Bobby sat on the steps, with his arms propped up, watching Jamieson as she sat and taught the children how to play Red Light, Green Light.

Well it was more like she was the stop sign, and she yelled out.

But she was teaching them all the same.

He had taught her the game many years ago.

He couldn't believe that she remembered it till this day.

Bobby would look down the steps and check on the triplets, who were being supervised by his daughter Zoe.

He let out a silent chuckle as Zoe was instructing them on how to roll the big blow up ball.

Emily sat down next to Bobby and kissed him on his cheek.

Bobby glanced at her sideways with an accusing look.

"What was that for?" he asked half mumbling.

Emily smiled and looked him dead in the eyes.

"That's for being who you are…….after everything that you've done for us…………all of us." Emily said as her eyes stole away to Jamieson.

Bobby closed his eyes and turned his head away from Emily.

"Mona can't understand her like I do." Bobby said softly.

Emily gazed over at her husband with a quiet sadness.

"I know…" she stated.

"Jamieson isn't comfortable with her yet." Bobby stated.

Emily looked down at her hands and nodded her head.

"I can understand that." Emily said.

Bobby looked up to where the children were playing with a small sad smile.

"How is it that you always know what I'm thinking………and why you always seem to understand it?" Bobby asked in resigned amazement.

Bobby turned to look at her as she slowly contemplated her hands and slowly turned to meet his eyes.

"Because I know………and love you." Emily said with loving eyes.

Bobby blinked and turned his head to look down into his lap.

"Em I told you that I would do anything to protect her and get her out of that place." Bobby said with a firm voice.

Emily just stared at him.

Bobby shook his head a bit.

"There are things I did…." He began.

"I don't want to know if you were with another woman." Em cut him off before he could tell her anything.

Bobby looked over at her with a bewildered look.

Em looked to her hands and continued.

"I don't want to know if you were with someone else…….as much as you don't want to know if I was with someone else." Emily stated.

Bobby felt stupefied and instantly jealous of the possibility of Emily knowing that he was with someone else………..and the idea………..of someone being with her.

"Really I think I can understand the idea of you even killing someone. We swore we would do everything we had to do to keep our children safe……and we did. But I can't take knowing the details of how you had to achieve certain goals." Emily told Bobby.

Bobby nodded his head.

Em stared off in the distance.

"Mona doesn't know how special Jamieson is yet……" Em began.

Bobby stared as Jamieson eerily turned to look at the both of them.

Without taking his eyes off of her, he spoke again.

"I think she's about to find out." Bobby spoke cryptically.

Dar was standing just outside of sight from his mother and grandparents.

He had been trying to listen the whole time.

He could sense what they were feeling, but his ability to empathy feelings was not like it use to be.

Suddenly his grandfather's voice rang out.

"D'Artagnan come into the room."

Dar had been startled that his grandfather knew he was there, but then again, all of his abilities could be inherited genetically.

He slowly moved into the light of the doorway.

The second his mother's eyes fell on him, he knew it was the moment he had dread since coming to this house.

"Come here D'Artagnan." His grandfather instructed.

He came to stand in front of his grandfather.

Jacob smiled down at his grandchild. Well he almost had to look down.

D'Artagnan had grown in the months that they had stayed here.

He was quickly morphing into the spiting image of his father.

"Barry come out from behind the sofa." Jacob said startling Mona once more.

Barry slowly straightened from behind the couch and gave Dar a small shrug, signifying that he had tried.

Jacob eyed the two boys carefully.

"I think it's time you told your mother." He said to them cryptically.

Mona stared at the two boys questioningly.

"Tell me what?" Mona asked.

Barry and Dar turned to look at their mother.

"The truth……about why were so special." D'Artagnan says to Mona.

Jacob looks to Mona.

Barry looks from his grandfather to his mother.

"Mom needs to hear this from us Nonno." Barry said.

Jacob nodded his head and proceeded to sit beside Catherine.

Mona still stood looking between the two boys.

Dar and Barry just stared at the mother.

"You better sit down." Dar advised her.

Mona stood considering a second, and then sat down in the chair opposite the couch.

Dar and Barry glanced at each other and then to there mother.

"You know fully well what a pretender is mom. You know what it means when we they say a pretender can become anyone they want to be….."Dar glanced down and then back into his mother's eyes, "and you know that we were created because of your genes and dad's." Dar stuttered out.

"What Dar is trying to say …" Barry began, "is that we're not pretenders." Barry said looking straight into his mothers eyes.

All were quiet in the room.

"What?" Mona asked with a tilt to her head.

"We're not pretenders." Barry insisted.

The second it took Mona to process the idea.

Mona smiled and shook her head.

"That's impossible. Your father was….."

"We're not pretenders mom."

Mona just stared in mild anger.

"Quit lying! I've even seen DSA's of your sister…."

"I said WE'RE not pretenders." Barry reiterated and enunciated the words carefully.

Mona just stared at Barry as if he'd grown a second head.

"How is that possible? The pretender gene is carried by the male. It's hard to even believe your sister's a pretender…..let alone that both of you don't…." Mona began in an angry tirade.

"Jamieson's gene is activated. But Dar and I are Empaths." Barry stated as he began to get angry himself.

"Mom, why do you think they started to make the others…" Dar intervened and explained, "We were born naturally, and yet we came out with no active pretender gene…..yet Jamieson did. They wouldn't accept the fact that a female's pretender gene would be active." Dar told with anger seeping into him as well.

"That's why the others were made." Barry continued.

"To test and retest if it were possible that a second generation of pretenders would only be passed on by the female." Dar finished.

Mona just stared at the two. She saw and felt something from the way they were holding back. There was something more.

