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Summary: Hitomi and Van reunite on gaia. But when their three year old daughter Alex reaches her forth Birthday everything changes. Now 11 years after the insident Alex has something to say about it.

Rating: pg-13 (for now)

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Hitomi sat at the kitchen table, braiding her three year old daughter's damp hair. Van sat across from her running his hands through his also slightly wet hair.Van gave Hitomi a look that told her he needeed to talk to her alone.
"Hey Als I bought you something in the market yesterday!" Hitomi told her daughter, pulling a bag from under the table.
Alex's grey eyes lit up. She carefully took the bag and looked inside.
"Ooh wow!"she exclaimed. She took the soft white cat stuffed animal and hugged it.
"It's name is Saphora..why don't you go play with it in the living room!" Hitomi suggested
"Okay.." noticing the urgency in her mother's voice. she looked from one parent to the other and understood. She hugged hitomi and then jumped over to van. "Im sorry daddy."
Van smiled slightly surprised. "Don't be Ali its not your fault."

Alex was a truly amazing child. She got stares and gaspes everywhere she went. Van and Hitomi heard the words. "She's beutiful." almost twice a day.
Her eyes were gray with sparks of blue. Her hair was mostly Van's color but every fifth strand was hitomi's color and it wend down strait to her sholders. Today she was wearing a white shirt that had the words -Additude- and blue jeans. Her shirt certainly fit her. She had Van's attitude and Hitomi's way of seeing life. If something bad hapened her actions seem to say "oh well." or "it could be worse." But her death glares were a mixture of Van and Hitomi's and seemed to carry out it's catagory fairly well. She had been givin Hitomi's pendent at birth. But every birthday she had something weird would happen. On her first birthday the pendent had changed from pink to blue. Her second birthday her eyes had turned from blue with grey sparks to grey with blue sparks. On her third birthday her intelligence had increased. She had always been a bright child but now it seemed she saw things in an intiarly different way.

Once Alex had left the room Hitmoi turned to Van. He was watching her. His eyes sadening. She knew he didnt want to tell her what he had to but he didnt have a choice.

"Tomi..it's starting."