Neave bounced in her high chair like she was dancing to music only she could hear. Her head and arms went up and down, slamming her small hands on to the plastic surface, while her face was a picture of concentration. The flavours in her mouth seemed to be causing her so much pleasure she couldn't be still, but at the same time dinner was clearly a serious business to her. She never dropped a pea, scattered or threw her food, although her mouth had been coated in tomato sauce and it had become embedded in her fur. Every piece was sacred to her and she cleared the bowl in her intense way until finally it was empty. Neave's face come to be dismayed and with diminutive hands she clasped the bowl, banging it and squealing in excitement waiting for someone to come to her.

"Aww are you done sweetie?" Her Aunt Harper asked her sweetly, "or do you want more chicken nuggies?"

Neave cackled to herself playfully as she smothered her sauce stained hands over her face. Harper laughed along with her niece before lifting her out of her seat, "I think somebody needs a wash!" she laughed.

Harper grabbed the damp facecloth off of the island and sat down with Neave whilst harshly wiping the cloth along her face, causing Neave to scowl and scrunch her face as she desperately tried to claw her way free. Harper resisted Neave's attempts to escape and tightened her grip on to her, making Neave whimper in frustration.

"Nearly done," she told her, "just wait one moment baby."

Neave then looked around curiously when she heard thumps coming up the metal staircase and a familiar voice calling, "Hello!" With that Neave leapt from Harper's lap and slumped down her legs before forcing herself up and stumbling towards the direction of the noise. When Alex and Justin appeared at the top of the stairs Neave's face lit up with joy, her wide smile was infectious, she approached Alex and held out her petite hands wide for a hug.

In an instant Alex scooped her up in her arms screeching in excitement, "hi baby girl!" She playfully spun her around while covering her in kisses, Neave lightly tugged on her moms hair in response earning a loud yelp from Alex. Neave giggled excitedly when Alex held her high in the air and began throwing her up and down cooing, "you bad baby!"

"We thought we heard you guys!" Theresa exclaimed coming down the mustard stairs, closely followed by her husband.

"How did it go at WizTech?" He asked crossing his arms over his chest and standing beside his son.

Justin turned to Alex, who was now tenderly cradling Neave in her arms, and smiled gleefully, "we're off the hook!"

Everyone erupted in to cheers and submerged each other into a suffocating hug. As they all yelled and screeched in excitement Max casually strolled through the room and unexpectedly found them all rejoicing together. "What's going on?" He asked in amusement.

"They're not in trouble! The council let them off the hook!" Theresa cried running over and hugging her youngest child.

"Sweet! I mean I didn't know it was that serious, but great!" Max sped over and leapt into the group hug.

"We need to celebrate!" Jerry declared, "I'm going to get the party pie!"

"The party pie!" Justin exclaimed excitedly, "oh yeah! Best day ever!" He fist pumped the air enthusiastically as his father jogged downstairs to get the pie and the rest of his family laughed at him in delight.

"I'm so happy for you both!" Theresa cried engulfing both her children in to yet another bone crushing hug. "I knew you'd be okay!"

"Yeah, I just can't wait to get back to work and see all my students again!"

"And I can't wait to spend all of my time with my baby girl!" Alex cooed kissing Neave on the cheek, "actually go to Uncle Justin Neavie, I need to try and get in touch with your Daddy!"

Justin eagerly snatched Neave from Alex's arms and through her in to the air playfully, "have you come for a huggy from Uncle Justie!" He fussed, speaking to her in a childish tone.

"Weirdo," Alex coughed smirking at her brother when he scowled at her mischievously. She pulled her red wand from her leather boot, the top of the wand illuminated a bright green light which shone on to Alex's pale complexion. She looked down at her wand and prepared to begin to dial when she heard footsteps rushing up the stairs. "Dad! Make sure you save me some pie!"

"What pie?" A soft voice asked from the top of the staircase.

A large smile quickly spread across Alex's face, she'd know that voice and accent anywhere. Without even checking she raced over and threw herself on to Mason, wrapping her slender arms tightly around his neck. He tightened his grip on to her and gladly returned the hug, "how did it go with the Wizard Council?"

"It went amazingly! We're not in any trouble!"

