would have let Mike and Jake go had you gone there? They definitely would've killed you and them."
He sighed silently, looking at Cole who was just staring right in front of him with tears in his eyes, and at the girl who was practically breaking down.
"I know this is hard for you now, but don't make the same mistakes I made. You need to be there for your family. You need to help them get through this."

Emily was still groaning painfully, tears rolling down her cheeks. She felt as if she was dying right now.
Pulling the nurse down at her collar, looking straight into her eyes, her own glowing, she hissed,
"Get your fucking doctor over here and make sure he or she will fucking help me deliver these fucking twins or I will bite your head off YOU INCOMPETENT PRICK!", she clenched her teeth together and grabbed Ash's hand, squeezing it.
"I'm scared, Ash...", she whispered, followed by another painful moan.

"Really?", Heather asked, tilting her head at what her father had just told her. She swam up to her with her little green fin, cuddling against his chest, and playing with his hair for a moment.
"And why can't everybody talk to animals? That's not fair, is it?"
As Macon suggested to show Heather their place, she smirked softly.
"Show her the place where it all began? That's a great idea. Though I believe the boys would love that too. And Misha is probably still waiting for us to 'save' his sister."

"Don't say that. No life is more important than the other.", Mike replied, chuckling as Jake made that comment about him resting in pieces.
"I just wanted to say that! You stole my line!", he winked, swatting Jake's shoulder.
After a moment he silence, he frowned.
"Weird hm? Just being... dead."

 

[Scripted Away]

Sam glared at jim with an insulted gaze for a moment, and wrinkled his nose like an angry lion.
"I would never let my family down", he said coldly, and then turned to Cole to pull him into a gentle hug, his chin resting on his son's head.
"It's okay Cole, i'm here for you", he whispered brokenly, tightening his hug a bit.
"You can fall, i'm here..."
but he knew words didn't change anything now. he gently pulled Bailey into the hug as well and sighed sadly when he felt her sobbing into his shirt.
"I'm so sorry Bailey..."
"...I...i just..." Bailey shook her head and buried her face at Sam's chest again, cuddling against him as if he was her father. "He can't just be...dead...i mean, he...he..."
"I know it's hard, i lost my brother too", Sam whispered and looked deep into bailey's and Cole's eyes. "But i promise you we will get through this. together."
turning to jhim for a moment, he sighed silently. "You should go back to the hospital. William is there."

"I'm here honey", Ash said, giving everything to make his voice sound as gentle as he could. "Hey, we're the class-A team, we can do it. you can do it."
he softly kissed her forehead and stroked over her belly.
"You're the strongest girl i know, you are amazing, baby. I know you can do it. and i will be with you through it all, i promise."

"Nah, i don't think it's unfair", Mac chuckled to his daughter with an amused smirk. "Look, you can talk to animals, I can control water, mommy can make ice...everyone, even people without any abilities, have something special, something they're really good at. it's fair that way, you know what i mean?"
turning to hunter again, he nodded.
"Well, i'd suggest we pick up noah and misha as well and then go for a little walk through the forest and to our lake. maybe we'll even see fattie again", he added with a laugh, thinking of the fat turtle Hunter had showed him on their first day together.

"You don't know what sam is, do you?", Jake asked with a surprised frown while he walked through the wall of the room and into the forest, holding mike's hand to drag him along.
"I mean, i guess you know that he's a unicorn, but you don't really know what they are."
he looked up at the sky with an unexplainable expression, before looking into Mike's eyes.
"they are the oldest existing beings, older than the universe. the gods were born from energies from the big bang, but that one, what was that? A unicorn in its true form is nothing but light, but only because our eyes just cant see what's beyond it. the light it's..."
his eyes had started to sparkle brightly now, and as he talked on, he motioned around with his hands, completely taken in by the pictures in his head.
"the light you see is nothing but a tiny, microscopic part of what he really is. it's like a window from our dimension into theirs, but it's too small to see the whole being. they're existing in an entirely different dimension, and take vessels to come here. but what a unicorn is, what it holds...they're like guards. gods of their worlds, with trillions of beings, entire galaxies and universes. what you see when you look into his eyes isn't just a fancy eyecolor. it's a real, existing world. if he dies, the world he holds will end as well. so many lives would just end. me- or an entire universe. well that's a pretty easy choice for me."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim looked away for a moment as Sam said he'd never let his family down. Unlike himself, Sam was a good father. Always there for his kids and wife, supporting them and making them feel okay... He was there.
He sighed silently and just teleported back into the hospital. Sam said Will had arrived, and he and Rachel were priority now - Jim could loathe in self-hate later.
Using his wolf-senses to scent her, he half sprinted from hallway to hallway until he'd finally arrived in front of the door where she lay.
What now? Could he just go in? Should he wait?

