Jeff's focus was so completely on his father that barely noticed that he was tied in a chair. He had imagined several different scenarios of how it would go if he ever did see him again. When he envisioned it in his head he often saw his father as he did as a child; a hulking raging force that towered over everyone. Somehow his vision didn't physically live up to the reality.

Instead he was staring at a man about Pierce's age, but much better preserved. He was about Jeff's height, give or take a couple inches, and while not overweight was bigger than his son was. His silver grey hair was slicked back in the style of an Italian mobster and he had both Jeff's pointy nose and unique forehead.

But what Jeff noticed more were the things he didn't have. While people looked at Jeff and were charmed people who looked at William felt instantly unease. They sensed power, but also a need to use that power to crush others with it. He commanded obedience and had no tolerance for anything less.

William smiled as Jeff stared at him. "You don't have anything to say Jeffrey? I'm sure you've been waiting for this moment for a long time." He sighed impatiently as he paced back and forth. "I'm giving you this moment to say whatever you want. That's more then I would have given any of your other versions. Would you rather I just get it over with and have you killed?"

"Why?"

He stopped pacing, surprised at Jeff's single word question. "Why what?"

"Why did you do all of this? To me, to mom, to those I love. Why?"

He laughed at Jeff's question. "That's what you've been holding in all these years. Why?"

"There's a lot I've been holding in. I just thought I'd start with that."

"Oh Jeffrey, I could ask you the same thing. Like why would you devote your life to running around rooftops saving these useless Cretans? I've watched all seven versions of you, and all were a disappointment in some way shape or form. But you are the biggest mystery. Why would you devote your life to protecting a city of people that hate and mistrust you?"

"You wouldn't understand." Jeff quietly said.

"I don't really care, I'm just curious."

"If you didn't care then why did you ask it then?"

William's jaw clenched at that remark. For a brief moment he longed to smack his son across the face for back talking to him. But he managed to restrain his impulse. "You are such a disappointment. I could have shown you so much. But instead you rank as the biggest disappointment of my life. There was simply no way to fix you. And believe me, I tried."

"Fix me. That's what you call what you did to me! To Mom! All the beatings and physiological torment and all the years you terrorized us! All the damage that was left over after you were gone! YOU HONESTLY THINK IT WAS FOR OUR BENEFIT!"

"When you have an unruly animal you must do what is necessary to break it in, to bend it to your will. But sometimes it is so far gone that nothing can be done to change its weak nature."

Jeff froze, shocked to his very core at what he was hearing. After all this time he had no dilutions on who his father was. He had no expectations that this reunion would be anything but horrible. But this was worse than anything he could have imagined. "People are not play things!"

"That's rather hypocritical for you to say. I've seen how you've treated those who are in your life. You go around with your charm and your good looks and get everyone to fawn all over you. You say a few honeyed words and people do whatever you want them to do. When have you EVER done anything for someone else that wasn't about getting something for yourself? How are you ANY different than I am?"

Jeff was silent for several minutes as the question hung in his head. Just as William started turning away Jeff quietly said. "I grew up."

"What?"

"I grew up. I stopped treating people as if they were playthings and started treating them as if they actually mattered."

"That's what you call it? Letting others walk all over you instead of demanding what belongs to you is your definition of growing up?"

"I call it treating people with a sense of respect. Of realizing the world doesn't revolve around you. Of trying to do some good while we are here."

"And who taught you that? That bitch?" William shook his head in disgust. "The fact that you would actually listen to her shows how diluted you actually are. I know that's her influence, this so called notion of 'good' you carry with you. Well I'm here to tell you that those are just words. 'Good' and 'bad' are just words people use to try to make themselves feel better about what they can't understand. The only thing in this or any other world that matters is power, and having the foresight to use it for your own advantage. You should have realized that. There was even a time I thought I was wrong about you and that you might have had a chance at figuring it out. But instead you let that tiny mental parasite infect you with her archaic notions."

William shuttered as he felt his body begin to spasm. His body tensed up as he willed himself to control the power within him. After a few moments he let out the breath he was holding as his body relaxed. Jeff looked on, noticing the discomfort his father had just experienced. "What's up with you?"

"Nothing in life is free or completely without consequences."

"Obviously. You lost a son and a wife because of your ambition."

