A/N: A shorter chapter, but I wrote it around midnight last night and there wasn't much I wanted to get down. And what I did want to get down, I forgot.

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Devlin sat in the chair at Ben's desk, feet kicked up on the bed. "I think I'm going to miss this place."

"Gwen's sure going to miss you guys," replied the brunette teen, cleaning up some of the stuff he had left lying around that morning in the rush to get going. "Her maternal instincts are in high gear. She tried to put a hat on me today." A smile found it's way to his lips, curling the corners upwards. "It was really weird."

Devlin just grinned. "Yeah, she's always been like that. Especially when she's pregnant." He eyes darkened as he realized he and his sister had left their mother at the worst time. Vulnerable and alone, another child on the way and no one to be with her except for Emery and Skylark. Emery's maturity level was through the floor and Sky was always too young to do anything. "And when Kenny's around. She always likes taking care of him since he never had his mom around."

"I know that you know who she is or was," said Ben's eyes growing serious as he sat on the edge of his bed. "Care to share?"

"I'll take care of things before I leave," the Levin boy replied. "No worries. I can alter the future, but only a little. In this case, it ought to be enough for Ken."

Ben smiled and fell onto his bed quietly, a long sigh escaping him. "It's weird," he said after a long silence.

"I'm like Kevin, but tamer, right?"

Ben nodded, eyes questioning how he knew what he was thinking.

"Mind probe, and I get that a lot," laughed Devlin, pulling his hood back over his head, feeling the darkness that it brought caress him like an old friend.

Gwen rolled her eyes as Eliza tucked another pillow under herself. "We all have our own paranoia and this is mine. Leave me alone." She snuggled into the mountain of fluff that she had created around herself. "I like pillows."

Gwen laughed, almost feeling like she was hanging out with Julie. Her emerald eyes found her daughter as she stared down at Eliza from where she lay at the foot of her bed. "So in the future, I let you sleep on the floor with about thirteen hundred pillows and blankets?"

"Yup. Sky gets the bed and Emery has to share a room with Ken since he lives with us. Devlin gets his own room in case the Angel of Death comes out. It's got a lot of safety features in it." The dark-haired girl let out a long sigh. "He's really upset for doing something that I wasn't around to see."

"Then let's not talk about Devlin," Gwen said, switching the subject. "How about Kenny?"

"What about him?" snorted Eliza, staring up at her mother from the floor. "He's my dweebish third cousin or something like that." She rolled her eyes. "He's like an annoying older brother."

Gwen poked her daughter with her foot. "Oh, come on, let's not start lying." A smile was sprawled across her expression. "I know there's something more there."

"He's like two years older than me," Eli scoffed. "And we're family. Where the heck is your brain?" She waved a hand in Gwen's general direction. "Get your mind out of the gutter."

"It's legal. Second cousins and down are legal."

"Still gross," retorted Eliza, sounding like her father. "I mean, come on, it's disgusting. He's disgusting. And he's your cousin's son. My god, have you not seen how weird he is?"

"Smoothies are only the tip of the iceberg?"

Eliza nodded and groaned, burying her face deeply into a pillow. Gwen couldn't have ever been more wrong about something.

"Okay, you're going to drive me crazy," said Kevin as his best friend's future son jumped around the garage like it was one of those bouncy houses. "Any chance giving you a smoothie would get you to shut up and sit still?"

Ken ran off screaming into the backroom, throwing open the door to the new fridge that Kevin had put in and searching desperately.

For once, Kevin actually wanted to sleep. And for once, Ken wouldn't shut up and it was dark outside. The dark teen was debating whether to put him outside like a dog or not. He was still trying to figure out a plan to get rid of Ken or at least get him to sleep.

He came back, a smoothie clutched between his hands. "Good smoothie."

"Uh-huh." Kevin leaned back across the couch again, kicking his feet up.

The rest of the night went by with a calm silence. Another hour passed, and Kevin managed to sleep. Ken had been put out cold by the sleep serum Kevin had slipped into the smoothie. And for once, it was quiet.

A/N: oh, god. Haha. Poor Kevin. So, just for the record, anyone interested in the KenXEliza pairing? I could do a fic on it. Eli's awesome and it wouldn't be too hard. Just review!

~Sky