"Oh, they will be dealt with," Xanatos said in a dark monotone. I was the kind of tone that didn't hint at danger… it promised it. "Luckily, I have an NYPD officer here, who can recommend a whole list of charges to be brought on these kids that will keep them busy for a long time."

"Might I suggest breaking and entering, attempted kidnapping, destruction of private property and assault on an officer?" Elisa gave a grim smile. "The home invasion and kidnapping is a minimum of ten years behind bars by themselves."

"That sounds like a good start." David responded.

"Want me to call it in?" Elisa offered.

"Please."

"I'm on it," Elisa said, pulling her cell phone from her jeans pocket. She called Captain Maria Chavez to arrange for officers to come and pick up the suspects.

"What about the girl?" three familiar voices chanted as one.

"The girl?" Oberon said, turning to look at Skyler. "Oh, yes."

For the first time since the fighting had begun, Elisa took a good look at Skyler.

Skyler stood straight and still, her blood stained hands still held out from her body to the sides, staring ahead blankly. There was still a hole in her gown, and even though the blood had not spread outside of a small red ring around the injury site, Elisa had a bad feeling that was not a good sign.

"Skyler?" Elisa asked, passing off Liam to Goliath. Slowly, so as not to startle her, Elisa walked towards the small female. "Skyler, can you hear me?"

Skyler didn't even blink.

"We have put her in a state," Titania said. "She is in a dream state, until we know what we are going to do about her."

"What you're going to do about her?" Elisa asked in disbelief. "She risked her life to save your grandchildren. Twice."

"I am aware, detective," Titania said. "She has also shown the most control over her powers. She shows the most promise to being an asset to those on Avalon."

Elisa grit her teeth. "So you would just take her? Not give her a choice?"

"Of course, she has a choice," Oberon said. "But who would turn down a chance to live in Avalon?"

"Someone who was raised as a human with free will," Elisa said softly, turning to face Oberon. She was holding on to her temper that was threatening to come to the surface. "She wasn't raised like your children. You took the others' powers, can't you take hers too, and leave her here?"

"Having someone else here, an ally to the Gargoyles and the family, would not be a horrible thing." Titania placed a gentle, coaxing hand on Oberon's arm. "Take her powers if you must, and let us be on our way."

Oberon smiled down at his wife, the only time he softened his expression. "Why am I unable to deny you anything?" He straightened up, his face going impassive once more. "As you wish," he said.

With a wave of his hand, an almost imperceptible green haze seemed to rise off of Skyler's form and disappeared in the wind like a puff of smoke.

Once her powers had been extracted, Skyler collapsed limply into a heap to the ground.

Elisa hurried to the fallen woman's side, placing her hands over the wound in an effort to keep Skyler from bleeding out.

"There," Oberon said with some finality. "It is done."

"Then let us go home," Titania said with a smile.

Together, the Fae royal couple vanished in the night.

"Elisa," Goliath said, placing his hands on her shoulders where she knelt on the stone courtyard.

Elisa looked up at her husband. Liam wasn't with him.

"Liam?" She asked, a sudden feeling of panic rising.

"Liam is being taken care of," Goliath assured her. "Hudson took him and will watch over him."

Elisa nodded. She would check on him herself later, but for now, she could only press her hands against Skyler's bloody stomach. "David," Elisa called out, issuing orders like a seasoned general, "Call Matt. Tell him to bring backup and have them haul these kids away."

"Already in the works," David assured her.

"Someone call Dr. James," Elisa called over her shoulder at the crowd at large. "He needs to help with Skyler and anyone else who was injured."

"We're alright, lass," Hudson assured her. "Dinnae worry about us."

"Yeah," Lexington chimed in. "A day's rest, and we'll be good as new."

Elisa nodded absently. Where was that damn doctor, she wondered, in her frustration forgetting that she actually liked the man.

As if her thoughts had conjured him, he was suddenly kneeling beside Elisa, an old fashioned, black leather doctor's bag beside him.

"Move," He barked out, all business.

Elisa blinked and moved her hands from where they had been held over the bloody hole that the dagger had left in Skyler's gown.

He had sounded so impressive with that single word, that she was… well… kind of impressed.

Dr. James grabbed the fallen dagger that had done the damage, and used it to widen the hole in the gown, exposing her abdomen. Shoving the cut fabric aside, he moved his hands with a professional determination to locate the injury and do his best to save this young woman. Like Elisa, he was worried about just how little blood was on the outside of her gown. Lack of blood outside was a good indication of internal bleeding.

"Where is it?" he muttered, hands still moving quickly. Reaching in the bag with one hand, he grabbed a large, sealed container of gauze. Using his teeth to grab the 'easy open' tab, he took a hand full of the large gauze squares and swiftly cleared away the blood from her skin.

"I can't find it," He muttered.

Elisa leaned forward, frowning. "She was stabbed. We all saw it."

"I can see that something happened," He said, sounding mystified. "There is blood and a hole in her gown."

"Ooookay," Elisa drawled out, confused.

"There's no wound," Dr. James proclaimed, sitting back on his heels.

As if on cue, Skyler gave a deep gasp as if she'd been holding her breath for too long. Her back bowed in the effort to draw in air, raising her body in an almost painful arch off of the stone courtyard's floor, her eyes opening wide and looking side to side in panic.

Elisa took hold of one shoulder with the doctor on the other, as they hurried to assure her that she was safe.

Skyler's body lowered to the ground, but she was still panting,. She felt as if she couldn't get enough air.

Brooklyn knelt beside her, gently taking one of her hands in his. "Skye," He said softly, "You're okay. It's over."

Skyler gripped his taloned hand tightly, her gaze zeroing in to focus solely on his face. After a moment, she gasped out, "The children?"

"They're fine," He reassured her. "They're back, and safe."

Skyler looked at Elisa then for confirmation, sighing when the dark haired woman nodded her own assurances.

Skyler closed her eyes and concentrated on calming her breathing. "It's over?"

"Yes," Goliath said in his deep, rumbling voice. "It is over."