Aegis 3.0

[Wyosch]

Jim turned around to the guy, frowning for a moment, before he opened the door inside and held it open for Raven.
"So... what will you do now?", he asked after a while of akward silence, his hands in the pockets of his pants, leading her through the corridors. He didn't know how to feel right now. Relieved? Happy? Maybe disappointed?
He was glad Raven was going to give him a second chance, he was relieved that she had stopped attacking the hospital... but was disappointed because he had lost his little girl.

Misha giggled happily as his father finally walked into the room as well, and hugged him tightly.
"You know what I just discovered?", he asked, his eyes wide open and curious. "You won't believe it!"

Cole pushed himself out of his father's hug, staring at him with big eyes.
"What?", he frowned confused, shaking your head. "Me? An unicorn? My asshole of a biological dad who wanted me and my sister dead - a unicorn?", he repeated, shaking his head. "That can't be true!", he replied, not truly knowing what to say. Sam had just said to him that he was a unicorn and there was a fucking universe in his eyes. What the hell?
"I- what?"

Emily looked at Ash for a moment, sighing sadly.
"I know what you mean, honey.", she smiled softly at her sleeping daughter in her fiancé's arms, before dialing her mother's number.
"Mom! Mom you have to come to the hospital as fast as you can and bring Dy- mom? Why are you crying?
......
W-what?
....
No....
...
No no no no no you- you- that can't be true! You- it can't... it can't be true. No! If this is some sort of sick joke-
.....
Oh my god. No. Please don't tell me this is true..."
By now tears were streaming down Emily's face, and as she smashed her phone onto the bedside table - she stared up at Ash with empty eyes.
"M-m-mike is... he was just found d-dead in a barn next to Bailey's family's barn.... he- he was- in p-p-pie-pieces and-", she shook her head, painfully shutting her eyes while more tears streamed down her face.

Mike smirked softly as Coby kissed him, running his hand through his dark blonde hair.
"Guess you're right... what I got now ain't that bad.", he winked, stroking over Coby's cheek for a moment, before he pulled him into another deep kiss.
"You're beautiful.", he whispered into his ear, his lips wandering down to his neck.

 

[Scripted Away]

Raven thought about her father's question for a moment, and then lifted her shoulders.
"in all honesty...?", she mumbled silently, but then straightened her back and looked right into her father's eyes.
"I was thinking about joining the police academy and later work as a policewoman, field service."
She crossed hr arms, clearly in a defensive pose as she lifted her chin.
"I know you hate the cops, but they ain't doing anything wrong. i want to become one. and if you don't like it, you will have to deal with it somehow."

Mac smirked softly as he saw how excited his son was, and gently picked him up.
"Alright, tell me what you discovered, you little scientist", he chuckled, as he already wondered what Misha could be talking about.

Sam looked into his son's eyes with a proud smile and nodded slowly. "Trust me Cole, i know what i'm talking about."
A slight frown formed on his face when he heard emily crying in her room. apparently everyone knew about mike's death now.
"Oh god- Emma!", he gasped, put his hands on cole's shoulders and smiled sadly. "Buddy i have to take care of your mom now...listen, meet me in front of the abandoned factory in the city at midnight, alright? i promise i will explain everything there. maybe you should look after Bailey now..."
he teleported home, right behind emma and pulled her into a tight hug as a tear ran down his face.
"I'm here honey...i'm here...", he whispered painfully.

Ash stared at Emily with wide, shocked eyes, before he gently hugged her, without sqeezing Ben or Jasmin of course.
"oh my...i...I don't know what to say..."; he whispered completely overthrown and just gently stroked over her head and back, trying to comfort his fiancee.
"...I'm so sorry Emmy... if there's anything i can do for you..."
he didn't even finish his sentence and just cudled Emily tightly, desperately hoping that it would help her at least a little bit.
"you're not alone...", he whispered silently. "I'm here for you honey."

Coby blushed slightly, looked at the ground and lastly flashed one of his wide, sharp-teethed grins at mike. "Oh c'mon, stop flattering me like that, handsome!", he chuckled, gently swatting Mike's abs, but basically turning into pudding when...oh god...his neck...that feeling...!
"Man do you want to drive me crazy or what?", he chuckled. "I'm not responsible for anything that might happen when you drug me with this neck-thing." winking, he took mike's hand, watching out that he wouldn't accidentally scratch him with his claws, and looked around for a moment. "And now?"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim didn't react in a strange way, he just looked at Raven and raised an eyebrow.
"No need to get all defensive now, I'm more accepting than you think I am.", he replied in a calm voice, yet clearly indicating that he didn't like how Raven thought he wouldn't accept her decision.
"I don't like cops because of my past, and because I don't know any good ones. The ones I know are all either corrupt or racist or both. That all doesn't mean I won't let you become one. The police force will need someone good like you."
While talking he hadn't looked at her anymore, and as they had reached the hallway where both Rachel and Emily were resting, he just accelerated his steps.
"Your mom's here in this room. Don't know if she is still showering or not. William is with James and Rex, Misha is there too. Could you please ask Macon to come to the hospital's café? Gotta talk to him 'bout something important. I'll be waiting there for him."
He pointed at the door with his hand before putting it in the pocket of his leather jacket.
"I'll see you later, yeah?", he mumbled, quickly looking at her with a sad expression in his eyes, before he faked a smile and walked up the hallway, making his way to the low level where the cafeteria was located.

Misha grinned proudly at his father, before he ran his hand through his hair and lifted his chin up to look smarter.
"Usually babies think in pictures, but because William is blind - he can't. And so he thinks in shapes! I didn't even know that was possible. Of course when he's older he'll be thinking in words and sentences, but for now it'll be shapes. And some fragments of what he hears, like our names and what our voices sound like."

Cole sighed sadly as Sam disappeared, but he knew his father had to be there for Emma now.
"And how am I supposed to get to Bailey now?", he asked himself, deciding to see if he could catch a bus which drove past the barn or somewhere near it, so he just started walking and making his way to the hospital's exit.

Emma flinched as Sam suddenly appeared, but didn't think long before she turned around to him and started cuddling him.
"Mike is... he is gone, Sam. He is-", she gasped for air for a moment, wiped off some tears and pushed her head back into his chest.
"Why does this always happen to me?!"

Emily hugged Ash tightly, trying to make herself stop crying.
"I... I c-can't believe it- h-he was m-mu-murdered...", she whispered brokenly, clenching her eyes together. "First Lady, then Jasmine, Danny, almost Dylan and now Mike!"
She lifted her head as she heard their daughter giggle happily. Probably because she'd heard her name.
Emily smiled softly, then looked up at Ash with bloodshot eyes, fear written in them.
"Don't leave me."

Mike smirked at Coby's reaction to the kisses. He'd definitely have to do that again.
"I have no idea.", he replied. "Let's go watch a movie for free!", he suggested, winking. "We could take some popcorn too and throw them at people, hehe."

 

[Scripted Away]

Raven actually was quite surprised about her father's reaction. she would've rather guessed he'd hate her decision and try to make her change her plan, guessing from the way she had heard him talking about cops in the past.
"Good", she just said, and raised one eyebrow when Jim walked off like that. she knew he was hurt and sad that their great relationship from the past as crumbling, but honestly she was still too angry at him to care about that.
She had even changed her eyecolor to brown to have similiarity with him...
"hey guys", she said as she entered the room, smiling sadly at Mac, but slapping a smile into her face when her mom came back from showering.
"Hey momma, how ya doing?"
"I'm fine, Jim healed me. i'm just a biit tired now. Meet your little brother, honey..."
Raven smiled softly at william, who seemed careful in her presence. yeah, she had the same powerful and dangerous aura her father had sometimes.
"Uncle Mac, dad asked me to tell you to meet him in the cafeteria. he wants to talk about something important."

