As Joe saw it, he and Adrian were now on level ground. Not quite 'friends', but equal in respect. Now he looked to Josh, his actual son. Ever since their first meeting Josh was a bit scared of Joe, every time Joe entered the same room Josh would run behind his brother, or Clarisse, or behind the nearest object. Joe felt a little uneasy about this and even more discouraged. But everyday Clarisse encouraged him to at least try and talk to Josh.

So like the past week and a half Joe would enter the boy's room and find Josh playing quietly. Hearing the door opening Josh would look to see who was entering. As soon as he saw Joe he dashed underneath the bed. Joe couldn't help but smile at the two beady eyes watching him from under the bed. He looked around the room and saw no one else there. This was slightly odd because usually Adrian would play with his brother and sometimes Clarisse was there, but today neither of them was there.

Joe leaned against the wall and slowly slid to the floor. Trying his best to keep his distance, but at the same time stay close to Josh. They sat in their stale mate for about ten minutes before Joe decided he would try a new tactic, one Mia suggested. He picked up on of the large plastic building blocks and examined it for a bit. Then he gathered several up and began building in a square shape. Then he built on top of the square shape several times before he had four connected walls. He picked up a thin platform and attached the walls.

All this time Josh was becoming slightly more curious and less afraid and by the time Joe had start making a second floor on his plastic building Josh and half crawled out from under the bed. Joe smiled to himself and wondered how Mia knew it would work. He picked up one of the plastic knights and placed him inside the plastic house. Suddenly he realized why kids found this so much fun. Before he knew it there was a small body sitting beside him. Joe looked down at the small boy who was concentrating on Joe's building. Then Josh took a quick peak up at Joe and quickly looked at the house.

Joe finally burst out laughing and Josh gave him a scared look trying to inch away. Joe laughed harder and grabbed Josh pulling him down and tickling him. Josh began giggling like crazy and trying to fight back. But Joe would never let him get close enough. Eventually Josh escaped and ran behind the bed. Joe smiled and leaped over the bed towards Josh. Josh screaming with laughter ran to the other side of the room. Joe chased him around the room like this pretending to be a wild animal, howling and growling. Josh all the while beginning to like Joe more and more.

Finally Joe had to stop and rest. He wasn't as young as he used to be, he could admit that, but then again how many men can chase a four year old on all fours? He took a couple of deep breaths and saw Josh behind the curtain smiling like crazy and watching him. Joe guessed that Josh got impatient because the young lad went over to the corner of the room and returned to Joe with two action figures. Josh smiled and handed Joe a plastic figurine of Batman while Josh held a Superman.

"What do I do with this?" Joe asked clearly not understanding what Josh wanted.

"You play!" Josh answered gleefully.

"Um… okay." Joe held Batman around the waist and placed him on the floor. Then in a more gruff voice played Batman. "I guess we should go find the bad guy…" Joe tried.

"Yeah, let's go. I think he is over on the mountain." Josh said using his Superman to point towards the dresser. Joe smiled and followed Josh to the dresser with his Batman. Joe stopped; he saw a cell phone on the dresser. It wasn't the custom design of the palace security. It was black, sleek and slim. He put the Batman down and picked it up. "Josh, is this your brothers?"

"Yep." Josh answered trying to continue playing.

"Where did he get it?" Joe remembered the search report done on both boys; it did not include a cell phone.

"The man in the forest gave it to him." Josh answered innocently.

"What man in the forest?"

"I don't know."

Joe frowned. "Has Adrian received any calls on this?"

"Um…" Josh scrunched up his face to show he was thinking hard. "Yep."

"Do you know who?"

"Nope." Josh picked up the Batman and began hitting the figures together to simulate that they were fighting.

Joe grabbed Josh by the shoulders, "Josh, has Adrian told you anything about this" – he held up the cell – "Or what someone might have said to him?"

Josh looked at him with fearful eyes, "N-no." Joe let go of Josh, it was no good interrogating a four year old.

He pocketed the cell phone and left the room giving Josh a last glance before he left, Josh had returned under the bed.