Cole looked up at Sam with tears on his face, balling his hand into a fist and still gently hitting Sam's chest.
"It's not fair! Why did he die?! He... he..."
He angrily ran his fingers through his hair, shaking his head.
"It can't be... not... not again..."
He looked down at the grass, shutting his eyes close, both hands balled into fists.
"I've already lost so much...", he whispered brokenly.
He should be strong and be there for Bailey. He should be strong and be there for Sam. He should be strong... but he couldn't.

Emily looked at Ash with fear in her eyes, yet a trusting expression on her face.
>>Ash is here. Nothing to be scared of.<<
The nurse had brought her into a delivery room, where two doctors were already present.
"Hello Miss Anderson, how are yo-"
"THERE IS FUCKING BLOOD COMING OUT OF ME WHICH CANNOT BE NORMAL SO-", by now Emily was crying again. "Help me..."
The doctor frowned for a second, quickly telling the other to get ready.
"How long has it been bleeding?"
"I don't know! Since... half an hour or something?"
"That's not good. Okay, everyone get ready. We might have a stillborn here."
Emily froze. Stillborn? D-dead?
"What?! No! No no no! GET THEM BOTH OUT ALIVE OR I SWEAR I WILL BITE YOUR HEADS OFF AND MASH THEM AND FEED THEM TO YOUR FAMILY!"
The nurse frowned terrified at Emily, lastly gulped and got stuff ready as well, while the second doctor walked over to Ash.
"Are you her boyfriend? Your baby?", he asked, playing around with his glasses. He seemed quite calm, though the other doctor and three nurses were quite panicking.
"What is your name? And hers?"

"Oh.", Heather replied, frowning for a moment. "But aren't the people without abilities jealous of us then?"
Hunter grinned happily as Macon mentioned Fatty.
"Fatty Gale! Oh yes, haven't talked to him in ages!", she winked, nodding. "Sounds like a great idea to me."

Mike frowned for a moment, raising an eyebrow. "And I just thought he was a horse with a horn.", he chuckled, shaking his head.
"Man...", he sighed silently, his smile fading and his eyes darkening. "I wonder how our family will react..."

 

[Scripted Away]

"Ah, Mr.Davis, we were already looking for you", a nurse said, approaching from down the hallway while drying her hands on a towel. She had a soft smile on her face, and though her eyes were tired, they were sparkling.
"The birth was a bit messy, so Rachel is quite tired now. let's go in."
she gently held jim's arm and led him into the delivery room, where rachel was laying in the bed, eyes closed and obviously exhausted, her hair soaked in sweat.
no sign of the baby.
"Rachel? Your husband is here", the nurse said with a gentle smile as she put her hand on rachel's shoulder, who slowly opened her eyes. "Thank you Nina", she sighed, and the nurse nodded. "remember, if you need help with anything or so, just give me a call. i left a letter with my phone number on the table over there."
"Actually...", Rachel mumbled, and slowly moved her hand to rest on the nurse's. "Can you raise the dose of the painkiller? and leave me the number for the breeder as well?"
"i wrote that one on the letter as well. i'll quickly talk to the doc about raising the dose and get back to you as fast as i can, okay?"
"...mhm..." Rachel slowly turned her head towards jim. "Honey, I...i don't know what went wrong..."

