Just as the web chat program loaded on the laptop, Robyn realised she needed the call of nature. She'd signed in on the off chance that Kit might be online waiting for her but it said that his computer was offline. Before she got up she typed a brief message to him and excused herself from the kitchen.

Curious about the machine in front of her, Yuliya swapped seats and read the message that Robyn had written. She smiled at its simplicity until a sound came from somewhere inside the machine and the screen changed slightly. Words appeared under Robyn's message and the machine made a sound like a telephone. Unsure of what to do Yuliya looked over her shoulder hoping that Robyn would come back soon. The noise from the machine continued and she read the message on the screen again.

'Kit would like to start a video chat with you. Press ok or enter to accept.'

"Enter or ok," Yuliya whispered as she scanned the keyboard for the right button.

Finally finding the button marked 'enter' Yuliya pushed it tentatively and jumped when the screen changed again, the words on screen being replaced by a moving picture of a young man with a broad grin. She recognised him having met him before and smiled back at him.

"Whoa Robs, you've aged! Does time move faster there or is Nine just majorly stressing you out?" The young man on the screen laughed.

Yuliya's smile faded and she raised an eyebrow at him. Her smile returned when half of a very familiar face appeared on screen and a hand swiped at the back of the young man's head.

"Thank you son," She smiled as the picture on screen adjusted and she saw three men looking at her. "I was just about to look at a button that would make something do that for me."

Sportacus smiled back at his mother, "You're welcome. I apologise for Kit."

"What's he done now?" Robyn queried as she came back into the kitchen and sat next to her grandmother.

"Oh look! Twins!" Kit exclaimed trying to distract everyone from his joke.

Robbie and Sportacus both turned to look at Kit while Yuliya and Robyn sat back a little with their eyebrows raised.

Robyn narrowed her eyes as she leant forward and focussed on Kit, "What are you trying to say?"

Yuliya nodded as she looked at Robyn, "Yes, what is he trying to say? That we both look old? I mean when he appeared on this thing he did think I was you."

"Did he now?" Robyn replied pursing her lips at Kit and turning her head to look at her grandmother.

Kit's mouth flapped open and closed as he tried to find a suitable answer and way out of the hole he'd dug himself into. When one didn't seem forthcoming Robbie disappeared from the screen for a few seconds before reappearing with something in his hands.

"Shovel?" He asked as he handed the implement over to Kit with a chuckle.

Sportacus laughed and rolled his eyes as Kit looked blankly at the shovel before getting the joke.

Robyn rolled her eyes also as she looked at her grandmother, "This is what I have to live with."

"It's not so bad," Kit piped up as he finally found his voice again, "And with the twins thing I was trying to say you both look young and sexy."

"Who looks young and sexy?" Nine enquired as he entered the kitchen.

"Oh boy." Kit murmured as he lifted the blade of the shovel and head butted the flat side of it, making a clang as he did so.

Nine leant over Robyn and his wife as he looked at the screen and watched Kit stand and make his escape. Part of him wished it was possible to reach through the screen and pull him back but he made do with the alternative of stern words with him when they came face to face in person next.

Robyn looked from the screen to her grandfather, "Can I maybe have just a little bit of privacy."

Nine leaned back and looked at the ceiling, scratching his bearded chin. "Privacy? Privacy? Now what does that word mean?"

"I'll remember that next time I walk past the bathroom and you're in there peeing with the door wide open." Robyn replied shaking her head.

Robbie and Sportacus started to laugh while Robyn and Yuliya laughed and shared a discreet high five. Nine turned around and folded his arms when he heard someone else laughing from outside of the room.

Boris halted laughing and cleared his throat before waving and leaving.

Yuliya blew a kiss to her son before getting up and guiding Nine out of the room. Robyn watched them go and turned back to the screen when her grandmother closed the door.

"Hey kiddo." Robbie beamed at Robyn.

"Hi daddy. How are things?"

Robbie looked at Sportacus and shrugged, "Quiet. We've missed you, your uncle and me."

Robyn reacted to the word uncle and both men caught it. They smiled at her gently.

"Kit worked it out." Sportacus explained, "We had a brief discussion about what happened with you two."

"Am I in trouble?"

Robbie and Sportacus looked at one another, they both nodded when they turned back to Robyn.

"If you come home you're grounded for the next twenty five years and Kit is moving in with Sportacus when he gets his new airship while we're packing you off to a convent." Robbie scolded.

Robyn looked shocked at the stony expressions on both men's faces before their faces crumpled and they chuckled.

"Syke!" They shouted in unison causing Robyn to stick her tongue out at them.

Sportacus sobered and he concentrated his piercing blue eyes on Robyn, "We're not ok with what happened but we can live with it. We both kind of figured it was going to happen sooner or later and letting you share a bed was maybe just adding to the temptation. We also have to accept that you kids do things differently to us and we can hardly talk seeing as neither of us was married when we...you know."

"Slept together?" Robyn cut in with a large mischievous smile.

Sportacus couldn't help but admit he'd walked right into that one and he looked apologetically at Robbie who gagged at the thought of being anywhere near to physically intimate with Sportacus.

Kit came back on screen with a confused expression having missed the recent exchange but smiled when he saw Robyn.

"Langford filled me in on what the boss man told you. You've got three days thinking time Robs. Don't think about us when you make your decision about whether to come home or not. It's your choice and your choice entirely, whatever you choose we'll always love you and we're sure we can come and visit. While I was talking to Langford someone came over and asked if they could talk to you."

Robyn saw the screen shift as the laptop was lifted up and she watched the room slide across the screen as it was moved.

When it became still she saw Bessie in front of the camera.