Happy new years~ It's been one heck of a 12 chapter section X'D lots of crazy civilian shenanigans. I'm thinking it's time we get some zombies back into the mix ;) but first, we have some last bits of fun to have before sending our boulder puncher back into the field. Who's ready ^v^/ excellent, then let's goooo!
Song Suggestion: Symphony by Clean Bandit Ft. Zara Larsson
Disclaimer: I own nothing~ Capcom please don't sue but also please be gentle when releasing that DLC. Let me build my house of cards before you burn it down X'D
"Well Jackie it's that time of year again," Says the voice of the male radio announcer as Emma's phone sat on the coffee table of the living room.
"Right you are Jim, It's another beautiful New Years Eve," The female radio host replies as Chris moves to sit down on the couch next to Emma.
"It's a bit odd without them isn't it," Emma says with a nostalgic smile as Chris leans forward to put two glasses and a bottle down on the coffee table.
"Yeah, it's a bit odd," He admits as he moves to sit back and puts an arm around her, and relaxes into the couch.
"Tired?" Emma asks with mild amusement.
"A bit," He replies while resting his eyes. "It's only been a year... it feels like 10."
Emma chuckles upon hearing that. "It was kinda busy, bastion got engaged."
"I got arrested," he says tired. "my friend died."
"His wife moved in with us," Emma says before smirking "you put googly eyes on everything in the Fridge, which are still on some of the condiment containers."
he chuckles at that. "worth it." he says with a smile. "Let's see. we got the house after that right?"
"yep, then there was meeting the neighbors, the whole fiasco with Mia," Emma says with a slight frown.
"taking custody of rose," Chris says and Emma nods.
"She's growing so fast..." Emma says with some sadness but tried to shake it off. "we found out you're a helicopter parent."
Chris nudges her for that one. "I'm not the only one. You coddle her too much."
"hardly," Emma disagrees while smirking slightly. "hmm I got to meet your old work friends. Barry and Rebecca. they were sweet."
"it was good to see them." he admits. "and we're only in June at this point good lord," he says while holding his face.
"yeah," Emma says with a short chuckle. "July was fun though. got to spend a bit of time together. go on our first date." she teased as she snuggled up closer to him.
"Looks like the new year is just about here, lets start that count down Jim," Says the female host.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,3,2,1
"Happy New Years," The radio loudly announced as the two kissed.
Emma smiles as Chris pours them both a drink and offers her a glass.
"Cheers, to a year of good health and prosperity," Emma says with a smile before the two clink glasses.
"I'll drink to that," he agrees with a slight smile and each take a sip. Their yearly gathering were no more but as short-lived as it was, it fell right to continue the tradition even if they were alone.
They really had gone through so much, but despite it all, they were still here. They were holding on. Emma smiled at that as she leaned to give the man next to her another kiss that lingered. Emma smiled as she shifted to sit on his lap while facing him before giving him another kiss.
"Rose is asleep," Emma says with a smile.
"True," Chris says while smiling, he liked where this is going.
"Maybe we could go downstairs and play around on the mats a bit," Emma suggests with a playful smile.
"Oh really?" He asks while slight surprise.
"Mhm," Emma confirmed with a light chuckle. "Could be fun."
"Hmmm" He hummed as if he wasn't already convinced.
Emma rolled her eyes at that and moved to get up. "Well can't be helped if you're not interested," she says while trying to hide her smile.
Wait shit no, "Get back here," He says as he moves to get up as well and catch her waist.
Emma laughed while trying to keep her voice down so she didn't wake the child. "Oh? Did someone change their mind?"
Chris rolled his eyes at that while trying to suppress a smile and kisses her neck. "Maybe."
Emma smiles at that as she gestures to the glass in her hand. "Would be a shame to waste this though."
"It's cheap," Chris points.
"Exactly, it won't really keep well," Emma says with a shrug.
He shakes his head at that and moves to let go so he can grab the bottle and uses that to lightly tap her back end "Nope no excuses, let's go. We'll just take it with us."