"He died to protect me...", Sam sighed sadly, wiping another tear off his face. "they both died as heroes, and that's how we will remember them- beloved brothers, friends...and sons..." his last words were choked by the lump in his throat, and even if he had known what he should say...he wouldn't have been able to get a single word out.
So he just tightened his hug around Cole and Bailey and hoped to comfort them somehow.
"I...I will tell my family about it..."; Bailey whispered after a while and freed herself from sam's hug. "And then i just...want to be alone..."
she teleported away, leaving cole and sam alone.
"I'm so sorry Cole...", Sam sighed. "hey, i'm here for you, okay? this time you aren't alone with your grief. I won't let you alone..."

Ash felt his heart turning to ice when he heard the nurses and docs tlking about a stillborn. he closed his eyes fora moment, collecting himself, and then gently stroked over emily's head.
"Emmy, Emmy, hey...look into my eyes. Concentrate on their colors. you will be fine, and our babies as well. i won't let anything happen to you, and if it means making a deal with the devil. which, in this case, would mean with my father. it will be okay, i promise."
He planted a soft kiss on her forehead before he turned to the doc.
"Yeah, i'm the father. Asmael Davis, but, please, just Ash. And she's Emily Anderson."
he looked at the nurses and emily for a moment, took a deep breath, closed his eyes once more and turned back to the doc.
"Look if you could just tell me what's wrong with them, and how i can help them..."

MAc chuckled softly and lifted his shoulders. "Some might be, but that's just because they haven't found their special ability yet. Look, special abilities aren't always fancy fire manipulation or playing around with the time as if it was nothing but a script on a pc...a special abilty can also be...drawing beautiful pictures or cooking deliciously, or just being a good friend. you understand?"
He smirked at hunter and nodded. "Alright, let's go pick up misha then. looks like noah is playing with a few friends in heaven again."

Jake sighed sadly and nodded. "but hey, maybe we can still be with them. we'd just have to find a way to be visible for them and everything..."
he started pacing up and down by now, as he thought about any possibilities.
"Man i might be dead but i sure as hell don't wanna my own barn party tonight! the death can kiss my..."
someone clearing his throat interrupted him, and suddenly, he found himself face to face with a pale, black-haired emo boy in a black, long gown and with a sword on his belt a scythe in his hand.
"I hope you weren't about to say 'ass'", Mort said, raising one eyebrow. "Well boys...you're dead."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim quickly grabbed a chair and sat down on it next to Rachel, gently taking her hand and looking into her eyes with fear in his.
What had happened?
"What's wrong? Where's Will? Is he ok? Are you ok? Did he-", he gulped, not being able to get those words out of his mouth. "Honey??"

Now that Bailey had left, Cole completely broke apart and fell into Sam's arms, pushing his head into his chest, tears streaming down his face.
He hadn't cried anymore since his sister's death. And that had been almost two years ago.
"Why did he have to die?!", he yelled, painfully clenching his teeth together.
"Why couldn't it have just been me?"

The doctor who had just talked to Ash put his hand on his back and lead him outside of the room for a moment.
"I have seen this before. You both are canine anoms, right?", he asked, crossing his arms. "Canines usually have around 6+ 'babies'. And just the same happened to your girlfriend. Now no don't worry, she won't have six babies now. She only has more eggcells who were fertilized, but didn't fully grow. Those are just dead embryos that cause the bleeding. Usually bleeding only occurs when there's a stillborn, but your girlfriend was here only this morning for a check-up, and nothing wrong. The twins are fine.", he smiled softly, opening the door again and letting Ash in.
"Okay, Emily, how are you doing?"
Emily frowned deeply at the elderly doctor, tears still streaming down her face.
"Oh I am just doing SPLENDID!", she replied sarcastically, throwing her head back as she had another of the pain waves.
"Come here Ash and let me hold your hand!"

"Oh... but I want to be able to draw good too!", Heather pouted, crossing her arms. "That's not fair."
Hunter chuckled at their daughter, nodding at Macon. "Then we'll take Noah another time."

Mike frowned confused at the emo boy standing in front of them.
"Who the hell are you- wait. Are you the grim reaper?", he asked, tilting his head. "So eh... what do we do now that we're dead?"