Mac nodded at Raven, but smirked at Misha before he left. "Well thats really fascinating...", he mumbled as he watched william closely. "alright, i'll quickly go an meet Jimbo then. You stay here with Rey, Raven, James and Rex, alright?"
and he hurried off, to the cafeteria, where he found jimbo...who didn't look okay at all.
"Hey bro, you wanted to talk?", he asked as he took a seat opposite of jim at the tabe.

Bailey was at the new high tech shooting range, where they simulated running targets, like in a real gunfight. right now, she was hiding behind a shelf, her laser training gun tightly pressed to her chest as she waited for one of her opponents approach. there were quite a few animated targets here, but also some other training people, divided into four teams of four people. and then there was her, who had decided to play team 5 all on her own. 6 persons had already lost their virtual life to her, aĺóńǵ´ẃíth several bots.

"I don't know...", Sam whispered silently as he gently stroked over her back and kissed her forehead. "I don't know... I'm so sorry honey..."
he honestly didn't know what to say. he had lost so many people too, but never someone that close, and he had always been alone with it.
"He will forever stay in our hearts..."

Ash furrowed his eyebrows as he looked into Emily's eyes and softly stroked his thumb over her cheek.
"Honey why in all worlds should i ever leave my kids and fiancee? you three are my life."
he softly wiped a few tears off her cheeks and cuddled against her to comfort her.
"I will always be right beside you, no matter what the future will hold. and once we're both 18, we will marry. Emily Davis, or Ash Anderson, hm? sounds good, no?"

"Ohhh there's this awesome horror movie at the moment!", Coby said with a huge grin. "Oculus! it's so fucking creepy, i've seen it already, but i swear it's worth a second visit at the cinema."
he giggled evil at the thought of throwing popcorn at people. they'd always think it was the people behind us who threw the popcorn" , he chuckled. "LETS DO THIS!"

 

[Wyosch]

As Jim had seen Macon approach, he'd quickly hidden the beer bottle under the table - a shadow now hanging over it so nobody would be able to see it.
"Hey.", he mumbled, once Macon had taken a seat.
"Are you ok? Didn't get hurt or anything?", he asked, running his hand through his hair, sighing soundlessly.
Maybe he shouldn't talk to his brother about what was bothering him. He didn't want to disturb him.
Maybe it was good if he'd talk to his brother. It always did good when they talked.
Or maybe he should just excuse himself and rob a liquor store, even if Macon had forbidden him to drink for six months. Everything to take away the pain.

Misha frowned at Raven upon reading her thoughts.
Hers were different than the ones from uncle Jim, yet they were the same:
Dark.
Hers were filled with anger and hatred towards her father, whereas his were filled with guilt and sadness.
"Hi.", he greeted Raven, smiling softly.
He knew why she did what she did.
He knew why she hated her father.
He knew why she aged herself.
He just couldn't understand.

Cole had taken a bus and was now driving towards the nearest bus stop to her barn.
That'd probably still take a few minutes, but he could call her to let her know he was on his way.
Taking out his phone and dialing her number, he looked outside of the window, the words Sam had said to him earlier echoing through his mind.
A unicorn?
Really?

Emma wiped away her tears, shaking her head.
"What do we tell Dylan? He's already lost his big sister, and now his big brother too... they were so close...", she took a deep breath but couldn't help herself but to start crying again.
"I don't want him to be gone, Sam..."

Emily nodded at Ash's calming words, slapping a smile onto her face as he mentioned getting married.
"Emily Davis sounds best.", she replied, looking down at her kids. "Benny and Jasmine Davis."

Mike chuckled, winking at Coby.
"Sounds like a great idea!" He kissed Coby's cheek, stretched his arms and lastly looked around himself.
"How will we get there? Dragon-fly-fly?"

 

[Scripted Away]

Mac nodded at his brother and smirked softly as he rolled up his left sleeve, revealing a few burns in the shape of lightnings. "Just a bit electricity but I'm fine. Takes a lot more to take me down."
He watched his brother's face closely for a while before he got up and took a seat beside him to wrap his wing around Jim's shoulders.
"Hey, Jimbo...i'm right here for You, okay? Talk to me, nobody would be fine after an incident like this."
He grabbed under the table and took a sip from jim's beer bottle with a slight smirk.
"C'mon I can shift into an ice bear. You really think i don't smell the alcohol?"
Spinning the bottle in his hand, he watched Jim with a calm expression, waiting for him to speak.

"Hey, stay out of my thoughts, please", Raven mumbled as she read her own thoughts in Misha's thoughts. "I don't want you to read things like that. That's nothing a kid of your age should hear."
She pulled up her mental shield, just to make sure he really wouldn't try to get into her head again and sat down on the next chair, resting her forehead on the wooden surface with a sigh. "Your ability is strong."

Bailey's phone vibrated, and she growled silently as she took it out. Her anger however instantly vanished when she saw it was Cole calling.
"Baby this isn't the best moment to call", she mumbled silently into the phone, so the other teams wouldn't find her. "I'm the middle of a gunfight here, with 10 people still out there. Took out si- SHIT!"
Her laser gun shot several virtual bullets, with the sound of an actual gun until the sensor on her left leg turned red. That meant someone had shot her leg and she wasn't allowed to run or use that leg anymore.
"Fuck, that was my leg...", she growled, shooting another few laser bullets. "DIE ASSHOLE...okay. Baby? I'm back on the phone."

"I bet he's still somewhere out there", Sam whispered softly while he gently rubbed Emma's back calmingly. "My sister is dead too, but i can still meet her as a ghost. They are all around. We will eventually see him again honey..."
He sighed silently. "I know it's not the same...but it's something..."

Ash smiled sadly as he kissed her forehead. "Honey you don't have to pretend as if you're okay. It's okay, you can just let it all out."
He gently pulled her blanket up a bit to comfort her and kissed her forehead once more. "I love you..."

Coby sighed silently as he shook his head. "I can't fly. Never grew wings, guess that's my human half."
He looked around for a moment, until he saw a car. "...i could hotwire that..."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim smirked sadly at Macon's comment about the beer.
"I'd hoped you wouldn't. Don't want ya to get mad at me after your alcohol-prohibition.", he replied, leaning his elbows on the table and pressing his forehead onto his palms.
"You know what she said to me?", he mumbled silently after a while. He shook his head, ran his hand through his hair and just looked up to the ceiling, biting onto his cheek on the inside of his mouth - trying everything to stay strong.
"She called me a miserable father... an egoistic, pathetic sickness... I agree on those, but...", his gaze lowered to the table, where someone had carved a broken heart onto him. It hadn't been him though, probably some guy or girl who had his heart broken.
"...She told me I wasn't her father... you know where I've heard that before?", he turned to Macon, looking into his eyes, his own empty, filled with sadness.
"I told James the exact same thing when he first tried to apologize to me."

Misha raised an eyebrow at Raven, sitting down on the floor and just looking up at her for a moment.
"I've read stuff worse than your thoughts.", he replied, sounding older than one and a half year now.
"Why don't you want me to read your thoughts? I could still read them now if I'd want to..."

Cole frowned for a moment, asking himself where the hell Bailey was.
The new shooting range - of course.
"Ehm okay honey... well I just wanted to make sure you're ok. I'm currently on my way to your place.", he explained. "And I gotta tell you a few things."

Emma sighed silently, looking up at Sam with sad eyes.
"You think I can still meet him? What if he's not a ghost like your sister? I...", she sighed again, grabbing a tissue and wiping her tears off with it.
"I don't want to believe he's gone... he can't. He can't be."

Emily cuddled the blanket, closing her eyes as she felt more tears coming.
"I love you too, baby...", she whispered, smiling sadly as Jasmine stretched out her arm, touching Benny's head - and lastly starting to pet him.
"I wish Mike would've been able to see them...."

