Epilogue
Two years or so later...
"Tomi, where is your brother?" Mai asked exasperatedly. "Everyone is going to be here any minute and he needs to get dressed."
"Don't know," Tomi said, but his grin gave him away.
"Tomi," Mai said warningly. "Where is Hideki?"
Tomi scowled at his mother and pointed down the corridor.
"Mai? Did you find him?" Noll appeared in the doorway clutching a giggling Kaede.
"Not yet," Mai muttered.
"Tomi, take the biscuits through to your grandmother," Noll requested and Tomi jumped to do as his father said.
"He always listens to you," Mai grumbled as she wandered down the corridor, searching for her missing son. She found him hiding under her and Noll's bed, chewing on a stolen biscuit.
"Hello mummy," he said, the biscuit still in his mouth.
"Come out," Mai ordered. Her youngest son crawled out and latched onto Mai's foot. He was still dressed in his pyjamas. She reached down and prized him off her foot before carrying him to his own room. "What do you want to wear today?"
"Pokemon jammies," he insisted, pointing to his current outfit and proudly displaying the pikachu across his chest.
"They're all smelly, pick something clean," Mai reasoned. She sifted through his drawers and pulled out a yellow t-shirt that also had a pikachu emblazoned across the front. "How about pikachu t-shirt and shorts?"
Hideki considered for a moment, then nodded. Mai knew her youngest son was infatuated with the show and believed this to be somewhat due to the fact that whenever he attempted to use his PK, he lit up a little like pikachu did. As Tomi loved pretending to be Ash, this proved for some good make believe play.
Mai had been very surprised when Noll returned one day with a togepi onesie for Kaede so she could join in the fun despite not being able to run around with her brothers just yet.
Both of their sons had PK and Hideki also seemed to possess something like Mai's intuition. Noll had not managed to pinpoint exactly what it was just yet due to their Hideki's lack of vocabulary. No one knew quite what abilities Kaede would show, but they were all ready for it when she did.
Mai had just managed to get Hideki dressed when the doorbell rang. Noll answered it and before long everyone from JSPR was sat in the Davis's crowded living room. The reason? Luella's seventieth birthday.
The secret of Himeko's lineage had long since come out into the open and though she remained Ayako and Takigawa's daughter, Luella had embraced her as an extra grandchild. As she had put it, she had gained three in one night, what difference did a fourth make?
As for the missing patients from The Institute, a formal investigation had been started by the government, but nothing had been found yet. The bomb had destroyed all of the paperwork and the only thing that remained was the file locked in Noll's desk.
The Sunday afternoon passed comfortably. Noll, who had Kaede sitting happily on his lap chewing on a toy, and Lin were discussing a case. Yasuhara was entertaining Madoka, Masako and Ayako. John and Houshou were playing a card game. Tomi and Hideki were demonstrating something extremely exciting to Luella and Himeko, who were both feigning interest. Mai watched her family, absentmindedly turning the simple ring on her finger and smiling to herself.
They might be an oddball bunch, but they were going to be okay.
The End.
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