Disclimer: so yes this is indeed something I have written but I swear I do not own it… sorry.

Chapter 18

We stood there hugging for a long time. So long that Marco started joking about it.

"Careful Tobias, she may be your sister, but Rachel will start getting jealous." We all laughed. I laughed as I wiped the tears from my eyes.

We were all here. I demorphed. As good as hugging felt I felt uncomfortable on the ground.

When I morphed back to my hawk body, it was repaired. It is only DNA and that does not get damaged.

I flew up to my perch as my sister went on trial to see if she would indeed become an Animorph.

It started off with an unsettling silence, as if nobody wanted to start.

Everyone was sitting, except Cassie, who was changing the dressing on an over active squirrel.

((Well, I guess I'll start. I think she should.)) I said, surprised at my own boldness.

Marco looked at me. "Well. Okay, other then bird boy up there, I think it's too big of a risk. Remember what happened last time?"

Rachel flashed him a look. "She isn't David, she isn't going to be a rat. I like her, she has guts."

They looked at Ax, who was in his own body. ((I have no opinion. I will go with Prince Jake.))

"Oh no, Ax, we all vote on this one." Jake replied. "And don't call me prince."

((Yes, Prince Jake.)) Ax went on, ((I think she should. If not, she will surely become a controller. Her mother is already one, and if she is one of us she will be better prepared for it.))

"That is just the reason why she shouldn't Ax! Her mother is already a yeerk. She is a big risk. Of anyone, I should know that." Marco's mother is Visser 1, the leader of all yeerks. Even though she is presumed dead by everyone, she is still quite alive.

Cassie came and sat down. She still had not said anything. Her eyes looked to Tabitha and I followed her gaze.

"If a bad man were trying to hurt a baby, what would you do?" she asked.

"I would stop him," Tabitha answered without thinking.

"What if the baby belonged to someone bad, say Hitler?"

"It's not the baby's fault. I would stop the man."

"What if the bad man was a woman, and the baby was going to be Hitler?"

Tabitha thought with this one. After thinking hard, she looked up and said, "If the baby was Hitler, that would mean I would be in the past and whatever I do will affect the future. So maybe my saving Hitler would turn him good. It would at least keep this time line."

"Last question, what if the baby was just a baby and the bad, bad man was your mother?"

She thought and breathed in and out heavily. While Tabitha was breathing the rest of us held our breath.

She looked up and answered, "I would do anything in my power to stop her, and if it meant killing her, I would hope someone else would take that job. I would hope someone else would be there holding me back from trying to save her."

We all breathed out in unison.

"Okay fine. To me, she is in." Marco said.