Mike looked at the car as well, nodding.
"I could help you with that too.", his eyes suddenly lit up, and he started grinning. "Whoa we could just steal a lambo or ferrari, drive around in it and then leave it somewhere and give the police an anonymous tipp on where to find it!"

 

[Scripted Away]

"Well instead of trying to trick the person with the highest existing IQ- by far- it would probably be smarter just to listen to me for once. i didn't ask you to stay away from alcohol jst for jim."
Mac held up the bottle and furrowed his eyebrows sorrowfully. "Man you have a drinking problem. look, you want to be a good dad? stay away from this stuff. you have to be a good example for your kids, jimbo, and i'm sure you don't want them to start drinking like you do one day."
he sighed silently, and gently gave him a pat on the back when jim told him about what had happened outside the hospital.
"Jimbo, look...Raven, she just needs time, and proof that she can rely on you, and that you can care for your family properly, just like you needed proof that dad is not the monster that has tortured you all your life", he explained silently. "of course it hurts to hear things like that...man it hurts like hell. I had quite a few arguments with Noah, and they made me feel terrible even though he didn't say things that were even half as bad as what Raven said. But you still want things to change just from wanting it, and that won't happen. if you want to change how Raven, Ash and Jack see you right now, you will have to show them that you are working on yourself ad actively try to make a change. then Raven will respect you again, Jack will trust you again and Ash will be able to rely on you again."

"Because my thoughts are private", Raven grumbled as an answer for Misha's question, lifted her head off the table and looked at him with a completely done expression.
"you shouldn't just read everyone's thoughts. that's lik searching through every random person's private belongings. My thoughts are the only place where I can do what iwant and say what i want, and i don't want you reading around in there."
she had sounded harsher than she had intended, but her day had already been total crap without having to explain why she didn't want anyone to read her thoughts. "Imagine you had a book where you'd write everything nobody shall know, all ypur secrets. would you want anyone just to read it without asking?"

"Alright, i just died anyway", Bailey sighed while she gave the laser gun and euipment back.
"Let's meet at our field with the great view in ten minutes, I should be able to make it there in that time. wish i could teleport...", she mumbled. she was just about to hang up, when she sighed beatenly, shokk her head and lifted her phone to her ear once more, this time with tears in her eyes. "And no...I'm not okay...", she whispered with a chocked voice from the painful lump in her throat.

Sam sighed sadly while he just gently rubbed emma's back, his cheek resting on her head.
"He is a ghost, I can feel his presene..."
looking down into her eyes with a sad smile, he lifted one shoulder. "I'm made of the oldest and purest energy that exists, and since everyone carries a certain bit of energy in them...i can feel it. mike is a ghost. he's relatively close, somewhere in the city...he's not gone honey. he's just in another state of being now.."

"Wherever Mike is now...", Ash whispered silently while he gently stroked though Emily's hair. "I bet he sees our perfect little ones, and i bet he's endlessly proud of you because you were so brave", he mumbled. he hadn't had to do that much with mike, but still the loss hurt him as well. he had been a reat guy, that was for sure.

"ehh, the only problem on your plan is that our voice would sound like static cracklng on a phone", Coby pointed out with a shrug. "it's not that easy to make them notice us, sadly. otherwise i would have called my family minutes ago and told them i'm fine."
he rested his head against Mike's shoulder and watched everything around for a moment, before he looked up at his...boyfriend...?
"so you've crushing on me right from the start, eh?"

 

[Wyosch]

"A drinking problem?", Jim asked, raising an eyebrow at his brother. Had he completely turned mad? Alcohol had been a part of Jim's life for over a decade, and to him it was like water-
Wait.
Should alcohol be like water to someone? Necessary?
Was it okay if one had started at the age of 12?
"Oh my god... you're right...", he mumbled, totally baffled by the discovery. He knew he could sometimes exaggerate and drink a little too much... but this... this was an addiction. An addiction to numb the pain, just like cutting once was for him.
After he had stared in front of himself for a moment, lost in his thoughts, he looked at Macon again.
"I get what you're trying to say... but how can I show them I'm working on it? I want to be a good dad but...", he gulped upon feeling the lump in his throat starting to rise.
"Sometimes I think fatherhood... family in general... wasn't made for me. And now before you start telling me I'm exaggerating again, listen.
I grew up without a mother, with an abusive father, in a street gang where I sold drugs and raced illegally to get money so I could buy food for my brother. I had no friends, just some guys I didn't want to strangle immediately when I saw them... my dog was taken from me, I was forced to switch schools weeks after weeks because I never fit in... I was pushed into the military where I killed mercilessly...", he turned away from Macon, clearly ashamed and in pain.
"I've let, not only my wife, my parents and my siblings down... but my kids as well...
And it's just not getting better. Anytime something is going good I come up with a way to screw things up again... by being me."

Misha looked up at Raven with sad eyes, a tear rolling down his cheek.
He couldn't bare it if someone yelled at him, or even raised his voice slightly. It scared him, and made him feel small and vulnerable.
"I can't help it.", he replied, hugging himself. "I can't control my powers yet."
He looked at the adults in the room for a moment, hoping his mother or his father would be here now so he could hug them.

Cole frowned sadly as he heard how Bailey's voice sounded.
"The bus is almost there. I'll meet you then and we'll figure out a way to make you feel better. We can just talk or do something, as long as I'll be able to make you happy."

Emma sighed silently, still cuddling against Sam.
"So he's here...? Why doesn't he come to us then?", she asked, closing her eyes for a moment.
"Do you know if somebody is with Emily now? I don't want her to be all alone now..."

Emily took a deep breath, glad she had finally stopped crying, and looked down at their babies.
"...they are perfect, aren't they?", she mumbled, just wanting to switch topics so she wouldn't have to think about her dead brother anymore.
"Is Cole still here, or did he leave?"

"Man that sucks.", Mike replied, thinking. "We could also write them a note?"
As Colby mentioned him crushing on Jake - aka Colby - he blushed.
"Yeah well... from the moment we first met I was like 'Damn that boy is handsome' and then your story about not being accepted and your personality... just too perfect."

 

[Scripted Away]

Mac nodded slowly at Jim's words and lifted his shoulders in the end.
"Well, I guess you're right", he said with a shrug. "You can be a complete idiot. You have an alcohol problem. When things go bad you're unreliable."
All of a sudden, a soft smile, exactly the same as Jenny's, lit up his face.
"You would do everything to make sure your family is alright, even leave them although you know that would kill you. You know you're making mistakes. You want to work on them. You can see it all from many different perspectives, so you understand?"
He leaned back on his chair and slid down until his head rested on the edge of the back of it.
Looking up at the ceiling, he smiled softly.
"I know that problem man. I've grown up the same way as You, in case you forgot. No childhood, a gang, no mother, no one to lean on. No freedom. That's your problem man."
He turned his head to look at jim and smiled softly. "All your life, you have been living in leads. You have been told what to do, there always was a kind of guideline to follow. At first dad's orders, then the war. Now there's no one and nothing to tell you what you have to do, and you feel lost. For the first time, you have to figure out which way to go all on your own, because no ine and nothing can and will make that choice for you. I've been in that situation too. Man I was terrified. So many choices and possibilities, so much to do, but what would be the right thing to do?"
Mac turned his head back to the ceiling and smirked.
"Wanna know what i did? I set goals. Every Sunday, I set a new goal for the coming week, and thought about how well i had reached my last goal. I did that until i felt safer with making my own choices, and at the same time it helped me become a better man. Maybe that could help you too."

Raven sighed silently and slid off her chair to sit down in the floor beside Misha, so she could pull him into a gentle hug.
"Hey, it's okay, I just tried to explain why i don't want anyone to read my thoughts", she mumbled softly and poked his side. "C'mon little cousin, it's fine. I'm not angry or so, and i didn't mean to scare you. Hey if you want I could help you learn to control your mind reading. I'm a mind reader too, after all."
She half shifted into a bunny, so she kinda look like an anthro bunny, and made her nose twitch. "Am i less scary like this?"

