-chapter14, M. o. M part 5, The origin of Myrenthall-

The next morning we woke up holding eachother close.

-tiredly- Me: "Goodmorning baby girl."

-halfway asleep, very cutely- Phoebe : "Noooo it can't be morninnnng yyyet..I'm stilllll tired."

-softly- Phoebe:"Hey... Cj?"

-softly- Phoebe: "Maaybee wee cannn havve wake up sex?"

-unsure- Me: "Is that even a thing?"

-tiredly- Phoebe: "I donnn't knnnnowww."

She kissed me.

-lovingly- Phoebe:"We can make it a thing..."

Me: "I don't know baby girl I'm still..."

I felt her hand on my equipment...

-mischeivously- Phoebe: "Still what...?"

Me: "Tired.."

Phoebe:"Oh Cj...you're not that tired are you?"

Me: "Um.. eheh..I guess not..."

Phoebe:" Your thingy doesn't feel very tired..."

-playfully- Phoebe: "It feels like it wants some love."

Me: "-sighs- So now you're an expert on my thingy?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Hehe..."

-playfully- Phoebe:"I don't know, you tell me?"

-lovingly- Me:"-sighs-, you crazy girl."

Inevitably we started to make out, then we had sex and then we took a shower together...

When we finally got dressed and ready to go we found Corina still asleep on the couch downstairs...

Me: "Oh yeah I forgot, Corina's still here."

Phoebe :"Hmm...should we wake her?"

Me: "If she doesn't get up soon we probably should."

Phoebe: "OK."

Charley woke up about 30 minutes later, by then Corina was still asleep so we decided to wake Corina.

Phoebe: "Corina you should probably wake up now."

Phoebe: "I don't know if you have somewhere else to be but it's almost 11."

Corina:"Huh?"

-confused- Corina:"Where am I?"

Corina:"Phoebe?"

Corina:"Why are you in...wait this isn't my place.."

Corina: "What the?"

Phoebe:"Calm down...we got back late last night and you fell asleep on our couch, so we let you stay the night, but it's getting pretty late so you need to get going."

-realizing- Corina: "You said it was almost eleven?"

She got up and collected her things.

-urgently- Corina: " I have go, now...I'm late, sorry Phoebe.., goodbye for now, bye Charley...Cj...bye...ooohhhhhh I'm going to be so late..."

Phoebe:"Um...it's ok."

She headed out the door, got in her car, and left in a hurry.

Phoebe:"Well that was weird."

Me: "Yep."

Charley: "Cowewa go bye..."

Me: "Mhm..."

I set Charley on the floor next to a few of his toys.

Me: "Here you go little guy, go play with your toys."

Phoebe: "I'm going to go make some pancakes, and then why don't we go see Nina again?"

Me: "Sounds like a plan."

Charley:"Ancays!...Cawey luh ancays!"

Phoebe: "Maybe she saw us last night?"

Me: "I hope so."

-happilly-Charley: "Mawa go ma ancays fo Cawey!"

Me: "That make you excited Charley?"

Phoebe: "Hehehe."

-cutely- Charley:"Ancays fo Cawey!"

Phoebe:" Yes, I'll make you some pancakes too little guy."

-cutely chanting- Charley:"Ancays fo Cawey!"

Me: "hehe..."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Well aren't you just adorable this morning?"

Phoebe: "Keep an eye on him Cj."

Me: "I know baby girl."

She kissed me on the cheek and then headed into the kitchen.

It was about an hour later when we arrived at the pokemon center, which was now serving lunch. However the center wasn't particularly busy as the silver conference was just a few weeks away.

Nina had just woken up, so the nurse took us back to see her.

Nurse:"By the looks of things, we will need to operate on her tomorrow."

Nurse:"Her breathing is getting worse and she's on a lot of hormonal stress."

Nurse: "By tomorrow, she should be at her peak, and if she's able to survive the operation it will only get easier from there."

Nurse: "So far she's holding up.."

Me: "What's her chance of survival?"

Nurse :"Well, if I had to give a percentage, at this stage, I'd say 65%."

-concerned- Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "It's allright Pheebles, she'll make it."

Nurse:" Anyway if you want to say something to her, say it now."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Nina..."

Phoebe:"I brought you some pancakes sweety."

-sickly- Nina: "Mommm."
-upset- Phoebe: "-sniffles-, you're a mess."

-sickly- Nina: "I saw you -deep breathing-, on the tv."

Phoebe: "Mhm, we did that for you baby."

Nina:"You met the band?"

Phoebe: "Mhm..."

She couldn't hold it in anymore.

-upset- Phoebe: "Hang in there ok, it's going to be allright..."

-struggling to remain calm- Me: "Don't give up."

Charley: "Mawa no cwy..."

-upset- Charley:" Cawey cwy!"

Me: "Awe Charley..."

She looked even worse today, her breathing troubles were also much more noticeable.

-upset- Phoebe: "Cj..."

We hugged and calmed down a bit.

Nina:"Don't hug me please, it'll hurt."

-solemnly-Phoebe:"Ok."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey see Newa!"

Me: "We see her too little guy."

Nina:"Hi -breathing- Charley."

Nina: "Don't worry, I'm not gonna give up."

Nina: "-deeply breaths-, but it's getting harder to keep breathing."

Nurse: "If worse comes to worse we can move the surgery up, we'll have to perform more surgery the next time she's in heat, but her condition won't be nearly as severe next time."

-strained- Nina:"No! I want to get this -breathes deeply- over with now."

Phoebe: "We know sweety, but if your life is at risk we may have to wait till next time."

Phoebe: "You will get over it eventually, don't worry about it."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I can promise you it won't get this bad next time."

Me:"But you need to do everything you can to fight to make sure there is a next time."

Nurse: "The pain killers should be kicking in soon, then you'll be able to eat the pancakes your mother brought you."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Oh and Nina, I have one more thing to show you before we leave."

Nina: "What?"

Phoebe: "Should I Cj?"

Me: "What?"

She took out her phone.

Me: "Ohhhhh."

Nina:"Whaat?

-lovingly- Phoebe: "You're going to like this."

She handed her phone to Nina.

-unsure- Nina: "The evil lady?"

-unsure- Nina:" What happened why is she not in jail?"

Nina: "Wait...why is she tied up?"

Nina: "And she has tape on her mouth..."

-excitedly- Nina: "You caught her!"

Phoebe: "Um...no we found her like this, someone else did this too her, we thought you would like to see it."

She sat up.

Nina: "-heavy breathing- -giggles-."

Me: "-sighs- there we go, made you laugh."

Phoebe took her phone back.

Nina:"-giggles-..."

-cutely- Charley:"-giggles-."

Phoebe:"Don't laugh too hard Nina."

Nina:"-breathing heavilly-"

-in pain- Nina:"Owwwwww."

-concerned- Phoebe:"Sweety?"

Nina:"My chest is starting to hurt again."

