11th to 23rd Nov 2003
Unwelcome Ties By Western Blakehawke.
Set after LATR. 2021.
Ames meets the first human looking transgenic. Alec is reunited with a sibling and takes a road trip.
Chapter 5
Day Three.
5:27am.
Jay had awoken and feeling hungry, quietly climbed from his bunk and jumped onto a still sleeping Will.
Will reacted instinctively and nearly decapitated Jay, only her lightning reflexes stopped her from killing him, as she caught his scent, then opened her eyes. "Damn it Jay!" She yelled eyes blazing. "Never do that to a transgenic! I could have killed you! I very nearly did!
Jay just sat on the bed in shocked silence, as Alec raced into the room, wearing only his black jeans and dripping wet from his shower.
"What happened?" He asked looking from one to the other. "I heard you yelling at Jay Will, what happened?"
"I almost killed him!" Will said her tone still angry and shocked.
"Wha… how?" Alec responded in surprise.
"I….I jumped on her." Jay explained quietly, his voice quivering. "I'm sorry."
Will leaned forward and pulled him into a tight embrace. "Honey, I'm sorry I shouldn't have yelled at you, but you scared the hell out of me." She gently told him. "I came so close to killing you!"
Alec realising what must have happened sat on the bunk and engulfed them both in a damp hug. "Kiddo, we both love you, we would hate for anything to happen to you especially at our hands." Alec quietly and sincerely told the boy.
Jay astonished, looked at both of the adults tenderly hugging him. "You only met me yesterday but you love me?" He asked grinning.
"Yep! I never believed in love at first sight until I met you." Will confirmed returning his grin.
"Yeah you grew on me on the plane journey!" Alec quipped grinning too.
Jay could tell that both were sincere and couldn't understand why The Conclave wanted to kill transgenics, why his Dad wanted to kill them. "I promise I won't wake you, either of you or any transgenic by jumping on them or grabbing them or touching them in anyway."
"Did your dad give you that list for himself?" Will asked grinning as she and Alec released Jay from his hug.
"Yep!" Jay emphasised with a swift sharp nod then hopped off the bunk and grabbed Alec's hand and tried to pull him from the room. "Uncle Alec, I'm hungry!"
Alec remained on the bunk for all Jay's efforts.
"Ah, why tell me when Will's right here?" Alec asked confused.
"'Cause you're up and she isn't!" Jay responded. "Feed me!" He ordered.
Will started laughing at his reasoning and how like Ames he sounded and looked. Alec rolled his eyes at her and finally allowed himself to be dragged from the room.
"I want pancakes with maple syrup." Jay informed him.
"Jay if you don't want to get food poisoning, better have toast or cereal!" Will laughingly called after them.
"Yeah, toast or cereal sound good, don't they Jay?" Alec said trying to convince the boy.
"But I want pancakes! You said you love me! So prove it and make me pancakes!" Jay ordered as they entered the kitchen.
"Will help!" Alec yelled in desperation.
"I'll make you pancakes!" Will said grinning as she followed them into the kitchen area, still in her short pyjamas. She swiftly started making up the pancake mixture.
"Me too?" Alec asked hopefully as he sat down opposite Jay.
Will grinned at him. "Sure!"
"Word of advice kid, the only X-series I've ever met who can cook is Will, we others tend to uh burn water." Alec informed Jay. "So if you don't was a case of food poisoning never let an X series other than your mom cook for you."
"Okay!" Jay replied grinning, as he played with the bottle of maple syrup that he had brought to the table.
Will rolled her eyes. "Cooking's not hard all you have to do is read the instructions or follow a recipe."
"I've tried, but the results were inedible." Alec groused. "You obviously got some genetic skill that they left out of the other X series."
"Tinga could cook, she worked in a bakery." Will archly reminded him as she brought three glasses of orange juice over to the table, on a tray with two plates each piled high with pancakes.
"Okay, she was the exception to the rule." Alec responded as he took one of the plates, a fork and his glass of orange juice then waited for Jay to finish with the maple syrup. "Aren't you having any?"
The sound of toast popping.