 

[Scripted Away]

"I don't remember...", Rachel whispered powerlessly as her eyes fell closed again, from a mix of exhaustion and the effect of the painkillers.
a few minutes passed, without anything happening besides rachel's ragged breath, until the nurse, Nina, came back into the room with something little, wrapped in a light blue fluffy blanket.
she apprached jim with a soft smile and lay a super cute baby boy into his arms, with a bandage wrapped around his little chest.
"Congratulations", she said silently, her eyes sparkling. "It's a boy."
she took another chair and put it down at rachel's bedside as well, watching her for a moment before she spoke again.
"the baby didn'tcome out at first. it was weird, as if his back was conjoined with her uterus. then she mentioned laying in a coma in another hospital for about four months. we think that the lack of movement and the constant laying in one position hs caused William's back and her uterus to grow together. luckily we were able to seperate them in a small invasive surgery. when he was out, he had a small cardiac arrest, but we brought him back, and they're both healthy now, excepting..."
she gently poked her fingertip against William's nose, and the little boy opened his eyes...whixh were....kind of blue-ish, entirel, with spots. it looked a bit like there was a universe where his eyes should have been.
"He is born blind."

"Cole, don't say something like that!", Sam mumbled sadly as he softly stroked through his son's hair.
"your life is so much worth. you have so many people who love you endlessly. Your siblings, your mom, Bailey, me..."
He forced a sad smile as he gently tilted cole's chin up and looked into his eyes."And i wouldn't have a best man for my wedding if you weren't there. and your little sibling wouldn't have the greatest brother he or she could ever imagine. you're still very needed here."

Ash hurried over to Emily and took her hand with a gentle smile, hiding his worry to be there for his girlfriend.
"Honey, just like the docs told us: breathe, breathe breathe...and press."
he stroked some hair out of her face with his free hand and looked into her eyes. "You're doing great. one second."
his eyes flaring, he turned to the doc. "MAKE THIS GO FASTER OR I WILL BITE YOUR ASS!!"

Mac chuckled softly, ruffling heather's hair. "Oh i bet you will be able to draw as great as mommy in no time."
turning to hunter again, he nodded and teleported everyone back to the meadow. "Hey Mish, we're all fine! Heather was just playing fetch with the shark.", he explained.

"Grim? not so much. Reaper? ding ding ding, one hundred points for Mike Anderson."
Mort smirked slightly at the two.
"Well, normally i always have to seperate spirit and body from eachother, but apparently you two were shredded so much you made it out on your own. what to do now? well, it depends. stay. go on. it's all up to you. try to see death as a train station."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim was hardly listening to what the nurse was saying, and was only able to look at the little boy in his arms. He was so small, so fragile...
"He's perfect...", he mumbled proudly, his eyes sparkling like diamonds. "Welcome to the Family, William Rex Davis."
He just stared at his son for a moment, all the negative thoughts he was having disappearing.
He moved up and kissed Rachel's forehead, knowing she would probably not know it.
"Good job, girl.", he whispered, turning back to William.
"So that's why Rey asked for the number of a breeder? A blind service dog?"

Cole looked up at Sam with bloodshot eyes from the crying, wiping away his tears.
"Y-you want me to be your best man?", he asked, his voice shaky.
He took a deep breath, without wanting to the tears starting to stream down his face again.
"What will we tell mom? And Dylan? And what about Emily?"

"We can't make a delivery go faster, Mr. Davis.", the doctor replied calmly, while Emily groaned painfully again.
"It hurts so much- I can't- ARGH!", she squeezed Ash's hand as hard as she could, crying because she didn't want to hurt him. Taking short, deep breaths, she fearfully looked at one of the nurses.
"HOW LONG DOES THIS FUCKING TAKE?!"
"Miss, this could take hours..."
"HOURS? I WILL DIE OKAY GREAT!", Emily yelled, her face already full with sweat and exhaustion. "I can't do this-"

Hunter shifted back into her human form, holding her daughter in her arms, still in her mermaid form.
"Don't you want to shift back?"
"No, I'm too lazy for that.", Heather replied with a satisfied smirk, making herself comfortable on her mother's shoulder.
Misha grabbed Macon's hand, nodding, his thumb in his mouth.
"I thought she was going to be food for the shark.", he explained, his little wings flattering excitedly for a moment. "Daddy. What if the shark had eaten her?"

