LJP- Just one word: 'Ewww'

Erikstrulove- I promise next chapter you'll find out all about Bane. And well...Parker will die when I'm ready for him to. Which is now but I haven't been able to work it in just yet. But I can promise he will die.

CHAPTER 62

DECISIONS

December 10, 2010

2:18am

Charlottesville, Virginia

Russell Family Home

"So what's the plan," Will asked as he Jaime, Alley and Jeff came downstairs with their children. Everyone was already seated, and some -Keegan, Jason, Jack, and Amy- were drifting off into sleep.

"We were waiting on the four...six of you before we began to make any decisions," Jarod replied, as the four of them sat down. Matty became fussy and Jamie began to rock him to sooth the baby but it did little to stop his cries

"Can I hold him?" Aaron asked. Jamie passed the baby to his uncle. Aaron held the baby in his arms and began to sing softly to Matty. The baby soon began to calm, and Aaron passed Matty back to his mother.

"So how are we going to go about this? Who is going or who is staying?" Jeremiah asked getting back to business. He was eager to go back for Alex.

"Obviously, were going," Jake spoke for the Black Files.

"And what makes you say so?" Lex questioned the boy.

"Because, Alex is our sister. And we protect our own," Rachael replied evenly.

"There is no way we are sending a group of fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen year olds into the Centre," Lex protested. Sam shook his head.

"You have no idea what our children are capable of do you Lex? They were made to do this type of thing. It is in their blood, their genetic coding. You think that the moment they left the Centre all of the training they endured just went away. They have studied military procedures and the like their entire lives. Even though Files escaped before they started training to be soldiers, they are more than capable," Sam told Lex.

"So the Files go. Who else?" Jen asked, she did not want to send her children back into the Centre, but like Sam she knew that there was no other choice. Even if their parents had forbidden it, the Black Files would have gone anyway.

"I will," Sam said. "What about you Angelo?"

"Angelo go with Files and Sammy," Angelo answered.

"Same for me. You're going to need someone else to help keep these kids in check," Steve said.

"Apparently you don't know the Files," Morgan said wryly. "Which is why I'm going too."

"Sorry Momma, that's a no," Alley told her mother.

"Alyssa I love you, but there is no way my nineteen year old daughter is going to tell me I can't go and rescue my son and daughter." Morgan said.

"Jack and Jace are going to need you Momma. You have to stay here," Alley argued. Morgan sighed knowing that her daughter had a point. With Jack sick ...dying -a fact everyone was still having difficulty swallowing- he would need his mother. As it was the poor boy was still trying to deal with what had happened to him at the Centre.

"It kinda goes without say that I'm going with my Dad," Benny spoke up. "I may not be doing much walking, but hell someone has to man the security cameras, and mics."

"And with more people, your going to need back up," Adam said. "So count me in."

"Me too. If my mother isn't going to try and atone for the family sins, someone else needs too," Allen said offering his services.

"We're glad to have you Allen," Jarod told the boy. "William, Alyssa I need you two here. Jamie and Jeff you two may not have much of a background in medicine, but your skills will be needed."

"We didn't plan on going anywhere," Jeff replied. "Not with diapers to change."

"Jen, Lex, Julia, Chris? I can count on the four of you to help find a cure for Jack?" Jarod asked the four of them.

"Where else would we go big brother," Chris replied.

"I'm guessing with the new parents in the lab and going through Centre files that put me on diaper duty," Debbie spoke grinning.

"Oh and I bet you mind so much Deb," Will teased.

"I just hope your son takes after Jamie and not you," Debbie replied.

"Leave my son alone," Will retorted.

"I think it's time to put your son and his cousin Alex to bed," Morgan noted. "As well as these four," She nodded at Amy, Keegan, Jason, and Jack.

"We'll put them in our room tonight. Allen, Ben you two can bunk with Adam. Steve, we can put you up in the little one's room. Don't worry you won't have to sleep in a rocket ship bed," Jeremiah said.

"I need to make a phone call, see if my sources can find anything out about what Kaine gave Jack," Allen spoke.

"Get on it. Um, we need to sort out who is on Kaine watch," Marc spoke.

"I'll do first round," Steve spoke. "In fact you can put him in the room with me. And I don't want Kaine near Ben."

"Dad," Benny began.

"I don't want you near him, Benjamin. He practically killed you," Steve protested.

"I'm well aware of that Dad. And incase I forget I have a lovely wheelchair, and a nifty scar to remind me. I'm going to have to confront him sooner or later," Benny said.

"Why don't the two of you discuss this in the morning when Kaine is awake," Jeremiah suggested. "By the way, we're going to need someone else to go with us to Carthis."

"Who?" Jen asked her son.

"Jer. No way," Greg said in disbelief looking at his brother.

"Are you out of your mind?" Aaron asked. "After what he did to her, to all of us."

"He'll do it. For her, and Pete he'll do it," Jeremiah said softly.

"Um, am I the only person lost here?" Steve asked.

"He want's Bobby to come along," Lissa said.

"Who's Bobby?" Benny questioned.

"Greg, Jeremiah, and Melissa's biological father. Robert Jamieson a.k.a. Mr. Lyle a.k.a Robert Bowman," Allen answered.

"Jeremiah..."

