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Time to Start Again

Chapter One

"Honey, you better not be where I think you are!" A middle age woman screamed at the top of her lungs which sent her words echoing through the loft in which she lived, along with her family. Even though she sounded angry, she was smiling afterwards at the thought of where he might be. Even after all theses years, he still loved the work in his lab even though he no longer needed to.

The blonde woman walked inside the elevator and waited until it reached the level she wanted to go. Once she was off the elevator, she saw a man with brown and specks of white hair working with his back faced to her. Smiling, she walked up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist and waited for him to turn around. As she expected, he didn't and just said, "Is that you Susan? If it is, I need to work. I just found out that the micro verse indeed has…" He was interrupted when Susan Richards went in front of him and put her finger on his lips.

"Won't you ever stop thinking about atoms and molecules and have fun?" Susan asked her husband, Reed Richards, who just raised his eyebrow.

"Do you think I stop thinking of atoms and molecules?" Reed asked his wife, half-jokingly. Taking it seriously, Susan crossed her hands over her chest and looked at him sceptically.

"Now that you mention it, I don't think you do. All you think is about atoms and molecules and nothing about your family!" Susan was about to storm out of the lab when Reed grabbed onto her arm. Feeling his touch on her arm, she spun around and looked at him suspiciously. "What?"

"Do you really think that I meant what I said? I was just joking. You do know that I love you, right?" Reed hoped that she didn't take what he had said seriously. Sure, they had small fights that did jeopardize their marriage but they always made up in the end, usually with a very sappy movie and a night to themselves. However, Sue did overreact sometimes and did take extreme measures, even having a marital separation from Reed for shutting down their son's mind, but they got back together in the end.

Susan looked at him and instantly smiled. "Of course, I knew you were joking. I just wanted to test you."

Reed gave a huge sigh of relief and laughed. "Remember the only time you were actually mad at me inside my lab?"

Scrunching her forehead and deep in concentration, Sue said, "You mean the time when Johnny was in trial with the Kree, and I was going ballistic at you for not giving exact details of his condition? Oh yeah, I do. If I remember correctly…."

Susan laughed as she finished remembered her flashback. She hugged Reed from the back and asked, "Hey, what do you think the others are doing now?"

Ben woke up from his bed and yawned as he struggled to get out of his bed. As he got up, he felt the other side of the bed and found it empty. He spun his head around and looked at the other side of the bed. Yes, it was indeed empty. Afterwards, he stood up and walked around his room, bathroom, then into the hallway. As he knew where she was going to be this early in the morning, he walked straight and went into the first room to his left.

Inside was his wife sitting in her art studio, sculpting a figure of what looked like a miniature Ben. Smiling, Ben walked towards his wife and wrapped his massive arms around her petite waist. Even though Ben was able to change to human form and his Thing form on his own will, Ben, in his human form, was still many times bigger than his wife. Once Ben wrapped his arms around her, he whispered into her ear, "How are you doing, Mrs. Grimm. Who are you sculpting? Is it Ryan or Daniel?" He watched as his wife spun around and found himself looking into two pools of light brown, almost a chestnut color, eyes.

"What do you think, Ben? I am sculpting Ryan. I already sculpted Daniel earlier this morning. Do you want to see it?" Nodding, Ben slipped his arms from Alicia's waist to allow her to get the sculpture. When she did get it, Ben took it into his own hands and felt the structure in his hands.

"Wow, Alicia, this is awesome! Daniel would be psyched when he sees this. Are you doing it for his birthday?" Ben asked, realizing suddenly that his son's birthday was just in a couple of weeks. Alicia raised her eyebrow and laughed softly at her husband's enthusiasm.

"No, but I am sculpting something for his birthday. Something that no one is allowed to see," Alicia stuck a finger at her husband, "Even you."

Ben slumped his shoulders and sat down and waited for his wife to finishing sculpting. "Hey, do you remember when you sculpted me in your loft?"

"Which time? The time where you were mad when you thought published a paper on saying that you, Susan, and Johnny were guinea pigs for an experiment or the time when…" Alicia was interrupted by Ben.

"Exactly that time. Remember what you said?" Ben asked as he picked up a sculpture of himself up.

"Well, if I remember correctly…"

Alicia finished remembering and suggested, "Hey, what do you think Reed, Sue, and the others are doing?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Ben gave a straight out answer, "Dunno." Alicia rolled her eyes and carried on her sculpting.

Johnny sighed as he went out of his bed. He had known that his wife would be out of his bed by now. He looked to the side where his alarm clock was beeping 9:00 a.m. He chuckled knowing that his wife would be out of the room and in the kitchen every morning at 8:00 a.m. If only she overslept like him, he would be real happy.

He went out of his bed and walked into the bathroom and put on his robe on. He flew into the kitchen, even though he knew that he was not supposed to, according to Reed. His childlike behaviour had never actually left him. When he arrived in the kitchen, he saw his wife cooking what seemed like eggs. He crept up behind her and put his arms protectively around her waist. He whispered into her ear with his deep, husky voice, "Hey honey."

Frankie Storm spun around and kept the ladle in her hand. "Do you want to help me or what?"

Johnny rolled his eyes and went by her side. "Do I ever cook?" Frankie rolled her eyes and continued on cooking.

Looking around carefully, Johnny noticed someone was missing, "Hey, where's Mary?"

Frankie shrugged her shoulders and flipped the eggs, "Probably in her room sleeping or with the others saving some people."

Johnny sighed knowing that the past eighteen years with his family had taught him about responsibility, but he never actually grown out of his childlike behaviour. "Hey, do you need any help?" Not waiting for an answer, he took an egg and focussed on it. Before both of them knew it, the egg was splattered on Frankie's apron.

Frankie looked at her husband with scrunched eyes, "You are so immature, Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm!"

Johnny rolled his eyes and went to sit at the counter. Frankie grunted and continued on making breakfast, "Remember the time we met and you were so immature!"

Johnny looked at her in embarrassment, "You mean the time I got you into the Negative Zone and I…"

"Acted like a baby and cried help for Reed. Yeah, exactly." Frankie finished with a smirk.

"I never cried for help!" protested Johnny like a little child.

Frankie rolled her eyes, "Well if I remember correctly…."

She finished her flashback and was about to say something when Reed, Sue, Ben and Alicia came into the kitchen. Johnny got off the counter when he saw Reed. Frankie rolled her eyes and said, "Breakfast anyone?"

Sue smiled at Frankie and helped her serve breakfast. While the six adults were about to begin, Reed asked, "Do you know where the kids are?"

Their question was answered when Ben put on the television, and there their children were being broadcast of saving the city once again from a creature named Terracotta. Alicia grinned, "There comes our answer."

Ben grunted and went to sit in his usual chair but he was too big as he was The Thing at that moment. As he was going to change himself, Johnny asked, "Whoa, Benjie, got to go on a diet eh?"

Ben growled and tackled Johnny to the floor. Sue and Frankie rolled their eyes while Alicia yawned. Reed went to break them up. Ben grunted when he got up, "I could have beaten him anyway."

Johnny laughed, "Yeah, like the time you said that you could've beat the Hulk but he was a mile ahead of breaking you to bits."

Ben frowned at the memory when Reed's friend, Bruce Banner, had fought him when he was the Hulk so many years ago. "Never mind the past. Let's just eat, okay?"

As he was about to sit down, they heard, "Hey Mom, can we join?" The six adults turned around and saw their kids grinning at them like they accomplished something that no one else could.

Sue smiled. "There's the kids," she whispered.

Like it? I hope you did. This won't be any more than five chapters. Please say you like it!

Until next time…

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

-Rosefire