'*'*'*'*'
Chris Grumbles as he shifts to hold his forehead. As he woke up he found himself laying in a pile of spare blankets on the training mat with Emma laying next to him and piles of discarded garments around them along with two empty glasses and an empty bottle of cheap wine. A smile began to form as he moved to hold her a bit closer only to wince as a headache made itself know. It wasn't an awful headache but it was present enough to be annoying. note to self, cheap wine, no water, followed by exercise was a horrible combination. Never again. Thank goodness it was Saturday and he wouldn't have to worry about going to work.
"Mornin'," Emma says groggily.
"What time is it?" he asks while remaining still. He was curious but not enough to warrant actually looking for his phone.
Emma rolls over slightly and blindly reaches around to see if she could find her phone and managed to actually be successful since she'd thought ahead somewhat and left her phone by the abandoned stemware.
"let se-"8:12 AM "Oh god we slept in," She says and the two quickly moves to get up as panic and adrenaline kicked in. Fuck fuck fuck. shit shit shit. Gotta take care of the baby. She usually wakes up rose by 7:30 so she can have breakfast. Oh gosh, duke still needs a walk. Why did her alarm not go off? Did her drunk self think that the sun would wake them up in the basement?
"Divide and conquer," he says as he moves to start picking up his clothes.
"Yep, you use the master bath I'll use the shared bath," Emma says while doing the same.
"Sounds good," he agrees. It meant crap water pressure and lukewarm water at best but desperate times and it's still better than the shared gym showers back at the BSAA so he'd be fine. Chris lead the way up the stairs and checked outside. "Coast is clear."
"Oh thank heavens," Emma says quietly and the two make their way to their respective shower to wash up.
Military showers only quick soak, lather up rinse off. in and out in 5 minutes before meeting in their room once more.
"I'll take care of Rose and keep her distracted while you work with Duke and the basement?" Chris offers and Emma nods.
"Deal, We still have Chelsea, Jack, and the girls stopping by for lunch," Emma says as she hurries to get dressed. "can you vacuum the living room while watching her?"
"Shit that's right," he says while quickly doing the same. "Yeah, I can take care of that."
"You're the best," Emma says and gives him a quick peck before heading out now that she was fully dressed.
Chris smiled at that and finished getting dressed before making his way over to Rose's room where the kid was awake but playing with her toys.
She gasps as she hears the door opening and quickly jumps back into bed to pretend to be asleep. she wasn't supposed to play with toys during sleep time.
The agent tried his best not to laugh. she was trying really hard to pretend to be asleep, just. let her think she got away with it. honestly, he didn't really care that she was awake since they did oversleep. All the same, he walks over and gives her a gentle nudge. "Hey sleepy. Time to get up and have breakfast. Summer Maurie and Annie will be here in a few hours."
"YEY!" Roses says while quickly jumping back out of bed to head to the stairs and hurry to start the day. It was always a good day when friends came to play and they were visiting again so soon. She just got to see them for Christmas. This was awesome! she was dancing around in her seat the whole time she ate her breakfast. it was so hard to sit still when you're excited. She happily watched cartoons as Chris vacuumed up around the house and Emma went to the basement for a bit before coming back upstairs and washes her hand.
"Morning Sweetie," Emma says and gives Rose a peck on the top of the head. "Do you need some help cleaning your room before the girls get here?"
Rose giggles at this before thinking it over the question. She was getting bigger but she was still little. Rose eventually nods.
"Okay, finish your breakfast and we can go do that," Emma says as she goes to pour herself a bowl of cereal too.
Rose continues to eat at the pace of a snail. why rush to go clean her room when she got to watch TV when she was eating. eventually, though she does empty out the bowl and drinks the milk before going upstairs with Emma to clean up her room and put her toys away. Even though they were going to end up scattered everywhere again once the girls got here.
Noon rolls around and with it came a knock at the door. Rose hurries down the stairs with Emma not far behind her. Emma opens the front door and the 3 girls hurry into the house.
"Hi auntie Emmy!" they each say before hurrying over to Rose. "Let's go play," Summer says with an ear-to-ear grin.
