There were a whole slew of tests for Myka to go through and she wasn't thrilled with any of them. Given her previous medical history she wasn't really the doctors, clinics, and hospital type these days. It hadn't helped that Vanessa had taken her and Helena to the very medical center where the scariest part of her life had happened. Helena was doing her best to be supportive, to keep Myka's mind off things, and it helped that Myka reminded herself why she was going through all of this. She would have been happy raising any child with Helena, adopted or biologically one of theirs, that wouldn't have mattered. But to be given the chance to have a child that would be both of theirs? Even if they weren't ready right now or any time soon, how could they pass up having the chance at that kind of future? So she let Vanessa poke, prod, draw blood, x-ray, ultrasound, and she tried really hard not to die of total embarrassment and mortification when Vanessa said she would need a sample.

While Myka sat in a room staring at a specimen cup with a horrified look on her face, Helena was being subjected to her own tests. There was no reason to get their hopes up if spending a century in bronze had caused any damage. Her medical exams had always come back clear; she was in perfect health for a woman in her late thirties, despite actually being one in her early one hundreds. But until now she had never thought to ask specifically about her ability to bare another child. During the exam Vanessa asked as delicately as she could about Helena's pregnancy and delivery with Christina, and to her surprise it wasn't as gut wrenchingly painful as she'd thought it would be. Clearly her time with Abigail and her life with Myka had finally allowed her to heal.

When Vanessa was finished with her tests, Helena went in search of Myka. She found her love sitting in the little exam room still staring at the cup with the bright orange screw off cap. Helena chuckled softly. "Are you unaware of how it works my love?"

"I know how it works!" Myka said defensively because she was feeling embarrassed and a little foolish. Then she softened and said, "It's just weird as hell. I mean it's not like I haven't… But that was as me and not as… I'm a guy, with guy parts, and this is so… "

"Perhaps I could offer assistance?" Helena asked with a sultry look, her voice soft and rumbly in that way that made Myka melt.

Myka swallowed hard and it felt weird. She had an Adam's apple now. Looking up she caught Helena's gaze, and in those beautiful chocolate eyes she could see the promise of an endless wonder far greater than anything in the Warehouse. After another moment of thought and hesitation she finally nodded. Helena smiled sweetly as she crouched in front of Myka and reached for the button and zipper of the jeans she'd borrowed from Pete.

It would take time for Vanessa to run the tests she needed to run so once they were finished at the medical center Myka and Helena headed back to the B&B. It was still so very weird to be doing the little things that they did as a couple, the little gestures and touches that came so naturally between them. Myka was still Myka on the inside, but the body, the voice, was just so different. They were both full of conflicting emotions. Their hearts new the truth, this was Myka no matter the shell, but their heads kept slamming on the breaks. When Myka reached out to take Helena's hand, it felt wrong because normally their hands fit perfectly together and now Myka's hand engulfed Helena's. When Helena looked over at Myka she saw this handsome man with Myka's eyes and Myka's smile, and it was a little unsettling. They never doubted their love, or even their attraction to one another, but this was truly a case of appearances deceiving. Myka's touch still stirred something in Helena, and Helena's 'darlings' still made Myka weak in the knees, but they couldn't stop wondering how far was to far with Myka like this. Helena had actually felt a rush of guilt following their little adventure in the exam room, though she couldn't really explain why, and Myka let herself briefly freak out because she let herself wonder if maybe Helena would like having her this way permanently. They were going to sit down when this was all over and really talk about this, because this was a lot to work through and if this paid off there were going to be a lot of questions to answer.

When they got home they walked into the B&B hand in hand. They were hoping to find the place empty and since there were no cars in the drive they thought they'd been granted the favor. As they made their way further inside Helena asked, "Are you alright darling? You've been kind of quit."

Myka's trying to be reassuring smile tugged at the lips of her very handsome male face. "I'm fine honey."

Helena reached up and rubbed the corner of Myka's mouth with her thumb. "Beautiful woman or handsome man I can still read you, Myka."

"I know." Myka said softly. "The one person who knows you better than you know yourself, right?"

"As it should be my love." Helena said softly as she stepped closer to Myka.

It was the most natural thing in the world for Myka to kiss Helena so she reached out and cupped Helena's face, drawing her close. The kiss wasn't any more or less than they would have normally shared out in the open, but it was still very intimate. Which is what caused the, "What the hell?"

Helena and Myka broke apart and turned to see Steve glaring at them. Or rather he was glaring at Helena because from Steve's point of view he'd just caught her kissing a man behind Myka's back. It didn't help any that Myka looked rather guilty at being caught, which is how she often looked at being caught, but Steven didn't know that this was just Myka being Myka. "Steve, this isn't what is looks like."

Steve, who'd been out picking up an artifact, looked confused. Helena was telling the truth. Crossing his arms over his chest he asked, "It looks like you were kissing that guy in a really inappropriate way, given the fact you're not single."

