Author's Note: I own nothing. Busy Box is funny but very much filler… So I'm not doing too much with it.

36 Reflective

Jen had been quiet as they drove to their back up hangout spot, the Burger Shack. Mr. Smoothie was in ruins, again. Jen was upset, worried that this time they wouldn't rebuild. Or at least that's what Ethan thought she was worried about, but as Gwen and Kevin, in a spare ID mask, went to grab them some food Jen turned to him.

"Do I really look that creepy?" Ethan blinked.

"What?"

"When the Omnitrix does the thing, the…" She sighed. "I know that sometimes the Omnitrix makes it look like my eyes are pure green, like no white or pupal, just like that box thing. Do I really look that creepy when it happens?" Ethan shook his head.

"No." Jen raised an eyebrow.

"I haven't seen the green. I've seen them yellow, after the accident." Jen nodded. The yellow was the scanning setting. It had taken over when Six-Six had damaged the Omnitrix causing several of the transformations to escape. Ethan paused. "The yellow was… unnerving. I thought you were dying. And while your eyes were yellow you didn't act like you… It was like the Watch took over completely. When does it do the fully green?" Jen sighed.

"Well according to Julie it's happened twice. Once when Big Chill took over and… well did some stuff." Ethan raised an eyebrow.

"Is that what Kevin meant when he said Big Chill had babies?" Jen went bright red and looked relieved when Kevin and Gwen showed back up. Kevin grinned.

"Are we talking about your space kids?" Jen glared at him over her burger as Gwen giggled.

"Ironically that was also Kevin and I's first date." Jen burst out laughing. Kevin joined in and Gwen giggled along. Ethan looked at them critically.

"I can't decide if you guys are joking or not." Jen shook her head, still bright red, though if it was from laughter or embarrassment was less clear.

"Sadly no. I am in fact a teenage superhero and a mom. To fourteen bouncing baby moth aliens." Kevin howled with laughter and Gwen covered her mouth to try and stifle her own laughter.

"Fourteen?" Ethan breathed out before shaking his head. "How come I haven't met them?" Or their father for that matter. Kevin was still laughing but Gwen seemed to have taken pity on her bright red cousin.

"They're in space, Necrofrigian's reproduce asexually once every eighty or so years. Big Chill took over because the eggs are very vulnerable and there were no other Necrofrigians around to help protect the nest." Jen nodded.

"I also ate about a metric ton of metal as Big Chill."

"Yeah and a ton of pickles when you were you." Jen threw a chili covered fry at Kevin. Ethan snorted slightly as the fry hit Kevin in the cheek.

"But the second time was when Azmuth gave me Master control, but it only happened in my right eye. And… I guess it's not pure green it's the Omnitrix symbol in my eye." Gwen shook her head.

"Then there was when you were curing the DNAliens. Pure green totally unresponsive." Jen frowned.

"But I was in the Omnitrix at the time, that should not count!" Ethan frowned.

"You can go into the Omnitrix?"

"Under the right circumstances yeah. That's what happened when Chromastone shattered." Gwen frowned. It was weird that Jen could talk so easily about that, she still couldn't talk about what had happened to Feedback. Kevin was the one who spoke though, Gwen still figuring out how to phrase it delicately.

"Yeah what happened to Chromastone anyway?" Jen frowned down at the watch.

"I don't know for sure. The Omnitrix said that it's temporarily unstable. But I have no idea what that means." She ran a finger over the dial. "It doesn't feel like Chromastone is gone. But I just can't use it right now. Like I know XLR8 is still there, I just can't get to her." Gwen nodded.

"I guess that makes sense." Ethan nodded.

"So to answer your original question no you're not creepy." Ethan said with conviction, taking Jen's hand.

"Even with the moth kids?"

"Even with the moth kids, though you could have told me about them sooner you know." Jen rolled her eyes.

"They don't tend to come up in conversation. Not a lot of people even know about them, Grandpa Max wants to keep it that way." Kevin frowned.

"Why?" Jen shrugged.

"Think about it. How easy would it be to use kids against me, especially when they're my kids? I have way too many enemies who have proven they're willing to use the people I care about against me. You did it once with Gwen." She said gesturing at Kevin with a fry. Kevin frowned down at his burger as Ethan blinked and Gwen shook her head at her cousin.

"Wait Kevin was a bad guy? I think I remember you saying something about him trying to kill you but I thought you were kidding." Jen shook her head.

"It was years ago. He's changed, for the better, just the first person to come to mind. Ghostfreak did it too. Again with Gwen. Krabb did it with Gwen and Grandpa Max. It's happened a lot. But most of the people I care about can take care of themselves. But kids? No way." Ethan nodded and wrapped an arm around her.

"Hey, they'll be ok right?" Jen nodded.

"I had Azmuth look in on them while we were bouncing around the universe for a week. They're so much bigger than I thought they would be by now. Like they look halfway to full grown. Still cute though." Gwen smiled, she hadn't known Jen had done that but it in no way surprised her. Her cousin got attached fast and though she remembered nothing about the hatching of Big Chill's kids she did remember the smallest one and Gwen sometimes caught her staring up into space like she was expecting something to happen. Though with their lives that was a possibility.