"wow I guess I'm chopped liver now," Emma says amused.
"There's always someone cooler," Chelsea says while putting a sympathetic arm around Emma. "We'll get through this."
Emma laughs at that and shakes her head. "okay." She says while watching the 4 hurry back up the stairs to go play.
"So how have you been?" Jack asks as he Closes the door to the house and walks over to the living room where Chris and duke were relaxing.
"I've been well," Emma says as Chris gives a slight raise of his hand in greeting.
"hey good to see you guys," Chris says
"Yeah, just the person I was looking for," Chelsea says amused as she moves to let go of Emma and digs through her purse. "Summer had to write a paper for school. I just found it while cleaning out her bookbag And I thought you would want to read it."
"Oh?" Chris asks with curious concern and accepts the folded piece of crumpled paper and opens it. The paper had a few clip art pictures of different carries workers like doctors and firefighters and large font at the top that reads 'When I grow up I want to be...'
When I grow up I wanna be a Super Spy like my uncle. I want to be a super spy because they run around in cool disguises and fight bad guys. Less bad guys means the world is safer. When the world is safe then people are happy so it's a very important job. If I become a super spy, then I can help fight bad guys too.
Chris chuckles as he reads this and looks at the little added doodle on the page of what he assumed was him and summer as 'super spies'. He folds it back up and hands it to Chelsea. "She's a good kid. Maybe she'll end up as a police officer or something," he suggests in return. As cute as it was the idea of the kid ending up in the BSAA was concerning. especially since he still wasn't exactly seeing eye to eye with their processes. "The last thing she needs is to grow up and get involved in a mess and get throw out of a building."
"Does that happen a lot?" Jack asks with concerned curiosity.
"More than I'd like to admit," He says with a tired sigh.
Jack nods. "Maybe the police or a private investigator or something safer. like a dog groomer," he says as he hoped his child's interests would change over time. maybe he oversold the whole 'Chris is a spy' story.
Emma chuckles at that. "I'm sure it will change a dozen times before she's old enough to actually worry about that."
"Yeah," Chelsea agrees as she put the paper back into her purse. "Though just a heads up she did overhear us talking about Rose. We had to tell her not to tell anyone because if she does then the supervillains might find out and that would be bad."
"Oh gosh well that's not going to help," Emma says with a tired sigh. "Sorry about that."
"It's fine, she would have found out eventually. She seemed to understand that explanation so it will work until she's older and can understand better." Chelsea says with a slight frown.
"Fair, she's growing so quickly it's only a matter of time before Summer figures out something is up." Emma agrees with a slight frown. "Summer's turning 10 this year right?"
"Yeah, time flies so quickly," Chelsea says in return.
the 4 adults continued to catch up and chat. Meanwhile upstairs another conversation was underway.
"Psst rose," Summer says while looking around as if someone might be listening in. "Rose do you really have super powers?" she asks while completely in aw of the idea of being friends with someone that cool.
Rose was surprised by the question. "Um. Idonno." she replies nervously.
"can I see um?" Summer asks excited.
Rose shuffles her feet a bit. summer seemed eager about this. she was getting better about controlling it and she wanted summer to think she was cool. "okay." Rose agrees before going through the BSAA exercises in her mind a bit. her hair starts to fluff up as metal objects in the room started to raise up from their resting place and float around.
Summer watched and giddily giggles at this. "so coool" she praised. she knew a real superhero! Well, a little one. but still!
Rose smiled at this. she was cool still. yey. "I can do another thing too," she says happily. while the other girls laughed and watched the floating objects.
"I wanna see~," Maurie says this time.
"Okay, watch watch," Rose says and holds out her hands. the toys around them start moving around on their own though this seems to take more concentration as the metal objects are slowly lowered back to the ground. she had been practicing this one on her own. she wanted to surprise everyone at the BSAA with how good she was doing.
"That's so so cool," Summer says while dancing around the moving toys. an idea came to mind and she rolls up the sleeve of her shirt. "Bite my arm."
"Huh?" Roses says confused by the request and the toys stopped moving.
