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Chapter 7

"She can't continue on like this, Major," Dr. Bellows eyes followed Jeannie as the door closed behind her. "I'm surprised her doctor didn't prescribe her anything. Or offer her some advise on what may help."

Haji probably knew very little about human pregnancies and had no real advise to offer.

She needed a human doctor.

Could she see a human doctor without the truth coming out?

What would they do about medical care?

All the years they'd spent hiding her from the world hadn't prepared them for this.

Hiding her powers from the world as she attempted to live a normal life.

Be a wife.

Soon to be mother.

On their journey to Basenji, he'd asked these questions. What if Jeannie kept her powers? What if any of their children had powers?

Tony was certain she was worth it, that a life and family with her, were worth whatever he had to do to keep their secret. They would figure it out as they went.

He wondered if they had ever gotten this far in figuring it out? Asking the basic questions, figuring out how it was all going to be possible.

He looked in Tony's direction, and shook his head. Why wasn't he awake to help them figure it all out?

"She probably didn't tell him how unwell she's been. She's been unwell for weeks but insisted she was fine."

Dr. Bellows nodded. He had been on his way to see them, check on Major Nelson. He had been hoping against hope that he would arrive to find out he'd woken and this was all over.

Instead he has nearly been barreled over by Jeannie as she ran from the room while he made his way inside.

"We were hoping if she told Tony about the baby it would wake him up. I think it's all just to much for her."

Dr. Bellows sighed, nodding. "I've got calls out to local hospital Obstetrics Departments, hopefully someone will come back to me soon. In the meantime, Amanda is contacting Officers wives who have recently had a child to see if they have any tips for Jeannie."

"Oh, good ideas, sir."

He was onboard with anything they could do to help Jeannie.

Tony would settle for nothing less.

Dr. Bellows was quiet as he approached Tony's beside. "I hate to ask, Major Healey, but is there any reason Major Nelson may not want to regain consciousness?"

Roger shook his head, approaching Tony's bedside. "No, sir. This is the happiest Tony has ever been. And he's waited his whole life to be a father. Tony and Jeannie, there is nothing that could keep them apart," He said confidently. "We must be missing something. There must be a test we haven't done. If he could wake up, he would."

Dr. Bellows quietly regarded Tony's motionless frame, shaking his head before finally looking at Roger. "We have run every test there is. They don't show any substantial injury. Medically he should be awake by now. Something non-medical must be keeping him from doing so."

"Sir," Roger started, "Tony would never willingly choose to do this to Jeannie. He wouldn't want to be without her. I know. I saw him without her. He can't do it. Whatever the reason he's still unconscious, it's not his choice."

Roger tried to lead Tony away, tried to stop this from going any further.

Tony shook away Roger's hand, determined to do this.

End this.

Get back to her.

"Someone else?" She asked, voice soft and faraway. "I don't understand. This isn't like you…"

"None of it makes any sense," Roger agreed from their left side.

"You're right," Tony confirmed eyes darting between them. "None of this makes sense. This morning I left home married to another woman. Living a completely different life. And then I get home and it's six years ago, only it's present day. I don't understand any of this. I don't want to be here," His voice broke and he nearly tripped over each word.

Melissa blinked back at him, eyes wide and filled with confusion. "We've been together for years, Tony. And we've been happy. At least I thought we have been. I was your wife this morning. Last night. Yesterday. I don't understand any of this."

Tony shook his head and glanced between Melissa and Roger.

He was clearly on his own. He took a deep breath, steadied his nerves.

If he had any chance of getting back to his life, he had to do this.

"You're wonderful, Lis," He finally started. "You're intelligent. Beautiful. Poised. You're everything a man would want in a wife. But you're not her."

He watched her face twist with emotion, eyes closing as she fought back tears.

He didn't want to hurt her.

"You. This life, it's so tempting," He admitted, shaking his head. It was tempting.

But it was also normal. Plain. Boring and it meant he was without Jeannie.

"It's normal. Ordinary. I'm the Astronaut that I always imagined I would be. But it's…it's not the life I want. I want my life with her."

He watched her eyes bite back tears, he heard Roger groan from his left.

They thought he was a horrible person. They thought he was crazy.

"I want to spend the rest of my life dodging NASA personnel. I want to think of cockeyed stories to get us out of whatever Jeannie has blinked us into. I want children. Her children. A house full. Boys with her smile. Girls with her eyes."

He wanted bickering. Laughing. Teasing. Hugs. Smiles. Blinks. He wanted any and all of it.

"I want to come home to her smile, and fall asleep with her next to me. Nothing makes sense without her."

It hadn't for awhile. What was the point of his successes, of his failures, if she wasn't there to share in them?

"I want…I need to go back."

"Where?" Roger questioned, shaking his head.

"To her," He told them quickly, confidently. "I don't know if she's a dream. Or if somehow I've ended up in another life. But I need to go back, wherever she is."

Melissa nodded, eyes sliding open as she finally looked back at him. "I think I should get Dr. Bellows. You aren't making sense," She half said, half pleaded.

"I don't need Dr. Bellows," Tony said, voice raised as he struggled to temper his frustration. "I need to go back."

He shook his head and stepped away from her, from Roger. "Jeannie. I've had enough. Blink me home," He didn't know if home was his dream. A hallucination. Or if this was an alternate reality he had somehow become stuck in.

He closed his eyes and said it again.

He didn't know if she could hear him. He wasn't even sure, anymore that she was even real.

But he had to try.

TBC