This is the sequel for The 24th.

The 24th was a sequel for my story Changing Waco.

Changing Waco is a short nine chapter story that more like a background to The 24th, but this story has a reverence to something that happened in the first story. If you have read The 24th, but not Changing Waco, stop what you are doing right now! Go and read Changing Waco first.

Without further ado, I will get right on with the story now.

For the next few hours, while Charlie was still recovering from the labours of birth, she was stuck in the medbay on the waverider. However, the kids were eager to meet their new sister so David brought the kids to meet their sister in their sibling groups by who they came from - who their mother is - or in groups of two or three if they didn't have a sibling. The first three to meet baby Hallelujah are Cyrus, Star and Bobbie.

Cyrus was holding Hallelujah, while Star and Bobbie were oohing and awing over their new new sister. Star and Bobbie both had a turn to hold baby Hallelujah before they were escorted back home and then it was Serenity, Chica and Little One's turn to meet their sister.

Serenity, Chica and Little One all had a turn to happily hold their baby sister, and ooh and aww over her just as Cyrus, Star and Bobbie had.

All of David's kids were pretty much that same way with Hallelujah. When it was Mayanah and Hollywood's turn, they were both thrilled. Thrilled about meeting their sister, but also the fact that they had correctly guessed the gender of not just Rachel's baby, but Charlie's too.

What was most interesting was seeing how the babies and toddlers interacted with the new baby. David and Rachel had brought Batya and Zion onto the waverider and into the medbay to meet Hallelujah. Obviously Zion didn't really have much of a reaction. He's only 1 month old, but from where she was resting in her father's arm - 13 month old Batya kept pointing at the baby in Charlie's arms and saying 'baby. baby.' over and over again.

"Yeah. That's your sister. Hallelujah. " David told his daughter, "Say nice to meet you, Halle."

"Baby." Batya uttered again

David just smiled looking at Charlie and his new daughter. His family may not look like most people's family, but he loves his family.

When it came time for Startle, Treasure and Sage's turn, that was when 'it' was finally noticed. Charlie and David couldn't believe it had taken a two year old to point it out to them, but it was in fact Sage that noticed the strange birthmark on the bottom of Hallelujah's foot.

The birthmark was surprisingly in the shape of...

"What? How is that possibly?" Charlie wondered, not taking her eyes off of her daughter's birthmark.

David gave her a glance, "I thought you believed in the divine?"

Charlie nodded, "I do, but a birthmark in the shape of angel wings, that's...I don't know. It's surreal. It's one thing to believe. It's an entirely different thing to see."

"Our child. She truly is blessed." David said

"Yeah. She is." Charlie agreed.

In this moment as Charlie is holding her daughter in her arms, she is getting as very similar feeling to how she felt when she had gotten the realisation about her baby's destiny in saving the multiverse. The feeling she is getting now doesn't feel exactly the same. It's not like a calling - a call to action. It feels more like something is going to happen. Like her baby's destiny isn't over, but instead is just beginning.

Charlie didn't have a clue what could possibly be to come and that terrified her more than anything. The fact that whatever was to come involved her daughter and she had no idea when it was supposed to happen, only that her daughter would have to do it alone. The only other time that Charlie had been this scared was when her sisters kidnapped Serenity.

- Seven years later -

Hallelujah Lux Koresh always knew that she was special, for she could do things that her siblings nor her parents could, and there was the angel wings birthmark on the bottom of her left foot. Something that she thought was strange and cool about that is she's also left-handed. - She laughed to herself.

Anyways, even though Hallelujah's always known that she was special, she didn't know why. She knew her mom had been a Fate, but somehow Hallelujah knew that whatever made her special was more than that. It was more than just her being the twenty-fourth too, but she didn't really understand just how special she truly was until...the night of October 5.

Hallelujah is now seven years old. She's supposed to be sleeping already. Her parents had tucked her in and they said their night prayer with her, but for some reason, the little girl just couldn't fall asleep. She had too much on her mind. As she was climbing out of bed to go to her favorite sibling - the now 14 year old Chica Jones - she saw the bright, blinding white light shining into her room, coming in through the roof. And she saw a woman with white wings that matched those of her birthmark.

"Who are you?" Hallelujah asked, sitting down at the end of her bed.

The woman never answered her, at least not with a name. Instead the woman rattled off a sentence which made no sense to the seven year old. But there was no time for Hallelujah to ask any questions, because once the woman said what she said she disappeared the same way she came. And Hallelujah didn't know how she knew, but she was sure that the woman who had visited her was an angel.

Climbing back into her bed and snuggling under the covers, Hallelujah was finally able to fall asleep because while she didn't know what anything the woman had said meant, she found solace in the knowledge that angels really were watching over her. Just like her Mummy and Daddy had always told her every night when they tucked her into bed.

Hope you enjoy. Comments are greatly appreciated.

What would you like to see happen next? What do you think the woman told Hallelujah?