Ben sighed in agitation, stepping back from the fight he had first intended to start with Kevin and turned his gaze over to Verdona. "Grandma boys don't get pregnant! We lack the organs for that particular task!" he nearly huffed, crossing his arms with a sigh as one hand rubbed his temples and Edwin flushed brightly.

"Shows how much you know about your species doesn't it?" Verdona chuckled, her arms crossed as Kevin started laughing hysterical after the words sunk into the group.

"Tennyson's pregnant! Oh god this day can't get any better can it!" he said through his fits of laughter. Ben began to advance in anger again, only to stop as Edwin grabbed his arm and whimpered. The shorter of the two pointed at the ramp, letting Ben watch as his cousin delivered a hard smack to the back of Kevin's head.

"Why do you always have to crack jokes? Can't you be serious for 10 minutes without blowing something up. Like for instance, say, a FISH TANK!" Gwen gestured at her dripping clothes once again, earning a grumble from the 19 year old as he glared off into the distance.

"Look I said I was sorry already-"

"Yea, sorry I fixed Unta just in time so she wasn't with fins when she fell in the floor, sorry Gorg left the room before your AMAZING driving smashed the tank so the baby couldn't get wet! Sorry I didn't strangle you because I'm just temperamental enough to do it and these clothes are sticky!" Gwen ranted on for a few minutes, a shadowed figure behind her snickering as Kevin looked away and clenched his fists.

"B-Ben..." Edwin quickly drew his attention, his knees giving out as he started shaking and trying to grasp at the hero's shoulders. Ben turning, holding Edwin up in a hug as the thoughts of shock and confusion swarmed his facial features. He closed his eyes, forehead to Ben's shoulder. "I'm not... the other parent..." he chocked out.

"Eddie I'm not pregnant to begin with. I'm male. I don't have the female organs to carry a child relax." Edwin continued to shake though, his head beginning to move. "Look, if I were ever to, by some... weird twist of fate, have more kids like I did with Big Chill, you'd be the parent. No one else. You know tha-"

"Do I know that?" Edwin quickly pushed Ben back, his eyes watering as everyone around went silent.

"Eddie-"

"I know how long it takes to develop a baby Benjamin, I took a class! I knew it had to be something more than food poisoning to just get right back up the next day! Morning sickness doesn't come until at least a week afterwords! We haven't been a couple long enough for that! You haven't always just liked me!" Edwin hugged his chest and rocked himself.

"Eddie I'm not-"

"You are, Ben."

"Be quiet grandma you're NOT helping!" Ben shouted, stomping down the ramp toward his boyfriend after pointing an agitated finger at his grandmother, who simply raised her hands in defeat. Edwin resisted his touch and tensed when Ben pulled his arms around him.

"Eww. I had no idea your cousin was a fag." Kevin whispered, "I thought he had a girlfriend... he had one the last time I was here at least." Gwen glared again at his words, stomping down the ramp herself.

"Gorg, will you guys come with me? Please? I need your sanity to get through the rest of this day in one piece." she stopped near her cousin, looking back at the shadow covered figures as they turned and started whispering to each other. Kevin ignored it though, keeping his eyes on Gwen and his feet to his spot.

She looked toward him, their eyes locking for a moment before Gwen pulled herself away and shivered with her own fears. "Gwen..." it was like he was whispering to her so she looked up again, swallowing the lump in her throat as they locked gazes.

Everything around them was silent for a moment and Gwen felt like she would fall through the ground and just keep falling if she broke that contact, but then everything was normal.

"Alright! Enough prattle for now. Your ship is under standard arrest-"

"What?" Kevin barked in unison with Hinu as he emerged from the shadows as they both started an advance on Verdona.

"And will be grounded for a few days under the local Plumber care. We'll have to move it out of the park, of course, but you get the general idea." Verdona cooed her sentence as she put her hands together and beamed, enjoying the situation at hand far to much. Ben seemed to have forgotten his reason for coming to the park at the moment and was far to focused on reassuring his boyfriend that he wasn't a 'Lying, cheating whore.'

Too much was going on.

Gwen sighed, running through ideas in her head as the groups started shouting. 'Ok, we have two naga, an infant, a fish... type girl, Kevin ruler of the ass holes, my cousin and his irate boyfriend, and my crazy hippie chic grandmother... what will shut them up long enough to let me think?' and then Gwen smiled, turning.