"That's fantastic!" He scooped Alex up in his arms and spun her around excitedly before carefully placing her down and kissing her on her ruby lips. "I actually have some god news of my own…"

"So!" Jerry interrupted, "what happened? I want to hear everything!" He placed down the cream filled pie on the counter and leant against the cool surface of the island, resting his chin in hands and gazing up at his children in amazement and smiling like a Cheshire cat.

"It was Tootie Tootie!" Justin exclaimed angrily, "he tricked everyone into thinking it was our fault but it turns out he'd been planning with Cigam to get revenge on me and Crumbs before Neave was even born!"

"You're kidding!"

"Nope! And to top it off, when we brought Cigam to the Wizard World they planned to blame us for Crumb's death!" Added Alex, "Tootie Tootie thought if Justin got in trouble it would be easier to take his job!"

"Oh hijo de la chingada!" Exclaimed Theresa furiously.

"What does that mean?" Asked Max.

"You really don't want to know…" Justin whispered, his cheeks blushing in embarrassment.

"So!" Jerry began, "at least it's all over with and everything can go back to normal… well almost back to normal."

He looked at Neave, who had made her way back over to her mom and wrapped herself tightly around Alex's neck. She rested her head on to her mom's shoulder, and gave a poignant smile. His heart was breaking for his family, he just wanted Neave to have some normality back in her life.

"Actually, I need to talk to you about that," Mason whispered to Alex.

"Talk about what?" She bellowed loudly attracting her families attention.

Mason sighed, "I meant in private…"

"Too late!" Chirped Harper smirking to herself happily.

"Okay, but stay calm," he warned Alex. "Jillian thinks she can help turn Neave back."

Everyone immediately exploded into another burst of celebration, Neave jolted in Alex's arms when her family all began crying out hysterically as they leapt around the room, overjoyed with the news.

"We need to talk over it properly first, but I knew you'd be up for it."

"Be up for it? Mason, this is amazing! When can she change her back?"

"Like I said, we need to talk it over first but I'll give her a ring and we can arrange to meet up."

"Why would she want a ring?" Max asked, scrunching up his face in confusion.

"I mean I'll call her," Mason rolled his eyes and Alex snickered at him.

"Well I think this is the best news ever!" Alex hugged Mason tightly with Neave huddling up comfortably between both her parents. "It definitely beats Justin's news!"

"My news is your news as well though?"

"Yeah but this is still better!"

"Anyway, how does she plan to change her back?" Justin asked suspiciously, "it's not something that's done very often or even at all."

"Does it matter!" Alex cried, "she's gonna make my baby better!"

"I'm just not sure, there's got to be some sort of catch to it. Sorry, it's just how I feel, I just don't want anything bad to happen to her. She's my niece for Christ's sake."

"Why would she want to hurt her or even do anything that would put her at risk, she's Ana's mom. There's no way she'd do anything to her daughters little sister!"

"I don't know, maybe she doesn't see the risk? Or she isn't aware of anything that could hurt her."

"Justin she seems genuine" Mason began, "she's been training in magical medicine and she was a nurse back in London."

"I still don't know… Let me be with you guys when you meet up with her. I'd just feel better going through it all with you guys before anything is done."

"Fine!" Alex groaned loudly, "but only if you stop yapping about it!"

"Why don't you guys arrange to meet her in the sub shop?" Jerry suggested, approaching Alex, "that way we can all be near by if you guys need any help or support."

"But we wont come down or interfere if you don't want us to!" Theresa interjected.

"Your mothers right, but I agree with Justin we need to make sure we go through every little detail before any decisions are made."

Alex gave another raucous moan and it her forehead forcefully in to the palm of her hand, "okay! Can everyone please just try to look on the positive side now and think of this as a good thing?" Her family all nodded and grunted in agreement, but as Alex looked around at them and saw the uncertainty ejecting off their faces she turned to Mason and demanded, "call Jillian tonight and see if she can come here." She then turned back to face her family, "whether you guys like it or not, this is happening. We're going to change our baby back."

