The Trager Family was just finishing dinner. There had been pot roast with carrots and onions, mash potatoes and gravy and a large salad, usually a favorite meal at the Trager household but tonight there were still plenty of leftovers.

"Lori, you've barely touched your dinner," Nicole said. "You need to eat."

Lori stared glumly at her mostly full plate of food, "I don't really feel like eating."

Nicole gave her a sympathetic look, "It's normal to suffer a period of depression when you're dealing with a loss. It's still important to keep your energy level up."

Kyle glanced down at his plate which still contained a significant portion of his dinner and then at Jessi's plate as well. She had demonstrated a similar lack of appetite. Their eyes met and they exchanged a grim smile.

"Mark isn't so much lost as discarded, "Lori said, "the jerk."

"Well, you've lost the trust and companionship you had," Nicole glanced around the table, "Everyone seems to be down, no one's eating. Is there something wrong with dinner?"

"I'm eating," Josh reached for more mashed potatoes.

"I don't think anything would spoil Josh's appetite," Stephen said with a smile. "This whole thing has been stressful for all of us. I had to tell Mark that he needed to get a new job."

Lori looked up, "You didn't have to fire him, Dad. Not on my account."

"I most certainly did," Stephen said, "I can't have someone I don't trust working as my TA. I thought we had an agreement, a form of trust. But he was working against Kyle and Jessi. He was dishonest with you. He can't work against my family and work for me."

"Is he going to be able to get another position?" Nicole asked.

"Probably," Stephen said. "My problems with him don't have anything to do with his actual work. He did a fine job as my TA." He shrugged, "If I'm asked to give a recommendation, I'll just say we had a personality clash."

Kyle glanced at Jessi and then said, "There's something we have to tell you."

The seriousness of his tone even stopped Josh from eating, he had their attention. Nicole asked, "What is it, Kyle?"

"Tom Foss is dead."

Lori looked up in surprise, and Nicole looked stricken, tilting her head as she did when uncertain as to what to say.

"What happened?" Stephen asked.

I told them how we had used Mark's cell phone to track Cassidy's location. I explained how we had gone with Foss and Declan to search his place to see if he was starting the experiment again. I told them what we had found and that while we were looking at the pods Cassidy had burst in upon us and tried to kill me and how Foss had placed his body in the way of the bullets and died. I explained how Declan had then shot Cassidy to save my life.

"Declan killed Cassidy?" Lori raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"What did you tell the police?" Nicole asked. "It was clearly a case of self defense. Are there going to be any charges?"

"The police weren't involved," Kyle said.

I told them how we had cleaned up the blood and wrapped the bodies in sheets from Cassidy's house. I told how we had driven them to Adam Baylin's estate and had buried them there.

"You three kids took two dead people and buried them by yourselves?" Nicole asked with a combination of shock and concern. "That's highly illegal."

"It's what Tom Foss did with the man who was going to kill me," Jessi explained. "He and Declan buried him in the woods. Foss showed Declan how to bury a body."

"We couldn't involve the police, Nicole," Kyle said. "The place was full of pods. The whole experiment would have been public and everything about us with it. We would have been on international news."

"What if someone finds the graves on Adam Baylin's estate?" Nicole asked.

"Who owns Adam Baylin's estate now, anyway?" Stephen asked.

"I do," Kyle said.

I explained how Foss had given me my inheritance from Adam, the property and other assets that Adam had left for me when I became 'of age'.

"So, no one's going to be looking closely," Kyle explained. "And Foss did show Declan how to bury a body so that no one would notice." He added reassuringly, "It would be hard to see the graves if you didn't know where to look."

"Isn't someone going to be looking for Cassidy?" Nicole asked. "Won't that cause an investigation?"

"Cassidy worked very hard to disappear," Jessi said. "He wanted to be invisible. No one is going to notice he's gone."

"Grace will know," Nicole objected. "Trust me. A mother is going to notice her child is missing."

"That's true," Kyle agreed grimly. "But they haven't been in communications lately. They didn't want us to find him through her. We'll have to deal with Grace eventually, but we have some time. And Grace won't want the police involved either."

"What about the other members of 'Dark Latnok'?" Stephen asked. "With Foss gone, who's going to watch over the two of you?"

