The Levin Files

Welcome Home Officer Levin

"It's nearly time." Gwen thought.

It had been slightly over a year since the part time Plumber Kevin Levin had gone off to the Plumber Academy to train and gain a full rank. To become a full time plumber with a actual rack was what Kevin had always wanted, to follow in his late father's foot steps. It almost didn't happen, with Kevin's checkered past, the powers that be of the Plumbers top brass nearly didn't let him in. But with the help of Grandpa Max, who had to call in almost all of his favors across the galaxy, and some kind words from both Azmuth, and Dr. Paradox. As well as a nearly disastrous appearance from the Hero of the Universe Ben Tennyson, Kevin was finally allowed to attend.

And it had been nearly 13 months since Kevin had shipped off for the Academy leaving his long time girlfriend Gwen Tennyson. He was supposed to come home 5 months ago, but he had caught the eye's of all of the instructors, and they had all recommended that he stay and take the extended training. That way he could leave the academy at the rank of a Tern, a second Lieutenant by Earth ranking. With the prospect of a great starting rank and the pay raise that came with the rank, as well as the possibility to have greater investigative freedom, he jumped at the opportunity.

But that opportunity had left Gwen alone a lot longer than what she was happy with. Sure she was happy for him, but the extra time training meant that she would have to go her whole senior year of high school without her boyfriend. She had to miss the Winter Dance, the Spring Formal, and most of all Senior Prom. But she didn't complain, she loved Kevin with all her heart and she knew he loved her. He had already promised to do what ever she wanted him to do to make it up to her. And boy did she have a great plan for how he would make it up to her.

But none of that mattered right now. What was important now was getting his welcome home party ready. As of two day's ago he had graduated from the Plumber Academy with the highest marks in all of the fields, the rank of L Tern (1st Lieutenant), and the best possible beat for a earthling. Quadrant 9, the same beat as both Grandpa Max and his dad Devin had had. The very beat he wanted, with that beat he can do a lot of good, move up in rank faster, and he would always be home in time for dinner. After the quite ceremony that only the top brass could attend, Kevin jumped on the fastest ship he could find and started he journey home.

'And the best part is he'll be arriving at Los Soladad in just two hours!' Gwen thought as she let out a loud squeal, and slightly bounced up and down on her toes like an excited little kid. She felt like it was Christmas and her birthday all rolled up into one, she was finally getting her boyfriend back.

As Gwen had stopped handing up paper lanterns to her partner to bounce around and daydream about all of the things she was going to do with Kevin in the coming days. She had failed to notice that said partner was staring at her with a annoyed look ing her eye, but an amused smirk on her mouth. But it was time to get back to work, so she decided to bring Gwen back to the land of the living.

"You Know Gwendolyn, as much fun as it is to watch you think of all the nasty things your going to have Levin do to you is. We still need to finish decorating the yard if you want to make it to the drop off in time." stated the amused woman, as she brushed a lock of her long silver hair behind her ear.

Brought out of her musings, Gwen decided to let the rude comment of her best friend, and former enemy slide. Turning to look at Charmcaster, Gwen couldn't help but smile at the memory of what had happened to bring the two together.

It had been nearly two years since Gwen had learned the sad origins of her once greatest enemy. The story that Charmcaster was a refugee from another dimension that had been taken over by a powerful demon. Her father had been the leader of their dimension and had fought bravely to save their home. But as the battles raged on the demon only grew stronger with each witch and wizard that he killed until there were only a few left. Realizing that all was lost Charmcaster's father did the only thing he could do to save his daughter, he sent her out of their dimension to live with her uncle Hex. But sadly the act of saving his daughter had cost him his life, and not knowing that Hex was a criminal on Earth, had cost Charmcaster most of her young life. But years later when the gang had to travel to Charmcaster's dimension with her they had learned the truth, the gang swore to Charmcaster that when they were done with Aggergor they would be back to save Charmcaster's home.

After she had promised to help Charmcaster save her dimension and free all of the lost souls, a small understanding had formed between the two witches. And after six months, and with the help of all their friends and with a large number of plumbers, they had managed to take down the evil master of her dimension. With the dark master gone the souls of the dead were able to move on and Charmcaster was finally able to say a proper goodbye to her father. But the wrath of the dark master was cruel indeed. Without the souls of the dead to sustain the dimension, it began to collapse. Once again forced to flee the only true home she had ever known Charmcaster had been devastated.

Feeling that it was the right thing to do, on a sudden whim Gwen invited Charmcaster to come and live with her and her parents. She had agreed. Now after a year and a half they were like sisters.

