The Beast Unleashed.
The next few dates Henry and Kate had were better than the first. The were no more incidents mostly due to Henry medication. They went to everywhere, to the movies, the beaches, walks in the park, Henry even took care of Ralphy for Kate one day when she had something to do.
It on that day when thing got interesting. Kate came to Henry room and said "Hey Henry are you busy?". "No" He said. "Can you watch Ralphy for me for a couple of hours" she asked. Henry seemed nervous at the request and hesitated. "Come on" she said "We found him together so if i'm his mother that makes you his father and I don't think you've been spending enough time with you son". "Fine" he said "But just so you know if i had a son I won't name him after the dumbest kid in the Simpsons".
"Oh come on the stuff is hilarious, 'Me Fail that Unpossible' " Kate said doing an impersonation of Ralph. "Thanks I own you one". "I can think of some ways you can repay me" he said suggestively. "Down boy" she said before leaving.
Kate arrived at the Cafe and saw her little brother there waiting for her. "Hey bro" she said. "Hey Kate" Thad Freelande said giving his big sister a hug. "So what bring you here to Old City" Kate asked. "Well Mom asked me to come down and see how your doing" he said.
"Well I still working at the Sanctuary, they even like me now" she said. "I'm also the Godmother to the cutest baby in the world, she even cuter than you were when you were a baby" she said in a baby while pinching her brother on the cheek "Oh and I've been dating this guy at work and sort of became my boyfriend"
"You have a boyfriend" he said. "Yeah but you don't need to worry about him, Henry completely harmless, he's a nice guy" Kate said. "But it's the nice guys you've got to watch out for their the ones who turn out to be wife beaters, How do I know he's good enough for my sister" he said.
"It not up to you to judge who's good enough for me" she said defensively. "I know but I think Mom would like to know wheter or not to invite to Thanksgiving dinner" he said.
"If you want to meet him we can just hop in my car and you can meet everyone I work with" she said. They got in the car and began to drive to the Sanctuary. In the car Kate laid down some groung rules
"Firstly don't hit on Ashley, she's happily married to Will and she will castrate you if you do, secondly do not be creeped out by how much Helen already knows about you, Thirdly do not stare at the Big Guy, I just got on his good side and I don't want to be back on his bad side and Finally Be nice to Henry or I'll kill you. "Okay " Thad said.
When they arrived at the Sanctuary Kate shouted "Honey I'm home". With that Ashley, Will with their daughter came down the stairs. "Is that Will and Ashley" he whispered to his sister. "Yep, the happily married couple" she whispered back "Lucky son of a "Thad began before being interupted by a light kick to the shin by his sister.
"Hey Kate who's this?" Ashley asked. "I'm" Thad began before being interupted again. "Thad Freelander, Kate younger brother " said Helen as she appeared. "That's right how'd you kn, you must be Helen" Thad said.
"That right I'm Helen Magnus, this is my daughter Ashley, son in law Will and granddaughter Sarah" she said refering to the happy little family unit. "Well my brother here visiting me so i thought I'd introduce him to the A- Team" she said. " Come on Thad Henry's probably downstairs with Ralphie"
As she dragged her brother away he called "It was nice meeting you all". "Hopefully you'll stay for lunch" Helen called back. As they walked down to the lower level Thad noticed that a black cat was following them. "Hey Kate who's cat is that? " Thad asked. Kate turned around and said "Cute trick Michael". The cat looked at her and said "Can't get anything past you can I". Suddenly it changed back into a Human or at least what looked like a human
Thad was stunned. He had heard all the strange Abnormals that were in the Sanctuary but knowing and see were two very different things. "Think that was cool, let me show you a real magic trick " Michael said looking at Thad before disappearing right in front of them.
Thad was speechless at least until they reached Henry. "Hey Henry" Kate said. "This is my brother Thad, Thad this is Henry my boyfriend". Henry smiled when she refered to him as Boyfriend.
"Your joking right, the guy looks like a homeless dude" Thad said. "Thad" she scolded. "Says the guy who would homeless if it weren't for his mother" Henry replied. "Henry" she scolded. "Look Thad you wanted to meet him just be nice, size him up then just trust judgement and let's go to lunch" she said sturnly
"But " he began. "No buts" she said sounding very much like a mother. "Fine" he said "I suppose he not that bad". After this they went up to lunch and began to talk. To the untrained eye it looked as though the two men were getting along during lunch but to the members of the Sanctuary they could clearly see that Thad and Henry were sizing each other up and trying to out eat the other. It ended with both of them stuff and vomiting on the bathroom but with a mutual respect for each other.
Thad was then driven home by Helen who unsurprisingly knew where Kate's mom lived. Kate went to Henry's room and shut the door. "Hey Henry, I wanted to thank you for watching Ralphie and putting up with my brother" she said "Anytime Kate" he said
"I think it's about time we take this relationship to the next level" she said walking over to Henry. "Next level" he said nervously. "I think you know" she said ripping of his shirt and beginning to make out with him.
Henry had never felt so excited in his life. He began to pull off Kate's T-shirt. When it was off he beganning to feel odd and began to breath heavily. Suddenly his face began to change his teeth grow sharper, his nose grow longer and more snort like and his fingernails becames claws.
He throw Kate aside leaving very nasty slices in her arm before running at the door. Kate was terrified and screamed "Henry". Henry ran down the hall but din't get far before being tackled by the Big Guy and forced to the ground. Magnus came a minute later and tranqed him.
The last thing Henry saw before blacking out was a shaking and injured Kate step out of the room and stare at him with something in her eyes, something Henry had never seen before in Kate. Fear.