Aelita and Jeremie were in the waiting room pacing around. She had been in the room for nearly an hour. Yumi and Ulrich had showed up as well, it was their grandson as well. Yumi and Aelita paced together and Ulrich and Jeremie paced without walking back in forth like they were digging a trench with their feet. Ulrich had his elbows propped on his knees, resting his chin on his fists that he balled together. Aelita checked her watch, seeing the hour marker had arrived.

" What the hell is taking so long?" Aelita asked everyone in the room. " When I had Angela, it took half an hour for me to get dilated, then five minutes for the delivery. Same for Charlie."

" Your just a delivery miracle aren't you Aelita?" Yumi asked her more as a joke. " The shortest time I was in labor for was ten hours. Times that by three, then you've experienced my pain."

" I never said I wasn't in pain."

" I know, but have you had three half a day long deliveries. It's her age that's bad for her. She's seventeen Aelita, it goes a lot smoother if your actually fully developed."

" You were twenty."

" But I was more developed when I had Keiko. It still took awhile. Seventeen hours with her. Fourteen with Xi, ten with Justin." Yumi said to her. " Maybe because I'm Japanese and I'm naturally tighter."

" Mom don't even start with that," Keiko said walking into the waiting room. " How is she?"

" Last we heard, not to good. Bleeding, and non progressive." Then they heard Angela scream again. Aelita wanted to rush in the room every time she heard that, but Jeremie stopped her, telling her that she had to wait, and that her interfering would prolong this. Keiko took a seat next to her mother. " Where's Xi?"

" The train station is closed, so it'll take him awhile, but he could be here any minute," Yumi said, looking at her daughter. Then she looked at her hand, and saw something. A ring, an engagement ring. " He proposed?" Yumi asked. Keiko nodded big.

" What?" Ulrich asked, hearing proposed and his daughter in the same sentence.

" Dad, I'm getting married," Keiko said showing him the ring.

" She was dating someone?" Ulrich asked his wife.

" Oh come on dad. I've been dating him for almost five months, and living with him for the last two, where have you been?" Angela screamed. " Are we sure she's alright, that didn't sound good."

" It's been going on for the last hour," Aelita said, filling her in on recent events.

" Damn. Will the little bastard just come out already."

" That's what I was saying when I was having you," Yumi said to her daughter. " Seventeen hours of agony you caused me."

" Sorry mom," Keiko said.

" It was worth it. Now it's your turn. I want five grandchildren from you, no less." Yumi said with a smile. Angela screamed again.

" I don't know. Sitting here makes birth control sound great," Keiko responded because of Angela's last scream.

Ten minutes later a doctor walked out of the room and looked at Aelita, he could tell she was the mother because of the hair.

" Mrs. Robbia, Mr. Belpois." Jeremie and Aelita stood up.


Xi ran into the hospital, bursting through the front door like a lunatic who just robbed a bank. Reading the directory he saw the delivery level was the third floor. He was sweating for two reasons. He was about to be or already was a father, and he had just ran ten city blocks. The cab had gotten stuck in traffic, and he needed to get moving. So he payed his fee and hoofed it. A minute later the same cab that got out of traffic passed him. " Are you fucking kidding me," Xi said aloud, watching the car drive by.

Rushing to the elevator, it was coming down from the twentieth floor, so Xi ran to the stairs. Running up the stairs he arrived at the second floor in ten seconds, then the third in by the end of the minute. Arriving at the third he bursted onto the floor then began to look around. Seeing a sign that said delivery, he ran in that direction and then turned a corner, and arrived in the waiting room, and saw everyone.

Aelita was being cradled by Yumi because Aelita was crying. Yumi kept trying to hush her, but it wasn't helping. Keiko was in the corner, crying as well. Ulrich just looked at the ground speechless, then Jeremie was a mixture of emotions. It was sad and mad. " Where is she?" Ulrich asked. Everyone looked at him, not sure what to tell him.

Jeremie knew what he wanted to say. Standing up off his seat he punched Xi in the face, sending him to the floor. He managed a few more hooks while he was down before Ulrich pulled him off. Ulrich threw Jeremie into a wall and looked him straight in the eye. " Jeremie, we've been through a lot in our history, but if you ever fucking touch my son again I will press charges. I know your sad, but Xi isn't to blame."

" Where the hell is she?" Xi said, getting to his feet, wiping the blood off his lip. " What the hell is wrong with him."

" She's dead," Jeremie said to him. Xi froze.

" What?"

" She died, not even five minutes ago," Jeremie said, shoving Ulrich off him. " This is your fault."

" He isn't to blame Jeremie," Yumi shouted at him. " No one is."

" He's the one who got her pregnant. Then he's the one who fucking killed her!" Xi looked at everyone in the room, as it circled around him.

" No," Xi said to him. " Your fucking lying."

" No Xi. I wish we were, but she's gone," Keiko said to him. Xi lost it. He fell to his knees then began to cry. Holding himself up with his palms, he kept himself from crashing to the floor. His vision was becoming blurry as he tried to breathe and cry at the same time.