"Lots of superheroes get their powers cause they got bit by something else with powers. I've seen it like a bajillion times. So if I get powers too then we can be superhero together," Summer requests not realizing what she was asking rose to do was actually very dangerous.
"Good idea!" Maurie says praising her older sister.
"I don't think that's how that works," Rose says concerned. then again she didn't really know much about superheroes and Summer was older and smarter... "but I can try?" she didn't want summer to think she wasn't cool. and having a friend with powers too would be nice.
"Do it do it do it," Summer says excited.
Rose walks over and stare at the arm a bit concerned still. something seemed off... all the same she did what she was told and bit Summer's arm with a solid chomp.
"YEOCH!" Summer yelps and draws her arm back. "owy, your teeth are sharp." She whines before noticing her arm was now bleeding slightly from a few teeth marks.
"What happened to your hands?" Maurie asks concerned.
Summer looks at her hands quickly. did she get powers? they were normal...
Rose however did the same and the tips of her fingers were now pitch black and pointed. Rose yelps at this and shakes her hands. go away, go away! A sigh of relief was given as her fingers went back to normal. that was scary.
Summer stared at the little bubbles of blood on her arm and her still normal hands. She didn't get powers but rose got more powers? That's not fair. While summer was mature for her age in some respects she was still a 9 year old and the disappointment hurt more than the bite did.
Rose watched in horror as Summer started crying and ran out of the room.
"Summer, don't cry, it's okay," Maurie says while following her older sister. Annie and Rose follow close behind but once rose notices that Summer went to the adults she slowed to a stop and moved to hide behind the dining room table. A sinking feeling told her she was in trouble...
"mamaaaa" Summer cries through sniffles.
"What's wron- oh my gosh what happened to your arm!" she asks as she noticed the now more pronounced bruising bite mark and blood on her arm.
"I wanned superpowers too but it didn't wooork," she says through sobs.
Chris quickly got up and got on the phone. "Kep an eye on her, Emma let me know if that bruise starts to show veins." He says and hurries up to his study. come on. answer the phone.
"Hey Alpha," Night howl replies "What's up boss?"
"Which med-pack works with mold infections?" Chris asks as he opens up a tall shelf and starts digging through supplies. please say he has one left.
"Woah what?" Night howl asks surprised.
"Which variant works with the mold? it was D right?" he asks as he dug through spare med injectors he had plenty of that left so
"Nah it was the E variant. remember E for Evaline. D was the updated vaccine for the C virus which works against the TG variant." Night howl says. "why, is something wrong with Rose?"
"she bit someone," Chris replies while continuing to dig around through the shelf. come on, he cant have brought all of his E variant packs with him in february.
"Well shit, luckily that one spreads slower than the viruses. Do you need me to call in a medic?" Night howl asks while Chris managed to finally find one.
"Found one. call in the medic anyways. tell them it's urgent," Chris says and hangs up before hurrying back down the stairs.
Summer's crying had devolved to mild sniffles and apologies.
"Chris, what is going on?" Chelsea asks as she was growing more nervous because of his reaction.
"The bite needs to be treated before the infection spreads. in the wrong subject, it can make the host hostile and violent and starts causing physical mutations." He explains "Summer I need your arm."
Summer hesitates but does offer the arm and Chris quickly applies the injector to the area near the bite.
"Is she going to be okay?" Jack asks horrified.
"We'll see. A med team should be here shortly to check on her." Chris offers while Chelsea continues to cling to her baby and Emma hurries off to get a medkit to clean and wrap the injury.
"Rosemary," Chris says still clearly upset.
"Eep," the child yelps while moving to hide further. She didn't mean to be bad.
"Rosemary, get over here. Now," He says with continued ire.
"No," she replies while staying hidden. She didn't wanna be in trouble.
"You're going to be in a lot more trouble if I have to go find you," He says in return.
Tears welled up in the corner of her eyes and she slowly and cautiously walks out of hiding and towards Chris. He was her dad and that meant he was supposed to love her no matter what right?