"Don't think you can delude me into having any repressed 'feelings' for what you two were to me Jeffrey. The only reason I was ever with your mother was because I desired an heir. And then you came along, and were nothing but a disappointment from the start. And no matter what happened, no matter what brief hopes I had for you, you never became the person I hoped you would be. You're nothing like me."

"That may be the nicest thing I've ever been told." Jeff said with equal parts sarcasm and truthfulness.

William scoffed and started walking away. But after a moment he turned around and walked over to Jeff. "What it is about her?" As Jeff looked at his father he realized that he truly wanted an answer to a question he could not understand. "What is it about that woman? In every reality she had some sort of hold over you. She's the one you fall in love with, or she's the reason you fall in love with someone else, or she's the one you pine over for years. Even your so called 'evil' version was bound to her in hatred. Why does that infuriating midget hold such power over you?"

Jeff smirked as the answer came to him easily. "Have you ever met her?"

"Yes, you arrogant brat. I've met her. And all I can see is a weak willed, easily manipulative, insecure shell of a person. The only 'special' thing about her is how pathetic she really is. Tell me this then. If she's so special then why did a version of her agree to work for me?" William smiled evilly as a sudden memory came to him. "Or why did she become addicted to pills if she's so 'strong'?"

"You don't know anything about her."

"Oh no. How did she get those pills in the first place?" He chuckled as Jeff looked at him disbelievingly. "I know firsthand how weak your wife is because I was the one who prescribed her the pills in the first place."

Jeff's eyes widened in shock. "No."

"Oh yes Jeffrey." William waved his hand in front of his face and it became the face of the doctor Annie had seen years ago. "She went to the doctors complaining about stomach pains and stress. And I wrote her a prescription and told her it would make everything all better. She ate it up as if I was her savior."

"How…why…" Jeff stammered.

"You want to know why Jeffrey. Because you seven needed to meet in order for that dimensional dice to be used. So I stepped in each of your lives to tweak fate for it to happen. You think Allen Connor was the sole reason you were fired from your law firm? He may have written that e-mail, but it never would have happened if I hadn't talked him into doing it." He waved his hand in front of his face to become Troy's football couch. "I pushed Troy Barnes until football was too much for him and he purposely hurt himself. I convinced Shirley Bennett's husband Andre that he should cheat if he was unhappy with his marriage. I talked both Pierce Hawthorne and Britta Perry into going back to school. And as for Abed Nadir, he would never even have heard about a 'study' group if I hadn't told him about it."

William shook his head as his face returned to normal, smiling a shark smile. "You said before that people aren't play things. If that were true then explain how I was able to manipulate the lives of so many people. Everything you have ever gotten, all of this happiness and self worth you have, it's all from me. You entire life is a result of my doing Jeffrey. I have controlled everything about you."

"If that were true then how come I couldn't be the son you wanted?" Jeff snarkily responded.

William looked pensively at Jeff as he thought over the question. "There's always the unforeseen element that can't be controlled no matter what. But luckily in death you will finally find some usefulness to me. JEFFREY! GET IN HERE!"

The door opened as Evil Jeff walked into the room. "What the hell do you…" He stopped as he looked at Jeff. "He's here. You've had him here this whole time?"

"I was just giving him a few last moments. But like everything he's done he's wasted them. Now, if you will do the honors."

Evil Jeff glared at William, longing to slowly strangle him until he suffocated. But he would wait until he became truly invincible. He walked in front of Jeff and pulled out a knife. As he held it to Jeff's throat he suddenly froze as his eyes looked around the room. "We're not alone."

Barely a moment passed before a blur zoomed in and kicked Evil Jeff across the room. Jeff gasped as Annie grabbed Jeff's restraints. As she ripped the robes from his body William concentrated and made himself become invisible. He slid into the background as he prepared to watch how this all unfolded.

Annie was just able to free Jeff when she was tackled by Evil Jeff. He grabbed her throat with his human hand as she struggled to pry his fingers off him. As Jeff grabbed at him Evil Jeff reached over with his robotic arm. But the arm smoked and sparked, shaking from the damaged it had endured in the earlier fight. As Evil Jeff tried to move the metal arm it completely shut down, becoming dead and useless. Jeff grabbed Evil Jeff's human fingers and both he and Annie managed to pry him off her. Before he could recover Jeff grabbed Evil Jeff's robotic arm and kicked him back several feet.

