I Believe the Children are our Future

Chapter Two

2015

"Why is Daddy sad?" a voice asks the man typing away on a computer.

"Daddy's not sad," the man looks to where the voice came from and puts her on his lap. "Daddy is just tired is all." Their voices echo in the vacant and last running lab in Global Dynamics. The lights over head flickered all around them but were not a sufficient source of light.

The girl, the man's daughter, who looked so much like her mother but shared his eyes, ponders his words.

"Well I'm gonna grow up faster and then I'll be a big girl. So Daddy won't be tired anymore." At his daughter's words the man was brought close to tears.

"My little Ellie, you are always in a rush to grow up." Her father scolds but his heart wasn't in the direction of reprimanding her. The last couple of years with Jo gone were hard on all of them. Even though Joey and Ellie were the same age . . . 'Correction I'm older than him by a minute Daddy' the voice of his daughter corrects. He smiles to himself but his expression wavers. The truth is she was the one most affected by Jo's death besides him. Her brother Joey didn't understand the concept of people leaving and never coming back just yet. But Ellie on the other hand did no matter how much he wished she didn't. Just another thing he couldn't protect her from. He mentally kicks himself.

"My little Ellie-tron?"

"Yes Daddy."

"What was mommy's name?" Her father sees her flinch and a pang of guilt shoots through his chest. Her eyes mirror the sorrow in his tired blue ones.

"Daddy's being silly again," Ellie teases him, "that's an easy one. I could never forget. It's Jo Daddy." Right then, the man's heart broke as he brought his daughter into another embrace.

"Electron?" He starts using another one of his nicknames for her. She nods back up at him.

"Can you do something for Daddy? I need you to be brave," his voice cracks and he hates himself for it. "Braver then you have ever been. I need you to take care of yourself and your brother. Can you do that for Daddy?"

He feels like a failure. He already failed Jo. Now he was failing his daughter and his son. This should have been the last resort. He couldn't save Jo or himself but he could save them. This was the only way to save their kids. Their universe was crumbling and it wasn't long before the fabric of their reality completely unravels. There was no more time left.

The cool metal band around his daughter's wrist brushes against his arm and brings him back to reality to what he must do. Not to far away across the lab he sees his son wearing a matching bracelet to his sister curled up on one of the counters on his side fast asleep. It's time.

"It's now or never. Before it's too late," he says more to himself then to his sleeping son and confused daughter.

'This is the only way' he repeats over and over in his head as he starts up the machine and prepares to say good bye to his kids for the final time. Tears shine in his tired blue eyes. And in a flash of synthetic thunder they were gone and he is alone. Although all his logic points to it's irrationality, he hopes to see Jo. Not long now.


You wouldn't believe how many times it took me to write this chapter. And I was suppose to be doing homework this weekend! But your reviews were so.. gah words can't even begin to describe how AWESOME they ALL were. All your hypotheses to the parentage of twins were so entertaining that I just had to write the next chapter. And I gave you their mother and their father. Sort of, now aren't I mean? ;)

I hope this solidifies your thoughts on who the father is. And I'm really sorry if it's not who you thought or who wanted him to be. Please don't be mad at me. But if you are still confused or unsure who their father, you'll have to wait for the next chapter now won't you?

Next chapter should be up this Friday. Feel fear to both-erm I mean review (I welcome it) before then to get me to update. Who knows maybe I'll find you guys more entertaining. Friday updates seem more likely cause I have nothing better to do on a Friday night away except homework and mourn until the Christmas Special episode airs. How depressing is that?

Well the choice is yours! =]

And does anyone want to take a guess on what the twin's full if not first names are before I reveal them in the next chapter?