"...okay...", Bailey whispered into the phone and hang up. She slowly made it into her truck and drove off.
It didn't take long until she could see the meadow in the distance. Just a turn to the right...
From the corner of her eye she could see a bus racing towards her. What was wrong with the driver, had that man no eyes in his-..."
A loud crashing sound interrupted her thoughts as the bus crashed into the back of her car and sent her flying through windshield because she hadn't buckled on.

"Ash is with her, and their babies as well of course", Sam explained silently while he was still stroking over Emma's head. "Mike will eventually show up. Maybe he's busy with dealing with his death right now."

"Just as perfect as you" Ash whispered with a soft smile and planted a kiss on Emily's cheek and in their babies' foreheads.
"I'll quickly go and see if Cole's still here, okay?"
He went out the room and took a deep breath. Cole's scent was facing slowly.
"He seems to have left the hospital", Ash explained as he came back to Emily.

Coby blushed slightly, but then smirked widely and shrugged. "Ah I'm just another guy with bad experiences", he mumbled. "And sure, we can try to leave them a note. We'll just have ro make sure they will understand that it really us from us, and not from some cruel ads trying to fool them..."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim listened to what Macon told him, thinking if that could somehow help him, and lastly just shook his head.
"I don't know, man.", he replied, leaning his head on his hand. He was exhausted. Four months no sleep, then an almost fatal car crash, the stress of Rachel giving birth - and finding out his daughter was the one who had killed her brother's girlfriend's brother and his friend.
That wasn't the only thing sucking the energy out of him.
Thoughts.
Voices.
Memories.
"I'm tired.", he mumbled, running his hand through his face. He sighed silently, looking at his brother.
"Thanks for taking the time to talk.", he said, grabbing his leather jacket and already putting it on again. "I'll quickly go for a walk, need some fresh air. I'll be back in about half an hour or so. You're staying here?"

Misha looked up at Raven with big eyes, tilting his head.
"You're a mind-reader too?", he asked. "But aren't you a timeplayer?"
He chuckled as she shifted into a half-bunny, carefully stroking her big ears.
"I like you like this. This is very cute. You remind me of Judy Hopps from Zootopia!"

Cole flew a couple of feet away from where he'd been sitting in the bus as it suddenly crashed into something.
Just as he wanted to stand up to check his headwound, his eyes turned orange - and his heartbeat started to rise immediately.
"Bailey!", he screamed, jumping off and literally punching the window and racing out.
"Oh my god. No. No no no no no Bailey!"
Tears were streaming down his face as he picked her up from the floor. Her car had crashed sideways into a tree, the bus crashing onto it.
Luckily she'd flown out of the windshield, so she wouldn't have been stuck in her car as the bus crashed onto it for the second time.
Cole shook his head, brushing some of Bailey's hair out of her face.
She was still breathing.
"BAILEY!!"

Emma didn't even hear what Sam said about Mike.
"Babies?", she repeated, gasping. "Is she in labour?! Are the babies already born?! Why didn't she call me?!"

"I wonder why he left.", Emily mumbled frowning, looking up from her bed as a nurse walked into the room.
"Miss Anderson?"
"Yeah?"
"We left you alone for a couple of hours so you and your babies could rest, but we believe it's better if you try to breastfeed them so we can make sure everything is alright."
Emily gulped, nodding.
"Ehm... okay. And eh... how am I supposed to breastfeed two babies at the same time?"
"That's what you have two breasts for.", the nurse replied, chuckling, now having walked up to Emily entirely.
"Would you like your boyfriend to stay?"
"He's the father of my children. He has seen my boobs before - SO OF COURSE I WANT HIM TO STAY URGH.", Emily rolled her eyes. All those stupid questions they kept asking. "Oh, and he's not my boyfriend. He's my fiance."

"We could add an insider of the family. Something nobody else would understand?", Mike suggested, wrapping his arm around Coby's waist. "And you definitely aren't just an ordinary guy."

 

[Scripted Away]

Before him could leave, Macon grabbed his wrist and held him back, standing up at the same time. He pulled his brother into a tight hug and sighed silently.
"Jimbo, promise me you won't do anything stupid, okay? We still need you here."
Letting go of him again, he gave Jim a pat on the back and smiled sadly.
"Hey, and if you need me, just give me a call, okay? Love you bro."
He made his way to the entrance door of the cafeteria and smiled at him over his shoulder.
"I'll wait for you in the park behind the hospital. Still have a surprise for you at home."

Raven chuckled softly and picked Misha up, even though she was only about 4'5 Fallon this form.
"That's a part of the time playing abilty", she explained with a smile. "We can hear every thought everyone has ever thought and will ever think."
She poked her nosetip against Misha's, her bunny teeth looking incredibly cute as she grinned at him. "Hey if you want we can play Zoomania. Maybe we can find a mysterious case and solve it, like Judy and Nick. Ohh or if you want I can show you the police academy. My training will start tomorrow, because i will be a policewoman, but the boss has already shown me the building."

Bailey slowly opened her eyes with a painful grown. They were bloodshot, probably from the impact, and some blood was running down her forehead.
"...Jake...?", she whispered, blinked a few times and then shop over her head slightly.
"Cole...!" Her voice was silent, but at least she seemed to be halfway okay as she sighed relieved. "Thank God, I thought i was dead..."
All of a sudden, Bailey's eyes widened panically. "I can't feel my legs...! I can't feel my legs!!"

Sam smirked softly and wiggled his eyebrows. "Jasmine and Benjamin Colin. And there's more- but that's something you should hear from them. Should we visit them?"

Ash bit his lip to suppress some laughter and smiled apologetically at the nurse.
"Excuse. I suppose it's still the hormones."
He gently took Jasmine in his arms so Emily had a free hand to pull her shirt down and kissed Emily's forehead.
"You'll be the most beautiful bride the world has ever seen, honey."

Coby nodded slowly. "I have an idea. Okay let's do this!"
He planted a kiss on Mike's cheek and smirked at him, before he looked around for a moment.
"What should we write to our families? We have to write something that makes them understand we're still there, without scaring them."

 

[Wyosch]

"I promise.", Jim replied to Macon, smirking softly as Macon stood at the door.
"I love you too, bro. See you later.", he quickly waved goodbye at him before he used his abilities to teleport himself in front of the hospital, where he now headed into the heart of the city.
Distraction.
He needed distraction.
He could visit a music store? Just check out some guitars?

Misha looked up at Raven with big eyes.
"Are you going to be like Judy?", he asked, grinning. "Do you still need a partner? I could be your partner! I could pursue my career as trashcan another time."

Cole sighed relieved as Bailey opened her eyes. His tears had dried by now.
"I thought you were dead!", he replied, frowning as she mentioned not feeling her legs.
"Calm down babe, okay? Do you feel this?", he asked, carefully touching her right knee. "Or this?", he put his other hand on her leg as well, starting to tickle it - knowing she was ticklish there.

Emma's eyes widened even more, nodding.
"Yes, let's visit them! Wow we're grandparents! Can you believe it?", she giggled, tilting her head. "What else is there then?"

"Hormones? Pah! They should all just stop asking me stupid questions!", Emily hissed, frowning deeply as she saw the elderly nurse laugh.
"Definitely hormones.", she replied, waiting for Emily to move.
Emily rolled her eyes and pulled her t-shirt down, glad she wasn't wearing a bra.
"Okay, Benny... go ahead. This is weird. I feel weird... ok, this is a really weird feeling."

"What idea do you have?", Mike asked, bushing as Coby kissed his cheek.
"Nah, we won't scare them. And I bet they'll recognize our handwriting too."

