Chapter 11 - Not Justin's favorite lunch plan.

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It's finally Saturday. So, no classes today. Still, very early, Justin is up taking his breakfast. He didn't exactly have a good night of sleep after last night, especially after he got confirmation on Fiendl's suspicions.

In the middle of the morning, Alex walks around the hallways, looking for Justin. Well, he wasn't in his office, so where else can she find him?

Justin talks to Professor Fiendl in the teachers' lounge, and that's where Alex finally finds him. "Hey! Justin!" She calls him from the door almost in a whisper.

"Alex! Great! I need to talk to you." Justin tells her with a hint of urgency, coming to her.

"Okay!" She tells him, pulling out her wand. "Let's find a better place to talk." She completes, lifting her wand and waving it before Justin has the change to protest.

And they are back home, in their parents' living room.

"Alex, what are we doing here?" He asks, surprised and a little angry.

"Mom made me bring you here for lunch."

"Justin, is that you?" Teresa's voice comes from upstairs, for Justin's complete agony.

And Alex yells back, "Yeah, Mom. It's us."

They can hear their mother's rushed steps coming down the stairs to meet them. Then she goes straight to Justin and hugs him. "My babies, it's been so long." She lets him go and slaps him on the arm. "Don't you avoid your mother ever again!" She shouts.

"Sorry, Mom. I was really busy." He tries to defend himself, only to receive a mad glare from Teresa.

Then she turns to Alex and hugs her. "Thank you for bringing him."

"No problem! I'm in for doing anything against his will." Teresa and Alex both laugh.

"Well, I'm getting the lunch started. You guys wanna help?" Teresa asks.

"Heyyy!" Alex protests right away. "I did what I was asked. He's the one in trouble here. He deserves to punished."

"What? So not fair!" Justin complains.

"You're right, Alex." Teresa says taking his arm. "This way we get to spend time together." She starts pulling him away.

Alex laughs and waves goodbye as Justin looks back at her, shooting her a mad stare while their mother drags him to the kitchen.

Alex retreats to her room. Maybe she would have enjoyed seeing Justin suffer, but she is not in the mood to listen her mother babbling. For a while, she talks to Harper on the phone, then to Mason, then she takes a look on the new issue of her art magazine. Finally she comes back down to find lunch almost ready.

While she helps setting up the table, Max comes up to find out how the lunch is going. "Mom, lunch better get ready soon, or Dad will get us out of ham for the night shift."

"Maxy!" Alex runs to him and hugs him tight.

"So you two actually came!" Max tells Alex. Then he pulls back from her and gives her a careful look, then to the kitchen and around the apartment, as if looking for something. "Where's the dessert you were going to bring?"

Alex gives him a narrow stare. "What dessert?"

"You told Mom that, if you brought Justin here, it was gonna frost his muffin!" Max explains.

"No …Max!" Alex grunts. "That's just a figure of speech. …It's like saying that he would fly off the handle if I did it." She explains with clear annoyance.

"Ohhhh! So it's gonna be a lunch AND a show. Great!" He turns around and goes to the table.

Alex's eyes revolve in disbelief. Really, by now she shouldn't be surprised by anything coming from him.

"Max!?" Teresa calls him. "Go back down and tell your father we're done."

"Sure, Mom!" Max runs back down to the SubStation to call Jerry. Believe it or not, all the changes the three siblings made to the family business worked out so well that now they have people to take care of it during their lunch. Not to mention the success of the new menu, with Max's stupid dumpster-style sandwiches that somehow are people's favorites.

And not long after, Max and Jerry come up.

"Alex! Justin!" Jerry calls his kids when he comes in the living room.

"Daddy!" Alex yells with her common "daddy's little girl" way. She rushes to hug him, followed by Justin.

They stand back and Jerry looks at his both kids. "My two wizard kids, professors at WizTech." He says with a hint of pride. "So, how is that working for ya?" He asks jocosely, staring at them with a mocking grin.

"-Great! -Terribly!" Alex and Justin answer a split-second apart.

Alex looks at Justin for a second then back at Jerry. "And it's even better now!" She says in a laugh then walks away to the table.

"She does everything I ask her not to do." Justin complains to Jerry with a not satisfied face.

"Look…" Jerry calls them. "You two are adults now. It's past the time for you to learn how to work your differences out. … ON YOUR OWN!" He accentuates and walks away to take his place at the table.

"How can we if everything is just fine for her?" Justin complains to himself, then taking his place at the table.

"Like…" Justin continues. "Because of her, now all the incident reports to the Safety Board have to be turned up in form of comic strips!" He complains, making Alex laugh at him. "This is not funny, Alex!" He tells her.

"It will be when you try to make one!" She explains smiling.

The five of them have an amazing lunch, carried by stories about what they missed at both WizTech and back home. Alex even shows the picture of Justin stuck on the book, proud of her achievement.

Then Max breaks a moment of silence during dessert as he asks. "So, when are you guys gonna do that flying show?"

"MAX!" Alex, Justin and Teresa shout at the same time.

Later, Jerry and Max go back to the SubStation and Teresa keeps Justin close, just a small payback for not showing up regularly.