Sage walked to Rowen's bedroom and knocked on the door, but there was no response. Sage wasn't surprised.

"Rowen? Rowen, please let me in I want to talk to you." Sage compromised with him, but still, there was no response.

Sage turned the doorknob, and, surprisingly, it was open. He walked into the dark room and immediately noticed Rowen sitting next to the window. The moon cast a dark and eerie light across the bedroom creating an even darker shadow of Rowen, as he sat with his arms wrapped tightly around his legs. One single tear fell from his cheek and dropped to the floor, sparkling in the half-light of the moon until it hit the ground, creating a splatter of water. The tear that fell from Rowen's face wasn't clear like normal tears. It was thicker and darker. Sage ran up to his best friend and sat down next to him on the windowsill and gazed into his eyes. Rowen blinked slowly and let another blood tear escape his defenses as he stared out the window. The blood traced a small trail down Rowen's ivory cheek and fell into the crease of his mouth. From there it dripped off his lower lip and onto his hand.

"Rowen!? Why are you crying blood?!" Sage cried, feeling an immeasurable amount of fear and worry seep into his body.

Rowen exhaled deeply and slowly turned his gaze to Sage. In the decreasing amount of light in the room, Sage could definitely tell that Rowen's eyes had a thin coat of blood around them. He swallowed hard, and blinked a couple of times, letting a few more blood-stained tears fall out of his eyes, until they were clear again.

"I don't know, Sage… I just don't know." Rowen replied, his voice just barely audible.

"Jesus Christ! You're scaring me, Rowen!" Sage pleaded. "Are you really that worried?!"

"I'm not worried about anything, Sage." Rowen whimpered, "It's just that I guess I haven't realized how much I missed my daughter."

Sage didn't know what to say. "I don't know what to do for you-"

"And I don't even know what to think about Kia anymore," Rowen said, his last words muffled because of how bad his voice was giving in.

"I'm sorry..."

"Don't apologize,"

"No, I'm sorry because I miss Kia too."

Rowen didn't reply. Instead he sighed, but it only left him crying again. He pressed his forehead against the windowpane and looked down at his bloodstained hands. "I'm sorry about everything, Sage."

"What?"

"Everything. I never wanted to get into a fight with you over Kia. It was just that... well, I was jealous."

Sage bit his bottom lip.

"I knew that Kia loved you and I guess that I was selfish, I wanted her all for myself. But I should have just let you two get along. Maybe things would have went smoother."

"I'll never forgive myself for what I put you through, Rowen."

Rowen forced a very small smile of uncertainty through his mouth and onto his lips, as he barely nodded his head, showing he understood. That let a small sigh of relief pass through Sage's body. Then Sage got up and headed out the door, "When they come home, wake me up."

Rowen nodded.

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"Go ahead, knock on the door."

Ayame knocked on the door, but instead, the door opened.

Kia looked confused for a moment, "Well, that's a first." She took a step forward, her two children following her inside the house.

"Where do you think they are?"

"Most likely, sleeping."

"Do you think Dad got my letter?"

"Of course." Kia stopped and listened for a moment. "If I tell you guys to be extremely quiet, can you make it upstairs?"

The two nodded.

"Alright, follow me." Kia walked slowly up to the staircase. Once they had gotten up the stairs, Kia told her them to stay where they were while she checked on the bedrooms. She checked her old one first. To her complete surprise, she found Sage and Natsuki sleeping side by side. They had left their nightstand light on, and Kia noticed her son's letter in Sage's hand. She smiled and tried to hold back her emotion. Then she tiptoed to the other bedroom. With no one in that room, she checked the last one.

Her inhale was sharp as she found Rowen fast asleep on top of the bed's covers. She didn't expect to find him here.

"Okay, Ayame come with me." Kia instructed, pulling her daughter by the arm as she lead her to Rowen's bedroom.

Kia slowly opened Rowen's door wide enough for her and Ayame to squeeze through and walked in.

Ayame suddenly stopped, "Are you sure?"

Kia pursed her lips, nodding. "Go ahead." She waited for a moment longer before leaving the room.

Ayame took a deep breath and walked over to her father's side. She held back a laugh, remembering that his hair was blue. With tears of happiness in her eyes, she let her hand graze across her father's face.

Rowen shook his head slightly and blinked his eyes open, wide and as innocent as a child's. His eyes soon met the figure that was standing above him, "What- who are you?" he whispered.

