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Summary: As Chane ages before his eyes, Huey regrets not making her immortal. He was happy for her before he began to see the pain of aging in her eyes as he stays forever young.
Seventy years had gone by since that fateful night on the train, but after Claire caught up to Chane in Manhattan the two stayed together every day. It was easy for the assassin to find the girl in the city. Her scent was unmistakable and she was looking for him anyway. Nowadays they weren't fighting crime or killing anybody, but they were still as active as ever. They'd recently become great-grandparents and were extra busy with caring for very young children. They spend much of their time chasing the toddlers around the house or tending to crying babies.
The family patriarch, Huey, visited often when he was out of prison and, though he was both Chane's father and over two hundred years old, still didn't look a day over twenty five. Most people thought he was one of her grandkids, the spitting image of his great-grandfather when in fact he was THE Huey Laforet himself. The immortal had been having mixed emotions lately on whether or not he regretted the decision to not allow Chane the gift of immortality.
The woman was growing old, as was her husband, and they had little time left in the world before passing on. Chane had given up so much for him, going so far as to have him remove her voice in order to keep his secret. But that was just it: she was only the keeper of the knowledge of the secret…not the secret itself. She and Claire, who now called himself Felix, were the only ones who knew that Huey was immortal.
Chane's ability to communicate had become much easier when she taught herself sign language. Everyone in the family could understand her and she didn't have to take her time writing out what she wanted to say. She and Claire double teamed and taught Huey and together the three of them discussed the future of the family with their mortal lives coming to an end. Chane was quick to thank her father for everything he'd done for her and would say that she was happy to live a normal life, but he knew she really wanted to be immortal like him.
Huey couldn't help but ponder to himself if he'd really made the right decision in not making his daughter immortal like him after learning that it was not a genetic trait. He loved her dearly and had hoped she would have asked him for it. She always denied everything and would never have asked so much. He would've been more than happy to allow her that pleasure. Now he watched as she aged even more as the days progressed and the ninety-year old woman was nearing the end of her days.
Sure he had acquaintances. Maiza and the other immortals were still around to talk to and discuss important information, but Chane was his beloved child and he felt that, though he knew he wouldn't die, it would kill him when he lost her.