Nurse:" Just settle down."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Lay back down sweety."

-unsure- Charley:"Newa geh owie."

-solemnly- Phoebe: "Mhm."

We talked with her for awhile until the painkillers made her tired and we were called in to work.

It wasn't easy to deal with. We were completely helpless. It reminded me of how scared I was when Phoebe was sick awhile back, but this was worse than sickness, her own body was betraying her.

When we arrived at the experiment facility, we were both in a somber mood, even Charley was more quiet than usual. I hoped that maybe some work could take our minds off it.

-in the briefing room-

James:"Bad news.."

Me:"The bastard escaped again?"

James:"No..., but it appears that you've apprehended a decoy."

Me:"What?"

James:"Other than that, fortunately the operation has eluded the public eye, so well done with that part."

He produced a jar full of a thick blood red and skin colored liquid.

Me:"What is this?"

James:"It's whatever is left of the man you arrested."

James:"In the jar is basically destabilized fat, skin, and muscle tissue."

James:"It's like a human that has been liquified somehow."

James:"We believe that the man you arrested was not Myrenthall, but a temporary clone he managed to create."

Me:"How?"

James:"We haven't figured that out yet."

James:"But what's more important, is where the real one has gone."

Me:"Actually he did say something weird after he made all the smoke."

Phoebe: "He did?"

Me:" Yeah, but I didn't think he actually meant anything."

Phoebe: "Hmmm."

Me :"Look we had no idea he could do this until now."

James: "Understood, but this guy is really starting to try my patience."

James: "Anyway, we're sending both Matt and Christine overseas to the hoen region, since we can't remove Christine from her bracelets, and because of her bracelets she's still a likely target."

Me: "We need to figure out how his powers work."

Me: "Because who knows how many more tricks he has up his sleave."

Phoebe: "What if we went back into his world, and started asking around?"

James: "We can't risk anything else like him escaping."

Phoebe: "There's not a high chance of that happening though."

James:" Ok I'll allow it, you have the rest of the week to explore that world and that's it."

James: "If you can't find anything out about his powers by then, you aren't going to."

Phoebe: "Ok..."

Me: "We'll make it work."

James: "Meanwhile I'll allow another team to take a crack at him."

Phoebe:"Who?"

James:"Don't worry about that. You got some information to find."

We left the briefing room and headed to the portal lab.

-as we entered the lab-

-on phone- : "Yes, of course we'll have it set up right away."

Dr. Black:" Oh good, you're here, we just got the call, we'll need a few minutes to set the portal up."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Bob..."

Bob:"Yes?"

Phoebe: "Can you look after Charley again while we're inside, Myrenthal's world might be too dangerous for him."

Bob: "Yes, of course."

Phoebe: "Ok good."

We used the next few minutes trying to get Charley to stand while they set the portal up. However he was being a bit bashful and only stood for a few seconds before getting upset and wanting Phoebe to hold him.

Phoebe:"Ooooh Charley what's the matter?"

Phoebe:"You never give up so easilly when we're at home."

Phoebe:"You're getting so close to being able to walk baby boy.."

Me:"I remember when he couldn't even crawl."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"He's growing up."

Me:"Mhm."

Me:"Maybe we'll even be able to stop buying diapers soon."

Phoebe:"Maybe."

Me:"Anyway...sooo...once we enter that world, where should we start looking?"

Me:"I think the carriage driver mentioned a town last time."

Me:"Or we could try Myrenthall's castle."

Phoebe:"That would be the best place to start, but it's probably well protected."

Me:"True."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey ma caa-wel..."

Me: "Yeah, you make castles with your blocks at home don't you?"

-lightly Me:"This one is a bit bigger though."

-jokingly- Phoebe:"Yeah...just a bit."

Eventually the technicians got the portal set up, and then Phoebe and I headed through it, like the last time we were here, we ended up in a forrest. It was warm, a nice break from the wintery weather that we were used too. Once we made it to the dirt road, we decided to head for the town.

We walked along the dirt road for several minutes, not a single carriage or person in sight. About an hour later we were both starting to get thirsty, but there wasn't anywhere to get a drink.

Finally, another hour later we came across a clearing, with what appeared to be a small vegetable farm, with the remains of what appeared to be several pumpkins in a rather small field. I went up to the house and knocked on the door while Phoebe hid, afraid people would freak out if they saw her, while there were psychic humans here, they still weren't acustomed to pokemon.

Me: "Hello?"

-somewhat suspicious- Unknown woman: "What's your business? We already payed your damned taxes..."

Me: "What? I don't know what you're talking about, we...I mean, I'm just traveling to the city and I want to know if you have any water...we could...um...have..."

-somewhat suspicious- Unknown woman: "What you have to go there for?"

Me:"Um...were're trying to find out some information about Myrenthall."

Unknown woman: "He's deceased."

Me:"No...he isn't."

The woman finally opened the door.

Unknown woman: "We haven't heard anything about him for many nights."

Me: "Yeah, well we just saw him a few days ago.."

-confused- unknown woman: "What are you wearing?"

Me: "Never mind that, do you have any water I can borrow or not?"

unknown woman: "Is it I or we? Is someone with you, where are they hiding?"

unknown woman: "Are you trying to rob me?"

She drew a knife.

Me: "Woah woah lady..lady come on what the hell?"

Unknown woman: "Get out.."

I backed away and she slammed the door in my face.

Me:"Dammit, you see Pheebles this is exactly why I never say anything.."

-kindly- Phoebe:"Got the water..."

She teleported in front of me, I saw she was holding a small metal jug.

-confused- Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "You had her distracted, I just teleported in and took it."

Phoebe: "Come on, we better get going before she realizes it's gone."

Me: "First lying, now stealing?"

Phoebe: "Well what were we supposed to do?"

Phoebe: "We don't know how much farther we have to go to get to the city."

Phoebe: "And she has a well next to her house, she can just get more if she needs it."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Me: "Can I have a drink?"

Phoebe: "We should boil it first, it's not pure, we could get sick."

Me: "Yeah, I was wondering about that too."

We continued down the road until the farm was well out of sight.

Then we headed just a few feet into the forrest, and tried to get a fire going.

Me: "-sighs-, if I only brought hellblade this would have been so much easier."

Me:"We need to start beinging our pokemon to work everyday."

Phoebe: "I keep telling you we should."

Me: "Well then let's do that."

Me: "From now on ok?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

We gathered up a bunch of small twigs, sticks, and long, dry grass and put them all in a pile.

Me: "How are we going to light them?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "If my brother were here he'd use psycho cut to sharpen one of the sticks, and then he'd use that one to rub against another stick to get the heat neccesary to start a fire...but I can't use psycho cut."

Me: "You sure we can't just drink the water?"

Me: "That crazy lady seemed healthy."

Phoebe: "It's not worth the risk..."

Phoebe: "I could get sick, you could get sick, we boiled all the water in the gardevoir city... even before humans knew how too."