"Aunt Morgan, we need every able body. Bobby has the skills we need. And he'll willing do it as a form of atonement for what he did to Alex and the rest of us," Jeremiah said cutting his aunt off.

"Jer's, right Mom. Bobby will help. Jeremiah, you can call Bailey in the morning and see what he can set up," Will said. "And with that some of us do need to get some sleep."

Allen, Adam, Angelo, Benny, and Steve were the first to retire for the night. Jeremiah went next carrying Amy, followed by the rest of the Black Files, Mike carrying Keegan, and Andros and Aaron carrying Jason and Jack.

The adults went to bed next, save Jarod who went to run more test on Jack's blood. The four members of project Phoenix went to put their children to bed, but they themselves did not immediately go to sleep. They had a great deal on their minds, as they wrapped their brains around the concept of being parents.

"I wonder who's more freaked out about us being parents. Us or our parents," Will muttered as he ran a finger along Matty's cheek. Matty and his cousin Alex were secured in their bassinets

"Shit, parents. Ours don't know yet," Jeff groaned.

"Well it's too late to call Mom and Dad now. We'll have to call them in the morning," Jamie told her brother.

"Not to mention we have several other relatives we need to inform," Alley spoke up.

"Can't wait to see how Grampa Charles takes the news about being great-grandad times two," Will said wryly.

"We're going to need to make a room up for them soon," Jamie said looking down at her son. "Not that I mind them staying in here with us. I wonder if Alex and Matty are going to be like, Alex, Air, Andy, Maddie, and Mike. You know have a bond like their's."

"I think it's a definite possibility," Will told her. "Tomorrow when we go to the office, we can run a few test on Matty, and Alex. Not to mention we're going to have to give them a physical."

"It's not fair, you know. They stole our children from us. Jamie and Alley deserved to feel them growing inside of them. I don't ..." Jeff faltered. "When...When will they stop toying with out lives?"

Alley wrapped her arms around Jeff. "It doesn't matter how Alex and Matty came into this world. They're here now and the thing is the Centre will never get to hurt our children. They will never have to grow up like we did. They will be able to spend their whole lives knowing the love of their parents," Alley said.

The four of them were quite for some time as they just stared down at their children, the gifts the Centre had unintentionally given them.

"Will, do you think we'll be able to find a cure for Jack?" Alley asked her brother, breaking the silence.

"We have to Alley. There is no way we are sending our brother back there. Hopefully Allen's connections will help us find what ever it was Kaine gave Jack.. I have to hand it to Jack, though he's tough. And handling this better than I thought, probably better than I would," Will said. All the while Will couldn't stop thinking about Alley, and how the Centre had faked her death. Even years after the fact and now knowing the truth Will was still scared over the fact that Alley had been taken from him. Will barely survived losing Alley, if he lost Jack, Pete, Alex or good forbid all three, Will wasn't sure that he would have the strength, to keep going, even with Matty and Jamie by his side.

"We will get Alex, and Pete back and find a cure for Jack," Jamie told Will. At first Will thought that Jamie had read his thoughts, but then realized that Jamie just knew him better than most. After all they had been created for each other

December 10, 2010

3:24am

Charlottesville, Virginia

Russell Family Home

Aaron stared up at the ceiling off the Black Files room, one arm under his head the other wrapped around Jack protectively. The little boy had his head resting on Aaron's chest, his tiny hand clutching Aaron's necklace, as though it were a talisman to ward off whatever drug was in his body. Jack's breathing was slow, but normal for one who was sleeping, and though he had a fever it wasn't too high.

Aaron ran his hand through Jack's hair, and the boy stirred slightly in his sleep, letting out a little sigh. Aaron smiled sadly. He wished Alex was home, though she never shown much ambition to take up any sort of medical profession, she was good with those who were sick.

In fact when ever one of the younger ones came down with a cold or any sort of illness, they would milk it for all that it was worth. Sam often joked that they were rasing a house full of hypochondriacs. But Aaron couldn't blame the younger ones. Hell if it didn't just so happen that he Andros, Mike, Maddie and Alex got sick at the same time he'd ham it up as well.

God he missed his sister, and he wouldn't lie and say that he wasn't worried about her. Alex was his baby sister after all, and Aaron worried about even when she wasn't being held captive in a Centre compound that was located across the ocean. Not to mention, Alex had been shot three times, another cause for worry.

Aaron knew that his sister was stable though, he had felt every bit of her pain that she did, though Aaron was sure it was no where near as intense. As it was now he still felt a bit of a tingling sensation in his shoulder and stomach, phantom pains. And there were those three nifty red marks one on his shoulder and two decorating his stomach.

The red marks got Aaron thinking. When he, Andros, and Alex had been younger, their mental bond had always been affected by distance. It was at it's strongest when the three of them were within a hundred yards of one another. When Jarod had gotten Alex out of the Centre the triplets discovered that with Alex in Dover, and the boy's back at the Centre, their bond was weak, and it was a struggle to stay connected.

But that was over seven years ago, the triplets had grown since then as had their powers. And if Aaron and the other's had felt Alex's pain across the ocean, who was to say Aaron wouldn't be able to contact his sister? Aaron tapped into his bond, focusing all of his energy on the task.

'Alex,' he called out to his sister.

'Air?'

Up next: Aaron and Alex finally have their conversation. And we learn about Bane.

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