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'What does this mean?' Cate stared at her daughter as she leaned on the shoulder of her best friend Natasha, tucked into the taller girls shoulder. Lux had her arm around her waist, laughing at a joke the darker boy; she thought his name was Gavin. She saw each of the kids, they seemed so young and world weary. It was obvious to Cate that these children weren't really children, she had heard a little from the girl with the curly dark red hair about their past in the homes. But Cate knew that they were really hiding a lot more than that.

Even though Lux had said that her friends were comfortable with them coming over to meet them, she could tell that Bug, Natasha and Gavin…maybe even Lux was eyeing them as if daring them to say anything against them and the way they lived. They were mistrustful of adults.

She longed to say something anything to relive the tension so she stared with Lux's boyfriend Bug, "Um…Bug right? Where did you get your name it certainly is very…colorful." She stated looked at the boy.

Instantly the laughter from the kids stopped, four pairs of eyes looked straight at her black from the two boys, dark green from the redhead and blue-gray from her daughter. Cate flinched at their hostile looks, 'So much for being friendly.' Cate saw her daughter shift from foot to foot eyes locked on hers. The girl Natasha was rolling back her shoulders and rolling her neck. Gavin and Bug were more discreet about their discomfort.

Finally after an eon of silence Bug said, "My father was always a…colorful man. It's not as much a name as a nickname…my real name is Taurus. For my birth month." He quickly trained his eyes on the ground.

"Hey Lux can I speak to you for a minute?" asked Gavin.

"Yea." She let him pull her to a darker corner of the rooftop while Bug and Natasha spoke to Baze. Cate could hear them.

"What were you thinking letting them come here!" he whisper-shouted.

"I don't know maybe let my first family get to know the people who will be taking care of me for the next two years." She retorted.

"You don't need them to take care of you! You only need us, Tasha for being your dark side, Bug to love you and me to be your older brother and protector." Cate could see him gripping Lux's shoulders and staring into her eyes.

"I know that…but I want a peace between you guys and not to fight over me…and don't say I'm superficial for saying that because you know if it came down to it you'd be fighting them right now."

He sighed and she knew that this boy who seemed a little darker than the other two was exactly like a brother to her, "Do remember the time when those guys grabbed you in that alley and beat you up?"

Lux nodded her head and rubbed her left forearm like Cate noticed she did when she was nervous.

"Remember how you screamed when I grabbed you and pulled you away from them? You were hitting and punching me afraid like I was an attacker like they were. I was so afraid that they were going to take you away from me. I mean…ughh…how I put this I was afraid they were going to take away my little sister. Now I realize that…I really love you. I love you like a brother. A really protective older brother." He pulled her into a hug and whispered something in her ear; she saw a tear drop down her face.

It was then and there Cate realized that these people; Bug, Gavin and Natasha were her family and all she could ever be was a watcher. All she could do was watch Lux with her family and make sure that Lux and the other stay out of trouble.

She turned away from the siblings and to the other pair, who knew that she was watching them, she saw Bug glance at Natasha and she nodded at him they both looked into her eyes and nodded as if consenting to that the fact that Lux would be with her and Baze. Also that they would always be there if she needed advice on Lux.

Lux wouldn't only be hers but theirs.