Will moved back into the kitchen area. "I hate sweet stuff for breakfast, I'm having toast." She replied over her shoulder, as she buttered the six slices.
"Oh yeah right now that you mention it, I've only ever seen you eat either toast or savoury cereal for breakfast." Alec commented with his mouth full.
Will looked up from buttering the final piece of toast and glared at Alec. "Don't speak with your mouth full."
Alec swallowed his mouthful before replying as she came and sat down. "It's never bothered you before." He replied in a hurt tone. "You never complained before."
"Yes I did but after the first seventy two complaints fell on deaf ears, I quit." Will drolly responded.
"Oh yeah, I forgot!" Alec replied deep in thought as he recalled each of the times she'd mentioned his speaking with his mouth full.
Jay was busy eating his pancakes too interested in them, to be bothered joining in the conversation.
"Why bug me about it now?" Alec asked after he swallowed another mouthful, then realising he looked at Jay. "Oh right!"
"What?" Jay asked the two adults after swallowing his orange juice.
"She thinks you might learn bad habits from me, 'cause you started mimicking me." Alec explained grinning.
"Oh!" Jay looked at Will. "Don't worry Mom I haven't talked with my mouth full since I was little, it's rude." He ingenuously informed her.
Will burst out laughing at the look on Alec's face at Jay's honest reply.
"What?" Jay asked again looking from a laughing Will to a pouting Alec and back to Will. "What'd I say?"
"Fine, I'll start acting like an adult and quit talking with my mouth full." Alec stated rolling his eyes, a grin starting to materialise on his face.
Will was still laughing and Jay sensing that neither was going to let him in on the joke went back to savouring his pancakes.
Twenty minutes and more pancakes later.
"We better head out, Alec you need to finish dressing and then you can take the first driving shift." Will instructed. "Jay c'mon you need to shower clean your teeth etcetera and get dressed, then I can." She moved out off the way so that Jay could leave the table.
"Okay!" Jay grinned at the adults and happily bounded to the shower room.
Alec laughed and turned to look at Will shaking his head he said in an undertone. "Sheesh, who'd have thought that I would fall for Ames White's kid, he must take after his mother, lets hope he takes after her."
"So you don't mind that I adopted him after all then." Will stated grinning at him.
"Hell no! The kid's got taste! He decided to mimic me after all!" Alec said smugly as he grinned at her.
"He's a child, so of course he'd adore and want to mimic an older child." Will drolly responded.
"Hey!" Alec pouted at her. "Not funny! Just because you're seven years older than me, you think you can call me a kid." He grabbed her and they began tussling playfully ala kittens or wolf cubs.
They were still tussling a few minutes later when Jay emerged from the shower room, he grinned at the odd sight of two adults play fighting and sat down to watch the show. Will and Alec continued to play for a few minutes, rolling about on the floor, then Will caught site of Jay and pulled the play punch that she was throwing at Alec.
"What?" Alec asked confused
"Damn! We can't be playing we have to get to Canada!" Will replied, standing up and brushing herself down, she glanced at the clock in the motor homes cab.
6:31am.
Alec also stood and brushed himself down as Will rushed past him to the shower room, he then went to his room and emerged a few moments later fully dressed, Jay was still sitting mirthfully watching the antics of his newly acquired mom and uncle. Alec grinned at him as he passed by and sat in the drivers seat, before he could start the vehicle, Jay had joined him and was swiftly buckling his seat belt.
"You're my co-pilot huh" Alec joked grinning at the boy.
"Yep!" Jay returned his grin. "Hey a GPS cool!" He yelled seeing it on the dashboard.
"Yeah it came with the motor home." Alec told him as he started the vehicle up and manoeuvred out of the lot.
"This is gonna be fun!" Jay cried bouncing in his seat. "Can we pick up a hitch hiker?"
Alec looked at him then quickly returned his eyes to the road. "Ah no, no picking up of hitch hikers."
"Awwwwww, I wanted to see you and Mom beat the crap out of an axe wielding maniac!" Jay whined pouting.
"Who let you watch that movie?" Will queried in surprise and shock as she stuck her head into the cab.
