A/N: So good news and bad news. Bad news first, this story is officially going to reach its end by chapter 10. Originally the outline called for 20 chapters, but my co-author put in his two-week notice and without him on board I don't feel like completing the project. Takarifan101 (my co-author) doesn't really think its popular enough for him to continue to put so much work into it and he wants to get back to his other stories. It kinda makes sense but I'm still sad this story won't get to see its full potential.

But here's the good news, while 'Feeling Something New' may be finished way before it was planned to, you'll still get a pretty solid conclusion. Not the one I wanted, but it wraps up most of the plot points, except for a few (namely Ethan's one worded visions), especially the ones presented in this chapter referring to future arcs (Eric's warning and Doctor G's reference to something). I didn't want to take them out because if I do decide to come back to this story then I want to pick up right where I left off.

No one guessed the theme, but by the end of this three parter it'll be obvious. These three chapters have been brewing since the Cookie Arc so I hope you enjoy. And I just want to give a special shout out to Takarifan101 for lending me two of his characters, both from his story Benny's Baby (it's not an Ethan/Benny fic but it's still a pretty good read). Read on and enjoy!


Feeling Something New

By AnotherSideTheOtherStory

Chapter 8: Emotion Commotion Part I

Benny walked home with a smile on his face and most if not all of his problems temporarily forgotten. For starters he had aced his recent biology test, gotten perfect marks on his past five assignments, and to top it all off since starting his fourth month of pregnancy the morning sickness had finally stopped. Not only that but he had finally talked with his Grandma about putting up the baby for adoption. Whether she approved or not, she hadn't been anything but supportive. He thought about the baby going to a family where both the parents would be in an active part of its life and felt the tiniest twinge of regret.

"Everything ok?" asked Sarah as she noticed the sheepish smile and light blush on the Spellmaster's face. "You look like you're on cloud nine."

"I bet it has to do with that A on his test," said Ethan with a grin as he walked hand in hand with his girlfriend. "All those late night tutoring sessions finally paying off?"

"Yup," said Benny immune to the hollow feeling his friend's relationship now inspired. He thought about telling them his plans for adoption and then decided against it. He knew they wouldn't approve and there was no reason to spoil his good mood. "Things are finally going my way."

They both gave him smiles and stopped at the sidewalk between the Morgan and Weir households. With the promise to hang out over the weekend they parted ways. He watched as Sarah entered the house while Ethan hung behind and stood awkwardly in front of him.

"Everything ok E?" asked Benny knowing full well that something was bothering his friend. Sarah might not have picked up on it, but he could read E like a book, and the brunette was definitely turning something over in his head. "And don't lie to me."

"This is gonna sound stupid, like really stupid but," whispered Ethan as he turned slightly red and kept his eyes focused on the ground. "But I think that maybe the-"

"Come on Ethan!" called Sarah as she reappeared on the porch. "You promised tonight would be the we'd watch Stars Wars together for the first time."

"Never mind," said Ethan as he backed away with a half-hearted smile. "It was nothing important, I'll see you later and make sure you eat you eat something because I saw how you skipped out on lunch today."

Benny watched as his friend darted off and felt the distinct pang of hunger in his stomach. He shrugged it off and thought about the way things would be after the baby was out of his life, when things would go back to being normal. For now he would do what he had done these past few months: ignore the pregnancy. With a smile he headed into his house, he had better things to do than worry about eating for the stupid baby…


Which apparently involved his English teacher. Benny stood in the doorway for a moment and let the sight of Mr. G, dressed in a lab coat sitting casually across from his Grandma while drinking tea, sink in. They both turned to look at him and the next thing he knew the man was shaking his hand and talking.

"It's been so long since I've seen you Benjamin, how are you feeling?"

"You just saw me," said Benny as he closed the door and gave his teacher a strange look. "Like an hour ago in class. What are you even doing here?"

"This isn't your teacher," said Evelyn without standing up. "This is the Weir family doctor."

"Doctor G," said the man as he let go of Benny's hand and motioned for him to sit. "You've met my twin brother, we're two of three siblings with the same passion for helping young minds. He wanted to teach, and I wanted to heal. But all that aside I'm here to check up on you, and the little one inside of you."

"I didn't know we had a family doctor," said Benny as placed his backpack on the floor and took a seat next to Evelyn. "How come I haven't met you before?"

