After locating the parents of each child still in the kindergarten, the team made their way back to the Annex, Lucas asleep in his mother's arms. Both Eve and Flynn refused to move more than a few feet away from their son and once they were back in the Annex they moved to a set their sleeping son down on a makeshift bed Jenkins had procured. All six people sat around the sleeping boy, and that is how they spent the night.
Lucas awoke late in the morning of the following day. Cassandra was not far away; nose deep in the same book she had been reading the previous morning. Jacob was nowhere to be seen but was probably somewhere else in the library, searching its vast collection. Ezekiel was upstairs, playing a video game. Both Eve and Flynn had fallen asleep, Flynn with his head on Eve's shoulder, Eve resting her head on his. However, the moment the boy stirred the two were wide awake.
"Where am I?" The dazed boy asked, and both his parents jumped to his side.
"You are in the library sweetheart. Do you remember anything that happened at school?" Eve asked her son. She had her hand on his arm and a look of worry on her face. Flynn was a mirror of her.
"Not much. I was playing and then I must have fallen asleep because I woke up in a dark room." Lucas explained to his parents. He stood up out of the cot he was sleeping on and turned to his father. Flynn then picked the boy up and gave him a huge hug. "Daddy, I'm hungry. Can we go home now?"
"Jenkins. Can you please send us home?" Eve asked the caretaker with the sweetest sounding voice she could muster, but everyone could hear the tiredness in her voice.
"Of course, colonel," Jenkins replied as he began to program the back door to their apartment. As the three stepped through the light into their small home, Eve put a hand on her son's back and kissed her husband. They landed wobbly on the other side and Eve quickly went to the kitchen to get a bowl and pour some cereal into it. Flynn followed her and placed their son in his normal chair on the counter.
"So no school today?" Lucas asked. Both adults shook their heads. Eve leant over and kissed the top of her son's head, and took Flynn's hand in hers. She dragged Flynn just out of earshot of Lucas and sat him down on the couch. She just hugged him.
"He is OK." Flynn whispered. This only caused Eve to hug him tighter.
"But what if he hadn't been? We failed Flynn. We are meant to protect him. And what we do just makes that more difficult. People can use him to get to us. What if that hadn't of just been some creature wanting random children and our son just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? What if it had been someone like Dulaque?" Flynn bent down and pulled his wife's face up to look at him. He bent his head down and kissed her.
"And if it had been, we would have stopped him. We would have saved our son. I promise I'll do the very best I can to keep him out of harm's way, and I know you will do the same. Lucas will be fine." Eve hugged him tight, kissed him and went back to check on Lucas.