Upon seeing that her actions were causing trouble for other Summer moved to get away from her mom and step in. "Uncle Chris it's not her fault," Summer says while hurrying to stand by Rose. "I told her to do it."
"Don't tell people to bite you," Chris says with some level of concern that such a thing needed to be explained to a child. "and she should know better than that, she's still in trouble."
"I'm Sworry," Rose says through sobs. She didn't mean it. "I just wannaed to be cool."
"Biting people is not cool," Chris says while holding his face. Again why did that need to be explained?
"I'm Sworry," Rose says again. "I won do it again I prowmise."
"You're going to your room," Chris says and moves to pick up the kid. Summer did tell Rose to do that but he needed to make sure she understood to never do that again and that there were consequences. Summer could have been infected. Hell if that injected wasn't applied in time she might BE infected. at this point, it's for Rose's own safety to have her separated.
"Noooo" Rose cried as she was put down in her room.
"Stay in here until you calm down," Chris says and closes the door as Rose very dramatically flops onto her bed. She just wanted to play with her friends.
A good 20 minutes later a team of BSAA medics arrived. To everyone's relief, the injector was applied in time and Summer would be fine. This would however mark the last visit from summer and the girls for some time. It was simply too dangerous while Rose was this young.
'*'*'*'*'
Two weeks had passed since then and Friday night arrived. "We're home" Chris calls into the house.
"We're hooome!" Rose shouts into the house.
"Welcome home welcome home!" Emma says in return with a smile. "We have guests," Emma says amused.
"Guests?" Chris says and walks around to see 4 familiar faces sitting on the couches of the living room.
"Oy you. care to explain this?" Barry says while holding up his letter.
"Oh, You guys showed up faster than I thought," Chris says as he was rather surprised to see not only barry but Rebecca, Jill and Claire had all come to visit. Yeah he was probably in trouble. "What's up?"
"What's up?" Rebecca asks while Jill holds her face and tries not to laugh.
"What's with the letters? is everything okay?" Claire asks curiously.
"Yeah we couldn't figure out the code," Jill admits with a slight frown.
"What's wrong with the letters?" Chris asks while trying not to laugh. "I wrote them like you guys asked."
"Please tell me I didn't fly all the way out here for nothing..." Barry asks as his shoulders dropped. he was too old for this.
"Why did you fly out here? This could have been avoided with a phone call," Chris points out amused. He really didn't think that this would work so quickly.
"You gadda-" he stops as Chris points at Rose. "You're still a pain in my neck even now," Barry corrects.
"He does kinda have a point we could have called," Jill says with a shrug.
"Now don't go and take his side," Barry says with a mixture of annoyance and amusement. some things never change.
Claire looks over to Emma "I asked you if everything was okay."
"I said it was fine and I was staying out of this," Emma replies amused. Chris could deal with this it was his mess.
Rebecca shrugs as well. "I was planning on visiting anyways since I have results to go over with them."
Rose looked at the group of somewhat familiar faces. she knew 3 of the 4. Feeling a little braver since she knew most of the people Rose walks over to Jill. "... Hi" she says nervously. normally it was okay to say hi to adults.
"Hi, you're Rosemary right?" Jill asks and Rose nods. "I heard a lot of good things about you."
she did? Phew. maybe Chris wasn't still mad then... she wasn't really sure how to reply to that thought. "... Hi?" Oh, shoot she already said that. run away! with that Rose retreats to hide behind Chris.
"She's cute," Jill says with a laugh.
"What do you say when you get a compliment," Chris coaches.
Rose peeks out from behind him "thank you."
"Well, if all us Racoon City Survivors are here, might as well get a photo together," Claire suggests.
"Ah it would have been perfect if we had Leo-" She stopped as she noticed Chris motion to cut it out by making a chopping motion by his neck with one hand while gesturing to claire with the other. "o-arlos... Carlos cause he was there too. should have thought to invite him with me but hey, can't be helped. That sounds perfect." Jill corrects with a nervous smile.
"Smooth," Claire says while looking at the two.
Chris shrugs. "Are we doing this or not?"