Me:"Since when are you a survivalist?"

Phoebe: "Since I was born and raised in a forrest you goofball."

Me: "Oh...ok..."

Me: "Why don't we just try what your brother did then?"

Phoebe:" I can't use psycho cut.."

Me: "I know, but maybe we won't need it."

Phoebe: "Maybe we can go back and get that lady's knife?"

Me: "I'm pretty sure we can get it, but not in the way we want."

-sadly- Phoebe: "mmm."

Me :"Ok I have an idea."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "How brightly can you flash?"

Phoebe: "Huh?"

Phoebe:"This jug is made of steel, if we can find some sparky rocks we can use them."

-unsure- Me: "Um...sparky rocks?"

Phoebe:" sparky rocks,flint rocks, same thing."

Me: "Where are we going to find them?"

Phoebe: "I'll be right back."

Me: "Where are you going?"

She teleported away, I waited about ten minutes for her to finally come back.

-concerned- Me: "What did you do?"

Phoebe: "I stoll a sparky rock from the lady's house."

Me :"-sighs-, why?"

Phoebe:"I'll give it back once we get a fire going, don't worry she's unconcious."

Me: "And what if someone else finds her?"

Phoebe: "It'll be fine, nobody knows we're here."

Before long we had a fire going.

Phoebe gave the flint back, but we kept the jug of water.

In just another hour we finally got back on the road, with a small supply of drinkable water. Enough to last us both until we finally made it to the city. There were some guards stationed outside the walls. Phoebe stayed hidden while I talked to them.

Guard: "Welcome to the kingdom of Graystone, state your purpose for entering."

Me: "I seek information."

Guard: "What kind?"

Me: "Information pertaining to Myrenthall."

-baffled-Guard: "The dark lord?"

Guard 2: "I thought he was dead."

Guard: "I'm pretty sure that's the case, he hasn't bothered us in weeks."

Me: "No, he's alive."

Me: "We need to know what he knows, what tricks he has up his sleeve."

Guard: "Well the only one that would know anything about him is Princess Airin."

Guard: "But you can't see her unless you're royalty."

Phoebe teleported in behind me.

Phoebe: "We are royalty."

-surprised- Guard: " She's a magi!..."

-surprised- Guard 2: "She's not human..."

Phoebe: "I'm Phoebe, princess of the gardevoirs...and he is Cj, my prince.., we're from a far away place."

She wrapped her arms around me.

-embarassed- Me: "Eheh...babygirl."

Guard: "Allright, fine."

Guard: "But, until the princess confirms that she wants to meet with you, you two must wait here.

Me: "Ok."

Guard: "Go on now Sir Lincolnshire..."

He looked towards the other guard, who was apparently his subordinate.

Sir Lincolnshire: "Yes sir!."

So we waited by the front gate, for a good thirty minutes.

Phoebe: "Maybe we could just teleport in?"

Me: "If we do that they'll start chasing us."

Me: "Do you really want to go on the run again?"

Me: "We should atleast try to play by their rules as long as they aren't trying to kill us."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, Ok."

Me: "Baby girl?"

Phoebe:" Hmm?"

Me: "You're still worked up about Nina aren't you?"

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, what do you expect?"

Me: "I don't expect you to shrug it off, but I expect you to atleast get a hold of yourself so we can stay safe ok?"

Me: "No more stealing, and if you're going to change the plan atleast tell me first, ok?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "And, don't forget, baby girl, I'm hurt too ok?"

Me :"But that's not going to matter if you lose control and get us both killed."

Phoebe:"I know Cj."

We sat in front of the wall and held eachother close.

We had walked several miles that day, so we were both pretty tired.

Phoebe:"-sighs-, Cj."

Phoebe:"I love you."

Me: "Love you too baby girl."

Phoebe: "Maybe this princess they talk about is hot and we can have a threesome."

Me: "So you can cry about it afterwards."

Phoebe:"Mmmm...I promise I won't?"

Me: "Let me ask you something baby girl."

Me: "What do you think Nina would say if she heard you say that to me?"

Phoebe:"I know, but that's just Nina."

Me: "No it's not."

Me: "We're not here to go around banging princesses."

-worried- Phoebe:"Does that include me Cj?"

Phoebe: "Because I was thinking we could spend the next few nights here."

Phoebe: "James only gave us the rest of the week."

Phoebe: "It'd be best if we didn't have to spend a great deal of that time traveling into the city every day."

Me: "I take it you texted Corina before we left and asked her to watch Charley?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "We don't have any supplies."

Phoebe: "We'll get some, don't worry about it."

Me: "Does that involve stealing?"

Phoebe:" No, but it does involve mooching from the princess."

Me: "Sometimes I swear you're trying to kill me."

Phoebe: "Cj...no...I love you...now come on, we can do this."

Me:"I know baby girl. I trust you."

Phoebe: "Good."

She kissed me on the cheek.

Me:"But what about Nina?"

Phoebe:"She'll be fine."

Phoebe: "We just need to get back before she's ready to come home."

A few minutes later the guard left his post and approached us.

Guard: "You two still want to see the princess?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Guard: "Ok, follow Sir Grisham."

Me: "Ok."

He returned to his post while we followed a third guard passed the gate, into the outskirts of a medieval city, complete with a pig farm, a market, many, many stone houses, and a blacksmith shop with some pretty cool looking swords for sale, up a bunch of steps, to our dismay, over a drawbridge, passed yet another gate through an inner wall, and finally, passed a large wooden door into a castle, somewhat smaller than the one in crazytown, though if the outer walls counted as part of it, it would be much, much larger.

We walked passed even more guards before we finally came to the throne room, where the princess was waiting for us. She was a beautiful young blond in a sky blue dress.

Airin:"They told me you came from far away."

Phoebe:"We have."

Me:"What do you know of Myrenthall?"

Airin:"That creep? What do you want with him?"

Airin: "I heard he was dead."

Phoebe:"Not true."

Airin:" I see, he merely changed his target your kingdom."

Phoebe: "Um...sure."

Me: "What powers does he have, and what is he capable of?"

Phoebe: "Does he have a weakness?"

Airin: "Everyone around fears him."

Airin:"We used to fight him at least once a week but his army never managed to break through the walls."
Airin: "He's tried to rape me, he's tried to mary me, He tried to rape my mother when she was alive."

Phoebe:"What happened?"

Airin:" Bless her soul, she fell ill and passed away last winter, my father died in battle before I was born."

Phoebe:"That's so sad."

Airin:"Myrenthal's army isn't too strong, but Myrenthal himself is a force to be reckoned with."

Airin: "Thankfully he rarely left his castle."

Phoebe: "How do you know he's gone?"

Airin: "Because his army dispersed, most of them are mind controlled, without him they have no reason to fight. That's also how he can build it up so quickly to attack almost every week."

Me: "What does ascenfunimoney mean?"

Airin: "What?"

Phoebe: "It's the word he says when he does this weird trick."