Jeff reached down and picked up the knife that was lying on the ground. As he charged forward Evil Jeff tried to move out of the way. But his legs were stuck to the ground. He had just enough time to realize that William was using the same frozen spell he had earlier used on him before Jeff stabbed him in the chest. Evil Jeff screamed out a gurgled yell before he died.

Immediately Evil Jeff's body turned into yellow light and flooded into Jeff. Jeff fell to his knees as his body shook and glowed. He remained there for several moments, even after his body stopped glowing. He looked up as Annie went over and knelt beside him. As he looked at her he could hear her voice, even though her lips weren't moving. ::Oh god ,are you all right. What happened? Did you get the powers? Are you like me now? Does that mean I can't hurt you? I'm so going to fuck you brains out tonight. Wait, can you hear my thoughts now? Did you just hear that?::

Just then Jeff cried out as he was racked with pain and his body glowed. The air shimmered and William appeared beside him, gripping onto his shoulder. A hollow rushing sound was heard as the glow in Jeff's body appeared to move out of him and into William's body. Jeff twisted and shook as his body stopped glowing and he fell to the ground.

"JEFF!" Annie yelled. As she reached out to him William kicked her under her chin, causing her to fly across the room. She pulled herself up as William laughed maddeningly. "Yes, YES! I did it. After all this time, I FINALLY DID IT!"

"Hey!" William looked into Annie's eyes and instantly froze as the Hawthorne stare took effect. As soon as he froze Annie gasped as her body glowed with yellow light. She shook her head as William regained his senses. He sighed as he held out his hand and instantly conjured up a broad sword. "I could crush you in an instant now. But I want you to suffer." Letting out a cry of rage he ran over and thrust the sword at her chest.

They both looked on in amazement as the sword shattered like glass the instant it touched her. He conjured a fireball and threw it at Annie, but it didn't burn her in the slightest. As they looked at each other they both realized that she now had all six powers also.

Annie punched him in the face, sending him flying backwards. He regained his footing and formed a ball of energy, throwing it at Annie. Annie dove out of the way; yelling out at it hit and burned her shoulder. "You may be immune to most physical attacks. But magic can still hurt you." Annie quickly ran as fast as a blur as William threw a barrage of energy balls at her. As she ran she felt her hands grow hot as fire formed above her palms. Annie quickly stopped and threw the fire balls at William, which ran off him as if he was scotch guarded. She ran up and jumped onto William, punching his face as hard as she could. William grabbed her shoulders, causing her to cry out as he squeezed her injured shoulder.

"You might want to attend to young Jeffrey, since he's about to leave this world."

As William threw Annie off of him she looked at Jeff, seeing him lying at the floor unmoving. As William charged at her Annie felt her legs ignite in flame as she kicked William as hard as she could, while simultaneously mentally moving him backwards and blocking out all thought from his mind. William flew through the air and crashed through the wall, where he disappeared from sight.

Annie fells to the ground as she held onto Jeff. "Jeff, Jeff." His eyes opened slightly at the sound of her voice, but he was too weak to respond. He tried grabbing her hand but it fell from the effort. Annie shook as she held him, feeling the life drain from Jeff's body. "No! No, don't do this. You can't leave me. Not now. Jeff, please…." She looked to the sky, pleading for something to save him, like she had once been…

She froze as she remembered what Pierce had told her the other night. The Hawthorne stare only allows you to copy other powers. To heal from injuries you would have to fully take in a power level…. It was never intended to pass powers to others. But maybe, with enough will and determination… "Jeff, look at me! LOOK AT ME!" As he looked at her his body instantly froze as the stare took effect. Annie stared deep into his eyes, concentrated more intently then she had ever concentrated before. Take it all, she thought. Take everything from me, just save him. Pressure formed in her head but she ignored it out as she concentrated even harder. The pain continued to build as blood started dripping from her nose. But Annie ignored it as she pushed herself even harder.

Just as she felt like her head was going to explode she gasped as both she and Jeff glowed brightly with golden light. She was thrown back from him and landed on the floor a few feet away. She pushed herself to her knees and wiped the blood from her nose, crying out as she realized her hand was on fire. She looked at Jeff and crawled over to him.

"JEFF!"

