The sun had decided to be extremely blaring today, even though the snow had only just fallen a few days before and coated the ground with a few inches of snow. As tired as Gwen and Kevin both were they knew that sleep was out of the question even as their lids threatened to shut.

Everything Gwen was keeping had been packed into boxes and placed on the right hand side of the garage, while everything that had been trash had been picked up by the garbage man in several cans already.

Now Kevin had finished setting everything else into a truck for a charity or thrift store that would be useful to other people and wasn't too big for the burn pile. The truck in question had gotten there after a few calls and several favors from Kevin as well, free of charge.

"Kevin, can you help me with the dresser and other stuff when you get back?" Gwen asked him as she sat in the snow with the keys in her hand, watching Kevin as he started rubbing his fingers into the slush and dirt below that was beside them.

"Yea, you want me to stop by a drug store or something and get drinks... or breakfast?" he asked her as she sat next to him, taking the keys from his hands as she let her head hit the wall. She nodded after thinking it over, letting the breeze hit her neck a few times as she looked across the yard.

"You know, when I first bought this place... I planned on a garden." she admitted, smiling as Kevin laughed and slowly stood, his legs groaning. "And a tire swing... oh, and getting a pet." she added again as Kevin took the keys from her.

"I'll be back in a few minutes." he murmured, leaning over to kiss the top of her forehead. She smiled and brushed her fingers together with his, it caused him to chuckle as he waved when he walked away.

Gwen watched him pack himself into the truck, the motor vehicle revving as its engine started, shaking the device until to groaned and pulled out of the driveway and down the street. She sighed again, the breeze running along her skin with bits of snow from the other day.

She stared out at her yard, or what was once her yard, and realized that everything was crashing down around her. She counted the events, even if they weren't important.

Snake people kidnapping her, meeting up with Kevin, her emotional breakdown, kids from the future, getting back to Earth, Ben being pregnant, flushing her system of what she had decided to call the Anti-mana that had been screwing with her head... wow she was on two hands, that was seven and it had required her to lift her other hand as she counted mentally.

Well, the Snake people things and their family issues weren't her problem anymore, those were the plumber's issue, and she could mark that off her list. And by marking, she folded a finger down.

The emotional breakdown was caused by the Anti-mana, and she'd fixed that. Two more fingers went down and she went back to thinking. Getting back to Earth was done, so she really didn't need that one, one more finger down. Kevin... Kevin was an issue she was still working on, though she was pretty sure she knew what she was going to do.

So she'd gone from seven to three, Kevin being an issue, the whole 'kids from the future' thing being an issue, and Ben being pregnant. On top of this she hadn't gotten to ask Ben why he had suddenly just decided to date Edwin, other than the whole pregnancy thing. Not that she cared, Ben could be dating a werewolf for all she cared, as long as it treated him friendly.

But she'd been friends with Edwin just as long as Ben had, and she'd figured out he liked him long before Eddie even had. What had happened that had made him confess, her closed off tucked in friend Eddie wasn't one to just come out and say he like a guy, he would want the perfect moment before that happened.

'What could that have been?' Gwen though as she sighed and stood, feeling a shiver hit her as the snow and cold bit at her sweat from moving boxes all day. 'I'll have to call him...' she thought, heading into the garage to grab a coat.

Gwen had the perfect plan, a bon fire with her friends and Kevin. Bonfires had booze if they needed it, fire and even shouting drunken songs until three in the morning. At least that's what her brother imagined since Gwen hung out with nothing but boys.

"Ok... three... two... one!" Kevin and Edwin lifted the broken dresser up and tossed it into the pit that had been dug out back as Gwen threw a thumbs up. "Ok... ok that's in there, what else?" Kevin breathed as Ben smiled and pointed at the boxes and other fire food behind him.

"Looks like you've got your work cut out for you." Ben chuckled as Edwin glared, he never said another word but he did keep on laughing as Kevin groaned and walked toward the pile. "Here, let me help you." he waved off Edwin's protest when Gwen dragged her friend away from the men.