"So this is all we'll get? No more information about being dead?", Mike asked, frowning confused. "But how can we do this? I mean- being a ghost and all?"

 

[Scripted Away]

The Nurse nodded, watching William with a Soft smile.
"Mr.Davis I gotta say I'm really glad about your reaction. I've already had fathers here who were close to rejecting their babies for a disability."
She took out her phone and showed Jim a photo of a couple of a few weeks old puppies. "Here, it's my ex-husband. He's breeding and training Labradoodles as blind service dogs. Our daughter has one of his dogs as well, and i can say it's a wonderful pup."
A second after she had stopped talking, William cuddled his face against his father's chest and giggled happily.

Sam sighed silently as he looked down into his son's eyes.
"You don't have to worry about that, I will tell them about it. You just take your time to grieve, okay?" He put one hand on his shoulder and frowned sadly.
"And Cole...i promise You, you won't be alone with this this time. You hear me? No matter what, I'm always here for you."

Ash just kept stroking through Emily's hair and sighed silently. He hated seeing Emily suffer like that, despised it even.
Then an idea came up in his mind and his eyes widened.
"Honey maybe i can take some of the pain from you."
He softly stroked over her belly and frowned when he felt the movement in there. That felt freaky. "Trust me, okay? I trained."
He grabbed a scalpel from a table and cut his hand.
Then he carefully placed his hand on her belly again and focused on taking in the pain, not her life energy.
He groaned painfully when a wave of pain shot up his arm, but kept his hand where it was.
"We'll get through this together", he groaned.

Mac furrowed his eyebrows at Misha's question, wondering how in all worlds he had come up with a question like that.
"Well eh..."
He frowned slightly.
"Hm... if the shark had eaten her? You mean, if she had died?"
A cold shiver ran up his spine at that.
"Look it's...when someone dies, they...they start a new life. As something else. There are many sorts of new lifes, some we can see, some we can't. But they're all somehow still there. Uncle Draco for example. He sometimes comes to visit us. And my friend Randy became an angel after he died. Nobody's ever entirely gone."

Mort chuckled silently.
"Have you been give a manual when you were born?", he asked rhetorically.
"Look, death is like birth. You never know what's coming, and no one can really tell you what to do."
He lifted his shoulders.
"But hey, at least you're not alone in this. You have eachother. I mean, at least you two look like...eh. well i gotta go now."
And mort disappeared again, vanishing into nothing.

 

[Wyosch]

Jim looked up from William as the nurse mentioned she liked his reaction.
"How can someone reject their kid? What kind of an asshole does that?", he hissed back, shaking his head in disbelief. "Disability or not, he's perfect the way he is."
As the nurse showed him the picture of the labradoodles, he smiled softly, thinking of about his relationship with Delta. She was 'only' a dog, but he knew they would've both caught a bullet for eachother.
"Sounds good. I believe Willy will be happy with his dog then, once the time arrives."
He looked back at William as he started to cuddle against his chest, giggling, his eyes sparkling happily.
His giggle was the same as Rachel's.
"Hey there, little guy...", he mumbled, his grin spreading over his face. He was so proud.
So damn proud.

Cole pushed his face back into Sam's chest, sobbing.
"Please don't leave. Ever.", he mumbled brokenly, his hands shaking. "I can't survive another loss..."

Emily kept shaking her head at Ash, telling him to stop what he was doing, followed by some more painful groans - until the doctor called.
"We can see his head! Keep pushing!"
Emily's eyes widened, and even though tears were still streaming down her face, she smiled.
>>Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Push.<<
She kept repeating those words over and over again, and about ten minutes later, the room was filled with the crying of a baby.
One of the nurses rushed over to the table, bringing back a fluffy, light blue blanket, the doctor carefully wrapping it around the little baby boy.
"Keep pushing!"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM DOING?!", Emily cried back, her hair sticking to her sweaty forehead, her voice exhausted.
"I can't do this anymore-", she whispered, until everything went black and panic broke out.
"Losing her!", the doctor called, the nurses running around from room to room, bringing back and forth loads of stuff, until the elderly doctor pushed Ash outside of the room, laying the baby boy down in his arms.
"Congrats to your boy, Mr. Davis. We'll be right back. Don't worry too much. Just take a seat and stay calm.", and he closed the door behind him.

