Once back on Montressor, Amelia decided to create quite the entrance. Using her new powers at her command, she easily bypassed the front door and alighted atop a stout wooden beam in the mansion's living room. From her perch, she watched her family and friends talking about her.
"I do miss my Amelia so much," Delbert said sadly, resting his chin upon his hand. "It's been so long. If only I could see her darling face… even just one more time." He sighed heavily, his brown eyes troubled.
Amelia grinned, touched by her husband's missing her. "Come now, Delbert, don´t be daft! I very well may be one of 'Kitty's People'… but that certainly doesn't mean that you'll never see me again, you wonderful man!" Amelia said and everybody looked up toward the ceiling.
"Amelia! Darling!" Delbert said, jumping to his feet, his face alight with happiness. Amelia jumped down, laughing, only to be swamped by her friends and family's display of affection.
"All right! All right, you lot! Off, off! I'm delighted to see you have all missed me, but I really do need to breath on occasion, you know," she gasped, after they showed no sign of releasing her after a minute's time.
They reluctantly backed away, so Amelia could catch her breath.
"You must be starved! Do you need something, anything to eat, Amelia?" Sarah asked, forever the mother.
"Oh my, yes! Er, anything that is, so long as it´s not milk," Amelia informed her.
She began to think back to her month as a baby, and told herself that milk was not the really what she needed right this moment… if ever again.
"So, what brings you back to us, Amelia dear?" Delbert asked, putting his arms around Amelia again, as Sarah gave Amelia a steaming mug of aromatic tea.
"Oh, nothing much, really," she deadpanned, then grinned. "Kitty has sent me to pick up you lot, so that you all can be trained at her place, just as I have been," Amelia said.
Jim opened his mouth, but didn't get the chance to protest even once, because Amelia continued, "If you so much as emit one squeak of complaint, James Hawkins, you may look forward to many months under my tender mercies as an adorable three-month old." Amelia looked over to Sarah, and asked, "He was an adorable baby, was he not, Sarah?"
Jim closed his mouth entirely.
"Oh, heavens yes!" Sarah said with a smile. "Would you like to see a picture of him? I have this absolutely adorable one of him on a salmoth rug…"
"Mom!" Jim growled, his eyes blazing, his cheeks flaming.
"That's better," Amelia commented. "So, my friends, will you all be coming of your own volition? Or do I have to call Kitty?" she asked.
"No need to be so melodramatic, dear. We're coming, of course," Delbert said, his children echoing his sentiment. "We didn't get you back only to stay behind, you know."
"I'm coming. There isn't enough gold on Treasure Planet worth being Amelia's little charge, and that's a fact!" Jim declared vehemently.
"Well… if Jim is going, you won´t be leaving me behind," Sarah informed them all with her blue eyes adamant.
Amelia smiled warmly, and led them to the door outside that led them all to Kitty's world. "After you, my loves," she said and opened it. They all followed Amelia through, then down to the main atrium where the staircase led up to the central balcony.
"All right. Now where is that girl anyway?" Amelia asked quietly, looking about. "Teenagers these days, honestly…"
Her reverie was shattered by someone screaming, "AMELIA!". It was the ecstatic voice of her elder sister, Victoria, who was followed by Kitty, John Silver and lastly Arrow.
Victoria ran up and gathered her sister into her embrace with a most obvious delight. "Oh Amelia! I have missed you!"
"Tory! I've missed you too!" Amelia said and crying happy tears. The two felinid sisters held one another for quite some time. Finally, Victoria moved reluctantly away so that Amelia could greet Arrow as well.
"Captain. It is my greatest pleasure to see you again," he assured her in his mellow deep voice.
"Oh, tish–tosh, Arrow," Amelia cried, clasping her arms about his barrel chest, tears in her eyes still. "We're not aboard ship, so you must simply call me Amelia. I insist, old man!" Amelia told him, hugging him tightly.
"Er, ahem, Cap-er, Amelia," Arrow began, gazing over at Delbert.
"Ah. Arrow, I suppose you do remember our Dr. Doppler?" she asked, pulling Delbert over to her by his hand.
"It is absolutely wonderful to see you hale and hearty again, Mr. Arrow," Delbert told him quite truthfully, shaking his hand vigorously.
"Thank you, Doctor. So, C-Amelia, you and the good Doctor still keep in contact with one another then?" Arrow questioned.
Amelia chuckled at that. "Oh, you could say that, old man. In very close contact, truth be known."
Arrow's rocky brow arched at that. "Oh? Whatever do you mean, Amelia?" Arrow asked.
"All right, you lot… front and center! Benjamin, Amanda, Beth and Catherine!" Amelia called out.
The children moved quickly and made a line before their parents. They all beamed up at Arrow, who finally caught on and gasped in surprise.
"They're… That is, you mean to tell me that…" Arrow stammered awkwardly.
"Yes, yes," Amelia replied with a wave of a hand. "They are all ours, Arrow. They are a handful at times, but we do love them so."
Amanda put her hands to her mouth, and giggled. Benjamin gently elbowed her in the ribs, getting her to stop. Amanda shoved her brother, who promptly shoved her back. "That will be quite enough of that, you two," Amelia growled, freezing her two squabbling children with a glare.
"Sometimes, they are too like their parents," Amelia admitted slowly, and grabbed Benjamin and Amanda each by the hand. Arrow smiled down at the four Doppler children, and shyly waved at the adorable Catherine, who had waved timidly at the giant Cragorian.
Amelia released Benjamin and Amanda with a reprimanding look, and then looked over to where Silver was standing, trying very hard to go unnoticed. "Well, Mr. Silver… and then there's you…"
Silver gulped, looking rather pale all of the sudden.
Amelia smiled and put out her hand to him. "That's not necessary, Silver. You see… I forgive you," she said.
"Y-Yeh what? You mean..you aren't going to gag me? Fit me fer a set o' irons then?" Silver asked, clearly relieved.
Amelia shook her head no.
"Yer sure now? Silver asked again.
Kitty moved up beside Amelia, just on her other side, saying, "You needn't worry Silver, Amelia knows how to behave herself. She wouldn't hurt a fly, really!"
"Ah, beggin' yer pardon, but who cares about the flies? I just be wonderin' about her hurtin' a pirate or cyborg, doncha know," Silver replied.
"Now, now, don´t worry, Silver," Amelia proclaimed. "I won´t hurt you."
Silver wiped his brow with a hankerchief, and then took Amelia's hand and shook it firmly.
"But, lass… however did yeh manage to get her to forgive me?" he asked Kitty.
"It's an intersesting story, Mr. Silver. However, I don´t think Amelia would ever forgive me if I told it here in front of everyone," Kitty confided to him.
Later, Amelia followed her friends and family up to their new rooms. "Sleep tight, dear hearts," she said and closed the door.