And then she felt the familiar veil of attitude cover her. The familiar numbing of her entire being. She had not felt it since the day Jarod had died.

She slowly stood and grabbed Dar and Barry's chin and made them look at her.

"You two are hiding something." She whispered in a deadly tone.

Both of the boys swallowed.

"Out with it!" She commanded.

Jacob stood and moved to the boys as Catherine moved to Mona.

"Marmee your father told you that you can't know everything right now." Catherine tried to persuade her daughter.

"The hell I can't!" Mona answered as she switched her stare between the two boys.

She knew there was something more, something more that needed to be said, something that was very important.

"Mona would you let them go!" came a voice from the hall.

Mona turned to stare at Bobby.

Bobby walked into the room and stood two feet away from Mona.

"They haven't done anything." Bobby continued.

But it was no stopping Mona as the anger that had been locked away for months, came bubbling up, as well as the constant doubting of Bobby's true nature.

She moved away from the boys and turned and stepped within a centimeter from Bobby's face.

"Maybe mom and dad don't know what kind of blood killer you are…..but I do….I know the truth…..and I don't want you anywhere near my children." Mona said with a quiet rage and calm face.

Bobby's face turned into a snarl.

"You don't know what you're talking about." Bobby responded.

"Don't I? Tell me little brother. Have you told your wife about May Lin, or how about those two girls from your college years, how about the cannibal you were overseas?" Mona asked with a snarl of her own and turned to walk away.

"Don't you dare say anything! You have no clue about why I did the things I did." Bobby screamed at Mona's back.

"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!" Mona screamed as she turned to look at Bobby again.

"MARMEE!" Catherine screamed at her daughter.

"I want you out of this house tonight. Stay AWAY from my daughter!" Mona continued on.

Bobby's face turned to shock and anger.

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT! HE LOVES ME!HE LOVES ME FOR WHAT I AM!"

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU RAMBLING?" Mona screamed back.

At that second Em, Alex, Zoe, and Bobby came into the hallway and stared at Mona.

Mona stared at Bobby in the hallway with Zoe in his arms.

Her eyes switched back to the person in front of her that was an exact copy of Bobby.

Then before her eyes the figure that was Bobby morphed into someone else………………….Jamieson.

Mona took a stepped back quickly.

Jamieson was already crying as she stared into her mother's shocked eyes.

Jacob let out a heavy sigh and closed his eyes as he shook his head.

Dar and Barry just stared at their mother's expression. She had a look of shock, of bafflement, and a look that showed fright.

Catherine just closed her eyes and prayed that everything would turn out fine.

"See? I knew you would look at me like I was a freak." Jamieson whispered as she continued to cry.

Mona looked away and then back to Jamieson.

"But Uncle Bobby loves me for what I am. For who I am. I would never forgive you if you took him away from me." Jamieson whispered before she turned and ran down the hall.

Mona watched as Jamieson sped past Bobby as he tried to grab her, but managed to escape him.

All were quiet in the room. No one daring to even breath too heavily.

Mona stood with eyes staring at Bobby as he held Zoe in his arms and looked down the hall which Jamieson had fled down.

She couldn't grasp what had just happened.

"That's why I can't tell you all that you need to know." Came the voice of Mona's father.

Mona turned her head to look at her father, though his eyes stared down at the floor.

"I knew that learning just part of it……….(looking up)………would be more than enough…..to absorb at one time."

Mona slowly came out of shock and into great worry.

"Wait……you mean to tell me that……THAT was just A PART of what you COULD tell me?" Mona asked with an accusing glare.

Bobby gave an exasperated laugh in response to her comment.

He had walked into the center of the room, as Em and the children went to sit on one of the couches.

Bobby looked straight into Mona's eyes with sadness in his eyes that she had never seen before.

"I wish that was a tenth……..of the reason our lives have been hell…………but it's not." Bobby told her straight out.

Mona's emotions were running rapidly through her system. It was as though she were back at the Centre, and the horror of her reality was becoming more disturbing every second. The anger that she had just felt for Lyle also didn't help matters.

"For Christ sakes Lyle…."

"MARMEE!" Catherine yelled out.

"I can't take much more of this, its like I'm back in hell and the devil is playing with my head." Mona continued in a slightly panicked voice.

"Then how the hell do you ever expect to find out the real reasons for your..our existence? Huh? ……….Do you really think that you could handle the whole truth in one day?" Bobby asked.

Mona just became angrier.

"ITS BETTER THAN ALWAYS WONDERING WHY I'LL NEVER GET TO BE WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!" she yelled out with all of the rage in her body.

Bobby just stared at her with mild shock.

"So you want to know it all? Even if everything you ever thought was true gets flipped upside down?" Bobby asked.

"Bobby….." Jacob said in warning.

"I don't think mom's ready for this Uncle Bobby." Barry stated with concern in his voice.

"I agree." Dar stated.

"No, your mom does have a right to know………besides…….I think she's capable of killing one of us if we don't tell her what she wants…needs to know." Bobby said without looking at his father or nephews.

Mona's eyes didn't leave Bobby's as her cold gaze from a lifetime ago, came back to stare at Bobby.

Bobby nodded his head.

"You really want to know…don't you?" Bobby asked rhetorically.

Mona nodded slowly.

"Then your going to need to sit down. This isn't a fairy tale story." Bobby told her.

Mona listened to her brother and sat down on an ottoman, knowing that what ever she was going to learn, would change everything…….everything…….that she had ever known to be true. She knew that if she wanted to know the truth, then she would have to trust her brother.

So she pushed aside her feelings... and prepared herself…..for what the future held.