Mason flicked on the light switch and made the darkness that had trapped him disappear. He looked around an found himself in the desolate substation, the dining chairs and tables that were scattered around the room had been stacked up around him. A cold shiver passed him, clearly Mr. Russo had turned the thermostat off again, Mason hugged himself tightly in a desperate attempt to reheat his body as he rubbed his hands up and down his bare arms repeatedly. He began to head to the metal staircase in the far corner of the room but came to a sudden stop when he saw a neon blue light emitting from the lair.

The door was left ajar and carefully Mason entered the food prep area, he remained silent and listened intently when he heard rustling coming from inside the lair, "hello?" He called, but no one answered. He continued to tiptoe further on into the kitchen and eventually he crept in to the wizards lair. As he walked in the light got stronger and brighter causing Mason to squint his eyes and shield his face as he come into the room.

"Hello?" He called out again, "who's there? Alex? Justin?"

In a quick flash the blue light went out, leaving him in utter darkness. Mason held out his hands but to his dismay it had became that dark he couldn't even see them in front of him. He spun around as he heard the crackle of electricity travel around the room. Mason jumped back and hit his head on the brick wall behind him.

"Who's there?" He yelled angrily, bearing his teeth as he prepared to attack.

Somewhere around him a small explosion occurred, Mason leapt in surprise and slammed his eyes back shut as the light reoccurred. Slowly, he began to reopen his eyes only to notice that the light was not as strong this time, but to his horror in the centre of the room on a metal slab lay Neave. She was unconscious, tubes invaded her mouth a nostril's and she lay unclothed, except for a diaper wrapped around her. All her fur was on show and the changes made to her body for her new canine figure was clearly visible.

"Neave," Mason choked stepping forward towards his daughter but out of the shadows stepped Jillian.

She was clothed in white lab coat with her hands tightly held behind her back and when she noticed Mason she gave a sleazy smile as she approached Neave, "don't worry," she hissed, "she'll be okay. I'll make sure she's safe. But, then again… you let my daughter die so I think it's only fair that I do this…"

She pulled her hands from behind her back and revealed a large dagger, Jillian through her hands up in the air as he hands tightly clasped hold of the weapon. Then her hands dropped and the dagger dropped down towards Neave, Mason ran forward to help but as he did the dagger went-

"No!" yelled Mason leaping up from his sleep, he clutched his chest tightly as his heart pounded rapidly within it. He frantically gasped for breath as small beads of sweat ran down his forehead, as his heart began to relax he collapsed heavily back down on to the bed.

"Are you all right?" He heard Alex whisper as she wrapped herself around his shirtless torso.

"Not really…"

"Was it a nightmare? You haven't had one of them in a while."

"Yeah I know, it was horrible…"

"What happened?"

"Just someone trying to hurt Neave."

"Who was it?"

Mason hesitated, he felt as if the words were stuck in his throat whenever he tried to speak, "it doesn't matter. Its over with now anyway, so who cares."

"I care, I mean why do you even have these dreams are they all the same?"

"They're not exactly the same, but they do all have the same theme. I wish I knew why I have them but I'm just not sure. I'm probably just worrying again."

"About what?" Alex rested her chin on Mason's chest and watched him carefully as she traced her fingers along his chiselled chest.

"Just about Neave, I was always worried after what happened to Ana that something would happen to her as well. And then it did," he jeered, "and now with what your family was saying about Jillian trying to turn her back I guess I'm worried something is going to go wrong."

"Why have you never told me this? I've tried to talk to you about it before!"

"Because it's embarrassing!"

"It's really not, everyone has nightmares! It's completely normal! But you don't need to worry, Jillian said she'd meet us tomorrow right?"

"Yeah…"

"Well we'll go through everything with her and everything will be fine, I promise."

Alex shot a wide smile at Mason earning a tired laugh from him. "What did I do to deserve you?" He asked.

"Clearly something terrible!" She joked before leaning over to kiss him.

As they kissed the world fell away. It was slow and soft, comforting in ways that words would never be. His hand rested below her ear, his thumb caressing her cheek as their breaths mingled. She ran her fingers down his side, pulling him closer until there was no space left between them and they could both feel the beating of their hearts against their chests.

That was until a small voice echoed through the baby monitor, "ah-dah! Ah-dah- Da da!"