"So we're dead too? Because we're angels?", Misha asked, tilting his head, his mother giggling.
"I wonder whom he got his curiosity from.", Hunter said, winking at her husband.
Heather jumped out of her mother's arms, mid-jump shifting into her horse-form. A white English-Thoroughbred foal was standing next to Hunter now.
"When will we go swimming again?"

Mike sighed. "What- man! What should we do now? We have literally no idea what to do and how do we help our families or stay ghosts or whatever?", he ran his hand through his dark blonde hair, shaking his head. "So many questions and no answers."

 

[Scripted Away]

"Ill leave you alone with your son now", the nurse announced with a happy smile as she got up and put her chair back where it belonged. "we'd like to keep your wife here for the night, to make sure she's entirely okay. it was a hard birth."
she made her way back to the door, but turned around once more and smirked at jim, but this time it was the look of someone looking up to someone else.
"You know, my father was right. He was a soldier in your squad years ago, always told me about his great commander davis. you're a good man. if you need anything, don't hesitate to call."
and she left, leaving jim alone wih his family, while William's tiny fingers grasped his father's shirt tightly and he sticked out his tongue, giggling once more as he made bubbles with his spit.

"My big boy why should i ever leave you?", Sam mumbled silently as he tightened his hug. seeing cole like this plus the loss of mike made him feel like he was about to break in two, but he just bit his tongue and rested his chin on his son's head. "I promise you, i'll never leave. i'll always be there, no matter what will happen. nothing will be able to seperate us."

Ash felt as if he was close to exploding of pride when he saw his son- his son!- being wrapped into that cute little blanket.
but then Emily fell unconscious and the docs said something about 'losing her'.
no no no that cant be true!!
he was pushed outside, with Benny in his arms, and stood there motionlessly for about ten minutes before he even was able to think something again.
he looked down at his little boy and smiled slightly, but the happiness was darkened by the state he had seen emily in.
h just took a seat on the floor, leaning gainst the wall, and kept staring at the door while tears ran down his cheeks. he had never cried in front emily before, had always been the reliable and strong young man ho was there for his girlfriend, but now he couldn't help it.
"Benny...", he whispered silently, stroking over his son's head. "hey, i promise mommy will get through this. she has to. she just has to..."

"Nah, but ome dead people become angels", Mac explained and then sticked out his tongue to hunter. "i'll have to get him a lab coat and start making some simple experiments with him one day", he chuckled. "Or he'll start dissolving the microwave some day if he comes after me."
turning to heather, he smirked. "Well, we actually wanted to go swimming with the two of you now. we know a super special place and thought you two might want to see it."

Jake frowned for a moment, but then smirked and crossed his arms, looking at the place where mort had disappeared.
"Well, but that means we're free to do whatever we want, right? wouldn't it suck if there was only one road to go now? we have a dozen possibilities, i think that's a great thing!"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim looked at the floor for a moment as the nurse mentioned her father having been in his squad years ago. He still didn't understand why the boys always said he'd been such a great commander, whereas he'd always been rather grumpy and would rather stay alone than get a drink with the guys...
He was distracted from his deep thoughts as he heard the popping noise of bubbles.
Looking down at William, he chuckled silently.
"Having fun there, little guy?", he asked, a proud smirk appearing on his face again, his eyes sparkling while he carefully ran his fingers over the boy's small head.

"I'm scared to lose any of you...", Cole replied, taking a deep breath to try and calm himself down. "I-"
Suddenly, his eyes turned orange, his pupils somehow changing into clocks - and after a few seconds, it was all fine again.
"Oh my god.", he mumbled, looking up at Sam with big eyes.
"Emily- she's in the hospital... the babies are coming.", he hardly believed what he was saying himself, even though he'd just seen it. "...the doctors said they were losing her!"

