Iron wood June 1st 2000

Eidolon walked next to me as he pointed at the rapidly built court yards.

"We've decided to open up your healing to the general public."

I nodded.

"I will do my best."

"We will check up everyone you heal, but so far you have been trustworthy, don't abuse that trust."

I nodded.

"Our Thinkers have created a system called..."

He sighed as if the word hurt him.

"The E-ticket system, each hospital in the United States will be given a number of tickets for patients that have diseases or injuries that can't be cured by modern science. With your ability to do mass healing, you can help a whole lot of people."

I continued walking alongside him.

"PRT personal and heroes still take precedent and you will be on call for major emergencies, but to make the process easier and faster we will have a number of buildings that will house people with certain problems."

We walked over to a place that held 4 large warehouses.

"Building A will hold amputees and other seriously injured people, Building B will hold the uncurable diseases wing, C is the cancer wing, and D... well that will hold people with genetic disorders."

I nodded.

"You will start work at 8 in the morning and end your shift at 8 at night... I know it's long hours, but there's a lot of people with problems who need your help. You're still expected to help out during Endbringer attacks and natural disasters."

"Do you need my help fighting crime?"

He stopped.

"Woody if it gets to that point well... um only if it's really serious, you will still get one day off a week but if something happens we might have to call you in. Healers are rare and currently you're the best one on this world."

I nodded in understanding.

"You're limited to the special district with one outing a week to Seattle until your probation is up, after that well, we'll talk."

I saw large buses move in.

"And it starts today."

July 4th 2000

Life is pretty dull in Seattle, at 8 am I go heal people, then when it gets dark I go and watch TV, then I fall asleep. Icy shows up every now and then and watches TV with me, then she normally wakes up and has to go do work, school or otherwise. I was currently walking around the city with her.

"So what's the plan for today, big guy?"

The shops had stopped flipping their signs, I still haven't found any place that will serve me outside of the Jackalope, but it's a start.

"Karaoke, or something else?"

"Maybe we should head for the park."

I ignored the staring, it had taken awhile but people just kind of got used to having me around. I nodded at her statement. We walked to the park and I sat down and leaned against a tree, Icy took a seat on my lap and we kind of stared out into the park.

"So why the name Icy?"

"Miss Freeze was taken, Captan Cold, Ice Cube, Zero Cool...it turns out there are a lot of iced based capes out there. Icy was the best thing I could find that wasn't taken, plus I triggered when I was young, so you know there's that."

"Triggered?"

"Yeah.. mom and dad were really strict, AP classes, science classes, I wasn't allowed to have fun or have friends. When I was 12 well I just wanted things to stop and I triggered."

"Did things get better?"

"Classes got a whole lot easier, but mom insisted that I joined the Wards and I was well kind of awkward and I didn't get close to anyone. It was kind of lonely and then I had to take classes at the junior college during the summer."

"And that was hard?"

"Well yeah, but after six years of that I pretty much had everything I needed for my degree."

"In what?"

"Weather and climate stuff."

She sounded tired.

"I finally got inducted into the Protectorate yesterday."

"Good, was there a party?"

"Not yet, my parents are going to be there, I um want you to come."

I nodded.

"That would be the acceptable."

July 13th 2000

"And we welcome Seattle's newest hero, Icy."

She bowed gave a short speech and I clapped, my table was mostly empty as were the tables around me. Icy took a seat at my left side and as the meal began an older couple took a seat, they were asian, well the woman was the man was multiracial according to a biological scan.

"Ironwood, these are my parents, mom, dad this is Ironwood."

She leaned against me and the two of them frowned and glared at me.

"Ironwood is a doctor."

The man glared at me.

"We gathered."

The meal continued on in silence, Icy's father continued to glare at me the entire time.

July 30th 2000

"I'm just going to bring in a few things."

I don't know how expensive land is in Seattle, but slowly but surely Icy had been moving her stuff into my warehouse. I lifted a wooden dresser into the room.

"This doesn't seem like a few of the things, did the apartment not work out?"

"Um the dorm situation wasn't that great...and um...stuff."

I shrugged and then sat down to read more.

"What yah doing?"

"Studying for your human GED, then I will try to take human correspondence classes."

A monster waved at her.

"Really? But why would you, um need to, you already have a job with the PRT."

"As do you, why do you study."

She blinked..

"Good point, I guess it's because it's all I know."

"You never told me your human name."

"Oh ohh right, Um its June Zuu, do you have a name, you know that..."

"Endbringers dnn't have names."

"Oh...ok, I forget sometimes Woody. I just, you know stopped thinking of you as that."

She leaned against me.

"Are you sure it's ok for me to move in?"

I shrugged, it gave me someone to talk to.

"So...have you ever heard of a kiss."

"I have watched several human tv shows, I'm familiar with the concept."

"Oh... right..."

Her hands clenched her parka, as if she were deciding on something.

"So yeah...um... can you, um have other um Endbringers?"

"Reproduce?"

Her face was red.

"Um yes?"

I was silent for a bit.

"Endbringer reproduction requires a level of power that your solar system does not possess."

"Oh...so um..."

"We are created artificially."

"Ok...so if you... um wanted to have children with a human woman like um hypotetically? Would it..."

"I am a master of biomanipulation, this would be possible."

"Ok..um good to know."

"Anything else."

"No I'm...fine I just need to think about us, I mean about things..."

I shrugged and turned on the TV, we watched something on the history channel.

"So um hypotheticallly speaking would you be against um being with a human woman."

I shrugged.

"It has not come up."

"But if it did."

"I don't know how it would work, the cultural differences."

"If she was willing to over look that."

"I am quite a bit bigger then a human male."

There was a hitch in her breath.

"Really...that's good to know."

We continued watching TV in silence.