"And that's my cue!" Mason sighed jumping up from the bed and heading towards the door.

"Hey," Alex called after him, "everything's going to be okay you know."

"I know love."

"Where is she?" Justin spat with his face practically pressed against the window of the substation. His eyes darted across the street, scanning the crowds of people getting along with their business. "I thought she was supposed to be here by now," he puffed as he began to bound around the room anxiously. He ran his nimble fingers through his jet black hair, tugging on it lightly as they became tangled in the thick strands.

"Seriously Justin," said Alex rolling her eyes, "can you please just chill, you're not helping the situation at all!"

"I'm sorry," he groaned sitting next to Alex at one of the sticky wooden tables, "I'm nervous!"

"No shit sherlock!"

"Language!" He dramatically gasped glaring at Alex furiously.

"Oh Justin, grow up! Seriously, have you ever actually cursed before?"

"I say damn and hell."

"Yeah they don't count…"

"Well I'm sorry for being polite! Now you better cut it out if you want to make a good impression."

"Oh my god, it's finally happened… you've turned in to Grandpa!"

"Shut up Alex!"

"Sorry, I couldn't resist!"

"Now can we please be serious for a moment? I just don't want you to get your hopes up, she might not be able to help."

"But Jillian told Mason she could help, Justin please I know you're worried but please just hear her out. This is supposed to be a good thing!" Justin sighed wearily and scowled at Alex before nodding to her, in defeat. "Thanks bro!" She smiled, flicking her long locks and smiling at him smugly.

"Mum!" A voice called from upstairs, "Muma!"

"Alright Neavie, she's down here!" Alex heard her mother say as she carefully made her way down the spiral stairs, she tip toed down each step cautiously in her stiletto heels with Neave held tightly in her arms. Neave wriggled violently in Theresa's arms when Alex came in to view, squealing excitedly as Alex waved to her from her seat.

"Neavie becareful," Mason warned following Theresa down the stairs whilst carrying a small pink dolls stroller in one hand and a plastic baby doll in the other.

When Theresa stepped down off of the staircase, she lowered Neave carefully on to the floor of the restaurant. She looked over at her mom and uncle, smiling widely and showing off her minor canines, two small pig tails rested on top of her head and the small bunches of her hair stuck up right in the air.

Neave wobbled over to Alex giggling happily to herself, she stopped hallway though and began to clap together her dishevelled hands, knocking her claws roughly together when they connected. She looked around at her family, who were all content watching her, and covered up her face with her tiny hands before bursting into another random spout of laughter.

"You silly billy," laughed Mason. He placed the stroller and doll down and gestured for Neave to get it, "go on mrs, are you going to go and play?"

Neave wobbled over to the stroller and got a firm grip of the white foam padded handle bar before once again grinning at everyone around her.

"Such a cutie!" Theresa exclaimed as she strutted behind the counter, "would anyone like a drink?" She looked around curiously when no one answered her only to find everyone nervously watching Neave as she trotted around the subshop pushing her toy stroller. "Guys," Theresa sighed walking back over to her children and Mason, "it's going to be fine! When Jillian gets here we can find out what we need to know and then you guys can decide what to do. But whatever decision you guys make, I know it'll be the right thing to do for Neave."

"But you have to make sure you go through absolutely everything," Justin advised them, "make sure you know every single detail of what could happen."

"Justin stop scaring them!" Theresa scolded him, "you're not helping! Jerry!" She yelled upstairs, "come and tell your son to stop scaremongering his sister!"

"What am I yelling at him for?" Jerry asked strolling down the black staircase with Max and Harper in tow.

"He's scaring Alex and Mason about this procedure Neave might be having. Tell him everything will be fine!"

"Mom I wasn't scaring them intentionally! This is a big deal, and I just wanted to make sure Neave will be completely safe and if that's gonna happen we need to go over every little detail."

"I agree with Justin," Jerry said nodding proudly to his son, "this isn't something to take lightly. Whatever Jillian can do to help change Neave back it's going to be serious, we need to make sure we know everything about this procedure."

"Thank you Dad!" Justin smiled feeling satisfied with himself, he adjusted the collar on his shirt and smirked to Alex who was sat opposite him sending him eye daggers.