While they went out shopping together almost every weekend, Cas, as Gwen had come to call her, still chose to wear her weird little witch dresses. She was currently wearing a dark red one piece that went half way down her thigh, she wore black nylons under that and a simple pear of heels. She looked great, but Gwen knew that she wasn't dressed up for the party. She had dressed up because Cooper was going to be at the party. During the mission to take back her home Cas had been saved from certain death by Cooper, apparently in a very manly way. Cas had fallen for her knight in shining armor hard back then. She had only just got him to take her out, and she was obviously in love, Gwen could see it every time Cas looked at Cooper.

Gwen Smiled at her foster sister at the thought of her and Cooper. They reminded her of her and Kevin when they started to date.

Gwen was brought out of her musings when Cas decided that she needed to knock on Gwen's forehead to get her attention.

"OW!" exclaimed Gwen as reached her hand up to her head. "What was that for Cas?"

"One Gwendolyn, don't call me Cas, my name is Charmcaster," Charmcaster explained with a sigh," second you were off in la la land, and didn't here me call you. Needed to get your attention somehow."

"Ok, first I'm not going to call you Charmcaster, we're on Earth now and thats not a good Earth name," exclaimed Gwen, " and I thought I told you not to call me by my full name."

"And second why do you need my attention to finish with the decorating, we're already done." Gwen said as she looked around her, taking in her surroundings. There were paper lanterns hung up all over the small backyard that they were currently in. There was a beautiful garden at the back of the yard with two decent sized oak trees at both ends, and hung from those trees was a large banner that said "Welcome home Officer Levin!" Aside from the lanterns and the banner there were also lots of Christmas lights hanging off the side of the medium sized one story house as well as the freshly painted white picket fence. Some lights had also been wrapped around the large home made slide and swing set that sat off to the side next to a larger sand box, that sat conveniently next to a large pond complete with turtles and over sized gold fish. It had taken Gwen, Cas, Ben, Julie, Cooper, Grandpa Max and Kevin's folks three day's to get Kevin's mother's beautiful yard back to the way Kevin had left it when he left.

Kevin's mother; Sofia Hacket, had claimed the rights to hold the welcome home party at her house, as she predicted that Gwen would probably take most if not all of her son's attention tonight. Gwen did feel a little bad at the thought of that comment being true, she was planing on being the center of his attention tonight. But that didn't mean that she wouldn't have any competition this evening. She would not only have to compete with Sofia, but also Kevin's adoring older step sister and young niece, as well as his own new baby sister.

Speaking of his little sister and adoring niece. Sofia was currently playing with both her two year old daughter Megan Jade Hacket , and her five year old step grand daughter, Karin Ruth Murphy on the swings that Kevin and his stepfather Harvey Hacket had built themselves so that all Sofia would have somewhere to play with the kids.

Sofia was pushing Megan on the swing as Karin went down the slide only to run back up the small stair case and slide down again. It was a lovely scene and Gwen wished Kevin was already here to see the beautiful smiles on all three of them. Kevin loved benign a big brother and a uncle, and would have loved to see this. Gwen smiled at the memory of when Sofia and Kevin's step dad Harvey told Kevin that they were going to have a baby.

It had been just over two and a half years ago when the Hackets decided to tell Kevin that he was going to have a younger sibling. At first everyone thought that Kevin would be mad, but to everyones surprise he was happy. She of coarse knew why.

Kevin had once told her that he felt it was his fault that his mother and Harvey never had any kids of their own. He said that because of how much he scared Harvey and his two kids, that Harvey was to scared to bring a baby into a house with Kevin. Kevin said that he felt incredibly guilty for stopping Sofia and Harvey from having kids of their own. So when they told him the good news she could literally see Kevin relax a little as a bit of his guilt had been relieved.

The only other time she had seen him seem to relax a little had been at two other events. One was when Kevin and Harvey were able to put the past behind them and start over again. She felt that it was that event that led the Hacket's to decide to have a baby. The other was two years ago when Kevin decided it was time to apologies for all the things he had done to his step siblings as a child. His sister Hanna had accepted and started to become a major part of his life. Always calling and talking about her day and asking about his day, and the bonus was his niece now had a favorite uncle to play with.

But sadly that was also a bad day, Kevin's step brother Harry didn't accept. Which was a shame because Harry's two children, Jason and Maggie, loved their cool alien fighting, cool car driving uncle. She could tell it hurt Kevin to only see them at Christmas when the Hackets and Kevin all got together. She knew that both Harvey and Sofia were trying to convince Harry that his family should be here tonight. Harry would always shut down at the mention of Kevin, so they were trying to get through to him with the help of Harry's wife Susan. Susan had always liked Kevin and felt that Harry's was too hard of him. But it helped that she was a witch from Charmcaster's world. Her family had left that dimension before it had been taken over. So Susan knew a little about aliens and the troubles that Kevin faced being a Osmosian.

Gwen knew that Harvey was at Harry's place right now try to get them to come over to welcome home Kevin with the rest of the family. She really hoped that it worked out.