Airin: "Sounds like soul magic, I'm not a magician, but I know one."

Airin: "He may know more about what Myrenthall can do than me."

Airin: "Perhaps it's best you go see him, he'd be the one to ask."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Airin: "Sir Lincolnshire why don't you take our guests down into the laboratory so they can meet with Sir Goldeye?"

Sir Lincolnshire:"What if he's busy?"

Airin: "The old man rarely leaves his lab these days, he can make time."

Sir Lincolnshire: "Ok mam."

We followed him into a different room and down some stairs, past some empty dungeon cells and to a wide wooden door. He knocked on the door, and after we all waited for atleast thirty seconds, the door slowly opened and a balding old man with a big white beard emerged from behind. He wore a pair of small, gold rimmed glasses with a light tint, just enough to obscure his eyes, along with a lavender colored robe of the variety wizards seem to wear a lot in cartoons.

Sir Goldeye: "What is it, I'm very busy?"

Sir Lincolnshire :"We have some guests that the princess would like you to speak with."

Sir Goldeye: "About what?"

Sir Lincolnshire: "The dark lord Myrenthall."

Sir Goldeye: "Oookay."

Sir Goldeye: "Wait, it's you."

Me: "Hmm?"

Sir Goldeye: "Yes...I didn't believe my own visions..."

Phoebe: "Visions?"

Sir Goldeye: "The non-human, she's a magi."

-confused- Phoebe: "Um..."

Phoebe: "Can you see the future?"

Sir Goldeye."Sometimes..."

Sir Goldeye: "Other times I see the past.."

Phoebe: "Um...ok."

Me:"What's a magi?"

Sir Goldeye: "It's short for Magical entity, like me, a magical human."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Well...I guess you could say I'm magical..."

Sir Goldeye: "You're a magical...um...,I don't really know what you are sorry."

Phoebe: "I'm a gardevoir...we're an advanced race of pokemon."

Sir Goldeye: "Ooookay."

Sir Goldeye: "Now, I don't have the information that you're looking for, but I know who will."

Sir Goldeye: "Unfortunately they live beyond this town, so you still have pretty far to travel."

Sir Goldeye: "Excuse me for a moment."

He headed back into his lab, then came back a few seconds later and handed us a map.

Sir Goldeye: "This is a map of the next city down the road, it will lead you to his house."

Sir Goldeye: "Once you get there, follow the instructions on the back."

Sir Goldeye: " If you stay the night here you can head over there with the princess tomorrow, since she has to go there anyway to speak to the townspeople."

Me: "Ok."

Sir Goldeye :"That way you won't have to walk over there, because if you left now, by walking you won't make it before nightfall, and you don't want to be out after dark. There are dangerous creatures in the forrest, and they come out at night to hunt."

Phoebe: "Ohhh I think we can deal with a few.."

Sir Goldeye: "No you can't, not when they also possess powers like yours."

Me: "Wait what?"

Sir Goldeye: " You're from another world, so I doubt you'll understand, but some of the creatures possess magical powers as well."

Phoebe: "Um...hello?"

Me: "Actually we're very familiar with magical creatures."

Me: "We're friends with some."

Phoebe :"I'm one of them!"

Sir Goldeye: "Well, be that as it may, these creatures don't want to be your friends, they want to eat you for dinner."

Sir Goldeye: "And they'll resort to all manner of trickery to do so."

Sir Goldeye: "They were created long ago by Myrenthall's predeccesor, another dark wizard named Gourgenshall in order to help him conquer all the villages in the area.."

Sir Goldeye: "However, he only managed to capture three before he was over run and killed by an army formed by all three kingdoms of this land, afterwards a few of the creatures escaped and multiplied, and they rule the forrest to this day."

Sir Goldeye: "Fortunately they only come out at night and tend to avoid well lit areas."

Sir Goldeye:"Even the light from the farm houses is enough to keep them away."

Sir Goldeye: "But they will attack travelers and carriages heading through their territory."

Me: "What about Myrenthal? You said Gourgenshall was his predeccesor."

Phoebe: "When did he become evil?"

Sir Goldeye: "Well...it's a long story."

Me: "Well if we're staying the night, we got time."

Phoebe: "If those creature are real, that means we won't be able to make it back to the portal."

Sir Goldeye: "A portal?"

Phoebe: "It's how we got here in the first place."

Me: "That's why you don't see Myrenthall around anymore, he escaped to our world and now we can't get rid of him."

Sir Goldeye: "I see..."

Sir Goldeye: "Myrenthall is a dark wizard, a man chosen by a secretive group of evil zerkelian monks to lead an army of darkness on a rampage of death and destruction."

Sir Goldeye: "Only one is chosen at a time, and each one is given special soul powers by a dark ritual known only by the monks."

Me: "Special soul powers?"

Sir Goldeye: "Powers that not even magis can possess, the ability to transform souls into vast amounts of energy."

Sir Goldeye: The monks are a group of extremely powerful magis that worship the evil god Zerkelio."

Sir Goldeye: "Their powers surpass Myrenthall's, and make them completely immortal."

Sir Goldeye: "But for every dark, there is a light."

Sir Goldeye: "And for the last century it has been the goal of the Preservation to destroy the monks, who remain elusive, and continue to create dark wizards such as Myrenthall."

Me:"And you're one of them?"

Sir Goldeye: "I beg your pardon?"

Me: "You're in the Preservation?"

Sir Goldeye: "No, but the person I am sending you to see is."

Sir Goldeye:"He is an expert on the dark wizards."

Sir Goldeye:"He can tell you everything you want to know about Myrenthal, and the soul powers."

Sir Goldeye:"He's the one you should ask."

Me:"That's exactly what princess Airin said about you."

Sir Goldeye:"Well, unfortunately the lady was mistaken."

As it was close to sunset, we had no choice but to stay the night, so we were shown to one of the castle's many guest rooms. We didn't really have much to do, so we just sat on the bed and talked for a bit.

Me:"-sighs-, You know I was kind of hoping we could be sitting on the couch watching tv right now."

Phoebe:"Oh Cj relax, we won't be here long, we'll just go to the next town with the princess tomorrow, we'll see the guy we need to see, and then we'll head back. It'll be a short trip, don't worry."

Me:"I hope so."

Me:"This bed is really soft..."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"mmmm...I know."

Me:"I feel like I'm sinking into the floor."

Phoebe: "It's filled with down, it's going to be really soft."

Me:"Does it not have springs?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

I pulled her close to me.

Phoebe: "ooooh Cj -giggles- ..."

-seductively- Me: "You've been a really naughty girl today..."

-seductively- Phoebe: "Umm...yeah I have... haven't I?"

-seductively- Phoebe: "You going to punish me big boy?"

Me:"Maybe.."

Phoebe :"Maybe we should wait for a little while.."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "This bed is kind of hard to move around on."

Me: "Yeah, that's true."