"No one let me watch it, I just saw some of it when I couldn't sleep so I went downstairs and put the TV on." Jay explained. "When Dad got home and saw what I was watching he got all mad and glary." He sounded puzzled over this. "He picked me up and took me to bed and made me promise that if I couldn't sleep that I'd watch one of my DVDs not whatever was on the TV."
"Your dad was right!" Alec told him. "Those movies have an eighteen certificate for a reason!"
"Yeah Jay that rule is still in force okay!" Will responded. "You said that your DVDs are in the luggage right?"
"Yep! Hey can I watch one on your laptop?" Jay asked unbuckling his belt.
Will grinned at him. "Sure!" She moved out of the way as he bounded past her and into Alec's room to collect his DVDs, whilst Will went to set up the laptop.
Jay raced back into the room and went through the merits of each of his DVDs with Will before deciding to watch the Aristocats.
Will started laughing and called out. "Hey Alec, I just thought up the perfect alias for you!"
"What?" Alec asked, knowing from her mirth that he probably wouldn't like the answer.
"Thomas O'Mally!" Will yelled then she and Jay both convulsed into giggles.
Alec also got the reference. "Oh hilarious!" He stated sarcastically rolling his eyes.
After a few moments Will and Jay's giggling subsided and they settled down to watch the movie, whilst Alec shoved a favourite CD into the player and slipped on a pair of headphones.
Ninety minutes or so later Will joined Alec in the cab, Jay was watching a Power Ranger's DVD and Will was not keen on any incarnation of that show.
"Let me know when you want a break." She told Alec, as she settled comfortably into her seat.
Alec grinned at her. "I'm good for a while, I love to drive."
She grinned back at him as they settled into a companionable silence. They drove in silence for the next two and a half hours or so, grinning at each other whenever Jay frequently spoke along with his DVDs or started guffawing.
9:24am.
They were now travelling through more countrified areas.
"So you really think we've share some DNA?" Alec asked recalling their conversation from two days ago.
"Yep! Given our similar personalities and colouring, I'd say it was a pretty sure bet!" Will replied, not thinking it the least odd that Alec should suddenly bring up an old conversation. "But we obviously don't have the same DNA for height." The 4'10" transgenic quipped grinning but also sounding slightly wistful.
Alec looked at her and patted her arm. "Hey it's okay to be a petite female, very attractive actually, but a short male….."
Jay switched off the laptop and came forward into the cab. "Do you think I'll be tall?" he asked.
Will released her seat belt and moved over on the bench seat, then re buckled herself in as Jay took her space, buckling himself in as she answered his question. "Yep, you'll be at least 5'10" like your dad, you could even grow taller." She told him ruffling his hair affectionately.
"Cool!" Jay responded grinning at her as he moved his head away from her hand.
Taking the hint Will placed her hand in her lap and grinned at him.
"What is it with you and ruffling people's hair?" Alec curiously asked her.
Will shrugged her right shoulder. "Not sure, I think it's a wolf thing, you know blended with human turns rubbing my head against someone I care for into ruffling their hair." She replied looking thoughtful.
"Oh." Alec responded grinning.
"Lets play a game!" Jay piped up. "Okay you have to try and spot certain things, like a certain colour car, the first person to spot it wins and gets to choose the next thing."
"Sounds a bit like an exercise we did at Manticore." Alec commented.
"Just what I was thinking." Will replied nodding.
"You don't want to play it then 'cause it reminds you of Manticore?" Jay asked disappointed.
"We'll play!" Will responded grinning at him, but refraining from ruffling his hair with an effort.
"Yeah buddy, we do a lot of stuff that reminds us of Manticore." Alec reassured him also grinning.
"Great!" Jay responded bouncing on his seat. "I get first choice!" Thinks for a few moments. "Okay first one to see a blue car wins!"
The three of them happily played the game until their stomachs started to rumble, Jay got up, so that Will could go make them some lunch, while he and Alec had a highly animated discussion about Looney toon characters, having discovered from Jay's DVD collection that it was an interest that they both shared, they quickly became engrossed in discussing the relative merits of each character.
1:02pm.