"I was kissing him, but it's hardly inappropriate." Helena replied.

"Steve." Myka added as she took a step closer to her friend. "We kind of caused a whammy."

Now that he was face to face with the other man Steve could see a resemblance and it didn't help with his confusion. "Do I know you?"

"Yeah, you do." Myka replied. "Since I'm Myka."

Steve's jaw dropped. He looked at Myka for a long moment and then over to Helena who nodded. "You're a guy!"

Myka nodded. "Yeah, I know."

Helena watched as Steve looked Myka over and smirked in a teasing way. "Watch the eyes Agent Jinks. Myka is still very much mine."

Steve blushed brightly. "I wasn't! I didn't! I…"

Helena laughed. "I was teasing dear."

"Oh." Steve said as he tried to chuckle while rubbing his neck. "What happened?"

Myka explained about the heart's desire artifact that had been in the wishing aisle, about how she and Helena had the same secret wish that lead to her waking up as a man. She even explained why she was still a man even though Artie had found the artifact. Steve smiled a huge smile and when she asked him why he said, "It's karma."

"Karma?" Helena asked.

Steve nodded. "We have all given a lot to the Warehouse, some of us more than others, and this is kind of like the Warehouse giving back."

After Steve left for the Warehouse Myka headed upstairs to shower while Helena put on some tea and busied herself in the kitchen making lunch. They both thought about what Steve said, and they liked it. They already knew they had a special connection with the Warehouse; they could both smell apples, so maybe the Warehouse was trying to give something back to them after all they had given it, or maybe it was trying to make up for what had been lost in the past. Claudia was convinced that the Warehouse understood things on a level no one could really understand, that it somehow knew it had caused people distress, and that it sometimes acted or reacted to that. So maybe this hadn't been just a freak misuse of an artifact after all. One thing was certain though; this gave them another reason not to squander this rare opportunity.

When Helena went up to tell Myka their meal was ready she caught Myka standing in front of their full length mirror with nothing more than a towel wrapped around her waist. Damp hair, flushed skin from the heat of the shower, beads of water clinging in places the towels had missed. In that moment Helena realized Myka could be green with blue fuzzy fur and horns and she would still find her breathtakingly attractive.

Aware of Helena's presence because they could practically sense each other, but unaware of Helena's reaction to seeing her, Myka said, "If I had a brother I wonder if this is what he would look like?"

"Perhaps," Helena began but when her voice cracked she stopped to clear it before starting over. "Perhaps similar but not quite like you. Artie was correct, your features, your body build, everything about you is still uniquely Myka, just Myka with a Y chromosome."

Myka knew that particular vocal inflection well. Turning to face Helena she smiled, her eyes bright with amusement. "You're turned on right now."

Helena looked horrified at being caught. "Myka, I…"

"Didn't you just say I was still Myka?" Myka asked as she crossed the room. "Is it just the wrapping you're attracted to or is it me?"

"You." Helena said, her voice dropping to the panther's purr that drove Myka insane. "Always without doubt you."

Myka moved closer, fueled by the strange new rush of hormones. She was biologically male with everything that came with that, which meant when she laid eyes on the woman she loved, the woman who's touch she craved, the woman who's voice could make her nerve endings tingle, Myka's body responded as it always did and yet so vastly different as well. In her own body Myka was use to her biological reactions to Helena, she could to a certain point, control them. The white water rapid of testosterone she was feeling was more than she knew what to do with. It was almost animalistic and for a moment as Myka pulled Helena into her arms to kiss her she wondered if this sudden unstoppable urge to make love to Helena was somehow linked to the artifact.

Myka's very willing participant began to wonder the same thing because despite any earlier misgivings about being intimate with Myka in this form, Helena found herself unable to think about anything but being with Myka right now. As they rid Helena of her clothes, and disposed of Myka's towel, their Farnsworth started ringing. Neither could be bothered. As they tumbled together onto the bed their cell phones began ringing as well. The logical part of Myka's brain kicked in long enough to realize one of them needed to answer, so she growled in frustration as she snatched up her cell while Helena continued to bite her collar bone. "What?" She barked into the phone. She listened and then dropped her head with a sigh. "Fine." She said, clearly unpleased with whoever was on the other end. "We'll be right there."

After Myka ended the call Helena looked up at her questioningly. "What's wrong darling?"

"Mrs. Frederic wants us at the Warehouse." Myka said with a sigh.

With everything that had happened in the last twelve hours neither of them had thought about Mrs. Frederic or the Regents. It never crossed their minds that they might not agree to this. It didn't set well with either of them that a group of strangers could have a say in their personal affairs, but they had used an artifact for what could be considered personal gain, and even though it had been done unknowingly they could both see where some people would have issues with this.

When they walked into Artie's office everyone seemed to be gathered there waiting on them. It made Myka a little nervous.

