I fell asleep shortly after the argument with Seth, dreaming of a nice bed far away from alien issues, the government and drooling dogs. I woke to a cold breeze and sunlight. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting at the sun and shivering at the breeze. The car was open and Jack was standing outside.

"W-what's going on?" I muttered.

"Dog needs to go to the bathroom" Jack grumbled.

I groaned and turned to our passengers, the dog had just jumped in the back seat. I heard Sara and Jack having a conversation but I ignored, nothing to do with me so why should I care? At that point, my attention was on Sara's non-human-trusting brother, Seth.

"Why are you staring at me?" I asked.

His face was still hard, a cold expression painted over it to hide any form of emotion. Whether this was a trait of the species or just a Seth thing, I didn't know yet. His eyes were fixed on mine through my sunglasses.

"I can't see your eyes" he replied.

Slowly, he leaned forward and gently put his fingers on the side of my sunglasses, ready to remove them. I didn't even flinch, I was frozen as he gazed at me, silently asking my permission. I guess my near-invisible eyes must've told him it was alright because he slowly started to remove my sunglasses. He suddenly stopped and pushed them back on as Jack and Sara got back in the car.

I turned back to face the front but stayed silent, my thoughts were on Seth and the millions of different reactions I could've seen in his eyes if he'd seen my eyes. My freaky purple eyes. I felt a nudge at my side.

"What's wrong with you?" Jack asked.

"Nothing. Tired" I replied.

The shock on his face told me that of everything I'd said to him in the last two days, this had been the least sarcastic, mean or bitter. Figures. Without another word, I went back to sleep.

Jack woke me up when we got back to Vegas; home sweet home. We left the taxi outside and entered the convention.

"Ok, so stay close to me. Don't talk to anyone. Nice and normal" Jack instructed the twins.

I looked around at all the creeps in alien costumes, I knew when this was all over, I was never having anything to do with any form of alien thing every again. I glanced at Seth, maybe there were some exceptions. I smiled a little to myself as we walked into Dr Friedman's empty auditorium. She turned to us.

"The cattle mutilation lecture doesn't start for an hour. But grab a seat. This place will be packed, it always is" was she drunk or sarcastic?

"We're actually here to see you" I said.

"Oh" she sounded happy.

Man, I wished I could one of those lucky people where even the tiniest of things could make your day so much better or even just put a little smile on your face.

"Jack Bruno. We met earlier" Jack said.

"We did?" she asked, I rolled my eyes.

"Cab...airport to hotel...driver" Jack clarified with hand signals.

A look of recognition appeared on Dr Friedman's face "Oh. The nonbeliever. What are the odds?"

"Can we talk someplace?" I asked, I really wanted to get things moving.

Dr Friedman looked at me "Crowds in here making you uncomfortable?"

"More private than this" I smirked.

"Look, no offense, but I'm pretty busy..." Dr Friedman said as she turned to walk away.

"She's doubting her thesis on Gliese 581 and Alcublerre's warp drive" Sara said.

Dr Friedman's looked shocked beyond all belief "How did you know that?"

"It gets better" I said.

"Trust us" Jack said.

I watched as Jack and Dr Friedman argued in the Mars auditorium while I had a little argument of my own.

"What did you do me?" I asked in harsh whisper.

"I do not know what you mean" he said.

"You touched my glasses, you tried to take them off and now-"

"I have done anything to you" he turned to walk away but then looked back "But if you are having feelings of -"

"You don't know anything about me or my feelings" I almost yelled.

"I know that it is-" Seth began.

"Hey, please don't touch that" we both turned to Dr Friedman.

"You captured an image of our ship" Sara said holding up the laptop.

"The smudge? You're telling me you think the smudge is your spaceship?" she sounded skeptical.

"No, we don't think it's our spaceship, we know it is our spaceship" Sara said.

I watched Dr Friedman but out of the corner of my eye, I saw Seth looking at me.

"That's it. I'm out. Now if you'll excuse I'll just grab my laptop and-"

It all happened within a few seconds. A few important seconds. Dr Friedman declared she was leaving, went to get her laptop which slipped through Seth's hands but was caught by Sara's telekinesis and brought back up.

"Oh, they can also do all this stuff, too" Jack added.
"Who are you?" Dr Friedman asked the twins.

"Show her" Sara said to Seth and he dug something out of his pocket. Suddenly, some form of universe-hologram was all around us. The stars, planets, everything. It was beautiful. I was oblivious to everything else in the room then...almost everything, I smiled at Seth for the beauty he had shown to us and he smiled back, a nice smile. A happy smile.

"Where are you from?" Dr Friedman asked.

"Our planet is located some 3000 light years from Earth" Sara answered.

"Space travel at such sizable distance is possible using-"

"A paradoxical passage in the unbounded-"

"Wormholes! That's it. My presentation at SETI National Convention was right. Interstellar travel is possible using wormholes as a shortcut through space" Dr Friedman giggled.

"That was my first guess as well, the wormholes" Jack said.

"Suuuure" I said to him. "Continue, Dr"

"Why did you come to Earth?" she asked.

"Our planet is dying. Millennia of neglect as rendered our atmosphere unbreathable"

"That sounds familiar"

"Our parents are scientists who have studied Earth's climates in hopes of finding solution for our planet" Seth said.

I cringed to myself at the word 'parents', at least they still had them. I hid my pain for the time being, there were more important things.

"Your planet makes a suitable living environment for our kind. It would be simplest to abandon out dying planet and...occupy yours" Seth finished.

Did he really just say that? "Excuse me? We're helping you conquer our planet?"

"No, most of the people on our planet are fiercely opposed to this plan. Fear of extinction triumphed among our people. But then our parents discovered a solution, an experiment at an outpost near here was successful in regenerating life into all previous dying plants and trees"

"Which would be able to fix your planet's atmosphere" I said.

Pretty smart for me but I actually did okay in science at school.

"So what's the problem?" I asked.

"Our military preferred invasion over science" Seth replied.

"Which is why we had to hurry and retrieve the experiment. All proof that our planet can be saved and your planet spared is in here" Sara said as she held up the things we got in the pimped out fridge plant room.

"Where are your parents again?" Jack asked.

"They were arrested. We agreed to complete the task for them" the twins replied.

"What about the assassin?"

"Assassin. What assassin?" Dr Friedman asked.

"The Siphon warrior series Deraniun 75 was created by our military" Sara answered.

"They're bred to hunt?"

"Bred to kill. If we don't return back home in time, the invasion will proceed" Seth said sharply.

"We seriously need to find your spaceship" Dr Friedman breathed.

"Definitely" I agreed.

We all nodded.

There you go ! :)