She cried out in relief as Jeff's eyes opened. As he sat up she wrapped her arms tightly around him. As soon as they touched they both glowed with the same yellow light that formed when someone takes in a dimensional power. As they separated she looked at her shoulder and saw that it was completely healed. And even though she couldn't see her face she knew that her nose and upper lip had also healed.

They both flinched as a hole was smashed in the wall, following by William stepping back into the room. "You fucking cunt." As Jeff started yelling at William for his insult he threw an energy ball at Annie. As Annie cried out and started to disintegrate Jeff instinctively grabbed hold of her. As soon as they touched they both glowed with yellow light and Annie's injuries completely healed. They looked at William, who was just as shocked as they were. "Well this is unexpected." William mentally threw several bottles of alcohol at Jeff and Annie, which bounced off both of them without harm. They separated as one last bottle hit Jeff in the head. Jeff yelled out as his head started bleeding. As Annie touched him they were again bathed in yellow light and Jeff's head wound healed. Though they didn't understand why, they realized that physically touching each other not only healed their injuries, but caused both of them to have all six dimensional powers.

Jeff and Annie both stood up as they looked at William smiling back at them. Jeff held his hand out and locked his fingers with Annie's. "Don't let go of me." They both ran up and kicked at William; only to fly threw him as if he were a ghost. The ghostlike image disappeared and the real William jumped out of the hole, wielding two blue light glowing swords that seemed to be made of bone. He swung them at Jeff, who blocked them with his arm. Jeff yelled out as they left deep gashes in his arm. Thinking fast Annie quickly let go of Jeff and then grabbed hold of him again, where they both glowed and Jeff's injuries healed. Jeff grabbed both of Annie's arms and swung her at William, where she kicked him hard in the chest and stomach. William fell backwards as he dropped both of his bone swords, which disintegrated as soon as they left his hands.

Still holding onto Annie Jeff punched his father. Years of pain and anger came roaring out as he repeatedly punched him with his right hand. William staggered back from the impact of the blows, feeling his body beginning to grow hot. As he tried to block his son's blows Annie began punching and kicking him also. The two of them pummeled the sadistic sorcerer repeatedly, showing no sign of fatigue or mercy.

Just then they stopped as William's body became as hot as an oven. As they stepped back William looked at himself, seeing that he was glowing with a bright black light. "What's happening to me?" Suddenly he shook as his body was flooded with pain. He hugged himself as he tried to control the pain, but this time it continued to build with intensity. "NO!" He yelled as he grew brighter and brighter. "I CAN CONTROL IT. I CAN CONTROL IT. I AM A GOD. I AM A-!"

Annie and Jeff hugged each other tightly as William exploded, his body disintegrating instantly. The black energy expanded in every direction, washing over Jeff and Annie and completely consuming the entire mansion. Then as suddenly as it occurred the energy retracted back inward, repairing everything it had just destroyed.

Annie and Jeff separated, checking to see that they were all right. Seeing that they were they hugged each other as tightly as they could, knowing that they wouldn't crush either of them. After several moments they separated and went over to where William Winger had stood. There were no remains of him at all. The only thing that was left was Osbourne's book, which was completely burned and charred black. As Annie touched it the book completely fell apart into ash.

Jeff dropped to his knees, taking in deep breaths. He wasn't exactly upset, just extremely overwhelmed by everything. He felt himself glow as Annie knelt down and placed her hand on his shoulder. He turned and looked into her eyes. Those big blue eyes that knew him better than anyone else, sometimes better then he even knew himself.

"Jeff, are you ok?"

He knew she wasn't talking about his physical wellbeing. "Yes. No. I don't know. How's that for an answer."

As they looked at each other they felt their desire for one another rise up within them. Not able to stand it anymore they embraced, furiously kissing as if they were both starving. He tore her mask off as she quickly unzipped his costume, showing only enough restraint so she didn't rip the zipper clean off.

"You guys!"

Jeff paused from unzipping Annie's costume as they both looked up at Britta and Pierce. "Perfect timing Britta." Jeff sarcastically said.

Britta nervously giggled. "The um, the house blew up and then it repaired itself. What happened here?"

"We'll tell you. But we're gathering everyone first, because we only want to say it once."

"Oh, because you two want to have loud x-rated sex, right?" Pierce said with an obnoxious grin.

Annie looked away as she blushed with embarrassment as Jeff simply rolled his eyes at Pierce.