Ayame sat down on the bed, the moonlight making her face visible.

Rowen's mouth dropped a little and his eyebrows folded over his eyes. He stared at her for the longest time, features interchangeable. Her long and thin silky black hair and her sapphire blue eyes were so familiar.

Ayame blinked as two soft tears rolled down the sides of her cheeks, "Dad?" she rasped.

Rowen's eyebrows arched, "Ayame?!"

She closed her eyes and nodded.

Rowen suddenly choked up and flew himself at his daughter, squeezing her as tight as he could. Ayame cried into his shoulder, squeezing back. After what seemed like forever, Rowen took a hold of her shoulders and pulled her back, admiring her. "I can't believe you're here."

"Yep, here I am." she replied with a lighthearted laugh.

Rowen embraced her again, and gave her kiss on the forehead, "Gods, I've missed you so much."

"Me too."

"And you've turned out so so beautiful. Like I've always imagined."

"Dad, stop!"

Rowen chuckled and wiped away his tears. "I always knew you were going to look exactly like your mother" Rowen stopped in mid-sentence.

"What?"

"Your mother."

Ayame giggled, "Yeah, she's here too."

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"Ready?" Kia asked her son.

He nodded.

Kia led him to Sage's room and opened the door.

As soon as he got a glance at him and whom he was sleeping with, he stopped. "But I thought you said that he was my dad."

"He is."

"Then who is that woman?"

She hesitated, "We'll talk about it later, ok?"

He shrugged, walked forward. But he hesitated, "I... I can't do this, mom."

"Yes you can, just tap his shoulder."

"But what if he doesn't like me?"

"Of course he will!" Kia rasped, "He's your only son!"

Sage's son stood there for a moment, debating whether or not he should wake his dad up.

"For Christ's sake," Kia walked up to Sage's side, bent down and put her face next to his. Lightly, she brushed some of his loose blonde strands out of his face and studied his lips. "Sage..." she whispered.

Sage shifted his body and opened his eyes, immediately meeting them with Kia's. He shot up, "Kia?"

Kia stood back and straighten her body.

Sage couldn't take his eyes off of her. She had changed so much. Instead of her beautiful long black hair, she had most of it chopped off. It was now pixie cut and flipped outwards. She still looked extremely young. Even her hazel eyes still had a sparkle in them.

"Sage?"

He blinked, finally comprehending his name, "Kia... when did you get here?"

"A few minutes ago." she smiled softly, now realizing how much she missed seeing Sage's face. But before she had another second to think, Sage jumped out of his bed and attacked Kia with a huge hug.

"Shit, I can't believe you're finally back! I've missed you so so much!" he cried into her, biting his lip to hold back the tears.

Kia hugged him back, "Me too, Sage."

After they broke apart, Sage's eyes fell upon a boy standing behind Kia.

Kia smiled, "Sage, I have someone to introduce to you." She stepped back and pulled her son forward. "Sage, this is your son, Gabryel."

Sage stared at Gabryel, stared at his messy bleach blonde hair, his emerald green eyes placed so gently on his immaculate face. He looked so stunned, his eyes were so big.

"My son?" Sage whispered.

Gabryel nodded softly. "Dad!" he cried and threw himself at Sage, crying into his chest.

Kia smiled at herself inside, glad that she had made the choice to come back and visit. Then she noticed that Natsuki was up. She was staring at Sage and Gabryel, but Kia couldn't pick up what kind of a stare it was. "Anger? Delight? Possibly jealously?" Kia didn't know.

"Mom?" Ayame opened the bedroom door, Rowen following behind her.

When Kia's eyes met Rowen's, she couldn't save herself from crying. "Rowen..."

Ayame looked up at her dad, seeing his eyes glued to her mother's. She smiled softly and pushed him towards her, "Dad, it's Kia." she whispered.

Kia walked towards Rowen, and moved her arms apart to give him a hug, but Rowen backed up. Kia cocked her eyebrows, "Rowen?"

"Is that really you?"

Kia nodded.

Rowen fell silent as he studied her face. Then he brought one of his hands up to her cheek. Kia closed her eyes and grabbed his hand with both of hers.

"Rowen... don't be mad at me..."

Rowen instantly grabbed her by the shoulders and embraced her. "Mad?" he whispered in her ear. "Never."