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Thirty-three year old Caroline Eppes-Fleinhardt couldn't believe how weird her father and uncle were acting. They hadn't come out of the garage in a long time.
"What do you think they're doing in there?" asked Carly's cousin, thirty-one year old Margaret Elizabeth Eppes-Granger.
"They're probably playing again," Carly's younger sister Donna Eppes-Sinclair told them. Donna had been named after her uncle.
"They love playing ping-pong way too much," Maggie's younger sister Charlotte observed. Charlotte and Donna had been born within hours of each other. Robin and Amita had been pregnant at the same time, and had even been in labor at the same time.
"Grandpa Charlie says to come play," six year old Alana, Carly's daughter, told her mother and aunts.
"Where's your uncle?" Carly asked Alana. If she knew her brother, Jacob was probably out in the garage with the boys.
"He's doing math problems," Alana explained. Jacob was just as smart as Charlie was. Carly, Donna, and Jacob were pretty close. Youngest sister Andrea had been an unexpected surprise to Charlie and Amita, and was now a teenager. She was hanging out with her friends today.
"Is Caleb helping?" Maggie asked. Caleb was also smart, and loved helping Jacob with math problems. Alana nodded.
"They want you in the garage," David informed Donna, his daughter-in-law. Colby, Don, Charlie, and David were all related now because their children had married.
"We're coming," Charlotte told him. Sometimes her father and uncle drove her crazy.
The Eppes family went out into the garage and started to watch the game that had been going on for a long time now.
"They won't give up," Robin informed them. The game was tied, but neither one of the Eppes boy wanted to quit.
"It's getting irritating," Megan explained. She and Larry were sitting on the couch, playing with Alana. It was a little weird that Larry and Megan shared a grandchild with Amita and Charlie, but they had gotten over that.
"It's been irritating for awhile now," corrected Colby's wife Jeannie. Charlie and Don got super-competitive sometimes.
"I think it's funny to watch them," Claudia Sinclair said. She loved hanging out with the Eppes family. David, Colby, Jeannie, and Claudia were honorary Eppes anyway.
The Eppes family was happy, even though Charlie and Don occasionally turned back in their younger selves. As a result of the experiment gone wrong, Charlie randomly turned back into his younger self. Another accident with the different version of the same experiment had left Don with the same problem. Both boys were now experiencing the problem again, except that Don was nineteen and Charlie was fourteen.
Things were as normal as they could get for the Eppes, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
The End
I thought that was a nice way to end the story, with Don and Charlie being affected by the problem, but not all the time. My next story is one where Charlie's life takes a turn for the worst following the season finale. He doesn't have a clearance anymore, Alan is dying from cancer, and Don can't remember after Margaret's death, so Charlie retreats to P vs. NP for the first time in a long time.