We sang songs for the rest of the night. By the time morning came, we were all ready for bed, so we all said goodbye. When Hansel and I got back home, Hansel opened a jar of pickles.
"Think the baby has decided to go to sleep." Hansel looked at me after taking a bite out of a pickle.
"What makes you say that?" I wanted to know.
"All that eating and dancing and hearing daddy sing, as he or she was active when Jane and I were dancing." Hansel replied.
"You enjoyed dancing." I giggled.
"Yes, but there is no way that I could see myself in a relationship with her. You know that she and Joe are engaged to be married?" Hansel replied and asked.
"I did not know." I admitted.
Just then, there was a knock at the door. Hansel yawned and drifted off to sleep on the sofa, whilst I got up and opened the door. We were still wearing our tuxedos. I rubbed my eyes, and looked up, to see Clint standing there.
"Is everything alright?" I noticed that Clint had a worried look on his face.
"Kurt's been murdered." Clint was shaking.
"Nightcrawler's dead?" My face dropped.
"He was found dead half an hour ago." Clint started to cry.
Just then, Hansel woke up. He'd heard what had been said.
"That cannot be true." Hansel was speechless.
"It is, and I was the one that found him." Clint shed a tear.
Clint then showed us the arrow that he used. It was a brand new DNA arrow, which was able to determine the cause of death aswell as the identity of the killer. It was a new one in Clint's armoury, and it was something that killers would come to fear. To make it even more scary, it sent signals to the police, who would be able to find the killer within an hour.
"What exactly happened?" I asked Clint after we all sat down.
"My bow confirmed that he was poisoned." Clint looked at me.
"Poisoned? When? How? Where?" I wanted to know.
"A guy that we saw last night threw something in Kurt's face. It was a slow-acting poison. Fortunately, my bow picked up the DNA from this guy, so he's being hunted by the police because this was no accident." Clint took the bow out of the quiver.
"Are you saying that he was deliberately targeted?" I was shocked.
"Sadly, yes, as my bow noted that the poison was one that was used in the war, against mutants who refused to be cured against their will or had the cure but showed no change." Clint replied.
Half an hour later, an arrest was made. The man was named as Dr Willard Kampf. He was a doctor of physics, but had taken part in the war. He hated mutants with a passion worse than anything Hansel and I ever got to see during our time as witch hunters. Clint then left us, but we could only get a couple of hours sleep, as there was an emergency trial that evening because of how severe Dr Kampf's crime was. A Japanese judge, Makoto Sawada, was being flown in. He was the only person that could deal with such crimes, and was the only one that knew how to pass the maximum punishment. We had to be there, but we were not going to be called to the stand, as there was going to be no testimonies as they would give Dr Kampf a chance to say that he was innocent when he was obviously guilty. The trial was to be held in Las Vegas, so we used the jet that Agnes had given to us. Not just that, but we put our tuxedos on again, as it was a high-end affair.
Upon arriving at the courthouse, we were taken to our seats. We were at the front, and Makoto then came in. Moments later, the session started. Dr Kampf was too dangerous to be allowed to enter the court, so he was there via videolink, with 2 FBI officers guarding him. No speaking was allowed, unless it was from the judge to the accused. 3 hours later, the sentence was passed, and Dr Kampf was wiped from existence, and sent to a world where he could harm nobody and where he could not die. When the session finished, we decided to head to a club.
"So what is this world that Dr Kampf has been sent to?" Hansel asked Clint as we were standing at the bar after the trial had finished.
"A crack in time was recently found. I've been in there myself, and it's a mirror world, where everything is the other way around. Only negative is, if you're a criminal, you cannot make contact with anyone, as everyone aside from you - if you're a criminal - is untouchable." Clint replied. "There is a code that you can use to return to this world, but only I know the code, and you have to give the code to the right person at the right time in order to be able to return."
"What if you told us the code?" I was eager to know what would happen.
"Then you'd be able to visit the mirror world as many times as you want and their market is fucking awesome as that was where I got my DNA bow from." Clint replied.
We then heard some giggles, and Hansel turned around, to see a group of women standing behind us.
"Hello ladies." Hansel charmed.
"Hello sir." The women replied in unison.
"What brings you here?" Woman #1 asked.
"We were here on... erm... business." Hansel lied.
"Has the baker been in town?" Woman #2 noticed the stomachs.
"Yes, and two buns in two ovens are baking." Clint snapped his fingers. "Now please leave us alone, as now is not the time to be flirty."
It then dawned on me that the women knew Clint.
"Who are they?" I wanted to know.
"Female alphas." Clint replied.
"What's that?" Hansel wanted to know.
"An alpha is someone who can get someone else pregnant. We are what you would call omegas, as we can get pregnant." Clint explained.
"But if I'm an omega, then would I be able to get someone else pregnant?" Hansel wanted to know.
"You would, and males and females can get you pregnant aswell." Clint replied. "As for how I found out, Bruce told me. He's staying with Tony right now, for his own safety and whilst he recovers fully from both the immortality injection and losing his child, as he knows that Jaqen is gone."
A few hours later, we were back home. We went to sleep, and slept until the afternoon. The next couple of weeks were spent arranging everything so that all of the baby stuff would fit. When Hansel was 31 weeks pregnant, Joe and Jane got married. We wore our tuxedos again, and the wedding reception was beautiful. That night, we returned to work, though we could sense that something was going to happen, as Kathy wasn't as talkative as usual. We were still in our tuxedos. When we finished work, Kathy took us to that cafe.
"I see that you're in formalwear." Kathy noticed.
"We didn't have any time between Joe and Jane's wedding and work, so we had to stay in these." Hansel replied. "But Gretel and I did notice that you weren't as talkative as usual. Is something wrong?"
"Going to have to close the shop." Kathy sighed.
"Why?" I was surprised.
"I noticed a few things and it doesn't look like they did a good job." Kathy sighed. "But you've still got a job as everything will be online from now on."