Epilogue:
For the next week, Elisa spent a lot of time fending off reporters.
A new set of pictures of the accident had emerged and renewed the interest.
One was a doctored copy of the original, but this one showed the car being propped up by a stack of broken police barricades, as if they had been jammed under the car in the accident. Once that had been put into place, Skyler's raised arms looked like it was a defensive reaction to the car coming her way.
The second one was of the "concerned costumes citizens" who had rushed in to help hold the car up while Elisa and Matt went to work dragging the victims to safety. Goliath, the only obvious gargoyle was conveniently missing from the shot.
"What's more believable?" DA Magot Yale argued on Nightwatch that night. "That the car was magically lifted, or that the first photo was a fake?"
Elisa hated to admit the Ms Yale had done them a favor, but she had.
As For Elisa, it was "No Comment".
Luckily, the person who took the original picture, now that doubt were being cast on the authenticity, had decided to not come forward.
Or maybe it wasn't luck, since Elisa had it on good authority that Xanatos was in possession of the original photo AND the negatives. Elisa hoped that the photographer charged him out the nose, and remained silent.
The new images were also the product of Xanatos. He had a damned good graphics art team, that's for sure. Even having been there herself, she would have been hard pressed to call the new pictures fake.
After two weeks had passed, the press found something else to occupy them.
Tonight, after their patrols, she and Goliath were going to celebrate by taking Liam to the park.
Brooklyn and Skyler, once again inseparable, had plans of their own, and the rest of the clan would be off on their own for a celebratory night of relaxation now that the excitement had died down.
Once more, life had settled into their new normal, and Elisa was grateful.