The doctors were rushing, trying to get the young woman to wake up again.
Giving birth was already hard enough, especially for a young woman who hadn't even entirely grown up yet.
A nurse opened the door and left the room, walking up to the crying young man with the baby in his arms.
"Mr. Davis?", he asked, heeling down in front of him. "Your girlfriend lost a lot of blood which caused her to black out, but she is not in danger anymore. She's stable." He smiled gently, hoping the boy wouldn't worry too much. "This of course stopped the delivery, so it will cost her even more energy to deliver your daughter. That's why we ask you: you have to decide for her now. Would you like us to perform a C-section to savely deliver your daughter, or would you like to wait until she wakes up again and then give birth? That of course is quite dangerous, as she might bleed even more. And your daughter might die."

Misha giggled happily. "I want to do experiments too!", he cheered, excitedly pulling on his father's arm. "Can we make a rocket? I could put Mr. Salamander in there and make him fly!"
Heather just cared to go swimming.
"Let's go swimmmmmiiiinnngg! Mommy said the place is really sparkling and I like sparkles."

Mike nodded, running his hand through his hair.
"I'm just... don't like big changes where I don't know what to do... LIKE NOW.", he sighed frustratedly, nodding at Jake's comment.
"That's true, though. What do you want to do? Go rob a bank?", he joked, winking.

 

[Scripted Away]

"Bah!", was the only reply Wiliam gave, but considering he was only about an hour old, that was already quite a thing.
he just continued making bubbles, until he heard a new sound from the left. a voice. mommy's voice!
"jesus H. Christ i feel like a truck drove me over...", Rachel mumbled tiredly, her eyes still closed.
after a while, she finally cracked her eyes open and turned her head to look at William. "so small...", she mumbled, frowned for a moment and then chuckled silently. "how can someone so small cause so much pain... hey there little one..."
"Mah!"
"...Exactly...hey Devil, do me a favor and heal me, would you?"

Sam's nodded in silence. "Yeah i've already seen it. she's stable now though", he mumbled. Looking down into cole's eyes, he smiled sadly. "Hey, i promise: I will personally make sure something like that won't ever happen again. Jeez i was freakin' involved in the gods' creation, i will be damned if i can't manage to keep my family safe! i just wish i would fit into this world as a whole. that would make it a lot easier."
refocusing on emily, he tilted his head. "Do you want to stay here for a bit longer or go soo your sister?"

Ash ran his hand through his hair once and sighed silently. that wasn't a hard choice, but his fear of hospitals and doctors was slowly leaking through the wall in his head and kicking in. He took a few deep breathes to calm his racing heart down and nodded at the doc.
"Fine, do it. but listen closely."
he stared deep into the doc's eyes, his left, amber eye flickering like fire while the black lightnings in his right eye lit up.
"If my girlfriend will die because of your surgery, i will blow this place up and kill every single one of you, comprendre?"
his words had been threaterning, but his pleading gaze and tired voice spoke another language- he was juzst trying to maker himself feel stronger by acting like hius father.
sighing, he shook his head. "I'm sorry. just...please save her. save them both. they're my life."

Mac chuckled silently and ruffled misha's hair. "Do you even want to go swimming, buddy? you look like you're about to break into our own house to get into my lab. "
smrking at heather, he nodded. "See this here?"
he pulled a thin necklace up from under his shirt and held it up so his daughter could see it. "this is one half of a beautiful, unknown gem we found there. your mom has the other half." smiling at hunter, he winked. "Because she's my better half as well."

Jake just shrugged at mike's question. "well i mean, can't ghosts possess beings? we could get new bodies. i coincidentally know a place where a few unused bodies should lie around."
he raised one eyebrow. "morgue. i'm not picky right now."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim smirked gently and stood up, little William carefully on his left arm, against his shouldery, and grabbed Rachel's hand with his right.
"I'm so proud of you, honey.", he whispered, kissing her forehead.
The veins in his arm lit up in a fiery yellow for a moment, until Rachel was finally healed.
"This good, babe?", he asked, sitting down on the side of the bed, carefully lying William down on Rachel's chest. "He looks so much like you..."

Cole lifted his shoulders. "Maybe seeing Emily would be a good distraction for now. Haven't seen her in quite a while...", he sighed silently, wiping away his tears again.
"I love you, dad."