 

[Scripted Away]

Mac watched Jim from one of the Windows for a moment.
Yeah he was worried that Jim would do something stupid again, but he knew he had to trust him right now, so he turned around and headed into the park behind the hospital.
It had taken ages of searching and digging through memorabilia of people he didn't even know, even though he maybe should, but finally he had found it. An old photo album, full of pictures of their parents and what had been their friends at some point. Love letters from James to Jenny and back, pictures of Jensen's trophies and cars...
And Mac had big plans for them.

Raven chuckled silently, Hey nose twitching in amusement.
"You have to be adult to be a cop", she explained. "So I will have another partner at work; but you can be my partner when we have a case to solve at home. For example who stole the cookies again."

Bailey shook her head over and over again while tears streaked down her face.
"No...no...!", she cried, her fingers digging into Cole's shirt.
"Why is this happening to me?!"
She pushed her face into Cole's chest, trying to calm down, but hell how could she when she had apparently lost her legs?!

Sam smirked softly, gently took Emma's hand and teleported back into the hospital, right in front of Emily's room.
"I feel far too young to be called grandpa", he chuckled. "I mean, seriously, I'm only 33!
He gently knocked against the door, and a few seconds later, Ash poked his head out of the room. "Sam, Emma!", he said with a happy smirk, stroking his messed up black hair halfway back into place. "So great you came. Emma...i'm So sorry about Mike...he was a great guy. If you'd like I could help you find him later. He might still be around."
Looking back into the room, he smirked softly and lastly squeezed himself through the door, Jasmine still in his arm. "Emily is breastfeeding Benny right now; and the hormones are still hoping T-1000, so I guess we better give her some time to finish that up there. Meanwhile- meet your granddaughter, Jasmine."
His grin widened even more and he looked at Emma with sparkling eyes. "And your future son-in-law."

"When Zack and Tony were younger, we invented a secret alphabet, just for the three of us. Nobody knows it, just us. The others know we often wrote notes to eachother with that alphabet though, So they will definitely recognize it.", Coby explained, but then blushed slightly and giggled. "Given- when we grew out of our 'playing secret agents' phase, we kept using it for things like 'did you get the pirate copy of the newest Fast and furious film from your shady friend who lives in the attic of the guy who has a crack lab in his basement?' But yeah."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim had walked through the busy shopping streets of the big city, finally arriving at some part of the city which others would refer to as 'the slums'. It reminded him of where he used to hang out in Austin. Even though these streets were filled with criminality and were rather dangerous, shootings happening every week, he wasn't scared. Weren't many who were stupid enough to try and rob a guy looking like him.
Just as he wanted to enter some second hand - probably stolen - music shop, he heard barking. An all too familiar barking.
"Delta?", he mumbled surprised, immediately turning around and trying to figure out where that cry for help was coming from.
Another painful bark.
Shouting voices.
They were coming from the building opposite of the music shop.
>>Don't do anything stupid.<<
He knew he shouldn't get himself in trouble now... but that barking echoed through his mind. It sounded too familiar.
In front of his eyes flashed the memories of the evening he had heard Delta's desperate barking, and when he'd kicked down a couple of doors, finding three men kicking and beating the shit out of a silver German shepherd pup.
What if this dog was in danger too?
He took a deep breath, shook his head and turned to the music shop again, his hand on the door knob.
He stood there like that for a couple of seconds - until he rolled his eyes, hastily turned around and walked over to the building where the barking was coming from, muttering 'Fuck it'.
Jim wasn't surprised to find the door to the building standing wide open. Someone had probably broken in there. He didn't have time to investigate that, though.
The barking got louder with every step he took.
His eyes alert, his body ready to fight if necessary, his muscles tense, his heartbeat slow - he advanced, until he faced a wooden door, cracks all over it.
The barking was unbearable.
The screaming and shouting of deep voices made his blood boil.
A loud noise. Another whining bark.
No time to politely knock.
Jim burst through the door, his eyes widening in pain as he saw a fox-brown, white dog, hanging on his hind onto a rope which was fastened onto the ceiling, blood running over its fur, cuts and bruises all over it.
After him staring at the dog, the five men staring at Jim, the dog whining - shots were fired.
Jim ducked just in time, with a body-roll rolling behind a counter of what seemed to be the kitchen.
Why did Macon have to destroy his gun? Else he would've been finished with those guys already.
He heard the men approach, trying to make no sound on the cracking wooden floor, one re-loading his gun.
Jim jumped up, grabbed the four knives who were lying on the counter, simultaniously threw them at four of the guys - hitting them all in their stomach, enough to hurt them badly, but not enough to die from the injury - and used one of his famous fist-punches to take out the last guy - who seemed totally baffled by the stranger's fast movements.
The men on the floor, one unconscious, the other screaming out in pain from the knives in their abdomens.
"I wouldn't do that.", Jim hissed as he saw one of them trying to grab his gun. "Unless you wish to die."
He grabbed one of the knives and slowly pulled it out of one guy's stomach - he knew taking a knife out slowly hurt like hell - and used it to cut through the rope the dog was hanging onto.
Catching the dog in his arms, his eyes softened as the dog thankfully cuddled her head against Jim's chest.
He held the dog in his arms with one arm, taking out his phone with the other and calling the police.
"Five men physically abusing a dog. Got the dog and will bring her to the hospital now, severely injured.
...
Oh don't worry about the men fleeing. They all got a knife in their stomachs, and one is unconscious, probably for a couple of hours. Got a 'friend' here making sure they won't leave.", Jim hung up, smirking as he left he room -
a 7 feet tall shadow creature guarding the door to make sure none of those assholes would even think about leaving.

Misha's eyes widened, a grin forming on his face.
"I know who keeps stealing the cookies!", he replied, his eyes sparkling proudly. "Heather! I bet she keeps stealing them to feed her animals! She even stole my cake last time!"
He frowned seriously, nodding.
"We only need some hard evidence now to put her in jail!"

Cole shook his head in disbelief, looking at Bailey with big eyes.
"This is not happening! It'll just be the accident... blood loss. You're not paralyzed! Not under my watch!"
His eyes had turned blue now, showing a dangerous storm on the sea, waves higher than ships, the sky dark grey - almost black.
"You'll be fine! You have to be fine!"

"Thank you, Ash.", Emma replied as Ash mentioned Mike, yet chuckled when he told her about Emily being quite aggressive now. "She's always had a fiery temper."
Her eyes widened, sparkling proudly, as her daughter's boyfriend showed her her granddaughter.
"J-jasmine? Oh she's perfect..."
Her gaze wandered to Ash again upon his last words.
"Future son-in-law?", she repeated, raising an eyebrow. "What do- oh my god. Are you serious? Are you really serious? Are you kidding me?", she asked, grinning happily, giggling as she hugged Ash tightly - without hurting Jasmine, of course.
"Oh my god I am so happy! I can't believe it! When did you ask? How?"

Mike chuckled at Coby's explanation, smirking softly.
"Doesn't everyone once invent a secret alphabet?", he asked, winking. "When Dylan was younger, he stole a teddy-bear from a store to give it to our sister, Jasmine. He was caught, but I took the blame - we looked very alike as kids, I was just slightly taller but the store manager didn't notice. Every time I asked Dylan to do something for me, but he didn't, I used to say 'wonder what everyone will say once they know who the real thief is here'. An insider of us."

