"See?" Zoe said as they came in the door of Noah's room. "All fixed, just like my niece said." She patted his shoulder before turning, leaving him in her niece's tender care. She needed to drop in on that poor human to make sure her son had actually shown some manners for a change.

What felt like a lead weight that had been pressing on his chest lifted when Sam caught sight of Noah. Alive, he was alive and... He slowly moved to his bedside, his eyes going wide as he took in Noah's condition. With how he had been shot, Sam had expected something vastly different, if by some miracle Noah had survived but... One IV dripping blood, steady breathing without so much as an oxygen mask or those prong things for assistance, the only bandage that he could see a cartoon one on Noah's chest, that looked like it was covering where the girl had stuck him with that needle.

"We have good technology here." Kay said as he moved from where he had been standing by the wall and came to join his brother. Aileen had gone to talk to Zed, saying she didn't want to risk overwhelming Sam with too much, too fast. Looked like he was already overwhelmed, though. Finding out his hopeful future sister-in-law was from another planet probably wouldn't be too much of an additional shock.

"You're supposed to be dead. You know that, right?" Sam said, not even taking his eyes off of Noah, to look at his twin. Fine, Noah was fine. But... He closed his eyes for a moment, as he forced away a sudden pain. This sort of technology, could they have saved Patrick too, or at least spared Catherine what she had gone through in the wake of the baby's birth? His brother, having access to stuff like this, why hadn't he... Sam shook his head forcing away those thoughts before they could go further. No, getting mad at his brother wasn't worth it. If not for him, he would have lost a second child. Better to focus on that, and maybe there was a chance... He would have to get Catherine there somehow, but...

"That's what Hawk said."

"Hawk?" Sam did look up then. "Didn't he die on the moon?"

"No. Crashlanded and broke up a Darkon invasion. Only polite to give him a lift back home." Kay said.

"Wonderful. You know, I took the day off to go to his funeral." Catherine was going to have a field day when she found out about this, never mind how she would react when she got the news that the brother he said was dead not only wasn't but was his identical twin, a little fact he had somehow failed to share. "So, what is this place?" Sam asked as he reached out and put a careful hand on Noah's shoulder, to reassure himself that the boy was actually there.

"The Men in Black. We monitor and police alien activity on Earth."

"Hate to tell you this, but you missed one." Aliens were definitely real. It explained Cosmo. At least it explained Cosmo. Probably a good thing that he hadn't found out about this before the little incident with Cosmo's wardrobe and the concussion Cath got as a result of the exploding clothes, though. She would have demanded he be kicked off the planet if she had known. She still might, come to think of it. If she didn't decide to try getting him kicked off the planet first, when she found out about that twin he had forgotten to mention. Noah, though... Sam gingerly took the boy's hand, still not half believing what was right in front of him. He had been so sure that he was going to lose a second son. To have Noah safe and sound, he would take any amount of yelling that Cath felt like. He had been so close. "When I get my hands on..."

"Oh, for goodness sakes, how many times do I have to say that poor man didn't do a thing wrong? Do you humans have some sort of odd hobby, chasing poor innocent people around?" Zara said as she came back in, medicine in hand, and shoved it into Sam's hands before he could object, along with a glass of water. "Swallow, and what in the world made you think you should be running around in the first place with ribs like that? You're lucky you didn't give yourself pneumonia before now. Not that you're going to be able to avoid it if you don't take something this instant."

"That might be from that little dip he took in the river. You have something about water, don't you?" Kay said.

"You're not trying to keep Noah awake anymore. Do you really need to bring all of that up?" Sam thought for a moment about questioning what the pill he had been handed was, but after a glance at Zara, he decided not to risk it, and swallowed with a gulp of water. "Wait. Innocent?" Finally what the alien girl had been saying all along sunk in.

"Well, he certainly wasn't the one who did that." Zara waved her hand in Noah's direction before continuing. "Agent Jay, Edie and I were right outside the room when those shots were fired. When I went in, that poor dear was moving from the floor, and thank goodness knocking that weapon away from the weaselly fellow. There was no way that he could have fired those shots. The angle was all wrong. The shot would have been maybe forty-five degrees, and wouldn't have done near the damage it did if that poor man had been the one firing. Really, I don't know how in the world that horrible, horrible human thought he was going to get away with it. You humans do have fingerprinting and forensics here, don't you?"

