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"How hard is it to capture a bunch of kids!" the General snarled at the soldier cowering in front of him.
"To be fair, they do have powers," the soldier said timidly. The General spat at the ground in front of him.
"Drake, take him away. Do what you want," he ordered. Drake smiled down at the soldiers.
"Yes, of course. I'll make things, fun," Drake said and dragged the whimpering soldier away.
"Dr. Weigman, come with me into the Extractor room. Scarlet, get the girl," the General said. "It's time to finally use this Extractor. Next time I catch those kids, I'm doing it one by one."
"I'm coming sir! And I assure you, the Extractor will work fabulously on the girl. But I can only duplicate the mutation 20 times until it becomes useless," Dr. Weigman stammered. "But do you really trust Scarlet enough to let her in the inner circle?"
The General turned on Dr. Weigman, causing him to stumble backwards and whimper. "You will call her Ms. Meadows. And you will not say anything bad about her in front of me. She swore to be loyal to me. Of course, that's only because she believes what I said about the children causing her son to die."
Dr. Weigman wanted to mention that if Ms. Meadows actually found out what happened, she would turn on the General. But the General looked like he was about to breath fire.
"Get the Extractor warmed up. I want this over quick," the General said and walked out the door. Dr. Weigman scampered after him.
"Can you tell me the stories now? Technically, I'm on my deathbed," Leo said to Caine as Dahra and Lana tried to do anything to heal the poison.
"Oh, and just so you know; Lily has asthma, her inhaler is in my pocket. She is allergic to peanuts and walnuts. Deathly allergic. So no Reese's Cups, even though she may ask for them. And her asthma isn't too severe, but it scares her when she has an asthma attack," Leo explained. He was still looking optimistic. Diana was silently crying while sitting with her baby. Lily was standing next to Leo, not understanding what was going on.
"Can we play?" Lily asked Leo. Everyone froze in horror, not wanting to see Lily become sad.
"Why don't you go play with John?" Leo said. John grabbed Lily's hand and led her up the stairs.
"Let's go play, Lily," he said sweetly.
Leo sighed. "I guess you don't have to tell me your war stories. After all, I have my own, now. Too bad I won't be able to brag about to anyone..."
Katie lost it and broke down crying then. Jack turned green and disappeared into the computer room.
"Look, this poison is bright purple. Dekka's is orange and Brianna's was green," Astrid said. "That means so far only the purple is bad."
When the kids returned, Lana had immediately healed Dekka. Just in time, too. The orange poison had been dangerously close to her torso. Dekka was peaceful resting, now.
"Just my luck, huh?" Leo said. "I guess this is what dying is like."
"Don't say that, you'll be fine," Sam said.
"He doesn't believe that, Spidey," Toto interrupted. Sam glared at him.
"What are you going to name your baby, Diana?" Leo asked.
"I'm thinking-" Diana started to say.
"Leo," Caine interrupted. "You should name him Leo."
Leo didn't want to get emotional, so instead he said, "If he takes your last name, Diana, you should give him a middle name that starts with O. Then his initials would be L.O.L."
Diana started crying more. Leo felt a little guilty.
"Is my idea that bad?" he joked. "You could always give him a middle name that starts with L. Then his friends could call him Triple L."
Diana shook her head and ran out the room, still crying. Before she went she laid baby Leo next to his namesake.
"You are the future, little one," Leo said dramatically to the baby. "You are the future."
Now everyone in the room was laughing and crying, but mostly crying.
"You know at funerals, how people say words to the dead person? Well, I would rather have you say the words to me right now. So then I can just go straight to Heaven instead of having to wait around. I hear the airfare can get pretty ugly if you wait too long," Leo said.
"Okay, I'll go first," Caine said. "Leo… um…"
"Meadows. My last name is Meadows," Leo supplied. Caine nodded.
"Leo Meadows was helpful, optimistic, and it's all our fault that he passed away. He got fatally injured while saving two people; Diana and my child. My son will be named Leo, because if it wasn't for Leo he wouldn't be alive," he said.
"That was beautiful. I think I'm tearing up," Leo said in a joking voice. He wished he was joking. Everyone else took their turn saying their piece about Leo. Finally, Lily was the only one left in the room who hadn't said anything; John had recently returned with her. Jack still hadn't come out of the computer room and Diana was still outside.
"Are you going to see Daddy?" she asked. Leo nodded. "Okay."
Lily sat down quietly and swung her legs back and forth. The rest of the kids joined her.
"Well, I think I'm going to go, now. See you in the morning," Leo said with a half smile. "Good night."
"Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," Lily finished in a sing song voice. Leo closed his eyes, and soon he was gone.
Edilio took Leo outside and dug him a grave. After he took Lily's inhaler out of his pockets, Edilio buried him. He ordered Jack to find a big rock to use as a gravestone.
When Edilio came back down, Diana was sitting silently in one of the bean bag chairs, holding baby Leo. For a newly born baby, he was very large. Of course, he was probably still growing faster than usual. He had Diana's dark eyes, but Caine's face. Surprisingly, his hair looked like it was going to be a light brown, almost like Sam's hair. Diana read him and announced he was a three bar.
"I'm guessing his power will either be Diana's or Caine's. Or maybe a combination of them both. It could be something completely different, though," Astrid said.
"What would a combination of telekinesis and whatever Diana's is be?" Howard asked.
"Probably controlling other people's powers," Albert answered. Everyone stood in silence after that, watching the baby. Jack emerged from the computer room and stretched.
"It's 10:00. Should we go to bed?" he said. Everyone silently agreed and headed off into their beds. None of them talked, but none of them except Lily and baby Leo slept, either.