((So apparently you all liked the story? well I'm grateful. Thank you. i'm going to try and please you but just remember. I don't enjoy to make things too easy..a short but important chapter. they all can't be homeruns I suppose. Does it even need to be said at this point that I own nothing.))

When they'd left the hospital for the Davis home Mai had been hopeful that they'd have some time together. Naru had avoided taking any complicated cases during her pregnancy but she knew that couldn't last forever. He was a scientist and she knew no matter how much he loved her and Gene he would need to be out in the field doing things. His mind would require the stimulation to prevent growing bored. As it was he was he'd already missed dinner today, having had a late lecture to deliver at the university. The man she married was a workaholic and she didn't think he'd be able to repress that aspect of his personality for long.

Still; she hoped, looking down at her newborn son the peace would hold a bit longer. As young Gene began to stir in her arms she took him from her breast to her shoulder and burped him. As she patted him softly she heard the snick of the door that announced that someone had come in. Hearing the gentle footfalls she smiled.

Mai cradled her son and turned to smile at her husband. "Daddy's home." She cooed to the baby who gave her a gummy grin. When she met Naru's eyes he was smiling as well, but it seemed stained. For a moment she wondered if the late nights were starting to catch up with him, but then she noticed he seemed pale, and drawn.

"Are you ok Naru?" She asked in English. She'd been practicing and it usually made him smile to hear her tongue weighing the unfamiliar words.

"I"m tired." When he saw her brow furrow in worry. "It was a long day between lecturing and research. It's nothing to worry about." He added quickly running his fingers over his small son's cheek he excused himself to their bedchamber. Mai watched him go before she turned her attention back to their son.

"Let's get you a bath little man" She said first in English then Japanese. With Naru for a father she was sure that her son would have an incredible intellect and she wanted to encourage its development from an early age.


Oliver laid down on his bed having only removed his shoes. He'd been honest with Mai, he was tired but he hadn't been totally honest with her. He was totally exhausted and he felt as if he was having a harder time than normal keeping his PK under control. He was expending a great deal of his conscious energy to control his power. He was terrified that it would spike wildly and Mai or Eugene would be injured.

He heard the water begin to run for Eugene's bath and he tried to get up to go play with his young son in the water. Eugene loved when he played with the bubbles, distracting him from Mai and the wash cloth but he just could not find the energy to get up. He tried but he felt so weak and tired.

The last thing he could remember thinking before he drifted off to sleep was that it wasn't normal for him to be so tired.


When Mai returned with Eugene wrapped in a towel, freshly bathed she smiled at her sleeping husband. He was so tired he'd fallen asleep in his suite. She laid their son between them and powdered and dressed the baby before putting him in his bedside sleeper. She knew that they'd have to move him to the nursery soon but neither she or his father wanted to be very far from their sweet little baby. She was so proud of how he'd split the night time changings with her.

With that done Mai changed her own clothing and then helped remove her husband's vest, tie, belt and pants. At least he'd be a bit more comfortable. When she crawled into bed next to him she couldn't help but notice that he was burning up.

Maybe he had a cold, perhaps that's why he had fallen asleep so early? She made a quick run to the bathroom and returned with a cool cloth. She put it on his forehead to help him cool off and then settled in to sleep. She was worried for Naru but listening to the sound of his and Eugene's breathing she was lulled to sleep.