 

[Scripted Away]

"I don't think a cell in jail would be the right place for Heather", Raven laughed and just wanted to explain why when her phone rang.
"Eh?"
After a look at the display, she got up, still half shifted because she had totally forgotten she was shifted, and picked up.
"Officer Blake, I'm surprised you're calling.
...
Eh no, I have nothing planned for today; Why?
...
Whoa really?! Seriously??
...
No no, I'm happy, I'm happy!
...
Yes sir, I'll be there instantly!"
She hang up and grinned widely at Misha. "The Police's boss just called and asked me if I'd like to go on the beat with him, to be prepared for tomorrow! Oh my GOOOD!"
She quickly took off her ring, a broad silver ring with a white pentagram on black background, and gave it to Misha.
"Watch this for me, okay buddy?"
And she teleported right on the passenger's seat of the police car, right beside officer Blake.
"Ready!", she squeaker excitedly, earning a raised eyebrow from Blake. "Sorry. I'm just so excited! What are we gonna do?"
"Just keep our eyes and ears open for strange people and alarms over the phone."
"Alright!"
And they drove off into the city, when they got their first alarm. "People torturing a dog?", she repeated.
"Yeah, but that's on the other side of the city. Another team will take care of that."
"Mhm."
"Eyes open?"
"Eyes wide open!"

Bailey's eyes widened as she saw the change in Cole's eyes. That couldn't be true...could it?
"Baby, please...", she groaned painfully. "Help me...get me doc or So..."

Ash grinned proudly and hug Emma back as tight as possible, before he scratched the back of his head and chuckled awkwardly.
"I honestly believe i scared Emmy at first. I said i didn't want her as my girlfriend anymore- long pause- but as my wife."
He gently stroked over Jasmine's little head with a soft smile.
"Emily was so brave. Benny came normally, but she was too exhausted for Jassie, so they had to do an emergency c-section. She's fine now though, nothing to worry about."

Coby grinned slightly as he swatted Mike's shoulder. "My my, a recidivist, Eh? Bad guy!"
He winked at him and jumped to his feet.
While he already made his way towards the edge of the forest, he looked back at Mike over his shoulder.
"Okay, c'mon, let's get this done! I want to end my family's grief asapissimo!"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim teleported to the hospital, into an operating room - where luckily nobody was at the moment - where he lay the dog down on the table.
He grabbed his phone and immediately dialed his brother's number. Maybe Macon knew how to help the dog.
>>C'mon, pick up.<<
As the dog whined again, he turned around to her, a sad frown on his face.
"Don't worry, girl, my brother will take care of you.", he mumbled gently, carefully stroking over the dog's bleeding back.
So many wounds...
Cuts on her belly and back, bruises on her face, burn marks on her tail, a piece of her right ear missing - as if someone had cut it out - wounds on her legs because the rope had been too tight, blood around her neck...
>>That poor thing...<<
This made him angry.
Really angry.
He would've loved to kill those bastards who did this to this beautiful dog.
But he had to calm down and stay here with her.
To his surprise, she hadn't tried to latch out onto him and bite him. Abused dogs were either too shy and scared, or too aggressive. And by looking at her traits, he could tell she must be a Pitbull-mix or something. Perhaps mixed with a Rottweiler, as he could see on the tail. But the colors and eyes hinted to a Husky. Perhaps all three?
And everyone knew 'pitbulls were dangerous dogs'. Bullshit too.
Everything was bullshit.

Tyler Harris was meanwhile walking through the busy streets of the city, wearing his usual biker's clothes, revealing his left sleeve tattoo and the half sleeve tattoo on his right arm. His tattoo on the left side of his neck made the biker's look complete.
He looked around, trying to find a good victim.
A jeweller's?
Perfect.

Cole nodded, his breath fastening.
"Yes yes of course!", he grabbed his phone, almost dropped it because of his shaking hands, and called Sam. With a little bit of luck he was visiting Emily with his mother...
"SAM I NEED YOUR HELP!"

"You would've scared me too if you would've said that to me.", Emma replied, winking. She smiled softly as Ash talked on.
"Giving birth is already really exhausting, especially at such a young age. And with twins even more.", she replied, looking up as the nurse stuck her head out of the door.
"Mr. Davis? Your girlfriend- fiancée finished feeding your son, would you be so kind to hand me your daughter?"

Mike chuckled as Coby already walked towards the edge of the forest.
"I'm coming!", he replied, running his hand through his hair before he ran up to Coby to catch up.
"So where will we get paper from?"

 

[Scripted Away]

"Jimbo, I've seen it", Macon said alarmed as he appeared in the entrace. "At least that you've a carried a wounded..." he furrowed his eyebrows. "...dog? oh well. only saw you stained with blood that isn't yours. Make some space..."
He gently pushed Jim aside a bit, so he could reach the dog and gently petted it's head.
"Hey you beautiful girl, what happened to you, hm...?", he mumbled silently, while he already carefully wiped the blood off her wounds.
he had to be able to see them to treat them after all.
"Oh jeez..."
it looked bad., really really bad, but no one had ever died on his table, and he sure as hell wouldn't let anyone be the first one to do so, so he grabbed everything he needed, sanitized his hands and arms, threw himself into a lab coat, surgical gloves and a surgical mask and got the anesthesia ready.
"Lacerations, cuts, burns, trauma...", Mac mumbled to himself as he got into doc-mode. every single movement was precise, perfectly timed in every detail, even the blinking. not a second was wasted, and while he was using his hands to work on the dog, his wings adjusted the lamps, tables with surgical tools and machines.
it ad something of a kraken, having its' arms everywhere.
with that precisition and speed, it didn't take mac long to fix the dog up.
however when Mac was just about to finish his work, he furrowed his eyebrows and turned around to jim.
"idiots. we- ... are gigantic idiots. both of us. instead of patching her up in a straining surgery you could have just healed her. I can't do that, i'm 'just' an archangel, but you are a god, doofus. that actually leads me to another thing: i took Gabriel's place. I'm immortal. and that means i need you to make hunter immortal sometime, cuz i ain't plannin' to live 'thout her, buddy. and yes, i just copied your southern slang."


Bunny-Raven rested her chin on the edge of the rolled down window. she was tiny in this form, her 4'5 barely enabling her to look throgh the windows, but her hearing was incredibly good like this, and with a bit of luck that could be helpful.
Without any noticeable reason, her neck fur stood up when they drove past a jeweller's store, but there wasn't anything that would have alarmed her.
still...
"Sir, would you mind driving past that jeweller's a second time? i have a bad gut feeling there..."
"You're a davis, aren't you?"
"Eh...yes?"
"mh. Don't like your father, gotta admit that, but my son was in his squad and told me about his incredible sense for prediction often enough..."
"...so?"
"So when a daughter of Jim Davis says that she has a bad gut-feeling, i know better than to ignore that." the man switched into reverse gear and slowly drove past the store again, parking the car behind some bushes so it wouldn't catch attention.
"And?"
"...wait for it...", Raven mumbled, her ears turning into all directions while her eyes scanned the area around the store. an old lady, a biker, a few kids playing...
she frowned.
the biker...it was him who made her fur stand up. maybe an 'enemy' species or so. maybe not. she'd just keep watching closely...

Sam flinched painfully when he picked up and Cole yelled into the phone.
"Jesus Christ...", he mumbled silently, before teleporting to his son with heartbeat instantly fastening.
what now? another catastrophe?
"What's going- Cole, are you okay?! you're bleeding!"
he carefully ran his fingers over the wound on his son's forehead and it just dispaaread.
"Bailey, what's with you?"
"i can't feel my legs!", Bailey cried, by now completely panicking.
"Okay okay, Cole! i can only heal once every few hours, but as a unicorn, you can do that doo. you just have to figure out how, i mean...urgh, i never heard of a case like you before. A unicorn that is only aware of the world it's having a vessel in..."

Ash frowned worriedly when Sam just disappeared. that had clearly been cole's voice on the phone. hopefully everything was alright...or at least would be alright.
he careully lay Jasmin down in the nurse's arms.
Would you mind bringing Benny out so my future mother-in-law can see him?", he asked with a small smile, that however didn't look 100% sincere. he clearly disliked the thought of trusting a woman he didn't know at all with his babies. "And please be careful, got me?"

