A/N: I really need to write something. Hmmm… Let's just say, I TOTALLY CALLED IT! "Maybe we'd be better off if he were dead." "We need to put him down." Similar much? Yeah, totally called it.

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"What if we try to find a way to turn him back?" offered Gwen, just throwing an idea out there to try and get it out into the open. Maybe if she shot something off to her cousin, he would be able to look at the situation differently.

She had said something irrational. She hadn't known that her thoughts of having Kevin dead would have such an effect on Ben. And now he was going along with it. He was thinking that maybe she was right. She had realized her mistake only after Ben had taken her side in the first place.

"And what if we don't and more people die?"

He had a point, but the redhead wasn't about to agree with him. She did want to defend Kevin the best she could for as long as she could. Maybe his powers would wear off if she stalled her cousin long enough. And then he would still be alive. The only problem was, would he still be sane?

"Come on, Ben," insisted Gwen desperately, her pleas showing in her emerald eyes. "Please just give it a chance. There's got to be a secret to his powers or something. There's got to be something that not even he knows about himself." Her orbs were begging her cousin to see it her way for just a few minutes. Maybe she could sway him if she caught him off-guard and set him off balance on his ideas. "You know that he hardly knew his own powers. All he knew was what he was told and a few legends. Did he actually really know anything about them? The real stories behind it all?"

Ben's face was stone cold. "Don't start, Gwen. We're already having a hard time tracking him down. I just want him out before anything severe happens. You saw what happened in the Null Void." He was splayed across his bed, his mind obviously elsewhere. Or maybe it was still on the same topic, just thinking of something that he wasn't going to say aloud.

Gwen sat in his desk, still wanting to get him to at least change his mind. "Ben, please just let me try a few things." Her hair was across her face. She had been wearing it down since she had lost Kevin. She knew he had always liked it better down so that he could play with it. She would just leave it down now. It was easier anyways. "I can check the ALDB. I'll find something on Osmosians that will change him back." She leaned towards her cousin a bit more, growing desperate for him to at least keep his plans to put Kevin down on hold. "I'll get him back." Her eyes glittered with unshed tears. "For both of us."

His defenses were breaking. Kevin had been the older brother he'd never had. Sure, it was a strange relationship the two held, but it was a strong enough bond to make Ben miss the older teen. His grimace was tight across his mouth, lips drawn into a straight line as he weighed the possibilities that Gwen's idea has placed before him.

On the one hand, they hadn't heard any news of Kevin for days. They probably wouldn't hear anything for a few more days at least. What would researching hurt in the spare time that they had between sightings of their monstrous friend?

But if they did hear something in the next day or two and he agreed to Gwen's proposal to research instead of fighting him, someone else could die. But he would be able to get off and fight Kevin on his own instead of having Gwen holding him down and blocking him from hurting her boyfriend.

Keeping Gwen with him was a danger. She could get Ben killed while trying to defend Kevin.

Ben ran his fingers through his mop of brown hair. His eyes squeezed tightly shut as he wished his life were just easier. Having the relationship between Gwen and Kevin didn't just make it awkward for him, but it made it harder to make one decision that would help them and not ruin their relationship.

"Go ahead," said the brunette Tennyson. His eyes were still closed as a migraine worked its way into his skull. "Just know that if he does come up anytime soon, we're going after him. Got that?"

The redhead nodded eagerly, fishing her Plumber's badge from her pocket and connecting it to the large PC computer that sat on Ben's desk. She hooked it up using the USB port and easily began to maneuver through the pages that came up with the plug-ins and such.

Her cousin just slid down in his bed, wishing the on-coming headache would go away long enough for him to at least get a nap in.

"We'll get him back, Ben," she said, pulling up the ALDB and typing in 'Osmosian'.

A/N: Since there's no episode this week, I have a bit of free range with this story. I'm really hoping it won't be ruined again. Please review. It means the world to me.

~Sky