This was a request from Reader Castellan (thanks love!), and I decided to turn it into a sort of chapter story.


Richard Cole never expected to have a family.

Fair enough, he had his parents, but when they disown you because you decided to chase your dreams, then you don't exactly consider them 'family'.

All he had ever wanted in the past was a good job, a career in journalism. That hadn't been working out. To be honest, he had been close to giving up.

His life changed when he came in.

Matt Freeman had promised him a story when he came into the Greater Malling Gazette, and boy, had he given one – a load of crap, Richard had thought. Cats coming back to life? A dead body disappearing? Strange voices in the woods? He had thought the kid was nuts.

But then he checked it out. The story just wouldn't leave him alone. He thought now maybe that was fate deciding his future. He went to see Omega One, just to prove to himself that this was all a load of rubbish. How did that night end?

He pulled Matt out of a bog, almost got killed by live dinosaur skeletons and then almost got killed again by a nuclear reactor. Not to mention everything else that happened after that. Lovely.

But now, after all that suffering and danger and fear, the war was over. And he had a family.


I'm going to upload the start of this later, since I'm at school at the moment :) I'm also working on the next chapter After the War, so maybe that will be up later too.

I'm so sorry about my absence! I'm taking my Junior Cert. this year (which is a big and really important state exam) and I have to study hard for that. Because of that, I barely have any time to write! It's annoying. But, luckily, I have a half day today and I'm getting my mid-term soon, so I'll hopefully write more...

I'll see you guys soon!

- CG xx