Me :"But it's still a bit early."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "We need to kill some time."

-hopefully- Phoebe :"Mhmmmmm."

Me:" We've been walking all day."

Phoebe: "Mhmm."

Me: "I bet your feet are really hot."

Phoebe: "Mmmmm...maybe."

Phoebe: "I have a better idea."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "From what I could hear the princess should be bathing right about now."

Me: "So?"

Phoebe: "I know where the bath is, we can go to it, take off our clothes, start making out and pretend we didn't notice her."

Phoebe: "But our love will turn her on and we'll have a nice little threesome."

Phoebe:"She'll be the only one in there."

Me: "Pheebles, you know she's human right?"

Me: "If I have sex with her she could get pregnant."

Phoebe: "Well then you'll just have to give your sperms to me like you always do."

Phoebe: "That doesn't mean you can't put your thingy in her thingy."

Me: "You know one of these days I'm just going to record what you say and then I'll record what you say after we've done it, and then I will put them into one video and then I'll put it on the internet..."

Phoebe:"Nooo Cj come on..."

Me:"I understand you like other women too Pheebles, and I accept that, and if I knew you weren't going to cry after this because 'we ruined her' or whatever reason I'd be fine with it."

Me:"But you're not thinking this through, ok?"

Me: "All you want is sex right now, you think that if we had a threesome with the princess it would be more fun than just us having sex together."

Me: "And you know, you're right, it would be, for the moment, but you always, always hate yourself afterwards, and I can't stand to see you upset like that, so I have to say no."

Me: "I'm sorry if I'm not enough for you, but it's the truth."

Phoebe: "Ooooh...Cj..."

Phoebe:"You're right."

Me: "-sighs-, good."

Phoebe: "Maybe tomorrow I'll talk to the princess, and see if she has any love interest or what her situation is, so I can see if we can do her without making me feel guilty.."

Me: "-sighs-, and just like that back to square one."

Phoebe: "Oh, don't be so sure..."

Phoebe: "Now, until then, for tonight."

-sedutively- Phoebe: "I've been very naughty today haven't I big boy?"

Me: "Um...yeah.."

-seductively- Phoebe: "Care to punish me?"

Me:"Lie down baby girl."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "No... keep your shoes on for now."

Phoebe:" Ok."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Now what you gonna do big boy?"

Me: "We don't have any restraints do we?"

Phoebe: "-giggles-...no...I don't think we do..."

Phoebe: "We'll have to try that at home sometime."

Me:"No wait I got an idea."

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

I tied her to the bed using the pillowcases.

Phoebe: "mmm...they're a bit loose."

Me: "Oh well we'll just have to pretend."

Me: "You stay very still ok? If you move you'll get punished more."

Phoebe: "Umm.. ok."

We had some really hot sex on the soft, marshmallow-like bed, unfortunately it turned out that the bed wasn't that great for sex because it made movement really awkward, and it wasn't that great for sleeping because it was really warm, we still had our fun, but when it came time to sleep, she quickly decided to sleep topless, we couldn't snuggle because then it would be even warmer and she had to use her powers to help me sleep because I tend to have terrible dreams if I fall asleep at high temperatures. Of course, this meant she was still tired by the next morning, but still we got up, had a brief discussion with Dr. Black over the radio, which was nearly out of range, and then we had breakfast with the princess along with a group of guards and palace officials. The officials consisted of people that worked and lived in the palace that were not guards, but instead basically served as aids to the princess. Including her personal carriage driver, two secretarys that basically wrote speeches and laws and other legal stuff for her, and a man who managed the royal stables, responsible for the care and breeding of an impressive "fleet" of atleast 50 something horses belonging to the staff, (of various kinds, some were for the guards to ride, others were bred to pull carriages, and of course the princess had one of her own. Horses were the main mode of transport in this world, presumably ships existed as well but we were too far from the coast to see them. During breakfast, I had an interesting conversation with the staff, while Phoebe stayed quiet because she was too tired to say anything.

After breakfast we were shown to a carriage and we set off for the next town with the princess riding in a separate carriage ahead of us.

Me: "Ok Pheebles, we have quite a long ride, so I think you can try to get some more sleep now."

-tired- Phoebe: "-sighs-, finally."

She put her head on my lap and quickly fell asleep.

Me: "Comfortable?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "Mhm."

It was a long trip, she slept most of the way and I really had nothing to do but watch trees slowly pass by the window.

About 2 hours into the journey I had almost fallen asleep as well, then the carriage hit a bump that jarred us both awake.

-spooked- Phoebe:Aaah!"

Me:"Huh?"

She almost fell on the floor.

-woken up-Phoebe:"What was that?"

-confused- Me:"I think we hit a bump."

She sat back up and rubbed her head.

-tiredly- Phoebe:"Ok...are we almost there yet?"

Me:"Um, I don't know."

Me: "I hope so, I'm getting pretty bored."

Phoebe:"Me too."

Me:"Hehe...you weren't even awake for the last hour or so."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Awww poor baby..."

She kissed me on the cheek. Time finally started to go by a little faster as Phoebe was awake and I finally had someone to talk to, when we finally got to the city, we were in a good mood. As the princess went to give her speach to a crowd of townspeople, we left the carriage and started to follow the map Sir Goldeye had provided us with. We took to the roof tops when we could so Phoebe could stay out of sight from the townspeople who weren't yet familiar with her beauty. We weren't sure how they would react, so we played it safe. Eventually we made it to the area marked on the map, which turned out to be just an alleyway between two stone buildings.

Phoebe:"Ok now we have to follow the instructions on the back."

She turned the map over.

Phoebe:"Close your eyes, spin around three times, count to five, and say 'telcondraga', then open your eyes."

-surprised- Phoebe:"What? Is this some kind of joke."

Me:"I don't think he would send us all this way for a silly joke."

Me:"I'll try it first, and you follow since have the instructions."

Phoebe:"Ok. I don't see how it will work though."

-about 7 seconds later-

Me:"Telcondraga."

I felt something change in the air around me, and when I opened my eyes I found myself in front of a stone house. The house was surrounded by thick, white fog, and literally seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Phoebe appeared behind me shortly after I came to grasp with my surroundings."

Phoebe: "Ok I'm confused."

Me: "It's like we teleported to yet another dimension, that for some reason only contains this house."

Phoebe: "Is there anyone inside."

Me: "I don't know, I was waiting for you before I went in."

Phoebe: "Well go knock on the door already, because I don't know how we'll get out of here."

Me: "Ok."

I went up and used the door knocker (doorbells didn't exist in this world).

After waiting a few seconds the door opened, but there was nobody behind it.

Without anywhere else to go, we headed inside. The house was lit by a few lanterns hanging upon the walls. In the corner, drinking what appeared to be tea, were two strange old men.

Unknown man: "Well friend it appears you have more company."

Unknown man 2 : "Yess I see...Why are you here? State your business."

Unknown man 2: "Who told you how to get here creature?"