"Alec, you want to find somewhere to pull over, lunch will be ready in seven minutes!" Will called.
"Okay!" Alec replied.
Jay also looked for a likely spot. "There!" he yelled pointing to a picnicking place with a car park.
"Perfect! Well spotted!" Alec told him ruffling his hair as he pulled into the car park.
"Hey, I thought you hated when Mom does that to you?" Jay asked leaning away from him and pouting.
"Sorry sport couldn't help myself!" Alec responded grinning at him completely unrepentant.
Jay grinned in response. "Just don't do it in public okay!" he ordered.
"No Sir!" Alec replied saluting him.
This caused Jay to dissolve into a fit of giggles.
Alec swiftly parked the motor home, undid his seat belt, then undid Jay's and hoisting the still giggling seven year old onto his right shoulder, entered the body of the motor home, he deposited Jay onto his preferred seat and sat in his own.
Will turned around from cooking and grinned at them. "Be ready in a minute."
Alec sniffed the air in appreciation. "Burgers and fries, that's junk food you know." He quipped trying to wind Will up.
"Yep, but I'm the parent I can be a hypocrite!" Will replied not turning around as she concentrated on making up the burgers.
"I'll get the cola." Alec stated having noticed that there was none ready to be served.
"Big surprise." Will replied and dodged past him carrying four burgers in rolls and a huge platter of fries on the tray. She quickly transferred the food onto the waiting plates and Jay quickly began pouring on the ketchup that he had picked up on sitting down. Will sat down.
Alec returned with the cherry cola and filled the three glasses then sat and began eating too. Alec paused and swallowed his mouthful of food. "Hey, are these veggie burgers?" He asked finally recalling that Will had told him weeks ago that she was a vegetarian.
"Of course Alec, all the so called meat I've been serving you for weeks, is actually made from mushrooms and other stuff." Will responded drolly.
Jay couldn't care less what the burger was made of, since it tasted good so he just kept eating and watched the adults.
Alec looked at the burger in his hands. "Even the turkey with the roasts?" He asked in astonishment.
"Yep!" Will grinned at him.
"Hey rabbit food aint half bad!" He quipped and started to devour his second burger.
Will rolled her eyes and continued her own meal.
13:33pm.
"Okay I cooked so you get clean up detail!" Will informed the two males and grinned at their reactions.
"Will I'm to full to move!" Alec whined, slouching in his seat and giving her a pathetic look.
"Me too!" Jay echoed and copied Alec's position and turned pleading eyes on Will.
Will shrugged and stood up. "They'll wait!" She called over her shoulder as she exited the vehicle.
Jay and Alec looked at each other frowning.
"Should have known it wouldn't work on Will!" Alec moaned as he stood up and started loading up the tray. "Hey buddy, I'm not doing this all on my own, I'll wash you can dry!"
"Awwww Uncle Alec!" Jay tried his beseeching look on him and failed miserably again.
"Look the sooner we get started the sooner we get to explore the park." Alec responded moving into the kitchen.
Jay let out a long suffering sigh and followed him.
Will returned a few minutes later from her breath of fresh air to find the two males drenched.
"I meant soak the dishes not yourselves!" She quipped grinning at the pair.
Alec groaned. "Bad pun!" He said rolling his eyes and grabbing a towel started to dry himself off.
Jay just dissolved into giggles.
"You didn't want clean up detail, so you double your workload by having a bubble fight." Will stated amused as she returned to the great outdoors. "Now as well as clearing up after lunch, you get to mop up all that water!" She called over her shoulder before shutting the door.
This dose of reality stopped Jay's giggles and Alec's attempts to dry himself off, 'cause he was too lazy to get changed.
"Aww flip!" Alec cursed glaring at the Will through the window, she turned and waved at him, having heard the curse through the open window, she was grinning.
Twenty one minutes later.
Alec and Jay finished clearing up and after changing into dry clothes, they joined Will outside. Jay raced over to the play area and started playing, whilst Alec flopped down on the bench beside Will.
"I hate clearing up!" He groused.
"Well you could cook but since it'd be inedible……" Will responded her eyes still closed as she relaxed it the sun.