"Not as good as Jeedangian layered techniques." Kay said. "He probably planned to either wipe the the gun or make sure the prints were smeared enough to back whatever story he was going to tell." That gun. The clean-up crew had swept the nursing home, erasing signs of the MIB. He was almost positive that the room where the shooting had taken place had been nearly cleared as a result. That gun was likely down in processing somewhere. Down in processing, not wiped and ripe for their techniques. "Want some help with this, little brother?"

"We could use it." Another innocent fugitive. He was going to have to tell Catherine to start screening these things. He was still being reminded of Richard Kimble. Another innocent fugitive and he would be hearing about it for the rest of his career. He could think about that later, though. Where in the world was Royce? "Kevin, do you know if they picked up Royce?"

"I'm assuming that the weasel's name. The only people we brought in who weren't in that room when I got there were your team. And it's Kay now."

"You do know that's a girl's name, right?" Royce was on the loose somewhere. "Just perfect. "How secure is this building?"

"As secure as it gets." True, they had had some aliens who had managed to breach security, but a human, and one as careless as the one who had almost killed his nephew, just wasn't getting in. "Your boy's safe here."

Sam nodded. One less thing to worry about. Royce was probably counting on his shots being fatal, but still, even if he was an idiot, he couldn't see him not trying to track down Noah to make sure. If his brother was right, Noah was safe, but…. "Catherine!" Noah was here, his team was here somewhere, he could only hope not somewhere with access to shopping, so that Cosmo could replace his lost luggage with clothing from his native planet. Cath, though, was still out there, with no clue what was going on. "Do you have phones here?" Royce would spin this to try to blame the entire situation on Sheridan. Cath wouldn't have a clue, and if Royce knew how they felt about each other, which he didn't see how the idiot could have missed after Cath showed up after his shooting, then he would use her to try to draw him out and…. No, he wasn't going to call. He couldn't take the chance. He needed to get to Cath, and get her someplace safe.

"You're not going anywhere." Kay said as he caught his brother before he could reach the door. "What's going on? Wait, you think he'll go after…."

"Definitely." Sam said with a grim expression. The entire team missing, Royce reporting that Sheridan shot Noah, who knows what Cath was going to think. She was good, one of the best agents that he had known, but if she though he was in danger or had gone off the ropes, it would be a snap for Royce to lure her off someplace and do things that he didn't want to think of that would be blamed on Sheridan, knowing the news reports would send him flying to her side. "Kevin, let…."

"We'll get her. Zara?" Kay said as he tossed the keys to the LTD to the alien. "Go find Slick and Edie. Tell them I need a pick-up. Catherine Walsh. The twins ought to have a fix on her." He paused for a moment. Speed might be important, and even if Jay had managed to get the LTD back in one peace from the nursing home, it didn't mean he was going to trust him with the little red button. "You ever managed something like the car before?"

"I'm as good a driver as my cousin. We'll be back in no time with one little bitty human." Zara told him before turning to the door. "Don't worry about it. Just give your brother the good news."

"Good news?" Sam asked. His brother had sent at least one alien to collect Catherine. Maybe he could blame the entire thing on Kevin and avoid Cath actually going through with her favorite threat to fire him.

"It's about Noah. Sit down, Little Brother." Kay pulled Sam away from the door and pushed him into a chair.

"Noah? Wait, you said he was…."

"He's fine. You might actually have to let him rest for awhile instead of sleeping next month, but the kid's going to be fine. The thing is when they were replacing the blood he lost, we do it by cloning red blood cells. When they were running a sample of Noah's blood through the system for that, a genetic match got kicked back. Mine."

"Yours?"

"I wasn't doing anything back then that could result in a kid, let me reassure you, Little Brother." Kay put a hand on his brother's shoulder, hoping he could steady him as he delivered the rest of the news. "We opened the adoption records. Sam, the baby that you had with Catherine, that boy's your son.