Phoebe:"Sir Goldeye told us."

Unknown man 2: "And just the what the heck are you anyway?"

Phoebe: "I am Princess Phoebe of a distant land."

Phoebe: " This is my husband Prince Cj. We came from a distant land because I need you to tell me what you know about Myrenthall."

Unknown man:"A human prince and a creature princess..."

Me:"She's not a creature she was human once, Myrenthall did this to her."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Cj don't, I can handle this."

Me:"Just trying to keep them from freaking out."

-suspicious- Unknown man:"That's a lie..."

Unknown man:"That and the girl's a magi."

Unknown man:"I can't tell if she's lying or not so I don't know about the princess thing."

Unknown man 2: "Well it doesn't really matter now does it?"

He examined the map that Phoebe was holding."

Unknown man 2: "This is Goldeye's writing, so he must have really sent them."

Unknown man 2: "I know Myrenthal can move people's souls, but I've never seen a creature like you before."

Unknown man 2:"He can't create living bodies... you never were human were you?"

-nervously- Phoebe: "No..."

Unknown man 2:"But yet you're not violent like the other magi creatures...very peculiar..."

Unknown man 2: "Why do you want to know about Myrenthall?"

Phoebe: "So we can defeat him, he keeps evading us and getting away."

Unknown man 2:" I suppose I could help you."

He took a book off of the shelf and handed it to us.

Unknown man 2: "A few years ago Princess Airin organized a hunting party to search for the monks of Zerkelio."

Unknown man 2: "All we ended up finding was an old house in the woods, but within that house, there was this book."

Unknown man 2: "Many perished that night as the creatures were much more active than normal, only a third of the party returned, and this book was all they had to show for it."

Unknown man 2:"I've read every page, studied every line."

Unknown man 2:"It is a detailed and compiled history of all the dark wizards they had chosen over the past millennium, everything they did, and all the abilities they gained and used over the course of their lives."

Unknown man 2:"Now, obviously as this was seized during Myrenthal's reign, his section is incomplete, but his abilities and weaknesses should be similiar to those of the previous dark wizards."

Unknown man 2: "However, this book is also of great value to the monks."

Unknown man 2: "That's why I moved my house into this pocket space, so I can keep it here without them knowing."

Unknown man 2: "After you leave here, you'll have a day at the most before they attempt to reclaim it."

Unknown man 2:"So I suggest you take it, and get back to wherever you came from as quickly as possible."

Me:"How do they know where the book is?"

Unknown man:"Magic how else?"

Unknown man 2:"They placed a spell upon it that allows them to track it."

Unknown man 2: "The only way to break it is to destroy the book."

Unknown man 2:"I'm giving this to you know, so don't lose it, and don't kill Myrenthal."

Me: "Why not?"

Unknown man 2: "If you kill him the monks will choose another to take his place."

Unknown man 2:" But if you can keep him locked away, in the world that you came from, the monks will be powerless to free him, and they won't be able to make a new one until he's dead."

Unknown man 2:"If you do that, you will free our world from their curse."

Phoebe:"Ok...sure."

Unknown man 2:"Allright then."

-quietly- Unknown man 2:"I know I'm forgetting something."

Me: "How do we get back?"

Unknown man 2:"Oh, right."

Unknown man 2:"All you have to do is head outside into the fog, close your eyes, count to five and when you open them again, you should find that you've returned to the alleyway."

Unknown man 2:"Keep the book safe and do not tell anyone how to get here, in exchange for the book I shall be keeping the map."

Phoebe handed him the map.

Phoebe:"Ok."

Unknown man 2:"I shall see that it finds its way back to Sir Goldeye."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me:"What's your name anyway?"

Unknown man 2:"You don't need to know."

Me:"Ok, if you say so."

Me:"Come on Pheebles lets go, you can read the book on the way back."

Unknown man 2:"Tell your driver to go post haste, you don't have a whole lot of time before the monks come after you."

Phoebe:"Ok."

We left the house, headed out into the fog, closed our eyes, and counted to five as per the strange man's instructions, sure enough when we opened them we found ourselves back in the alleyway. It was like we had awoken from a dream, but the fact that the map was gone and Phoebe was still holding the book proved otherwise.

We took to the rooftops again and headed back to where we left our carriage.

Phoebe:"Do you think Princess Airin is done with her speech yet?"

Me:"I don't know."

Phoebe:"We should get going before those monks show up."

Me:"I know honey."

Eventually, we made it back to the carriage. The driver was waiting beside it.

Phoebe:"Driver, is it ok if we start heading back now?"

Driver: "We're part of the princess' escort, we can only head back when she does."

Phoebe: "We're in a hurry."

Me:"If we don't get back to our world asap the monks could come after us."

Phoebe: "You don't want that do you?"

-flustered- Driver:"Oh dear..."

Driver: "Ok, I'll take you back, but after this is over with you have to come back and vouch for me."

Phoebe:"Ok."

We left the city, the carriage traveling somewhat faster than it was on the way down.

It was a still a long ride though, and we had plenty of time to study the book together along the way.

Phoebe:"Keep going passed the next city too."

Driver:"Why?"

Phoebe:"We need to go back to where we came from."

Phoebe:"Once we get there the monks won't be able to follow us."

Driver:"You best be right."

We got in the carriage and set off for home.

Me:"Ok so we know he can encapsulate people's souls, he can teleport, he can make smokescreens."

Phoebe:"According to this 200 years ago a dark wizard raped and impregnated a young woman."

Phoebe:"Also after reading it seems that if a dark wizard has a child, that child is usually chosen as the next dark wizard."

Phoebe:"For example Myrenthal, is the son of Gourgenshall, who conceived a child with a dark witch who secreted him away until he was of age."

Me: "A dark witch?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "That's what it says."

Phoebe: "It also says he can only have a child with other magical beings, so that explains why he's come after me and Christine."

Me:" But the princess?"

Phoebe:"I didn't say he couldn't have sex with anyone else, he can only have a child with a magical being."

Me: "So he just has a crazy sex drive then."

Phoebe: "Seems so, with all his rape attempts."

Me:"Ok now besides what we already know, what does it say?"

Phoebe:" He can move souls around like manaphy, I guess, he can switch places with somebody, which is something I can't do, he can hmmm...according to this dark wizards can also turn into clouds of black smoke."

Me: "How can we contain him if he can do that?"

Phoebe:"But he can't teleport if he is in smoke form."

Phoebe:"That's all I've read so far, I haven't even looked at at half the pages yet."

Me:"Allright, I'll let you keep reading."

Phoebe:"Ok."

She turned her attention to the book almost like Charley does to tv.

-20 minutes later-

Me: "Hey Pheebles?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Me: "Can I read the book for a little bit?"

Phoebe: "You bored Cj?"

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Well. you can play around with my phone, I brought it with me."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Cj? Phoebe? You haven't said anything since yesterday."