At that moment Gwen felt a light tap on her right shoulder, turning around she found herself looking into Kevin's older sisters blue eyes. Kevin's stepsister Hanna was a short portly blond, that had a sweet little mouse voice. Alway overly polite and clam it was a wonder how she managed to always keep her hyperactive daughter in check. Gwen had always figured that Hanna had learned how to control her kid from Sofia, it was some kind of magic trick how Sofia was always able to keep Kevin clam these days. Puzzled to what was up Gwen tilted her head to the side and started to question her, when Hanna spoke first.

"Gwen honey shouldn't you be getting home so you can get ready to go and pick Kevin up?" asked the petite blond. "You only have an hour to get ready, and then a forty minute drive to the landing zone."

Before Gwen could say anything, as if to confirm Hanna's point, the alarm in her plumber badge went off to remind her it was time to get home and get ready.

"Oh man, it's that time already!" exclaimed Gwen, "I need to get home now!"

Turning away from both Cas and Hanna, Gwen took off to the front of the house where Kevin's Car was parked. Since Kevin wasn't going to need it for his training he let Gwen drive it while he was away. As much fun as it was to drive this monster of a car, she couldn't wait to have Kevin driving her around again. She really missed the quality time they spent in his car. As she slid into the drivers seat and started the car, she couldn't help but smile at what she planed to do with Kevin in this car before the party. A large smile spread across her lips as she backed up into the street and took off towards to the other side of town where she lived with her parents and Cas.

"Tonight's going to be great, I just know it!" Gwen said to no one but herself.

The quite hum of the modified engine of Cooper's Plumber ship was the only indicator that the ship was even running let alone flying through the darkness of space. It was hard to believe that it was only two years ago that Kevin had actually wanted one of these weak ships. The X-93T had once been a great ship, but now it was out dated. But the Plumbers top brass refused to replace them or even upgrade them. It was no wonder the plumber's record for chasing down criminals was so low, especially when an everyday person could go and buy for the right price a TC-5G7. The second fastest ship in the universe. Kevin's ship the "Rustbucket 3" of coarse benin the fastest ever.

It had been exactly one year, three weeks and four days since Kevin had been home and with all of his friends and family. He missed his ma, he missed little Megan, who wouldn't be all that little anymore. He missed Harvey and his kids and grandkids, he even missed Harry, it hadn't felt like Christmas six months ago without Harry there to bitch him out about something or other. Hell he even missed Tennyson and his constant whining. But most of all he missed his Gwen.

They had kept in contact with the occasional letter whenever the Academy would allow the cadets to write to family, so he knew pretty much all that had happened while he was away. Which apparently wasn't much. But that didn't cut it as far as Kevin was concerned. He wanted to be there with Gwen, to hear her tell him the stories with her beautiful voice as he would stare into her beautiful emerald eyes. He just couldn't wait to get back to her and take her into his arms and, as Ben would say, suck her soul out of her mouth.

Kevin smirked his trademark smirk as he thought of all of the other things that he do to Gwen as soon as they had some quite time together. Kevin couldn't help but chuckle a little as he realized that it really wouldn't be all that quite.

Kevin was brought out of his musings when Cooper's voice suddenly came on the P.A. system of the ship.

"Kevin, we just passed the moon, we should be at the landing Zone in about twenty minutes." announced Cooper from the cockpit of the Plumbers ship.

"Well it's about damn time!" Kevin groaned, as got up from his seat in the back of the ship.

Kevin frowned as he remembered why he was in the back of the ship. About half way back to Earth he had begun to pester Cooper to fly faster. He had felt that Cooper wasn't fly the ship to it's fullest, sure he knew that the it was a Plumbers ship, so there for slow then most ships. But this was Cooper the tech-no wizard's ship, so that meant that he had to have fixed it up a bit.

But no matter how much Kevin complained, Cooper wouldn't speed up. It got the the point where Kevin was about to start threatening bodily harm if Cooper didn't speed up when the younger blond boy finally just told Kevin to go and wait in the back.

Originally ticked off at the situation, Kevin was about to tell Cooper off, when he had a thought. In exactly one weeks time Kevin was going to become Cooper's superior officer, and the thought of starting off on the wrong foot before he even started did not sit well with him. So Kevin reluctantly relocated to the back of the ship where he had only his thoughts to occupy his time with.

But it wasn't just Gwen that was plaguing his thoughts but some the things that had happened to him the last year. A side from all of his new friends and new connections that he had made in the Plumbers, he felt like he had made some enemies too. And not the occasional jealous cadet that wanted to make a name for themselves, but some real, dangerous enemies in and out of the Plumbers. There were rumors fly around the extra net that there was some new criminal organization called Nova that is bent on ruling the universe or something like that. There were rumors that aliens of top positions throughout the known and unknown universe were a part of this group. The worst rumor was that there are at least three Plumber higher ups in the group.