"well isn't there paper everywhere?", Coby chuckled, pointing around. "I mean, i'm pretty sure there's not one building here without at least a few papers in it."
He shrugged. "We'll just have to find out where our families are, to drop the note there. how should they find it if it was in a completely different building...okay so, i'll help you first. I've been a ghost before, so i know a few useful perks. where do you think your family could be?"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim had been walking around in circles the entire time, not taking his eyes off of Macon and the dog.
"Oh yes I forgot that.", he chuckled when Macon called them idiots. He ran his hand through his hair, gently touched the dog and made all her wounds disappear.
Turning to Macon again, he looked at his brother with a disgusted frown.
"Please - don't copy my way of talkin'. Don't copy anything from me. Don't talk. No wait... don't talk... like that. Is really fuckin' strange and disturbing.", he frowned confused, then just made his way to the table and looked at the dog for a moment, gently stroking over her head.
"She won't survive in a shelter.", he mumbled towards Macon, even though he was actually more talking to himself and the dog.
He smiled softly as the dog peacefully closed her eyes as Jim started stroking her behind her ear.
"You remind me of my former dog, Delta. She was just like you. Just a different breed, but she too didn't give up after a fight."
The dog seemed to smile, pushing her head into Jim's chest.
"I know, I know, you have a headache. You're thirsty, aren't you? How long did they keep you there?", he just kept talking to the dog, his voice all gentle and calm - as if he were talking to a young kid.

Tyler calmly walked into the store, pretended to look at some way too expensive necklaces... and lastly pulled up his biker scarf, pulled his gun and turned to the people in the store.
"Everybody on the fucking floor!"

Cole looked up at Sam with big, fearful eyes, shaking his head.
"I- I can't do that! How am I supposed to do that? Why didn't you heal her instead of me?!", he yelled, his eyes only widening more.
What if he couldn't heal his girlfriend?
She would never be able to walk anymore...
"Help me!"

Emma frowned worried as Sam disappeared after her son had called him. She hoped everything was okay...
The nurse smiled softly, nodding.
"I'm always careful, Mr. Davis.", the nurse replied, smiling softly, while she disappeared into the room.
"Do you know what is wrong with Cole?", Emma asked, nervously playing around with her hair. "Is he ok?"

"Oh c'mon you knew what I meant!", Mike replied, chuckling, and then nodded. "Well... either at home or... in the hospital?", he mumbled. "Wasn't Ems due two weeks ago? I have a gut feeling I'm an uncle now."

 

[Scripted Away]

Mac laughed mischievously as Him reacted to his southern slang like that and shook his head while he took off the surgery equipment.
"Don't thou fret, brethren, I appear to possess an exceedingly polished way of articulating", he said, his glasses down on his nosetip like he was some nosy nobleman.
"What? Not good either? Oh fine I'll just go back to good old Mac then."
When Jim was all about the dog, Mac raised one eyebrow. "Not to disturb your eh...intimate bonding over there, but you do know that you have a family wondering where the hell you went, do you?"

"Yeah and you as well, sir!", Raven said with a winner-smirk, her gun almost looking like a bazooka in her rather small furry hands as she pointed it at him.
"Put the gun away and get down on your knees if you know what's good for you. We don't want your guts spilling on the floor, do we?"
While she was still smirking, a sphere of concentrated time built up around her. Every bullet fired at her would slow down and lastly just stop flying as soon as it touched the sphere.
"I advise you to refrain from messing with her", her boss said with the same satisfied half grin. "Hands on your back. You have to right to remain silent."

Sam gently cupped Cole's face and looked into his eyes with a totally calm expression.
"Cole, have i ever let you down when things got hard? No. And of course you won't be alone with this either."
He keeled down beside him and Bailey and watched him for a moment, a soft sparkling in his eyes literally. They were a calm, silvery lake with the sun glittering on it right now.
"It's been very rare that unicorns have been somewhere else than in our realm, especially on such a small planet as earth. Look, to give you full access to your true powers, you have to wake up. I can only imagine it like you're kind of...sleeping, just that the human part of you is wide awake. Really amazing. Look, I will try to find and wake you, but I need your help for that. I need something like a beacon...do you know avatar? The film? It's similar. You're kind of...asleep, like those operators, while we're normally awake and aware of our realm while a part of us is living in a vessel somewhere. Got me so far? Now, since you have been born with this vessel, I suppose it has a stronger connection to you than usually, and we can use that. The more energy you build up here, the more you build up in our dimension as well. And there's incredibly much energy in strong emotions, so I need you to build up a shitload of that inside you. Just think of the most horrible or most amazing thing that has ever happened to you, or both, no matter, as long as it builds up that energy inside you. Then i can find you."
Once again, Sam left his human vessel and lastly even the light disappeared, with a "go on, I'm waiting for your trace."

Ash lifted his shoulders at Emma with an apologetic gaze.
"Nah sorry, I have no idea. Oh eh, Emma, I already talked to my father about this, just gotta clear it with emily: we might move back to Montana. To Aegis, to be exact. I mean, I love basketball, but i want to take a break to be there for my family now", he explained. "That is, if Emily wants to move back here too."

Coby shrugged.
"Dunno, but let's go find out. Do you...know how to teleport? Or should i give you a ride?"

 

[Wyosch]

Jim nodded, getting up from his heels and running his hand through his hair for a moment.
"Well, we can't leave you here...", he mumbled to the dog, thinking for a moment. "You think I can keep her with me 'till I got an idea on what to do with her?", he asked Macon, raising an eyebrow as the dog jumped off of the operating table and tried squeezing her head through Jim's legs.
"No playing now.", he chuckled, shaking his head. He'd completely forgotten what it was like to interact with a dog.
"Let's go over to Rey."

Harris smirked, turning around to the two officers.
"Only the two of you?", Tyler asked, laughing sarcastically. "I thought after last time you would've at least taken a dozen recruits with you."
He threw his gun down to the floor, his hands in the air - his mask slightly sliding off his face.
"Oh look, a dollar.", he bent down - grabbed his gun and shot at the male officer's chest, aiming his free hand at the ceiling - the metal bars falling down as if on his command.
The bunny would be too busy saving the remaining people from being stabbed by the tons of heavy bars.
So while she was still startled by his fast movements, he'd just make his way out of the store - leaving the bleeding officer, his bunny and the people in the collapsing building.

Cole took a deep breath as Sam left his vessel and told him to go on.
>>How am I supposed to do this? I can't do this!<<
He frowned painfully, thinking of memories which made him happy.
Meeting Bailey.
Finally bonding with Sam.
The birth of his nephew and niece.
The proposal of his future-brother-in-law.
Strangely enough, that didn't change much. He did feel happy as he thought about these memories, but they weren't strong enough to build up lots of energy like Sam wanted to.
>>Sam mentioned anger.<<
Cole's muscles tensed as he thought of his biological father.
The one who thought Cole was weak.
The one who hit him for fun.
The one who left his pregnant mother after raping her.
The one who came back and started hitting her, himself and his baby sister.
The one who told Cole to kill himself.
The one who never even cared.
"SON OF A BITCH!", he yelled angrily, opening his galaxy-glowing eyes, while his veins lit up in a bright yellow, and his hair started glowing equally.

Emma grinned happily, nodding. "That would be just wonderful. We'd all be much nearer, and your kids wouldn't grow up in a polluted city, with lots of traffic and criminality and... they'd just be safer here."
The nurse opened the door again and walked out with the little boy in her arms.
"Mr. Davis, here is Benny again."

Mike raised an eyebrow at Coby, shaking his head.
"I don't have superpowers like you or my sister or so. I'm just an ordinary... dead human.", he replied, shrugging. "Or wait... do ghosts have superpowers? That'd be so cool though!"