A light ping echoed around the room and quickly Mason pulled his cell from his pocket and stared at the screen, "they've got to the street now. Jillian and Raymond, they'll be here any minute…"

In a quick rush Justin threw himself off of his seat and raced towards the large green painted doors. He barged out of them and on to Waverly Place, stumbling off the low concrete step he lost his balance and fell into the back of a young woman and knocking them both to the ground.

"Ouch!"

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" He panicked jumping back to his feet and offering a hand out to help up the woman. "Oh god? Are you hurt? I'm so so sorry!"

"No I'm fine," she sighed as she stood up and moved the blonde hair out of her face.

"Juliet?" Justin spluttered nervously when he got a full view of her face.

She looked up and smiled at him warmly, her soft pink lips curling upwards as her light blue eyes dazzled in the light. "Hi Justin," she replied, her voice smooth like caramel. She continued to talk to him but Justin didn't grasp a single thing she said, he drank her words like a strong wine and enjoyed feeling tipsy. He watched her like she had all of the stars in her hands and soft petals at her feet. He wanted to wrap her in his arms and never let go. But as he continued to get lost in her presence a loud voice distracted him, "Justin!"

"Huh?"

"Are you okay?" Juliet asked chuckling to herself.

"Yeah… Yeah I was just looking for… Um…"

"Jill and Ray? They've just walked right past you into the substation, I brought them here because they couldn't find the restaurant, didn't you see?"

"Oh, no, no I must have missed them?" He twitched nervously, "I supposed I better go back in then. But are you okay? I'm sorry again…"

"I'm fine thanks, I'm just glad they didn't see…"

"Yeah, yeah. That would have been embarrassing for you, well, I'll see you around…"

"Wait Justin," Juliet called, tugging on his muscular arm. Justin looked at her longingly as she smiled sweetly at him, fixing her hair securely behind her ear as she batted her lashes flirtaciously. "Can we talk? Maybe tomorrow night, we could go for dinner?"

"S-s-s-ss-sure," he stuttered nervously, "sounds good…"

"Great, I'll text you, see you tomorrow Justin." She wiggled her fingers teasingly as she waved goodbye, she spun around and wiggled her hips as she walked back up the street. Justin watched her, almost hypnotised by her movement as he watched her vanish in to the crowd of people. After a brief moment, stuck in his heavenly trance, Justin came back to reality and quickly he spun around and re-entered the subshop.

He walked through the heavy doors only to find his family huddled around one of the tables with two less familiar figures. After composing himself, Justin sauntered over to them and painted a confident smile on his face, when in reality his head was still spinning from his encounter with Juliet.

Jerry was the first to notice him, when he saw Justin approaching the table he rose from his seat and gestured to his son, "Raymond, Jillian, I believe you've already met our eldest son Justin?"

Raymond spun around and smiled at Justin, "yes we have, good to see you again Professor." He held out his hand for Justin to shake. Justin took his hand and watched as Raymond's long fingers wrapped themselves around his hand. "Jill?" Raymond said releasing grip of Justin's hand.

Justin looked over at Jillian, who was hunched over in her seat chatting to Neave as she sat on her Dad's lap. She briefly looked over to Justin and smiled waving hello before turning her attention back to Neave, she wriggled on Mason's lap clutching her toy doll and giggling to herself as she waved it around to show Jillian. She gasped and laughed at Neave in amazement, taking the small doll from her and then swaying it back over to Neave. Gradually the doll got closer to Neave and she exploded in to a fit of laughter whilst climbing up Mason's torso, glancing back and to in anticipation, she buried her face in Mason's neck and squealed in excitement.

"She's such a sweetie," Jillian cooed admiring Neave and Mason together.

"I know, and how cute are they together?" Alex smiled watching her boyfriend and daughter affectionately.

"So cute!" Ray interrupted awkwardly, "um love, don't we all need to talk about something?"

"Sorry?" Jill turned to her husband but then the look of realization hit her face. "Oh yeah! So," she turned to Alex and Mason, "you both wanted to know if Neave could be changed back?"

Alex looked over to Mason as he glanced over back at her, "yeah," she began anxiously, "Mason was telling me you think you can help her?"