I took the radio from her, about to go bored out of my mind.

-somewhat surprised- Phoebe :"Heeeey... Cj ..."

Me: "Now you know how it feels."

-a bit sad- Phoebe: "mmm.."

She went back to reading.

-into radio- Me: "Yeah we're still alive, we should be back in a few hours."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Good, you're ahead of schedule, what did you find out?"

Me: "We found a book that I think has everything we need to know."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"Ok."

Me:"So is Charley ok?"

Dr. Black:" He's not here right now, Corina came and got him."

Me: "Oh, ok, sounds good."

Try as I might, I could not keep the conversation going, so I gave the radio back to Phoebe so she could talk for a bit while I finally got to read the book.

She ran out of stuff to say just a few minutes later, and then the boredom continued. -20 minutes later-

-singing- Me:"I love my baby girl."

-singing- Me:"Her skin is white as pearl."

-singing- Me:"Her hair is green. her eyes are red"

-awkwardly- Me:"And...um."

-sing song- Phoebe:"And you remember the day we wed?"

Me:"Sure why not."

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

-20 minutes later-

-singing- Me:"Weeeee are the champions my friends..."

-singing- Me:" And we'lll keep on fighting...to the end..."

-20 minutes later-

-playfully- Me:"Pheebles? ...Pheebles?"

-playfully- Me:"Watcha reading baby girl?"

-playfully- Me:"You find out anything new?"

-trying to concentrate- Phoebe:"Noooo not really."

Me: "Ahhhh ok..."

-10 minutes later-

Phoebe: "-giggles-, Cj stop tickling me, you goofball..."

Me: "Awe, but you're just so cute."

Me: "Now give me those feet."

-playfully- Phoebe:" No no no."

-playfully- Me: "Yes yes yes."

-20 minutes later-

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, oh yesss, ohhh, give it to me, give it to me baby come on...mmmmmmmm yes yes..."

Me: "Oh yeah, hold on tight baby girl."

-cutely pleasured- Phoebe: "Mmmm…yes …feels so good…. ohhh Cj, you naughty boy."

-playfully- Phoebe: "I love you, I love you, I love you"

-30 minutes later-

-breathing heavily- Phoebe: "-breathes heavilly- We're tied."

-breathing heavily- Me: "Aw well."

-breathing heavily- Me: "We'll just have to snuggle for a bit."

-45 minutes later-

Phoebe: "Ok the bond's worn off, let's get dressed quickly before we get into the city."

Me: "Right."

Phoebe: "You naughty boy, I can't believe we did that."

Me: "I can't believe you let me."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Welll...I...ummmm...it felt good?"

Me: "Yeah, and it killed some time, so no harm done right?"

Phoebe :"Yeah, you did good this time I guess."
-sweetly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, I love you."

Me: "I love you too baby."

We kissed before quickly putting our clothes back on. Either the driver was really polite or he didn't notice.

Me: "Everytime with you baby..."

-cutely- Phoebe:"mmmmm"

Me: "Feels so damned good."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

I don't know how we survived the trip back, but after what seemed like a year, but was really just a few hours, we made it back to the safety line, where we disembarked from the carriage, said goodbye to the driver, and headed off into the forrest towards the portal.

Once we got back, Dr. Black shut off the portal, then we left the facility, taking the book with us, We met Corina at the pokemon center, and reclaimed Charley, by the time we got there, the Nurse had just began to operate on Nina, so we stayed at the center for awhile. Oddly, because the nurse was busy a chancey was running the front desk by itself.

-at one of the tables in the lobby of the pokemon center-

Phoebe: "I can't believe we almost missed her operation.."

-worried- Phoebe: "Ohhhh... I hope she'll be ok."

Me: "She'll be fine sweety."

Charley: "Mawa?"

Me: "The Nurse didn't have to move the operation up, so I think she was doing good to hold out this long."

Me:"Anyways it was you're idea to spend the night in medieval land."

Phoebe:"You're calling it medieval land?"

Me:"Well we don't know what its real name is."

Charley: "Mawa..."

Phoebe:"It's the country of Perimea, or something like that."

Phoebe:"They call their planet earth like so many others."

Me:"I wonder why that name is so common?"

Phoebe:"I don't know."

-impatiently- Cawey: "MAWA!."

Phoebe: "What Charley?"

-cutely-Charley:"Cawey no see Newa ."

Phoebe: "Did you miss us Charley?"

Phoebe: "I'm sorry we had to leave for a bit."

Corina:"He was a bit concerned about where you went."

Charley: "Cawey wa go ho, wa teephee."

Me: "Hehe...you wanna go home and watch tv?"

Me:"We'll go home in a little bit."

Phoebe:"We need to wait for your sister silly."

Phoebe: "She's really sick right now, but the nurse is trying to make her better"

Charley: "Newa es seek."

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno seek."

Charley: "Mawa wa es seek?"

Phoebe :"Well, it's kind of hard to explain."

Phoebe: "You've been sick before little guy."

Phoebe: "You probably don't remember though."

-from the desk- Chancey:"Chancey…Chan!"

-unsure- Me:"Is she talking to us?"

Phoebe:"I think so."

Phoebe:"Here, take Charley, I'll go talk to her."

Me:"Ok."

She handed Charley to me and went over to speak with the chansey, then came back just a minute.

Phoebe: "The chansey said we might as well go home, Nina's going to be asleep for awhile after the operation anyway."

Phoebe:"But the chansey said if things work out right, she should be able to come back home tomorrow."

Me: "Ok, that's good."

Me: "How do you feel."

Phoebe :"-sighs-, I think she'll make it."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Allright then, let's go."

Phoebe: "Bye Corina."

Corina: "Bye."

We left the center and headed home, once we got there, Phoebe went upstairs and began to read the book some more, while I spent some time with Charley. It was a quiet afternoon. I made supper for the first time in quite awhile since Phoebe was still reading when it came time to eat. After I had Charley in his highchair I went upstairs to get her.

Me:"Pheebles?"

Phoebe:"What?"

She was just laying on the bed in her night gown, reading the book.

-jokingly- Me: "You want supper or are you going to bed already?"

Phoebe: "What? It's comfortable. it's weird laying in bed with pants on."

Me: "Why don't you take a break allright, you've been reading for the past few hours, Charley wants to see you."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, ok."

She put the book down and got out of bed, then she followed me back down into the dining room where Charley was waiting.

-excitely-Charley:"Mawa!..."

Charley:"Wheh you go Mawa? Cawey no see..."

Phoebe:" Sorry sweety, mommy's been really busy."

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

-sarcastically- Me:"Yeah...really busy."

Phoebe:"I need to get through that book before we get another chance at Myrenthall."

Me: "Well, pace yourself a bit."

Charley: "Cawey wa mawa pway."

Charley: "Buh...Mawa no pway weh Cawey..."

Charley: "Dawhy play weh Cawey."

Charley: "Dawhy luh Cawey.."

