I stood next to Red in the Medbay watching as Abe floated in his tank and Manning gave us an earful. I was only half paying attention to his words as I read the red LED strips telling us the water temperature, pH levels, etc. Abe had a healing unit wrapped around his thorax and right arm, and a web of tubes and hoses kept him in place until he was awake and able to do so himself.

"He'll make it," Manning said when he noticed we weren't paying attention to him. "But not everyone was so lucky."

"Not now, Manning," I told him.

"Two agents died today," he told us, and I sighed. "Clay probably won't survive the night. You're reckless."

"We knew those men better than you did," Red told him.

"Ah, I see. That makes it all alright then," Manning said sarcastically going to leave the room. I hopped, but doubted, Red would just let him leave.

"No, it doesn't make it right, but I stopped that creature, didn't I?" Red asked him.

"That's what you do. That's why we need you. You have insight," Manning told him. "You know monsters."

"That's too far, Manning," I told him getting angrier with his words. "Red was raised on Earth by Trever and me."

"What are you trying to say?" Red asked him.

"In the end, after you've killed and captured every freak out there - there's still two left: you and her," Manning told him, and Red stepped into my view of Manning. Red was extremely overprotective of his family: me, Trever, Abe, Liz, and all the agents who've been here for some time.

"I wish I could be more gracious but..." Red smashed a metal locker with his stone hand and raised it above his head. I glanced around him to see Manning cowering in front of him. He hadn't been around for Red's tantrums when he was growing up and hadn't known before that his temper was a dangerous thing. Typically, only Trevor or I could calm him, but I wasn't in the mood to do it now. Red threw the locker through the wall behind Manning who scrambled up and left the room through it.

"I want that thing locked up, starting now - Now! You hear me?!" Manning gasped at whoever he was looking at before fleeing the building. I stepped through the hole with Red to see Liz in front of Trever and agents pointing their guns in our direction. I sighed.

"Nothing's changed. Home, sweet home." Trevor gave me a look before hurrying after Manning.

"Liz?" Red said finally seeing the object of his obsession since he was a teen. "Liz!" She spun on her heels and walked off. "You! You did it, buddy!" Myers holstered his gun with a sigh before following Liz. Woohooo!"

"How could you just let him throw that through the wall?"

"Believe me, you wouldn't want to stop him either," I told him.

"It's our job to stop him from doing things that are reckless, Rose. We are his parents. That's what we are expected to do." I stared up at him, and I knew my eyes had changed back to their natural state. "Rose..."

"I know how to be a parent, Trevor. I was a parent long before you were alive," I reminded him.

"I apologize," he said, and I nodded.

"Manning was out of line," I told him. "He had no right to say what he did."

"From what he told me you were the pair out of line," he said, and I gave him a look.

"And you believe him?"

"Of course not," he sat on the other side of my desk, and I just stared at him. "You have to be able to control him better when I'm gone."

"You still haven't told him," I stated.

"No."

"Next time he throws one of his fits, I'll calm him," I told him. "Until then, I'm headed out."

"To the cafe you found a decade ago?" he asked me, and I shook my head.

"The sewer."

"Again? What did you sense when you were down there?" he asked me confused.

"Kroenan wasn't the only one down there. I plan on finding out what."

"Is that safe?"

"I'm not risking anyone else down there, Trevor." I got ready and my weapons ready.

"At least take one person with you," he told me.

"No." I grabbed my coat before walking out of the room.

Back in the sewer, I drew my gun and a flashlight and began to look around. I moved past where we'd been just earlier that day and kept my light moving through the darkness. I heard something move and quickly turned and saw a flash of black and white at the edge of my light.

"Hey!" I called out to it before running after it. Eventually, I lost it and I threw my flashlight down on the ground in anger. I hit one of the stone pillars next to me before sinking to the ground. Clay had been fresh from Quantico when he found us, like Myers now. Now he was dying and no one could ever know what he'd done to protect these people. I finally broke down and cried about everything. Losing Clay and those two other agents not to mention countless others in the years since Trevor and I took in Red. And even before that...

I walked into the church with my head low. It was filled with humans and I didn't hide my disgust from my face. I chose a pew and sat on it glancing at the woman next to me. She held a babe in her arms and I sighed lightly.

"Excuse me, miss," I turned to the woman who was smiling at me. "Would you mind holding him so I can confess?" I looked down at the pink squirming thing in her arms before nodding. She placed her child in my arms before getting up and going to the confessional. I stared down at the baby in my arms and was tempted to hold my hand over his mouth and nose. I even started to move my hand to his face when he opened his eyes. He stared up at me with his big brown eyes and giggled. For a moment, I saw a pale face and golden eyes and black hair. "Miss?" I turned to the woman and passed her son to her.

"What's his name?" I asked her.

"Trevor, miss. Trevor Broom."

My phone rang and I quickly wiped my face dry before picking it up.

"What is it?"

"Rose? It's Professor Broom..."