"I know a procedure," Jill nodded, "it is fairly new but it is quite easy and it should be very effective."

"Should be?" Justin questioned her, "have you ever actually done this before?"

"She hasn't," Ray intervened, "but she is very skilled at what she does and she is very confident she can help Neave."

"But the other day, you didn't even want Jillian to talk about it." Mason began, "so whats changed your mind?"

"Because, if she takes this on it's a lot of pressure! I mean, Neave's Ana's little sister. I wanted to make sure Jill was completely sure she'd know what she had to do before she even attempted this and from what she's been telling me I think she does, I trust that my wife can do this."

"What is the procedure?" Jerry asked, quickly followed by Theresa inquiring,

"Is it painful?"

"More uncomfortable than painful," Jillian told her, "I think anyway. The procedure is very simple, it's just a small injection in to her spine and I will use this to withdraw her powers. When this is done Neave will have a scan to see if there's any traces of her powers or the magia left in her system, if there is she'll have to take a potion to wash it out but that's it. Pretty straight forward really, I think she'll be fine with it."

"So, after she has this what will happen to her?" Harper questioned, "will she turn back?"

"Yes, she will. She'll return to her normal state and then she can carry on with her life as a mortal."

"Mortal?" Everyone stared at Jillian dumbfounded, their jaws hanging low as they turned to eachother in disbelief.

Alex's brain stuttered for a moment, every part of her went on pause while her thoughts caught up with the new information she'd been given. She felt a new warmth as Mason dropped one of his hands on to her thigh and squoze it reassuringly, she then placed her hand on top of his. "What do you mean, are you saying this will make her mortal?"

"Well yeah," Jill chuckled nervously, "to get her to return to her normal state we need to remove her powers, I mean that's what is causing the problem."

"The problem is the magia in her system though," Mason interjecting holding Neave close to him.

"That and her powers, I mean yes the magia is triggering her powers but it's because she has these powers that's made her change into a werewolf."

"What about when she's older?" Max asked, "and she gains her full powers, I mean, I didn't get mine till I was twelve and I had to wear that stupid hat thing."

"She wont," Ray said sadly, "if Jill takes her powers now she won't develop any full powers. Did you guys really not know this?"

Everyone remained silent and shook their head, Jillian look over to her husband, the guilt sat on her chest. If she did this it could not be un-done. "But wait," Justin spoke up, "Max is right, we were told we wouldn't know Neave's actual powers until she was at least twelve. So if you take her wolf powers she could still turn out to be a wizard, right?"

"I'm afraid you were given some wrong information there, if the magia has brought out Neave's werewolf powers now then it's most likely that she would have developed full werewolf powers when she came in to age."

"So either way she would have been a werewolf?" Alex asked, "wow that's weird, I always thought my kids would be wizards like me."

"Who knows if you two have anymore children in the future they might develop wizard powers, hybrid powers can be unpredictable."

"So that's it then?" Mason began sternly, "we take Neave's powers away and that's it, she's mortal."

"I'm afraid so."

"Great, so I'm basically going to outlive another child, fantastic!"

"Mason don't talk like that!" Alex hissed at him.

"Well it's going to happen, werewolves live for hundreds of years and so do full wizards. If we take her powers then she'll only live until her eighties maybe, but if we don't go through with it."

"Then she'll live for hundreds of years like us, and not once in any of them years will she experience a normal life. Is that what you want for her?"

"I'm sorry to interrupt," Jillian began carefully, "but there is something that could be done."

"What?" Alex and Mason asked in unison, looking at Jillian desperately.

"When or if we take Neave's powers away, we could insert her with wizard powers."

"But how?" Jerry looked at Jillian in confusion, "where would we get the wizard powers from? You can't just go and buy them from a store."

Jillian tilted her head and gestured to Alex as she span her body to look directly at her. "Me?" Alex choked nervously, "you'd need to take my powers?"

"That would be the only way, that way Neave can be turned back to her normal self, live a normal life and eventually develop her wizard powers. But you'd be mortal…"

Alex turned to Mason and held his hand tightly, "and if I went through with this, we couldn't be together anymore…"