"Robert Lukeson has been arrested by the FBI," Kyle said. "He's going to prison. He pled guilty and gave them information about Paul Milworth in exchange for a shorter sentence." Kyle sighed, "Paul Milworth committed suicide rather than be arrested."

"How do you know all that?" Stephen asked, perplexed. "I haven't seen anything about this on the news."

"We monitored the FBI communications," Jessi explained in a matter of fact manner.

"You monitored the FBI communications," Stephen said, shaking his head. "If I hadn't watched the two of you crack high level encryptions in minutes I would find that hard to believe."

"So all that's left is Grace," Kyle said. "We don't think she wants to harm either of us, especially not without the others."

"Declan will help keep us safe," Jessi assured them. "Tom trained him. He saved Kyle."

"How is Declan?" Lori asked.

"Yes," Nicole added, "How is Declan? This has to have been a very traumatic experience for him. How's he dealing with it?" She paused and expanded her question, "How are you all dealing with it?" She added, almost to herself, "I don't even know how I'm dealing with it."

"It's hard, Nicole," Kyle admitted. "It all happened so fast and then we just did what we had to. It might be good for you to talk to Declan, maybe you could help him. Jessi and I are worried about him."

"It would be unethical for me to treat him," Nicole said, "with all the connections to our family." She added, thoughtfully, "I could recommend a therapist for him."

"I don't think he can talk about this to anyone outside the family and a very small number of people who know about us," Kyle objected.

"A therapist has a professional obligation to maintain confidentiality," Nicole assured him.

"I think this may be too big of a secret to fit into the normal rules of confidentiality," Kyle objected. "Either they wouldn't believe him and then try to 'cure' him of his delusion, or they would believe him and decide they needed to contact someone."

Nicole thought for a moment and agreed, "I'm afraid you might be right. I can't see him formally, but I can talk to him as a friend of the family." She smiled and shrugged, "I'm fudging a bit there, but it won't be the first time."

Stephen asked, "You said you found a warehouse full of empty pods. So, Cassidy hadn't started the experiment again after all?"

"He'd started it on a much smaller scale than last time," Kyle said. "Jessi was able to hack into his computer and find the records. He had another small facility here in Seattle with two functioning pods."

"More clones of you, Kyle?" Nicole asked.

"One of each of us," Kyle said. "He cloned Jessi this time too."

"How far developed were they?" Nicole asked.

"Seven months," Jessi answered.

Nicole looked deeply concerned. She hesitantly asked, "Did you…"

Kyle smiled, "They're fine Nicole. They're too far developed for us to shut down the pods. We're letting them continue to develop."

"What are you going to do with them," Stephen asked.

"In two more months they'll have full normal development," Kyle said. "We intend to take them out then." He looked at Nicole, "We want to have them adopted by families, to have normal lives. Can you help us arrange that?"

"Of course, I'll be glad to." Nicole frowned, "We'll have to build a paper trail, so that they have the documents they need to be legally adopted."

Kyle nodded, "That shouldn't be hard. Adam Baylin put together the Petersen's documentation for me, including faking a DNA match. It will be much easier to document a newborn baby than a sixteen year old with amnesia."

"Will they be super geniuses like you and Jessi?" Josh asked.

"They'll be normal, like Jessi and I would have been if we had been born normally," Kyle answered with a smile. "They're duplicates of our genetic makeup."

"Although we would probably have been highly intelligent," Jessi observed. "Adam and Sarah were incredibly brilliant and Brian and Grace have high IQ's as well. The babies will probably be very smart."

"But no moving water with their minds," Kyle said with a smile.

Nicole smiled, "It'll be good to have something positive come out of this. There are a lot of people who would make wonderful parents for healthy, intelligent babies." She looked pleadingly at Kyle, "Will this family ever have a normal life again?"

Kyle smiled, "I was asking myself that the other night." He glanced at Jessi and made momentary eye contact. "I think that Jessi and I are always going to be doing something unusual. We aren't really going to lead 'normal' lives." He looked at Nicole earnestly, "But I think we have finally dealt with the dangerous people who were part of Latnok. We have a few issues to clean up, but I think the future's looking bright."