"Who's hungry?" she asked as she raised her voice over the shouts, heading off the ramp. "Because I'm going home and changing clothes and then I'm gonna make this huge lunch and then we can all talk this out WITHOUT violence and I can get a nap or something, so on so forth.." she smiled as she walked, her words sounded better in her head of course, but either way she was going home.

The silence behind her was almost sad, but she knew better than to turn around and face them with a pleading look. Her first warming noise was the familiar slithering, only now on grass.

Then light footsteps, followed by heavy, and a surge of mana as Verdona started moving ships upward and onward.

"Be careful of the paint!" Kevin shouted as the treetops snapped and swayed about. At least things hadn't changed too much... Sort of.

"Gwen, do you think it would be aright if I cooked?" Gorg asked softly as she finally caught up to her, Itis sleeping calmly in her arms. Gwen smiled, nodding.

"Well, as long as Hinu is ok with it, and that you don't overdo it. I don't want you hurting yourself you know?" they both smiled as Unta ran up, slightly wobbling on her feet.

"Can I help?" Unta said, rubbing her throat a bit with a smile as she held her arms out for her nephew. "I know I'm not the best cook, but if nothing else I could watch Itis while you cook!" she took the infant in her arms and cooed at the sight of his sleeping face.

"I'd love to have you in the kitchen with me Unta." Gorg smiled brightly, looking over at Gwen, "and I still can't thank you enough for this." Gwen shook her head, smiling at the thanks.

"Anything for a friend."

So Ben had finally gotten Edwin to calm down, but he was still refusing to talk to anyone as he distanced himself off in the corner of the living room and just avoided eye contact with Ben.

Kevin sat on the couch, cramped beside Hinu but still with the all mighty arrogance he oozed so naturally. His feet were propped up on a small coffee table, picking at the fabric on the couch as Hinu let his arms cross, ears flat as he grumbled in some foreign language.

Gorg was happily cooking one of the largest meals she'd ever cooked with the help of her sister and son as he squealed in delight at the quickly put together play pin he'd been laid in as Unta sprawled herself in the floor to play with him.

Gwen had locked herself inside the guest room with her grandmother while they talked about her mana fluctuations. Eyes closed, mana open, Gwen drifted off into a meditative state while things poured out from her infancy on up. Everything was being shoved out into the open and she was going to make sure it was all out so she didn't have to deal with it anymore.

And as Verdona guided her she sorted through it, ripped things out and dusted things off. Hours of this and that, a lifetime in that room. Her lifetime in that room.

A knock on the door made Gwen smiled as she closed her mana back into her body and stood. "Thanks grandma, it was fun." she said as she dusted off her clothes and went to open the door.

"Hey, kiddo!" Gwen turned to Verdona, looking at her human body as she smiled and crossed her arms. "You know, I may not be human, but I know enough about them to know that there's someone in the living room you need to talk to." with an arrogant smile she opened the door with a flick of her wrist, the mana pulling it open.

Gorg looked in, smiling at the two. "The food is finally ready," she said happily as he pulled the door open fully and beamed as she turned her arms toward the kitchen, "anyone want to help me carry it out to the dining room?" Verdona perked up, happily accepting the challenge as he headed out of the room with the naga.

Gwen smiled, letting out a relaxed sigh as she headed down the hallway, peeking into the living room.

Max had shown up and was talking tentatively with Ben, probably trying to figure out why Edwin had been glaring daggers at him. Edwin himself had taken up to sitting on the coffee table and pouring his emotions out to Hinu, who surprisingly seemed genuinely concerned as he bent over to pat his back and give him tissues.

Of course every now and then Gwen caught a glimpse of Kevin throwing in his own opinion, chuckles or wrist flicks tossed about until the air in the room flushed and relaxed.

The food was brought out and Gwen stayed in her spot, watching as Ben walked over to Edwin, a lot of crying happened and Edwin wasn't the one doing it. Yet they obviously made up, and after that there was a giant wave of couple cuddling that slipped through the room as Gwen sighed again, turning to lean against the wall.

Things worked out great if you just etched at them bit by bit, only one last glance and she caught Kevin's eye, he was smiling at her. She blushed, shaking off the nervous feeling.

'I can do this. I can get through one evening with the guy I... oh hell I know I care about him.' she smirked as she walked into the room, everything would work out just fine.