"Because you haven't had a reason to," said Doctor G as he sat in the chair across from them with his legs crossed. "I deal with the supernatural illnesses, such as mixing vampire and werewolf blood, people who are allergic to their own powers, and in this case magically created children."

"Magically created children?"

"Believe it or not your are not the first person to accidentally impregnate themselves," Benny felt himself turn bright red. "And I'm more than certain you won't be the last. I apologize for not arriving sooner but your Grandmother here assured me she was keeping a sharp eye on you. I'm not sure if you know this but one upon a time she was a nurse under my tutelage, and one of the very best at that."

"That was a lifetime ago," said Evelyn as she took a drink from her cup. "Enough with the past you're here to make sure my future great-grandson is healthy."

Benny cast his eyes down, that was the first time she had addressed the baby as anything more than just a baby. Doctor G stood up and clapped his hands together before asking:

"Do you mind if I speak with your Grandson alone? I'm afraid I need to ask a few questions he might not feel comfortable answering in front of you."

Evelyn nodded and a few seconds later Benny found himself alone with the Doctor. Doctor G gave him a smile and pulled both a clipboard and pencil from the depths of his white coat.

"I'm going to ask you a series of simple questions about the pregnancy and if you can answer them to the best of your ability I would greatly appreciate it." Benny nodded. "First off, how was the child conceived?"

"I was trying to create a pheromone based love potion and accidentally used the fertility one instead."

"Ok," he scribbled something down. "Do you know when the baby was conceived?"

"January twelfth."

"And it's April fifteenth now," said Doctor G as he checked his watch. "Ok, we can mark down labor for as early as June and as late as November…. Do you know biologically speaking, who the other party involved is?"

"If you're asking about the other parent then yes I know who they are."

"Excellent that makes things much easier than I expected. Have you had any sexual intercourse since-"

"NO!" yelled Benny as he thought of Ethan. He felt himself go red and shook the thoughts out of his mind. "W-why do you even need to know that? Don't you need to check on the baby instead of asking me questions or something?"

"It's just standard protocol," said Doctor G as he scribbled away on the clipboard. He tucked it back into his coat and sat back in the chair. "Has your Grandmother talked to you about the birthing process yet?"

"She told me we're going to have to use a teleportation spell, that I'd probably end up giving birth early and that the baby would be really small."

"Unfortunately it's true, children created via magic are always born early and small. You can expect to go into labor as early as six months, and the fact this is going to be a home birth just makes it all the more worrisome. I wish we could do this in a hospital but the sterile environment has always had adverse effects on anything magically based."

"Is it normal to have dreams about the birth?" asked Benny as he looked up at the Doctor. "B-because I keep having the same dream over and over again. It's just after I give birth but I never remember what-"

The Doctor held up a hand and motioned for Benny to lean forward. When he did he placed both hands on his head.


Benny leaned back on the sofa panting, and did his best to stay awake. The whole world was a blurry twisted mass of grey. He looked around wearily until he heard the sweet sound of crying fill the room. He tried to focus on the edge of the sofa and little by little a person emerged from the mass of the world. They said something but all he could hear was the sound of his son crying, the sound of a healthy baby boy. The person scooted closer and carefully handed him the small blue bundle. Benny tried to shake his head in protest but the figure leaned forward and handed him the baby anyway.

The moment he was holding his son Benny felt a strange energy wash over him. He didn't want to but he loved the child, wanted to be a part of its life, he couldn't give it up, not now not ever. He looked up at the figure and in a weary voice said:

"We… we did it Ethan."

"Wake up."

The person came into focus and instead of Ethan it was Erica. She gave him a huge smile. "We're parents," said Erica as she reached out to hug him. "We're really parents Benny!"

He looked at the baby and frowned, it had blonde hair and blue eyes. This wasn't right, this was wrong, everything about this was wrong. Ethan was supposed to be the one sitting next to him, not Erica…. Wait… wasn't it supposed to be Erica? Didn't he want it to be Erica? Weren't his feelings for E side effects of the potion? Everything stopped and Benny found himself alone in the suddenly empty world.

"Wake up Dad."

He looked around wildly for an answer, and when he couldn't find one felt tears of frustration well up in his eyes. A bright flash of purple filled everything with color, and once the light faded he found himself staring at a teenager with his hood turned up.

"You need to wake up," said the boy as he shook his hooded head in disappointment. "You need to wake up and fix this before it's too late."

