Holding a tight grip on her warm cup of tea, Mary watched keenly as Stephanie helped Terry learn how to walk again.

It… was wonderful to see her baby boy again. He was alive. He was with her. But he was also the new Bat. He somehow turned into a mer, got stuck in that form for months, and had to relearn how to walk.

'Things could be worse.' She thought to herself. 'He could've been stuck in that form forever. Stuck in the aquarium for the rest of his life. Dead.'

Unfortunately she couldn't stop those thoughts. She watched as her son, clothed with warmer swimwear so he could go back into the water any moment, walked on trembling legs. Stephanie held his hands with hers as Terry followed her like a newborn fawn.

Mary felt jealous. Mary felt sad. Mary felt horrified.

All this time. Her son was out in the ocean. Fighting. Protecting.

And there was Matt by the water. Playing with one of the mers. The one that took the necklace out of Terry's… gills. They looked happy.

Both of her children looked happy.

"How?" She finally rasped. She winced at the roughness of her voice and took another drink of her tea. It was not only soothing to her throat, but to her nerves as well.

"See, for a long time we were trying to figure that out ourselves." Tim said. He had been right by her side the whole time. Keeping an eye on her.

She wasn't sure if she should feel bitter or thankful for that.

"What do you mean?" She asked as she turned to face him.

"Well," he began, "Terry managed to get his way into the cave and stole a necklace. That same one that was stuck in his gills earlier. That necklace is special due to the magic embedded into it to help enhance a mer's power."

"And… Bruce, he used to use it when he was younger… right?"

Tim nodded. "He didn't actually used it as long as other necklaces, but it did get the work done. But the thing is, it shouldn't be able to make humans into mers. I've worn it before, Steph worn it before, and many others, but never has it turned them into mers."

Mary didn't know what to say.

"Jason was a bit jealous to say the least. He used to be human after all." Tim said calmly.

Mary whipped her head over to him at that. "What? But you said-"

"I said the necklace doesn't turn humans into mers. But Jason, well, long story short, in order to save his live, some people outside of the pod put him into a special pool that turned Jason into a mer. He's still pissed about it."

Staring wide eyed, Mary turned to the direction Tim was looking at. The red and black mer with the white streak in his hair.

"Your son's an anomaly, Mary." Tim stated. "And for a while he couldn't quite actually comprehend a lot of things while a mer. It took a bit for us to help him. But he never stayed as a mer for longer than a day."

Mary stayed quiet.

The black and blue mer did a trick. Water from the splash hit Matt who laughed. Terry nearly stumbled, but Stephanie held on. With a determined grin Terry continued to walk.

"Terry's strong." Mary finally said. Her voice was quiet. Not quite a whisper, but near close.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw the older man nod his head. "That he is."

Slowly the water got darker as two mers came closer to the surface. Bruce and his son came up with… food.

"Bruce? Is that a sunfish?"

Bruce began to grumble something under his breath as his son spoke up. "Unfortunately father and I couldn't find anything other than… this disgrace of the sea to capture. Mathew will name him."

"Wait what?"

"Yes, this is your new pet. You must take care of him wisely. Although the Sunfish is quite… unique that you don't really need to take care of him much. Really, a good pet to take care of." The son said.

"Hold on, don't I get a say in whether or not my son can have a-a pet sunfish?" Mary spoke loudly.

"Yeah." Terry piped up. "Besides, you never captured a pet for me."

The son gave Terry a flat look. "You wouldn't accept the seal."

Mary sighed heavily as she watched the chaos by the water. Matt was not going to keep the sunfish. Even if he decided to name it 'SunBoy'.

Her life was so much simpler before. But, she supposed that, with time, maybe she could get used to this. After all, it felt like ages since she saw her children this happy.