 

[Scripted Away]

Mac chuckled softly at the sight of Jim and the dog and lifted his shoulders at his brother's question.
"Hey, don't ask me that, that's something you'll have to clear with rey", he replied, while he followed him to Rachel's hospital room, where she was already leaning on the table, apparently waiting, and all fine in her favorite black dress, William sleeping in his little crib.
"Hey, there you are!", the said with a happy smile, that even widened when she saw the dog.
"ohh, and who are you sweet girl?", she asked, already squatting down and holding out her hand so the dog could sniff on it to get used to her.
looking up at jim, she smiled softly. "Who's your new friend here, honey? she's beautiful...and look at that sweet face!"

Raven was healing the officer's wound and repairing the building while she was already running after the criminal.
what an ass. was he seriously able to kill dozens of people just for some money?
sure, she had been on the wrong way as well, but at least she had done it to help her suffering little brother...!
"I swear, you ass, don't make me hurt you!", she yelled.
she was small, but fast as hell right now, so she caught up pretty quickly, jumped, aimed at the same time...
and sent a bullet flying right through his knee.

Sam looked around for a moment as his consciousness snapped back into his true 'body'.
it had been ages since he had fully been here, especially for the last one and a half year he had focused all his energy and consciousness on his life on earth, but Their realm was still as beautiful as he remembered.
>>And finally i'm not alone anymore up here<<, he thought happily, when suddenly a glow in the dark parts of the world caught his attention. Cole?
it wasn't really a voice that had said that, more like a thought you'd head in your head, not with your ears.
in this wold, they were gods, able to do everything and immortal.
the only way how the others had been able to be killed was by killing them in their vessel... and since nobody had expected a being like him to live in a disabled vessel...
right now, Sam realized why their elder had shoved him into that vessel.
Wise old guy...
outside the borders of their capital, were a few other small 'cities' floating in the abyss of their cosmos, connected by nothing. literally.
they didn't need bridges or streets. wherever they went, the world changed to fit. right now, Sam was casually walking through mid-space while energy fields materialized below his feet to keep him from floating or falling away.
there!
Cole!
it was a small, weak energy, clearly only awake in that one world, as if it was comatose here.
Sam gently ran one glowing hand over the younger energy's head, nourishing it with his own energy. it would eventually restore in a few hours.
Cole, wake up. i found you.

Ash smiled at the nurse and gently took benny in his arms, then returned to Emma.
"And this is benny.
and that's exactly what i was thinking. i just don't like the thought of my kids growing up with the polluted air and busy streets of a big city. and we have our families here, other kids to play with, the big meadow, nature...
when benny looked up at Ash with big eyes, he smiled softly, and just let out a long sigh when the baby boy puked on his shirt.
"And that was my favorite shirt..."

"Wow, we got a wuick thinker here", Coby chuckled sassily. "Dude we can teleport, go through walls, possess people and things...with enough training we can also move things with our mind and cool down the air."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim smirked gently as he saw the dog flattening her ears, stretching out her neck as far as she could to sniff Rachel's hand.
"She smells good, doesn't she?", Jim mentioned, the dog looking up at him while wagging her tail, until she finally took a step forwards and pressed her nose against Rachel's hand.
"I went for a walk, heard some barking and loud voices in a building. Went there to investigate, saw five men beating her while she was tied up on her hind legs.", he explained, crossing his arms. "I of course couldn't let her die. Look at that face. Fuck if it's a Pitbull, very probably mixed with Rottweiler and Husky - she ain't aggressive . I can tell by the look in her eyes. The same as Delta's."
He ran his hand through his hair and looked at his sleeping son, smiling softly.
"Where did the others go? James, Rex, Raven and Misha?"

Tyler groaned as the bullet flew through his knee, falling to the floor in pain.
"Not that knee!", he moaned frustratedly, looking up at the officer with a frown.
"Fine, you got me! Let me bring the money away and I'll come with you in peace."

Cole's eyes turned chocolate brown again and his hair and veins stopped glowing as he stumbled to the floor.
"What happened?", he asked Bailey, looking at her with tiring eyes.

Emma giggled, taking Benny out of Ash's arms.
"I got some tissues in my purse, you can use those. Or try to wash it off with water.", she explained, taking a tissue and wiping off the baby boy's face.
"No puking on daddy, Benny."

Mike gasped at Coby, his eyes widened.
"Really?! How awesome is that? How do I do that all?", he asked, grinning. "Do you just think it and it does it or do you need some spells?"

 

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"I know what you mean", Rachel said with a soft smile while she stroked over the dog's head. "all this talk about pitbulls and rottweilers being evil and dangerous by nature is pissing me off. i know enough of those who'd play the teddy bear for their owners anytime. and look at her. such a sweet face. she almsot looks like she's smiling."
tilting her head to the side, she watched the dog closely.
"She has a wake gaze, bet she's everything but dumb."
Rachel was smiling happily as she stroked her behind her ear. "You're a good girl, aren't you? Such a sweetheart even though those assholes did that to you. what do you think of a nice, cozy dog basket with a fluffy blanket to lie on just for you? and a huge meadow to play on. bet i can still find a ball or so somewhere. of course you'll have to get along with Daisy... but i bet you will."
Looking up at jim again, her gaze clearly showing that already was totally in love with this dog, she smirked softly. "She needs a name, honey."

"You really think i'd let you finish your little criminal plot and allow you to bring the money away?!", Raven laughed sarcastically and shifted fully human to pull the criminal to his feet and handcuff him. "You are arrested. You have the right to remain silent, everything you say can and will be used against you."

Bailey, still barely able to think straight, frowned deeply "How should i know that?! didn't sam say he wanted to wake you up or so??"

"Thanks."
Ash took a tissue as well and tried to get the puke off his shirt, but he was pretty sure he was just rubbing it in.
oh well, a job for the washer.
"His second name is Colin", he chuckled while he rested his hand on emma's shoulder and watched Benny with a happy smile. "You shuld've seen Cole's reaction to that. that was cute."

Coby raised one eyebrow.
"Spells? hot stuff are you confusing witches with ghosts?", he laughed. "witches do spells. we do the cool stuff. you need a free mind to move things around. let go of everything that pressuring you. just be totally cool and-"
a second later, a squirrel floated by, squeaking surprised, and gripped Coby's right horn tightly, apparently trying to stop floating.
"tadaaa."

 

[Wyosch]

Jim's eyes widened excitedly as Rachel mentioned the dog would need a name.
"Does this mean we get to keep her?", he asked, feeling like a little kid who'd finally get his puppy gifted for christmas.
The dog was happily wagging its tail, smiling at Rachel, moving up to cuddle her head into Rachel's stomach.
Jim heeled down, his arms resting on his legs, and whistled - the dog immediately turning around and happily trotting towards him.
While he was scratching her neck, the dog's tail wagging, he thought of some names - but they all didn't fit her.
"Mmh... the military alphabet serves some good purpose in naming your dog. You're a female, so no Alpha or Charlie. Beta doesn't fit you either... nobody can replace Delta...", he smirked softly. "What about we name you after my alias?"
Jim looked at Rachel with a happy smile on his face, while the dog now lying on her back to enjoy the belly rubs.
"What about Echo?"

Tyler groaned painfully again as he stood up, the wound in his knee hurting like hell.
"You don't understand - they got my brother, I need the money to save him!", he mumbled, frowning at the police woman.
Mh, she was pretty.
"Please-"

"You think it didn't work?", Cole asked, raising an eyebrow. "I mean - I don't even know what was supposed to happen!"

Emma smiled proudly at Benny, her eyes sparkling.
"That is so incredibly sweet.", she replied. "I would have loved to see his reaction to that. Bet it was really cute."
She turned to Ash, sighing happily.
"I'm just so happy right now. Everything is perfect... I just wish Mike would've been able to see it."

Mike laughed akwardly.
"Hey, I've never been a ghost before! How were I supposed to know that?", he asked, chuckling. "Okay and eh... how am I supposed to be able to do that like you did too?"