"Who are you?"

"Think about it for a second," Benny's eyes widened and the boy snapped his fingers. "There you go." He reached up for his hood and the world faded from view. "Now wake up, and fix everything that's wrong with this! You have to WAKE UP!"


Benny leaned back in the sofa and watched as Doctor G produced the clipboard once again and began to scribble away on it. After a moment he asked:

"Is the other parent of this child perhaps a Seer?"

"I…" He could say it, he could say. Just say the name... Just say his name. "I don't know."

"Benny I want you to be honest with me. Is the other parent by chance that young man you mentioned in your dream, this 'Ethan'?"

"Y-yes."

"And he's a Seer correct?"

"Mhmm," said Benny feeling embarrassed. That was the first time since his conversation with Erica he had said it aloud. It felt… almost relaxing to say it. "Ethan Morgan's the father."

"Then that explains everything, it's not unheard of for a child to inherit its parents' abilities. As impossible as this may sound the baby is having visions, which is an indirect for way it to communicate with you. This dream of yours reflects the inner turmoil of your mind. From what I felt and saw I'm sensing a mixture of emotions for not the only the child, but in regards to this Ethan as well. I'm going to go out on a limb here and saw you haven't told him he's the father yet have you?"

"He knows about the baby, but not that it's his and I wasn't planning on telling him either."

"Then the dream makes sense," said Doctor G with a sad smile. "I hate to be the one to say this but you need to tell Ethan about your son's heritage because he needs to present at the birth."

"He what?" Benny smacked himself, how could he so stupid? "I forgot about that…. What if he's not there?"

"Then both you and the child would be at serious risk. Once the magical uterus starts fading away the the baby needs to be delivered. Your body won't be able to handle the pregnancy once labor begins and both you and your son will die before he even has his first breath." Benny paled. "I believe this dream is a way of reminding you about that. Though there seems to be-"

"Can you just examine me and the baby and go?"

"O-of course," said Doctor G as he motioned for him to lie on the sofa. "This is just a simple aura procedure combined with my natural Seer ability. Shirt up please."

Benny lay down, lifted his shirt up, and stared at his lower stomach. He wasn't showing yet, but he had definitely lost the little muscle definition he had once had. He watched as the Doctor waved his hands over his stomach and felt a strange energy go through him. After a moment the Doctor smiled and said: "Any day now."

"Any day now what?"

"You should be getting a bump." He took a step back and clapped his hands."All done."

Benny looked up at him. "Is that it?"

"That's it, a few things I'd like to share with you before I go. First and foremost, you need to talk with this boy. It's important that he's present at the birth, and if you don't then I will be forced to speak with your Grandmother, and we both know how persuasive she can get. I rather it not come to that, and I'm sure you agree with me." Benny nodded earnestly. He produced the clipboard once more from his coat. "Second I detected a third faint residual aura on you. Have you been around another Spellmaster, Earth Priestess or some other supernatural force lately?"

"My friends and I fought a witch a few months back," said Benny as he pulled down his shirt and sat up. "But she turned to dust, I'm always around vampires though."

"Hmm…. no that wouldn't cause this. It's possible that your interactions with your son are generating it…." He scribbled something down. "If your hanging around vampires then I feel as though I should warn you about werewolves as well. Not many people know this but if you combine-"

"I don't know any werewolves, and I'm tired, can we just skip to the end."

"Of course. Be wary of physical activity, I heard about your stint with your mind controlled friend and if you engage in further fights it could result in a miscarriage. And finally you need to eat more."

"I eat plenty," lied Benny as he crossed his arms. "If anything I should be eating less."

"I know you wouldn't lie to me," said Doctor G as he peered over the top of his glasses at him. Benny felt his blood go cold and shivered under the cast of the icy stare. "Especially when it comes to life of your unborn child. After all you would never do anything to harm him, especially considering how he's relying on you to take care of your body which in turn takes care of him."

"O-of course not."

"Good. I heard you were thinking about adoption, and the Whitechapel Community Hospital has a program that helps those in similar cases to yours. Here are some papers if your interested." He produced several pamphlets from his coat pocket and Benny gave him a strange look. "It's a magically modified coat, makes it easier to get around the hospital without lugging things around. Anyway talk to Ethan about the baby, it's obviously causing you a bunch of internal strife. Not to mention I didn't need my powers to sense how much you care for him. Oh and here."