"Yeah!" Alec sighed. "Guess I'm on clean up for the entire trip."
"Mmmmhmmm." Will replied.
Seeing that Will was not in a talkative mood, Alec just lounged and watched Jay as he played happily.
14:49am.
Will looked at her watch. "Jay honey time to go!" she called as she stood.
Alec had been napping and jumped awake at her yell. "Wh… Oh we're leaving?"
"Yep!" Will replied and headed for the motor home.
Jay raced past her and got to the door first. "I win!"
Will grinned at him. "And your prize is some fudge!"
"Great!" Jay yelled as he bounded aboard.
Will followed and Alec brought up the rear.
"Hey I want some fudge too!" He commented pouting.
"There's plenty for all of us." Will told him patiently.
Jay hearing this divided the fudge between them in three bowls then brought them over to the table, after he was seated Will sat and the three of them ate their fudge in silence.
North Carolina.
Later that evening.
20:04pm.
They finally pulled into the town where an Eye's Only contact would meet them with a laser for removing skin blemishes; birthmarks and tattoos.
Since Will planned on having transgenic visitors and could also expect her home to be used as a safe house in emergencies, she had asked Logan to acquire a laser that she could keep.
They parked on the outskirts and Alec went to the arranged meeting place. Forty eight minutes later he returned with the laser and they headed off again, they were on their way to a campsite because Will and Alec had figured it was for the best if they acted like tourists, rather than fugitives. They soon found a campsite and bedded down
Day Four.
06:01am.
They had left the campsite after Will had again made Alec and Jay a breakfast of pancakes. Alec still insisted on driving so Jay and Will played computer games and drew. Will made sandwiches for lunch and Alec ate his as he drove. Will then introduced Jay to the delights of nineteen eighties television with her DVDs of The A-Team, Airwolf and Knight Rider and they sat watching these for hours.
Virginia.
20:01pm.
Alec was driving and Will and Jay were seated in the cab with him, Will was by the cab door, they had been playing word games for an hour or so.
"Stop!" Will suddenly yelled and hopped out of the cab as soon as Alec reflexively hit the brakes on her command.
"Hey what….." Alec called after the rapidly moving transgenic, she ignored him.
Alec glanced at Jay who silently shrugged.
"Females!" Alec said exasperated wondering what Will had spotted.
Sixteen minutes later.
A grinning Will returned and was followed by seven kids, who were carrying bags and also had four cats and two large dogs, she opened the door in the body of the motor home and quickly ushered them inside.
Alec and Jay moved from the cab into the motor home just as Will shut the door. The dogs started leaping up at Alec and licking him.
"Will would you control you relatives!" Alec asked sarcastically as he tried to gently fend off the two dogs who were determined to lick him to death.
Will made a sound low in her throat and the dogs immediately came to her side.
"Thank you!" Alec sarcastically stated as he grabbed some kitchen towel and began wiping the slobber off himself.
Jay and the other children were all laughing hysterically from the moment Alec asked Will for help.
"You're welcome." Will grinned at him whilst she made a fuss of the dogs. "They were only being friendly."
"What did you say to them, the dogs on the way here, that they needed to befriend me, make me love 'em?" Alec queried sounding disgruntled, still wiping off slobber.
"Yep!" Will replied not bothered that he had figured out her scheme.
At this odd conversation the kids stopped laughing and looked backward and forwards between Will and Alec.
"Mom can talk to dogs? Cool!" Jay yelled jumping up and down.
"Yes I'm telepathic with all canines…. dogs, wolves, foxes…. we talk in pictures rather than words." Will acknowledged.
Alec turned his attention to the new non furred arrivals. "Will what the hell is going……" Alec trailed off as he recognized five of the kids. "What the hell are you guys doing in Virginia near Washington D.C! You're supposed to be in Canada!"
The four X6's and three X8's looked at each over guiltily. Two of the X8's were identical twin girls, twins not clones.
"We did go to Canada." Fixit told him with a guilty look.
"Yeah, we travelled across Canada and ended up back in the states." Zero added glaring at Alec.
Alec flopped onto a seat. "Idiots! You were reasonably save in Canada! Have you forgotten that we're being hunted by a…."
