October 31st 2001

"Trick or treat!"

The children stare at me as I hand them some candy, it's a Public relations thing, having me hand out candy in the Special District, some people are still angry at me for the loss of Lincoln park. This is mostly about soothing some of those hurt feelings. June waves at the children as they leave, she's dressed up like a pumpkin, I don't know if theres a joke in there.

"Trick or treat."

I hand over more candy, these children are clearly PRT brats, there seems to be three kinds of people who showed up tonights events, PRT kids, past patients, and thrill seekers. I look at the clock, only five more minutes until ten until the event ends. The camera's are still on us as we try to appear as american as apple pie. Finally it ends and I shut the door, I walk to our couch and June sits next to me.

"Are you?"

"I'm not made out of glass big guy, I'm just pregnant."

She leaned against me when another knock came on the door, I opened it and some PRT Agents looked at me sheepishly.

"Um Woody we need some help, Al um..."

I scanned him with my senses.

"Oh you shoved something up your rectum I will fix it, um drop his pants."

The man winced in pain as his friends did so, I used my powers to draw glass out of his behind and heal the wounds.

"Look um Woody, I would-"

"This is not the first time I have done this...I can't count the number of times Leviathan put an object up his behind."

The three of them stared at me, Al put his pants up.

"Your shitting us right?"

"No, I don't pretend to understand my brother, but one of his chief source's of entertainment besides destroying things was stuffing new objects up his behind."

They looked at each other and then at me.

"Is that um, classified?"

I shrugged.

"I don't see why that would be classified, and it's not like he ever bothered hiding it, he used to challenge people to contests about who could stuff up the most."

"Really?"

Their jaws were low.

"The only one who actually took him up on the offer was the one you call Behemoth."

"Who won?"

"I don't know, All I know is that it took dozens of cycles to get all of the items out of their systems."

They kind of blinked, shrugged and walked away, I shut and locked the door and went back to our couch, June stared at me.

"You know thats going to be up on PHO with in the week right?"

I shrugged.

"If he wanted me to keep that secret then he shouldn't have acted like a jerk."

I shrugged and she fiddled with the remote and I sighed.

"Really?"

"It's a tradition."

"We did this the last year."

"I know, and you're going to have to get used to it."

I relaxed and resigned myself to watching Beauty and the Beast yet again.

November 13th 2001

"PUSH, PUSH!"

"I'm doing that."

June almost sounded annoyed, but she kept pushing.

"You know what, this doesn't hurt nearly as bad as people make it out to be, I dont see what everyone's-"

"I shut down all your pain receptors for the duration of the birth giving process."

June rolled her eyes.

"I'm a cape big guy, I'm made out of tougher stuff then that, you can, you know undo that."

"You were very insistant in the Lamaze class that we handle it this way, June."

She waved her hand.

"I just got a little emotional during the movie, I can handle this-ARRRGGGHHH!"

She screamed in pain.

"I WAS WRONG, I WAS WRONG, TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF!"

I fiddled with her nervous system, and the screaming stopped.

"Ok... so yeah, not doing that again."

"PUSH!"

"I'M DOING IT!"

I hear a cry.

"It's a boy!"

"I'M PUSHING!"

"It's a girl!"

June took a deep breath in, I cautiously healed any damage as the doctor handled things, she held my hand as our children were cleaned and swaddled. She smiled as she was handed our son.

"Hey Justin, welcome to the world."

I felt a sense of wonder and awe, as my children slept in my wife's arms, the doctor left us alone. She smiled as we held the children.

"I didn't think it was possible to love something this much."

She smiled, and leaned her head against me.

"Yeah, this is big, you know really big."

"They are tiny?"

She smiled and chuckled.

"You know what I mean...maybe we should have more?"

"Lets see how we do with these two first."

She smiled and nuzzled our children.

"How much trouble could these two be?"