"I'll take the picture, you guys huddle up," Emma offers after putting her spatula to the side. dinner was at a point where she could leave it be for a few minutes.
Rose watches curiously as the adults move to stand in a group.
"Me too!" Rose says and hurries over. she wanted to be included.
Emma looked to the others with a questioning smile "do you guys mind?"
"I don't see why not," Barry says with a shrug.
"same," Rebecca agrees.
"Looks like that's decided then," Jill says with a smile.
Rose grin happily as she's allowed to stay in the picture
"3, 2, 1, Cheese," Emma says and takes the picture. "There we go," she says and texts it to Chris. "Chris can you send that to your friends? I need to get back to dinner before it burns."
"Sure," He agrees as he gets the message.
"While I'm here I might as well catch up on those tests. do you have a minute?" Rebecca asks curiously.
Chris nods before looking to Rose. "Rose can you go play in your room until dinner is ready?"
Rose grumbles at this. everyone else was downstairs, she didn't want to be alone. Jill gets up instead.
"Rose do you want to show me your toys? did you get anything fun from Santa?" Jill asks which causes the child to perk up.
"Yeah!" Rose says and leads the way to show her new friend what she got for the holidays.
'thank you' Chris mouths as Jill leaves and gives a thumbs up in return.
Once they were out of earshot Rebecca speaks up once more. "So I think I've got a good grasp on what exactly is going on at this point." she admits. "sorry it took so long. it's not exactly funded research so I've just been working on this in my spare time."
"It's fine. What did you figure out?" Chris asks while Emma listens in from the kitchen hoping Rebecca would mention that there was a solution.
"Well the medication was basically a dehydrated all-natural fungicide," Rebecca says figuring she should start with that. "There's kind of a lot to unpack here so sorry if I bounce around a bit. After studying the samples from rose, it looks like her Cell count is a bit. strange. um, how to explain it. So we usually have Red blood cells and white blood cells. she seems to have an extra. I'm tentatively calling them grey cells. they're definitely related to the mold and somewhere between a platelet or stem cell and work with cellular regeneration and seem to effect tissue growth."
"So that's making her age quicker?" Chris asks confused. why? Ethan was infected and he didn't age at all... granted he was dead so maybe that affected it but.
"Sort of," Rebecca says while bobbing her head. "it's complicated. With the addition of the extra cell type, it seems to be causing a few different reactions. hyper active cellular production, there's also signs of increased decay as well just not to the same extreme..." Rebecca says "what the medicine was doing was more so addressing the symptom and not the problem. it targeted the gray cells and kept her from physically aging but that hyper-active decay rate was still unaffected in my tests. and it likely wouldn't have helped long term since our body's naturally have a shift in Cellular production over time."
"In english?" Barry asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Growing as a kid is caused by the body making more cells than it can get rid of. Aging after you're fully grown is generally caused by Cellular decay overtaking cellular production. It's normal for that production to slow down to the bare minimum after a while and the medicine was just temporarily causing an equilibrium that would be more normal for an infant. eventually, that formula wouldn't work because cell production would ramp up more than what the medication fixed. and even then once she physically reaches around 25. the new problem will be that her decay rate will continue to increase and production will slow down. so her aging problem will compound." Rebecca says trying again to explain the problem. "so once she did reach 25 that medicine would just kill her faster since it affected production not decay."
She didn't really want to say this but. "it looks similar to the Evaline project's issue... there's going to come a point where she's going to fall apart if this isn't addressed properly. her body isn't stable." Rebecca hesitantly admits.
"So what we have 7, or 8 years to figure this out?" Chris asks while trying to process this.
"She looks about 4 now so. Yeah, at best 7. I'd probably say let's be safe and say 5 years." Rebecca replies with a sympathetic expression.
"So how long would it take to make a cure?" Chris asks and Rebecca winces a bit.
"Without funding?" Rebecca says in return. "It's hard to say. this isn't going to be like the virus vaccine, I had a team and a sponsor paying for the materials. Everything I've done so far was with leftovers from finished studies that weren't needed anymore and were going to get thrown away anyways. If I had a team or something to build off I could give an estimate but since the medicine, they were using for her before isn't really viable I'm starting from scratch. Unless she eats a crazy amount of it every day the older she gets. Even then that might buy us an extra 3 years but the compound wasn't exactly made of cheap materials."