"Alec!" Will quickly interrupted him. "The kids are coming to Canada with us, they will live with me and Jay."
"Cool!" Jay yelled at the thought of siblings.
"Now wait a minute Will we said we'd accept a lift back to Canada from you but nothing else." Bullet pointed out glaring at her stubbornly.
Will looked at the kids her face impassive. "Are you defying my orders soldier!" She snapped.
"No Ma'am!" Bullet snapped back as he and the other X kids automatically snapped to attention at her tone.
"Good." Will smiled. "Alec if you'll get us to that campsite I'll start cooking dinner." She moved past the still rigid kids into the kitchen. "Dismissed!"
The X kids relaxed at the word and looked around, Alec went back into the cab and resumed their journey, he planned on having a long talk with Will after dinner.
"C'mon, I'll show you round!" Jay offered. "I'm Jay and I'm seven!"
"Bullet seventeen."
"Ralph fifthteen."
"Bugler eight."
"Kia six."
"Kat six."
"Fixit sixteen."
"Zero fifthteen."
They told Jay as they followed him.
"Cool! And your dogs and cats?" Jay asked.
The children still carried the cats, the dogs had stayed with Will. They had put their bags down in the lounge.
"The cats are Eeeeny; Meeeny; Miney and Mo." Zero stated pointing to each as he said their name.
"The dogs are Dack and Trixy." Ralph added. "Dack's the large black male and Trixy's the smaller black and brown female."
"Great! I always wanted siblings and pets now I've got both!" Jay ecstatically told them bouncing up and down.
At a deserted campsite.
21:21pm.
They had finished dinner and the X kids had explained as they ate how they ended up in Virginia and that they had found the twins just before they got to Canada.
"Alec I know you wanted to talk to me." Will said standing up from sitting cross legged on the floor and lifting the tray off her knees as she did so. "We'll speak outside. Kids you can watch one DVD then bed."
"Awww Mom." Jay whined. "Can't we watch you fight!" He turned to his newly acquired siblings. "They're funny when they argue!" He grinned.
"No." Will stated firmly and exited the vehicle to the sounds of Jay's grumbling.
Alec chose a DVD and stuck it in the laptop and turned it on. "Here watch this, it's good." He ordered before following Will.
The sounds of Star Wars could be heard from outside as Alec joined Will on a bench about thirty metres from the motor home.
"Eight kids are you insane!" Alec started as soon as he sat down.
"I'm part wolf remember we always have a lot of cubs." Will patiently reminded him
"Seven more people crammed in the motor home, plus four cats and two big dogs!" Alec yelled in reply. "Are you completely insane!"
"Alec it's not up for debate! They are staying!" Will growled baring her teeth slightly.
"Down girl!" Alec responded holding up his hands in a conciliatory gesture. "Will the dogs are male and female and one of the cats is a tom, you're gonna end up with loads of dogs and cats!"
"I already confirmed with the kids what my nose told me, that the animals had been neutered." Will informed him. With a deep breath she controlled her temper and then tried another tack. "C'mon Alec I couldn't just let you drive by after I scented Ralph." She looked imploringly at him.
Alec sighed. "I know, it's just that ten people, four cats and two dogs crammed into a motor home for the next few days is gonna be murder!"
Will patted him on the arm and grinned. "We'll cope!"
"We're gonna need more provisions, including sleeping bags, the blankets the kids have aren't good enough." Alec replied.
"There's a large town a few miles from here, we'll provision there tomorrow." She responded. "C'mon we need to sort things out with the kids, starting with their new names!" Will stood up and headed back to the motor home.
Alec followed her laughing. "Yeah, I'm lucky I'm a smart alec otherwise who knows what Max would have saddled me with!"
They entered the motor home, both laughing, the kids all looked at them.
"Okay kids, I'm your new mom and as such I get to name you." Will told them firmly, her expression clearly said that this was not up for debate.
The X6's and X8's looked at each other and shrugged, having already decided that it was in their best interests to obey Will just as they had done at Manticore.