The nurse chuckled, nodding. "Just like your father, hm?"
He put his hand on Ash's shoulder, a promising expression on his face.
"The doc has done over 300 C-sections, none of them ever harming the woman or the kid. Your girlfriend and daughter will be fine."
He got up from his heels and turned to the door.
"I'll quickly tell them your decision, and then I'll come back to lend you and your son some company."
The nurse opened the door and walked in, only after a few seconds coming back again.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine."

"Can we go to your lab and make experiments?", Misha asked, looking up at his father with big eyes.
Hunter smiled as Macon told their daughter about the gem, thinking back of that time they had found it down there.
"You charmer."
"Can I have a gem-necklace, too?", Heather asked, looking at the pretty necklace of her dad.
"Of course, honey. We can go and find you your own gem."

"New bodies?", Mike asked, raising an eyebrow. "You want us to... possess the body of a dead man? And then?"

 

[Scripted Away]

"Much better, thank you honey", Rachel sighed relieved and pushed herself into a sitting position, holding William gently as he pouted at her with a surprisingly accusing expression on his cute face.
"...what?", he chuckled as she looked down at the little one, who of course didn't answer. instead, he hit her chest with his little hand and pouted once more.
"wha...oh. okay, mommy got this, first time in seven children, but i got this."
she slid one side of her top down and frowned slightly when William started to suck happily. "that...is the weirdest feeling ever", she clarified with sparkling eyes. "He's cute, isn't he?" smiling softly, she looked up at her husband. "he's so unbelievably small. even smaller than angel...angel!" her eyes widened immediately. "the kids! the kids, get them here! they'll want to see their new little brother!"

"I love you too, Cole", Sam said with a soft smile. "Hey, and if you need someone to talk to talk to, or a shoulder to cry on: i'm always there for you, okay?"
with a soft smile, he tleported right into the hospital, beside ash, who was holding a little boy in his arms. "Well if that isn't my little grandson." he gave ash a proud pat on the back. "Already picked a name?"

Ash nodded at the doc and sighed silently, as suddenly sam and cole appeared beside him. a proud smile formed on his face as he looked up at his uncle slash far-future-father-in-law. "Benny", he explained with a slight grin and smirked at Cole. "Ben Colin Anderson."
looking at both of them, he furrowed his eyebrows. "They're doing a c-section for the second as Emily is too exhausted for another birth, but she will be fine. excuse me guys, i have to go see dad for a moment. call me when anything happens here!"
he made his way into his mother's room with a proud grin on his face, approaching his father from behind, and gently put a hand on his shoulder. "Hey grandpa, meet your grandson Ben."

Mac chuckled softly and shrugged, looking at hunter.
"You'r mom's the boss, ask her if she's fine with splitting up."
smiling at heater, he raised one eyebrow. "And if you want we can make a necklace of the gem you found then."

Jake shrugged. "Well for once i'm not happy about being invisible. i don't know about you, but i haven't left montana since i moved here from spain with my parents when i was four. i need a trip to vegas."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim watched Rachel and William for a moment, and just when he was about to answer, Ash tapped him on his shoulder.
He turned around, his eyes widening upon seeing the little baby boy in his son's arms.
"Oh my..." His eyes were sparkling proudly, as he gently poked Benny's nose with his finger, hugging Ash on the side where he wasn't holding Benny.
"I am so proud of you. Look at him... perfect just like you."
His proud grin widened as he gently pushed Ash towards Rachel.
"Meet your baby brother, William."

Cole only stared in front of him for a moment.
"...they called him Colin...", he whispered happily, a smile forming on his face. "They named him after me..."
He ran his hand through his hair after taking a deep breath.
"Do you think Ems will be okay?"

Heather shook her head.
"I am the boss!", she protested, Hunter giggling.
"Okay then. Do you wanna split up, letting Misha experiment and you going for a swim?"
Heather nodded excitedly, Misha cheering.
"Let's gooooooo!", he called, already trying to pull his dad with him.

Mike lifted his shoulders. "I usually would just scream yes for Vegas, but honestly...", he sighed, looking down to the floor. "I don't know. I mean... we're dead, man. We'll never live a normal life. We'll never find someone special and get married, have kids... I don't know... sounds cheesy, but it's kinda sad we gave up on our lives. Even though we saved Sam, and probably our families too."