"Agent Bering?" Mrs. Frederic asked.

Myka nodded. "Hi Mrs. Frederic."

Helena was about to speak up when Mrs. Frederic held up her hand. "This has far less to do with you than you might think. I'm here about the Warehouse. It would seem that its bond with Ms. Donavan has influenced it in ways we weren't expecting."

"Ok, wait, are you saying this is somehow my fault?" Claudia asked defensively.

"Not exactly your fault, no." Mrs. Frederic explained. "The artifact that caused this is normally kept in a protective encasement because it doesn't require actual consensual usage. Artie discovered that while Myka and H.G. were in that area of the Warehouse that encasement was inactive. When looked into further it would appear that no one authorized it."

Claudia's eyes went a little wide. "You're saying the Warehouse did it?"

Helena looked surprised but not so much as the others. "We have always known the Warehouse is in someway sentient."

"What does that have to do with Claudia?" Steve asked.

Mrs. Frederic gave the future Caretaker a look before saying, "We believe that the Warehouse is in the process of evolving."

"Well, yeah, that makes sense." Claudia said. "But I don't think it's just me, I mean it's self aware, it always has been. It was Warehouse 12 that bonded with H.G. but this Warehouse still feels that connection. What's been the most different isn't just me, it's all of us. I mean we're not just employees, we're a family, and until us that hadn't really happened."

Artie agreed. "Friendships, but never theses kinds of bonds."

"Aww," Pete said with a dopey grin. "Papa bear loves us."

"Them." Artie said teasingly while waving at the girls. "Not you. You're just a pain in my…"

"As I was saying." Mrs. Frederic said with a roll of her eyes and barely there smile.

After discussing the pros and cons of what was happening with the Warehouse Mrs. Frederic addressed what was happening with Myka, and what could possibly happen with her and Helena. The artifact would have to be neutralized and put in a secure vault, but if the seeds from this little event bore fruit Myka was entitled to do with them as she pleased. That however would raise the question of wither they, she and Helena, could remain agents. Claudia protested saying that it wasn't fair to make them choose, and for the first time since coming to the Warehouse Claudia refused to back down from Mrs. Frederic, and it left everyone stunned when she declared that Irene and the Regents be damned, she would fight for whatever Myka and Helena decided to do with their lives, be it with or without the Warehouse, but she was hoping that it would be with. She looked over at the two older women who to her were her big sisters and told them she would help in anyway she could, even if that meant diaper duty, because she loved them and that's what families did.

After that Claudia stormed off to get lost deep within the Warehouse, Steve and Abigail followed her. Mrs. Frederic left, a tiny proud smile on her lips that no one saw. Pete tried to lighten the mood that lingered in Artie's office but it was still a bit stuffy when Vanessa walked in.

"Did I miss something?" The doctor asked as she took in the faces of the people Artie loved like his own children, which meant she had great affection for them as well.

Helena smiled brightly. "It would appear our little one is growing into a stunning young woman." She then explained what had happened.

Vanessa smiled proudly. "That's our girl." She paused for a moment to allow a gentle transition and then said, "I have your test results if now's a good time to go over them."

Myka nodded. "The sooner the better."

They were left alone for this very private conversation. Vanessa pulled out files knowing that Helena would want to have a look for herself. "Well, Myka, you are a normal healthy human male right down to your genetic code." Vanessa said. "It is as if you were born male, which would have happened if a Y chromosome would have been introduced during fetal development."

"Remarkable." Helena said as she looked over the paperwork. "The Y has been added to her DNA sequence."

"Please tell me this doesn't mean I have to stay a man." Myka said with a flash of panic.

"However the artifact added it, it should be able to subtract it once it's neutralized." Vanessa said. She smiled sweetly as she continued, "Now, as for the reason you went through all of this in the first place. If you both wish to proceed there is no reason you couldn't. Myka's healthy ova, which were left following Myka surgery, were switched to healthy sperm when her DNA was recoded. Medically, the only risks I can see are the normal risks to medically aided fertility."

It could really happen. They could have a biological child together. It was a little overwhelming. With Myka's contribution on ice all they needed to do was wait for the right time. Helena's tests had come back clear, there weren't any lasting effects from her time spent in bronze. Vanessa made the comment that it seemed someone had hoped that someday Helena would get a second chance, and Helena knew without a doubt who that man had been. When she held her and Myka's child in her arms she would have Chaturanga to thank for seeing that special care had been taken with her.

"Well," Myka said as she looked over at Helena once they were alone. She smiled a loving smile. "There it is then."

"Yes," Helena said as she leaned closer for a soft kiss. "There it is, our future."

Myka bit her lip. "Looks pretty good from here."

"It does." Helena agreed.

Myka kissed her and then pulled back and smiled as she said, "Can I get my tits back now?"

Helena let out a laugh that would have the most bawdy of tavern maids feeling jealous. "Righty-ho then, darling."