Will grinned at them. "Okay then, girls first. Kia you are now Robyn R O B Y N, Kat you are Ryanne R Y A N N E ; Fixit you're Nikita N I K I T A and Ralph you're Cassidy C A S S I D Y." Will spelt out the names.
The girls grinned liking their new names.
"You're much better at this than Max." Alec commented grinning.
Will winked at him then continued to name the kids. "Okay boys, Bullet you're Bret B R E T; Bugler you're Daniel, Danny for short D A N I E L, D A N N Y and Zero you're Cooper, Coop for short C O O P E R…."
"C O O P." He interrupted her grinning.
"Careful Coop or she'll ruffle your hair!" Jay quipped sticking out his tongue and dodging Will's right hand as she made to ruffle his hair.
"Wow she does do that!" Ryanne piped up telling the adults that Jay had warned his new siblings about Will's habit of ruffling the hair of those she cared about.
Alec started laughing at this whilst Will grinned and rolled her eyes.
"Our surname is Wolfe, W O L F E." She finished informing her new children. "And remember to call me Mom and Alec Uncle Alec."
"We will Mom." Nikita assured her smiling.
"Okay our background story is…… Your dad died in a car crash, while I was pregnant with Robyn and Ryanne, oh and Cassidy and Cooper you are now twins since you're roughly the same age."
"Sure no problem." Cooper replied grinning.
"Yeah that's fine." Cassidy added.
"Kids lets see you necks!" Alec ordered.
"Necks?" Jay asked confused. "Oh yeah, the barcodes that's why you got that laser last night." He quickly recalled what they had told him.
"Yep!" Will replied nodding as she made a fuss of the dogs.
The X kids moved their hair or collars to allow Alec to see their barcodes.
"They all need lasering, we'll do it after breakfast tomorrow." Alec decided.
"Fine by me." Will replied.
"Okay now that that's settled lets get back to the movie!" Jay ordered and turned it back on before anyone could agree or disagree.
"While you watch the film Alec and I'll sort out the sleeping arrangements." Will stated she made a move towards the master bedroom area pausing when Alec didn't follow her, she raised an eyebrow at him.
"I want to watch the movie too!" Alec whined, pouted, and seated himself with an obstinate look on his face.
"You know Alec you were wrong when you said eight kids." Will drolly stated.
"Huh?" Alec gave her a confused look then getting her meaning glared at her.
The kids all dissolved into laughter at this, which doubled when they received the full force of Alec's glare.
"Watch the movie Alec, it'll be easier sorting out the beds by myself anyways." Will told him grinning, then moved into the master bed room.
22:47pm.
At the sound of the end credits Will returned to the lounge area, she'd used all the available bedding to make up stacks to be lain out as extra mattresses, she had also written up a shopping list. That only took her a few minutes so she then vegged out on the master bed with a book, she was joined by the two dogs. The four cats were asleep on the lower bunk in the other bedroom.
"Alec help me with the bedding while you kids get ready for bed, no arguments!" Will stated forestalling any comments, then turned and re-entered the master bedroom, returning with a stack of bedding.
The others obeyed her commands, even Alec and soon the make shift mattresses were in the lounge and the kids had finished in the shower room. Everyone was now standing in the lounge area.
"Okay, Jay and Danny you have the top bunk, Robyn and Ryanne you have the bottom one." Will stated moving to each of them in turn and kissing them on the head. "Good night sweet dreams, now off to bed."
The four youngsters obeyed too tired to do otherwise.
"Nikita, Cassidy and myself will take the double bed tonight and swap with you guys tomorrow night, we'll alternate through out the trip." Will told them and went into the shower room.
The X6's looked at each other, shrugged and went to their assigned beds.
Alec walked over to the shower room so that he could talk to Will. "Will did you write a shopping list?" He asked her through the door.
"Yep, air mattresses and more bedding, sleeping bags are on it." She responded.
"Good, cos it's gonna get colder as we head to Canada." Alec needlessly informed her, then went and sat down to wait for her to exit the shower room.
Will exited a few moments later grinned at the males. "Good night sweet dreams boys." She said refraining from kissing them to Bret and Coop's obvious relief, then went to bed.