He handed him a small black ring and Benny gave him a questioning glance. "What's this?"

"It will allow to you control your actions and communicate with your son in the Dreamscape. It seems like he's trying to tell you something, but whatever it is, is beyond my powers of sight. Be careful though, the Dreamscape is unstable, if you find yourself stuck remember: something shocking will break the reality and wake you up."

The Doctor headed for the door, and Benny followed after him with one last lingering question. He took in a deep breath and summoning as much courage as possible asked:

"Is it possible the love potion side effects are mixed in with the pregnancy?"

"What? Of course not, that's impossible, the pheromone part of the spell would've been canceled out upon first contact with the other parent."

"Really?" asked Benny as he held onto the door for support. "Then-"

"You have no reason to not talk with this boy. I'll be back in a few weeks to check up on you, and I expect to see a healthy baby bump," he again gave him the cold stare. "And if I don't then I'm going to tell your Grandmother you aren't eating enough, and we both know how that will end."

"Y-yes sir!"


Benny found himself sitting once again on the sofa, feeling exhausted and surrounded by the dark grey mass of the world. He looked down at his hand and did a double take when the ring on his finger began to glow. All at one the world came into focus and any of the strange feelings from before were gone.

"This must what Doctor G was talking about," whispered Benny as he looked around. "The Dreamscape."

"The one and only," said the hooded boy as he appeared in the chair on the other side of the room. He reached up and pulled the hood down. "It's good to see you again Dad."

"Y-you're not my son," said Benny as he took note of the boy's bright blonde hair and blue eyes. "Who are you really?"

"It's me," said the boy as his face fell. "Eric Alec Weir, you know your son, the Impossible Child, Icarus, Project Halcyon... How about the Faceless Men, Ringmasters or the Storyteller? Any of these ringing a bell? Remember when I babysat Matthew?"

"Why would I name you Eric? And why do you have blonde hair, you look more like-"

"Like Erica?" said Eric with a smile. "Did you expect me to look more like this?" He snapped his fingers and another boy appeared this time with Benny's dark hair and Ethan's brown eyes. "Why would I look like him? After all Erica's the other parent, and obviously you named me after her."

"B-but she's not... She can't be... It's... How did you do that?"

"This is the Dreamscape, since I exist here the rules of reality don't apply." He changed into a boy with wings, a child with scars all across his body, and then back into his teenage form. "In the other places I've been I was a baby, a mute child, and an incomplete teenager. But this-this is honestly the first time that I haven't existed. I guess the Apotheosis didn't touch every dimension."

"What are you talking about?" asked Benny trying to follow the boy's logic. "You making less sense than Rory during his coffee high."

"I'm not here to tell you that you need to talk with Ethan," said Eric as he stood up and closed the gap between them. "I know you'll come around to your feelings eventually, you always do even it takes a while. He's important to you, and if he's important to you, then he's important to me. But I am here to warn you Dad, she's coming and she's going to try to hurt you. Wake up."

"Who's coming? What you talking about?"

"Wake up Dad." Cracks began to appear in the ground all around them. Eric looked around and cursed under his breath. "You need to wake up now before it's too late!"

"Tell me who!" He grabbed the boy by the shoulders. "Tell what's coming!"

"You won't remember the dream but first look at the reflection..." The world shattered and Eric gave him a sad look before fading away. "I'll see you soon."


"I do the wiggle man, yeah," sang Benny happily as he rubbed the sponge across his body. He danced around the shower feeling better than he had since the whole pregnancy started. Every since his appointment with Doctor G last week things just seemed better. His dreams had stopped feeling so foreign, and even though he couldn't remember them, they didn't bother him as much as they used to. He thought about the dark ring resting atop his cellphone and laughed, he might have worn it everyday but it hadn't really provided any help. He continued scrub his chest and stomach as he sang aloud: "I'm sexy and I know it!"

The words suddenly died on his lips. He let the sponge fall and felt a strange pride rush through him. He quickly rinsed off, wrapped the towel around his waist and looked at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. He picked up his cellphone and selected Ethan's number before stopping. He wanted to tell him, but could he? He felt the happy feeling go out from him and then looked up to meet his own eyes.

"No more of this," thought Benny as he turned sideways and stared at the small but noticeable bump. "I'm telling him tomorrow."