" Angela," Xi mumbled. " No. I love you. Why. I'm sorry, I wasn't... I wasn't there for you." Keiko crouched down next to her brother and rested her palm on Xi's back.

" Xi," she said to him softly. She had no idea how to console him, or if he could even be consoled.

" What about the baby?" Xi asked.

" We don't know yet." The doors to the room Angela body still was in opened and a nurse walked out holding a baby in her arms. Xi's son. Xi lifted his head and saw him.

" Who's the father?" The nurse asked. Keiko helped Xi to his feet as Xi slowly walked over to the nurse. The nurse handed Xi his son as he looked down at him. He had been cleaned and he was wrapped in a little blue towel. Weight seven and a half pounds. A healthy baby boy. Yumi helped Aelita to her feet so they could both look at him.

The baby opened his eyes and looked at everyone around him. He had large dark brown eyes just like Xi. On his head wasn't much, but was some dark brown curly hair. It looked like Xi had been born all over again, and he was being held by himself. Yumi was a little disappointed and if the mood was better, would have complained that he didn't have slanted eyes to show his Japanese heritage. Even Xi's were slightly slanted, but you couldn't tell unless you were trying to.

Xi fell onto a chair with him then just looked at him. He had seen him, now he needed a name. Not one was coming to him. His son was better than he thought he'd be, and when he was going to name him, he wanted Angela there with him. They had planned they'd name him together, even if the final decision was his. He had nothing. He thought that when he was born and he was holding him just like he was, he'd think of something. Nothing came.

The nurse was holding a clip board with two sheets of paper. One was a sheet saying that they didn't hold the hospital responsible for her death, and one was for the baby's birth certificate. Aelita and Jeremie signed one, then they began to fill out the other, then stopped when they got to name because of Xi's indecisiveness.


Odd Jr stepped into the hospital. He wasn't able to get there earlier because of a job interview. College was fun but he didn't think it exactly necessary to live off his father's trust fund. He had decided to get a job, go to college, work through college, and just be normal kid who's father happens to own a multi billion dollar industry.

His step mother had called him on news on Angela. It took him several minutes to move again after he heard that she was dead. One of his best friends gone. It was the first death he had seen in his life caused naturally. His father had died before, and his friends parents, but they were murdered, then brought back. Hell even he died once, but it wasn't naturally. Xi had died once, but Odd jr was the only one to know how that history played out because of a very strange set of circumstances to sent him to the future, where he fought with his best friends son and his group to stop xana, then fighting xana himself, damaging the scanner causing an overload and the beginning of a time reversal that brought him back to the day Xi was killed completely frying the time reversal and sector six, where he saved him, and hoped he helped conceive Lili Miller, Travis Stern's cousin, by introducing Keiko( Lili's mother) to Toby Miller( Lili's father and xana's ex-puppet).

It had changed him. It had affected him so much, he knew he had to change his life style. Be a little more responsible, get better grades, graduate, go to college, work, and all that boy scout stuff. Because of this sudden change, Carla broke up with him, because he wasn't fun anymore, he wasn't the funny guy full of laughter and surprises who strikingly enough never forgot anniversaries, birthdays, and who your mother actually approved you dating. Odd jr had gone from child to adult in few short weeks, and Carla liked his child better.

Odd jr was soon stepping into the waiting room where Xi was with his sister. Keiko was holding the baby now, so Xi could sulk and cover his face. " You name him yet?" Odd jr asked. Xi lifted his face, then shook his head. " Can I offer a suggestion?"

" Go ahead."

" Name him Travis." Xi smiled at him, even managed a slight chuckle. On their first adventure when Xi, Odd jr, and Angela traveled back thirty years through sector six, they had to lie low because they looked like their parents. To help that, Xi went by the name of Travis in the past. Travis Grey. Odd jr went by Charlie Rogers. Charlie was his brothers name, his father and him liked that name, but his name wasn't Charlie like Odd wanted because Sissi wanted to name her first son after the father. Angela kept her first name, but went with Smith for her last because it was easy to remember.

" Great idea," Xi said walking over to Keiko. He took the baby in his arms then looked at him. The nurse walked in with the clip board.

" Have you decided yet?" Xi nodded.

" Travis Michael Stern," he said, wanting a normal middle name. The nurse nodded, gave Xi one sympathetic look then left the room. Odd jr looked over at Keiko who was asking to hold him again. Xi let her, smiled for a change. He was surprised he hadn't thought of Travis. Odd jr smiled by the way she was holding and looking at Travis. Her expression was the one a child makes when they want something someone else had. ' Oh I want that too'. Keiko wanted a baby. And when he saw the engagement ring on her finger he said to himself.

' Looks like Lili will be born after all.' It was a little weird how everything had changed so much from one history to the next. Xi was alive, Angela was dead, Travis was born with a parent able to take care of him, and most of all, Odd jr was still around. Before Angela was shot into the coma, he was already in the future thirty years ahead of everyone. Odd jr had been to the past, present, future and back again. It was up to him to keep history on the right path, because it was scary how much of an affect the people he knew had on it.