"I have no problem with continuing to work on it but this is going to probably get a little close to the wire," Rebecca says "I can't really promise that I'm going to get anywhere with this. stopping cellular decay is a tall order and highly experimental. I've reached out to a few colleges but I'm still waiting to hear back. it's not going to be easy to get them to share notes on this."
That is not what Emma wanted to hear in the slightest. She moved the food off the active burner. She needed a minute.
Chris notices the movement from the corner of his eye as Emma started walking away. okay just go to the powder room by the front door. take a few minutes. breath.
shit, he forgot she was listening. "One second," he says to Rebecca and Barry as he quickly gets up to go after her and moves to hold her before she gets to the powder room door.
"It's fine. I just need a second, it's okay, I'm fine," Emma says quietly while trying to convince herself of that.
"No you're not," he counters which causes her to pause.
"... She's just a kid, She didn't ask for this," Emma says.
"She's not in danger, yet. We're not giving up okay?" Chris says quietly.
Emma nods quietly. it still kinda sucked. Rose was going to lose her childhood at this rate... She was keeping up for now but what about when she got older?
Chirs gives her a peck before speaking again. "Rebecca's pretty smart, if anyone can figure it out it's her."
Emma takes a breath and nods, "Okay," She replies. she needed to trust the process. keep doing what she could to make sure Rose was happy and safe. that's all she could do.
The two took a minute longer to just exist and catch their breath before heading back. Chris took his seat and Emma went over to the stove to find Barry had taken over working with the meal.
"Thanks, I can take over," Emma says and barry shoos her away.
"You should be over there," he says motioning to the couch with Chris Claire and Rebecca. "This involves you more than it involves me. I've been married for almost 40 years trust me I won't burn the place down."
"Thanks," Emma says once more and walks over to sit next to Chris.
"So there was one other possibility I was hoping to bring up with you." Rebecca mentions once both were seated.
"Go for it," Chris says with a nod.
"I haven't exactly scheduled my flight back yet and the next semester won't be starting until the 24th so I don't need to be back until the 22nd. I can't stay a few days and see if I can get permission from the BSAA to freely use their facility and do a few tests and exams that would help speed this up a bit." She offers before bobbing her head. "They're going to require a bit more patience from rose, but there's only so much data I can get from a swab test. I need scans, Xrays, blood test. I need to figure out the source of the grey cells. If we're really lucky it's just an extra node or connected to a benign extra organ and it wont be a problem to remove."
Chris nods. "I'll make some calls. I'm sure the med team wouldn't mind working with you since they're already doing tests to figure out how her unique abilities work."
It wasn't much but. At least it was something.
Emma is [2] weeks pregnant.
The timer begins and will show how far along Emma is by the end of each month. so for February, even if the chapter ends on day 16, the counter will go to the end of the month. Please accept this timer as a promise that regardless of what happens that she and the baby will be fine X'D I'm not gonna be that jerk that starts the timer only for it to be a psyche out. For those that are wondering why it's 2 weeks, not 4. Biology. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on that besides it's not an instant thing.
Side note I might have a little extra something in the works ;) nothing I can concretely talk about yet but soon.
Review Responses:
Starrat - glad to hear it
Guest1995 - glad to hear that the last chapter gave you a smile~ I have a feeling you'll be happy with this one too ufufu. you'll have to let me know if you got the right answer to that math equation X'D Ah, darn I kinda missed that window a bit for reactions for some characters. I'd say it's safe to say that most already knew since bastion was involved and Chris sent out the letters last chapter. but I'll see what I can do for Emma's family. maybe I can add that to my list of extra bits to write in a one-shot collection for this. I was thinking about making an extra 'book' of sorts for random drabble that didn't make it into the chapters. yep, Heisenberg is a free man at this point but it's also safe to say that it's not the last we've seen of him.