Telling
After going to the Precinct and telling Officer Morton about Rose, Jake and his Dad go back home. There, dinner seems to be as usual until…
"Jake, heat my tea, please?" Jonathan asks.
"I'll do it, Dad." Haley offers.
"No, Haley dear." Jonathan replies. "I insist Jake does it."
Jake then takes the kettle and heats it with his fire-breathing. Susan and Haley are horrified. "J-Jonathan, I can explain." Susan tries to say.
"Explain what?" Jonathan calmly asks. "That you came from a family of dragons?"
Now Susan and Haley are even more shocked. "You… know?" Susan asks.
"Did you really think I'd always believe that 'just a dream' excuse back in 1986?" Jonathan maliciously asks.
"You didn't?" Susan asks, still afraid.
"I wasn't sure of what to believe." Jonathan explains. "I was afraid insisting on that subject again would either make you think I was crazy or increase any damages Jake might have caused with his time travel."
Haley's fears are now replaced by her eagerness to hear about another wrong thing done by her brother. "Did Jake use time travel?"
"Remember when he was at that baseball game, Haley?" He asks and she nods. "Back then, he recovered the Uchrono Hourglass from that Hunts whatever they're called. When your Mom told him about a letter she wrote back in 1986 telling the truth but had never shown me, he went back in time to make me get the letter, hoping I'd easily accept the truth. I'm ashamed to say things weren't so smooth. To make things worse, that evil cult that wants all dragons to be slain somehow found out about me dating a dragon and abducted me to force me to tell her identity. I refused to tell and I was eventually rescued by your Grandfather and your time-travelling brother. They then told me it was just a dream. During the times I didn't believe it, I thought they did it just for time continuum sake and that I'd be retold everything once your brother came back from the past but, the rest is history. What really happened to Rose?"
Jake then explains about the Light Dragon thing. "Wow. Raised to hate dragons, then finds out the boy she loves is a dragon and, in the end, becomes a dragon herself?" Jonathan asks. "What a life."
Meanwhile, Officer Morton is relaying the news regarding Rose to her family. "Officer Morton, do you think this Jake boy might know more than he's telling?" Rose's Dad asks.
"Probably yes but my years of experience in the force allowed me to see the boy truly fears for her life." Officer Morton replies. "Trying to force more information from him will only scare him even more. Not to mention she might have left without leaving him any clue about her whereabouts."
After a final exchange of pleasantries, Officer Morton leaves the house, unaware that Rose's family is making up a plan of their own.
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