Normally these rumors would have bothered Kevin, he simply would have just ignored them and gone through life unaffected. At least he would if a proxy officer of the Plumbers who worked for one of the Big Ten (the ten leaders of the Plumbers), hadn't approached him one night and demanded that Kevin join Nova. When Kevin heard that he had froze, the rumors had been true and this Nova knew of him.

Kevin shivered as he tried to not think of the conversation that had followed, to this day almost three months later it still unnerved him. He knew he would run into Nova sooner or later, but that was a road he would walk later when he had more to go on then just rumors. He figured he would talk to Grandpa Max some time during his week off before he started working his beat.

As Kevin moved about the plain looking and unconvertible cabin, he had failed to notice that Cooper had entered and was standing over by the exit ramp of the ship. After about a minute, Cooper had to clear his throat to gain Kevin's attention when it became clear that he wasn't currently in the ship with him at the moment.

Startled by the sound, Kevin whirled around into a fighting stance that Gwen had taught him over two years ago. When no enemy presented themselves, Kevin took a look around him to finally notice that Cooper was a the exit ramp with a amused look on his face.

"Welcome back to the land of the living." chuckled Cooper as Kevin's face began to set into a scowl. Cooper just continued to chuckle.

It was at this point that Kevin noticed that the ship was no longer making noise. Coming to the the immediate conclusion that the ship had landed, Kevin's face began to light up. Before Kevin could ask if they were really home, Cooper simply lowered the ramp to let Kevin off. And before Cooper could even say anything Kevin was already off the ship luging his two giant duffle bags and walking as fast as he could without looking desperate, towards the two most beautiful things in all of the universe to him.

The first was his green with twin black racing stripes 1969 Chevy Camaro, the second almost took his breath a away. Gwen

Gwen was still as beautiful as the day he last saw her, if not more. She had hit her last growth spurt and now stood at a dainty five feet, nine inches. Her green eye's were just as alive and vivid has he remembered, and as he drew near her, with the wind coming at him he could smell the faint scent of peaches. She was wearing a loose powder blue sun dress that was flowing elegantly in the wind, she also had on a pair of white sandal heels that's straps wrapped around her ankles. To top it off she was hearing a large whit sun hat.

As Kevin started to drop his bags so that he could hold Gwen, Gwen took off her hat to revile that she had cut off most of her hair, and was sporting a slightly untamed cut that closely resembled the same hair cut that the future parallel version of her had had. This made Kevin eye's widen, Gwen had cut her hair. No not just her hair, but his hair. He had always liked playing with her hair. And while he was sad that it was gone, he did have to admit that her new look did look sexy.

Just as Kevin was about to say something, Gwen burst out laughing. Confused as to why she was laughing Kevin looked down at himself to see what was so funny.

He wasn't wearing anything odd, just some black slacks, and a black button down shirt, and some black leather shoes. Confused as to what Gwen was laughing at, Kevin was about to ask what was up when Gwen finally managed to laugh out.

"Nice ponytail!" laughed Gwen as she bent over to hold her belly as she continued to laugh.

Kevin sighed at this, he had figured that Ben would make fun of his now long hair, but not Gwen. As of four months ago Kevin had started to grow his long hair longer, in now reached just below his shoulders. But Gwen wasn't laughing at the length, she was laughing at what he had done to make his hair look more presentable tonight. He had braided his hair into a loose ponytail that he had currently hanging over his left shoulder. He thought he had looked nice and respectable for tonight, but he was apparently wrong.

As he moved to pull the braid apart, Gwen stopped laughing and stopped him.

"Don't, I like it," chuckled Gwen as she straightened Kevin's braid out, "I didn't mean to laugh, I just didn't expect it is all."

"Well you could have fooled ..." was all Kevin could say before Gwen used his ponytail to pull him down to her level and kiss him for all she was worth.

Kevin was at first stunned, but quickly started to return the kiss. In those few moments that the kiss lasted, both Gwen and Kevin could feel all of their worries and trouble melt away. All that was left was their love for each other.

As they broke apart for air they stared into each others eye's, Gwen was the first to talk.

"Welcome home officer Levin." whispered Gwen with a smile.

Kevin could only smile and hug the woman he loved. It felt good to be home.

In a dark room, with no windows or anything of significant value, stood two lone figures. At first glance the figures looked to be sleeping while standing. Suddenly that quite beeping sound began to emit from both of the figures. Almost immediately two figures eyes shot open and began to look around them. When they determined that there was no threat around they began to move, the tallest turning to the shortest and saying.

"In the name of Nova, Kevin E. Levin must die." said the almost mechanical voice of the obvious leader of the two.

The other simply nodded and followed the leader as they left the small dark room.