Charley: "Mawa luh Cawey?"

-worried- Charley: "Cawey dunno why mawa no pway."

-amused- Me:" oooooh...Charley..."

Phoebe: "Charley don't be silly, I'll always love you."

Phoebe: "I just couldn't play with you today because I had other things I needed to do."

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Phoebe: "Ok, how bout this then?"

She picked him up, kissed him on the cheek, and cuddled him.

Phoebe: "I love you Charley."

Charley:" Mawa luh Cawey?"

Phoebe: "Always.."

After dinner, we watched tv and played with Charley together on the floor until it was time for him to go to bed.

Not much happened until the next morning, when we returned to the pokemon center, because it was finally time for Nina to come home.

Nurse: "I'm glad to say, the operation yesterday was a success."

Nurse: "Nina should be able to go home with you today."

Phoebe: "Wonderful."

Nurse: "She's still in heat, but it shouldn't be life threatening anymore."

Phoebe:"Good, now where is she?

Nurse: "She's getting dressed she should be out here in a minute or so."

Phoebe: "Ok."

-unsure- Nina: "Mom?"

Phoebe: "Oh hey sweety."

She gave her a hug.

Phoebe: "Come on, let's get you home."

Nina :"I still don't feel so good."

Phoebe: "The worst of it is over, it'll where off in a few days."

Phoebe: "Then you can go back to school next week."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "In the meantime you have lots of homework to do."

-disappointed- Nina :"mmm."

Phoebe: "Well honey there's nothing we can do about it, you need to get it done so you can do good at school."

Nina:"I want to play with my pokemon."

Phoebe: "We'll see."

Phoebe:"Let's just get you home first missy."

We brought Nina home, where she hung out in her room for most of the day since she still wasn't feeling well.

Phoebe kept reading the book, but also stayed in Nina's room to help her with her homework, while I looked after Charley. Sometime around noon, Phoebe took a break and went into the kitchen to make lunch for everyone.

Me:"Pheebles."

-playfully- Pheebles:"Cj get out of my kitchen!"

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey see Mawa."

-playfully- Me:"You gonna kick Charley out too?"

Me: "He just wants to see you, you haven't played with him much today."

Phoebe: "I've been helping Nina with her homework."

Me: "I know."

-cheerfully- Phoebe: "You're doing really good with him though Cj."

-cheerfully- Phoebe: "Look at you trying to be the best dad."

Me:"Hehe."

She gave both of us a kiss on the cheek.

-playfully- Cawey: "-giggles-, Mawa kees…"

Phoebe: "Hehe, he laughs every time I kiss him."

Phoebe: "Maybe we can watch that Disney movie tonight."

Phoebe: "Nina might like it."

Me: "Um, maybe."

Me: "I almost forgot we recorded that."

Phoebe: "Why don't you two go back to playing? I'll have lunch ready in a little while."

Me:" Ok."
Phoebe: "We'll play later Charley ok?"

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa pway?"

Phoebe: "After lunch."

Me: "Come on Charley, let's go."

-playfully- Me: "Before your mother kicks us out."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Oh you."

I turned around to see Nina heading towards me.

Me: " Oh hey sweetheart."

She had wrapped herself up in a blanket.

-surprised- Phoebe: " Nina what's wrong?"

Nina: "I'm thirsty."

Phoebe: "Oh, ok."

Phoebe: "Go ahead and get something to drink then."

Phoebe: "And then get back to your room."

Me: "Why does she have to stay in her room?"

Phoebe:"So I can keep an eye on her more easily."

Phoebe: "She doesn't understand it but, she'll get these urges, and I need to control her so she doesn't do something she'll regret."

Nina: "What?"

Phoebe: "Well honey, remember when we were talking about boys and you said you didn't like them and I said you will someday?"

Phoebe: "Well...that day has arrived."

-confused- Nina: "What?, I still don't like any boys mom..."

Phoebe: "You will...or you'll like girls...or both...we'll just have to wait and see.."

-frustrated- Nina: "But I ...eh I mmm..."

Nina: "I don't want to talk about this anymore."

-stubbornly- Nina: "It's gross...all this lovey stuff..."

Phoebe :"Oh Nina...-sighs-, you'll just have to see for yourself then someday."

-defiantly- Nina: "No day...never!"

She poured a glass of milk and then stormed out of the kitchen.

-excitedly-Charley :"Newah mah!..."

Me: "Yeah, she's mad isn't she?"

Me: "Oh well.'

Phoebe: "-sighs-, she worries me sometimes."

Phoebe: "What if she really can't fall in love."

-jokingly- Me: "Then we'll never have to pay for the wedding."

Phoebe: "Cj, I'm serious."

Me:"Yeah, so am I."

Phoebe:"But if she can't fall in love, she can't be happy."

Me:"She'll fall in love someday baby girl."

Me:"Maybe not as soon as you would like but..."

Me:"She's been through a lot ok?"

Me:"She has to figure out who she wants to be first."

Phoebe:"I hope that's the case."

Me:"Well honey she's only fouurteen and mentally she's what? 12?"

Me:"She's come a long way, but she still has some catching up to do."

Phoebe:"I know Cj."

Charley:"Cawey wa dow!"

Me:"Allright then son, let's go play."

Phoebe:"Ok, I'll get back to making lunch."

Me:"Allright."

It was another slow, relaxed day.

That afternoon Phoebe played midnight club with me for a little while as Charley watched, and then we started up that old disney movie we had on the dvr and brought Nina out to watch it with us. After that, Phoebe helped Nina with her homework a bit more while I put Charley down for a nap.

Sometime during the evening I found myself watching tv alone, as Phoebe was upstairs, reading that silly book. Wanting someone to snuggle with, I headed up to see her.

Me: "Baby girl?"

Phoebe: "You wanna snuggle don't you?"

Me:"It would be nice."

Me:"If you could put that book down for a little bit."

Phoebe: "I think I could make that happen."

She set the book down and moved over so I could snuggle with her.

-sincerely- Me: "I love you baby girl."

Phoebe: "I love you two."

Me: "-sighs-, you have cute little feet you know that."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I know..."

Phoebe: "Stop looking at them you weirdo."

Me: "Fine, I'll just look at your cute little face."

-cutely embarrassed- Phoebe: "mm."

-playfully- Me: "If that makes you uncomfortable I could look at your cute little chest."

Phoebe: "No, it's allright."

Me :"So um...how far along is Nina on her homework?"

Phoebe: "Oh, she has a lot left to do."

Phoebe: "She got one day of assignments done though."

Me: "Ok so she's one less day behind."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Tomorrow we'll shoot for two."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "She also has a report on music history due when she gets back."

Me:" Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "We'll have to see what we can come up with."

Phoebe: "You don't no much about music history outside of rock do you?"

Phoebe: "And you barely know any of that."

Me: "I know the songs, I just...don't know much about the people who sing them."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "We'll figure something out."

Phoebe: "Ok."