Next chapter is up and the story will take a darker turn (warning: may make you hate me)

The next day Danny woke up feeling a little groggy, he hadn't realized how late it was until they got home. The kids immediately went to sleep as soon as their heads hit the pillows; they hadn't even bothered to unpack yet. He tried getting up and noticed Mira's arm wrapped around his stomach in a light grip. He smiled placing her hand on the pillow and kissed her cheek and went to the bathroom to get ready for the day. He looked himself over in the mirror as he always does after a shower and glanced at his wife. Sure he had some muscle that he had from the physical labor back home, but the power meter of his pacemaker and scars that he had all over from his body from the years trying to survive on his own made him wonder why Mira would want someone like him. He knew many men that tried to get her attention before and were promptly shut down before they knew what happened. Still even if he didn't know why she loved him, he loved her with all his heart and always will.

Mira woke a few minutes later stretching her arms out reached for the empty side of the bed. She found it empty and sat up he's up already? She got up and straightened out her nightgown as she made her way to the bathroom. She took a quick shower got ready and went to the kitchen to make breakfast only to find Danny had already beaten her there. Mira crossed her arms over her chest and put on a fake scowl to see how he would react "Danny how many times do I have to tell you not to over work yourself?" Danny turned to her and smiled, he knew the game she was playing "I didn't want to wake you and I was getting hungry, what's the problem of making my own breakfast for once" Mira laughed, walked up to Danny and pointed a finger at his chest "Because I love you and I want to make you breakfast every now and then, it helps me feel wanted" Danny took her hand and kissed it "I guess I should try harder tonight won't I" Mira blushed a light pink, it had been a few weeks since they have been together with all that has been going on and she had to admit she did miss her husband's loving touch. "I should hurry; I'm going to meet up with Captain McCrea for our negotiations"

After an hour or so finally getting settled in Danny, Aidan, and Daniel decided to go visit Wally and maybe have a nice walk around the colony to get to know people. Danny did take his time to walk over to Wally's house, but Aidan and Daniel sprinted to the front door to see who was faster. Mira did say how much their kids reminded her of Danny, but he didn't think so; Aidan and Daniel are always happy, don't have single bad thing to say to anyone, and always seem to know what to say to bring a smile to your face. Ok maybe they were more like him than Danny was willing to admit. Wendy answered the door and smiled "Mom, Dad Daniel and Aidan are here!" Eve watched her nephew's walk through the door without Danny isn't he coming. A moment later he showed up holding on to the door, breathing heavily "I'm getting… to old… to keep up… with them…" Eve laughed "You know Wally said…" she stopped herself before she said anything else. Wally had said that she and the kids would one day be the death of him, but telling Danny that would be a bad idea "Something like that a while ago" Danny looked up and smiled "Yeah right I'll believe it when I see it"

They both heard Aidan yell "Dad look at this!" Danny stood up and walked to the backyard. He looked around and saw a garden that could put any other to shame. There were flowers with the most vibrant colors and a large tree that provided nice shade on a sunny day. To top it off there was a shallow pond in the middle surrounded by a stone path that completed the scene. Danny noticed a few blue flowers surrounding it that had a faint glow to it. Aidan pointed to them and said "Dad those are the bioluminescent flowers that Wendy showed us yesterday" Wendy looked at him like if he was a stranger "Why are you making up words Aidan?" Eve was surprised he probably learned that from Mira. "Wendy 'bioluminescent' means it glows" Aidan grinned at Wendy "See I know my vocabulary" Daniel rolled his eyes "That's a first" he muttered. Wendy didn't take his "insult" too well and thought he could use a reminder not to mess with her. A dip in the pond would be a good punishment. Before Aidan knew what happened he was sitting in the shallow pond with a surprised look in his face.