"Eddie, hey can I talk to you?" she asked as they walked to the other side of the pit, both of them sitting on logs as they stared at the two men before them chucking things into the pit.

"Of course you can, Gwen. What's up?" Edwin finally turned his face toward her, pulling his eyes away from the two boys and setting his hands on his knees. Gwen smiled, watching her friend rub his hands across the denim of his jeans.

"Well, it's just been a really long time since we've just talked, the two of us," her friend made a face at her and she laughed, "ok you've got me, I need information." she smiled as Edwin grinned, leaning back a bit.

"No price is too high for you, what do you need?" he asked, patting her back with a smile. She nodded, looking back at Kevin as he one armed a small coffee table she'd found hidden under a tent, dust eaten and molding.

"I want to know why you decided to suddenly get together with Ben when I was gone." she finally asked, turning back to her friend as she crossed her arms, a set in stone process she knew she had to get through. Edwin stiffened when she asked him, his teeth grinding as he turned to look at Ben across the yard. After a sigh he leaned back, an unsettled laugh leaving his lips.

"You're not going to believe it... hell, I don't even believe it!" he nearly threw his hands up at the uneasy tone his voice made, but settled for wrapping them around his chest. "It's... complicated." he muttered, but she knew she could prod the information out of him.

"You can tell me..." she took his hand for reassurance, smiling as he smiled back and gave her fingers a squeeze.

"I got visited by my future kids." he laughed, letting her hand go as she blinked. "Yea, stupid right? They gave me this... pill, told me to give it to Ben and go 'have a good time.' I just thought they were playing... but then... they weren't. I was so frustrated and scared and I just did it, it could have been poison! But I did it, and..." Edwin went on, but Gwen had tuned him out in shock.

Edwin had been visited by his future children, just like she had. Only... did Ben know they were his kids?

"Does Ben know?" she finally asked him, cutting off his sentence.

"About the ice cubes?"

"No! Eddie about your kids." Gwen said with a nervous laugh, smiling to try and pry a yes out of him.

"No... I couldn't... he'd never have believed me. Oh god, I still don't believe it." Gwen nodded, patting her friends back as she tucked this new information into the back of her brain. "You think any of it actually happened?" Edwin asked her, obviously referring to something she'd tuned out.

"I don't know... I guess time is our answer." she told him, standing after he did with a helping hand from him.

"Ok Gwen! That's the last of it!" Ben shouted as Kevin stood over the pit and poured gasoline on the top. "What say I go Alien for old time's sake?" he called, and Edwin shook his head no.

"I'm not having you grow tits again! That's the body the babies are in anyway, I don't want you inhaling the smoke in that form." Edwin said as he jogged over, hugging Ben as they both turned to Gwen as she got to Kevin's side. She sighed, looking down into the pit before turning to her... well, whatever Kevin was.

"Hurry up and ask your boyfriend for a lighter Gwen, some of us want smores!" Ben barked at them, and Kevin raised a fist, ready to shout back.

"Look here Ten-" Gwen caught his wrist before he could lift it to point at Ben, letting his gaze catch hers as they smiled. Kevin paused, gauging her look before he hitched his breath. Gwen turned, raising her own fist in the air.

"At least my boyfriend doesn't wear high heals!" she shouted back, and the three of them, excluding Edwin, laughed.

"One time and you never let me live it down!" he shouted back, burying his face into Ben's shoulder. The laughter died down and Kevin smiled as he looped his fingers with Gwen, unspoken was their status. One more finger could be folded down. After a bit of digging Kevin pulled out a lighter and flicked it open.

"Got a stick?" he asked her, rubbing his bottom lip and readjusting his lip ring. She bent down, snatching a dry one from the pile as they lit the tip of it. They both knelt down, still hand in hand as Kevin flicked his lighter closed. "To the rest of our lives?" he asked her quietly, almost scared she didn't hear him. She turned, smiling at him and tossing the stick into the fire, the gasoline catching.

"How about to the rest of however long I can stand you." Kevin laughed as they stood, heading toward the logs with Ben and Edwin.