Wendy thought it was the funniest thing she had ever seen, Eve didn't think so. "WENDY THAT WAS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE, APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW!" Wendy turned to her mother "He started it" she felt a wet hand grab her by the wrist "And I'm going to finish it" Wendy couldn't even turn around as she was flung into the pond herself. Wallace and Daniel didn't know what to do, but stand and watch as their siblings wrestled each other to try and get out first. Wallace looked up at Daniel "Does Aidan fight you to show he cares about you too?" Daniel looked down at his cousin until he finally understood what he meant "Yeah he can be trouble sometimes, but that's one of the reason everyone loves him" Wallace gave him a big smile "I guess we are family huh" Daniel crossed his arms over his chest "If people haven't seen it yet they must be blind"

Wally heard the commotion from inside the house and helped Danny break the kids up before any real damage could be done. The two fathers did give a stern talking to, to their kids, but it was mostly because they had so much fun without them. Eve went to get Aidan some of Wally's clothes while Danny went home to get him a new set. When she walked into the bedroom Aidan was without his shirt on drying himself of to get rid of some of the cold feeling he was getting. Eve noticed something peculiar though Aidan had a line that had a lighter shade of skin over his heart. "Thanks auntie sorry about that little fiasco just now" Eve came back to her senses "It wasn't a big deal" She left the clothes, that were a size or two too big, on the bed until Danny came back. Eve leaned on the door after she closed it and headed for the living room, but in the back of her mind she could help and think the worst of what she saw.

Danny came back a few minutes later and gave Aidan his change of clothes. Eve had told Wally of what she saw and asked him to find out what happened from Danny. Wally knew Danny had a pacemaker like he did, but he assumed his kids didn't have one either like Wendy and Wallace. "Uh Danny can I talk to you?" "Sure about what?" Wally looked at the kids watching their favorite movie Hello Dolly, Daniel and Aidan had a surprising interest in "In private" That made Danny feel uneasy, private talks with his brother always had bad and good memories mixed together, but this felt different. The brothers walked to the back yard and closed the sliding glass door behind them. "Alright Wally what is it you want to talk about?" Wally felt uneasy, if Eve was right he was going strike a sensitive cord. "Danny Eve said that Aidan had a scar over his heart, did he have an accident?" Wally might as well have punched Danny in the jaw; he took a seat on a bench facing away from the sun. "She saw it?" Wally was going to hate himself later, but he should repair whatever damage he did "I'm sorry since Wallace and Wendy were fine I thought it was safe to assume your kids weren't like us"

Danny had looked at Wally with tears in his eyes, but with a look that held sympathy for Wally. "Wendy and Wallace were both born healthy too, right?" Wally took a moment to process what he heard too? "But your kids don't have our condition right? Why do they need a pacemaker?" Danny knew he was going to hurt his younger brother more than anything with what he was going to say "Wally our heart condition is not a birth defect" he said it so low Wally almost didn't understand him. Wally didn't like where this was going "Danny what do you mean?" Danny wiped the few tears off his cheeks "It's a disease that attacks the lining of the heart, not enough to render it useless, but enough to kill us…" Wally froze "… we need this machine to keep it beating" Danny pointed to his chest. Wally felt it was getting harder to breath he couldn't believe what he was hearing. Danny looked through the glass at the kids laughing and conversing with one another "They will need one before they turn 14"

Wally didn't want to believe it "If it's a disease why doesn't anyone else have it?" Danny ran a hand through his hair and sighed "We don't know Mira thought it might have something to do with being exposed to this environment for so long" Danny took a deep breath "But I know it's my fault Daniel and Aidan have it, no matter how many times they say it isn't" Wally's head was spinning his kids have it too! Wally wanted to scream, punch a hole through a wall, but he stayed where he was holding his face in his hands. "Danny are you sure about this?" hearing his voice made Danny tense up "Mira knows what to do, I'll ask her when she gets back" The brothers sat there until the sun was nearly gone. This disease sounded unreal, but then again they both survived years off of scraps in an environment cockroaches would deem hazardous and finding someone who would always love them and meant everything to them. It seemed someone decided they hadn't suffered enough and would go to any lengths to see them break.

And the plot thickens