Zoe was head downstairs and shown a birthday sign big sugar dressed in a similar outfit to Zoe's and she quickly hugged her dad. Big Sugar held her kissing her head their was a cake out and everything. She smiled knowing that things like this would be a memory soon. She smiled in her dad's arms. Big Sugar smiled petting Zoe's cheek, as she teared up, "This will probably be the first and last birthday Party I get to throw for my baby girl, I wish I could have brought more people but I already feel like I was over stepping asking you to Take little with you." he kissed her head, crying, The drag queen's make up was running. Our drag queen smiled and said this, "My darling baby girl...I am sorry I couldn't get your other family to come, but Reese side with her parents, and well , they said if I was going to be here they won't."

Zoe snuggled and held him, "It's okay dad, they took you and little form me, they kept fighting instead of leaving, and if they dislike my bisexual drag queen dad enough for being a bisexual man in a dress they would miss my birthday then I don't need them. They are something out Out Grew...Reese too I guess." She said bitter about that part. Sugar petted his daughter's head.

Our Queen smiled saying, " You can be bitter about it pumpkin no need to hold in the tears, you have a boyfriend over there who baked your birthday cake form scratch." Max said this, "We only had strawberries for flavor hence why it's pink cake with pink frosting. I would have used Blue berries but the bush was picked clean." Max crossed his arms as Little and Lilly whistled.

The birthday girl walked over held her boyfriend's cheek and kissed his forehead, "Max you baked me a cake, I don't care the flavor you made this, and I see the candle next to it you couldn't get a small one so we blow it out off the cake. I also know that candle has to be home made." Amy called out, "I am the one who made the Candle I looked it up online to make it, You can say your birthday candle is your gift form me and Rex, I say me and Rex as well he made the wick. We used an old plastic cup as the mold too."

The birthday girl hugged her friend, Minmi smiled as she said one thing, "So bitter sweet This is a thirteenth it's suppose to start the age of discovery, drama love heart break and other things as you enter the teenage years, but now it's just full stop child hood's end. This ice isn't going anywhere for that to happen." She a adjusted Rex said his birth's said this would last sixty years while that is a human life time, the next generation will be aged before the sun comes out, and said next generation will probably have made a third generation, meaning it would be four generations till things could return to normal if able as the ice would have damaged and destroyed many places, and other places would be ruined when the ice melted, plus flooding. Realistically it would be probably Six generations of humanity before civilization could rebuilt everywhere. Some pockets were it was burning hot are in a spring and became a paradise those people were probably were Rex's parents came from because they got to ignore the world's end.

Doctor Owen was also having similar thoughts about how most teachers doctors and surgeons would have learned by having to do it, or form older ones as time goes on. Rose was a rarity about to become extinct , Rose would have to train someone to be a nurse and a doctor with out professional aid. Aki held her twin's shoulder as she watched comforting her as they all knew what this was.

Ken took the point off that, "the point is right now we are here and together, So Big Sugar how about you give Zoe your gift?" Big Sugar smiled pulling out a locket and old one. Zoe blinked as her father put it on. Zoe opened it to see an old faded picture of a couple on a farm. Big Sugar kissed his daughter's head, "This locket has been in my family for currently Ten generations. The photo is our oldest known ancestors who's names are forgotten. This is a piece of history. A Treasure and a link to our past. The tradition was to pass it down to daughters but my ass father handed it to me saying I was the end of the blood line as he couldn't compute man in a skirt likes girls too. So don't hold grandpa against the necklace sweetie." Zoe nodded hugging her dad and putting the locket down her jacket.

Barbie smiled as she used a lighter a rechargable electric one to light the candle as she said, " well Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you and many more." She sang as Zoe took the candle by it's stand and thought about a wish and looked around. The brithday girl Blow out the candle, her wish was to spend the rest of the ice age warm in Max's arms. people clapped and the cake was cut.

Dexter was first to comment on the cake, "It's a good cake to say you had to grow all the parts their Max. I feels kind of wet for some reason?" Max said this, "we don't have Sugar so I had to make corn sugar, which is the same as Normal sugar it's just liquid. That was a bitch for the record." Rex nodded just eating cake, While doing this he noticed Amy snuggle up to him, much like how Zoe was sitting in Max's lap and the two started feeding eachother, and action Rex and Amy copied.

Barbie and Dexter's eyes rolled, "Oh that phase...it's cute..." Said the couple that has been together the longest. Ken sighed saying, "I have got to find a boyfriend...Too bad dating apps are gone." He said bitter internet was currently still running , but for how long, also no one could travel that well anymore.

Big Sugar smiled a bitter sweet smile, it took the end of the world to Find his daughter, For years he dreamed of finding his daughter suing the Drake's for taking her away despite their deal, and holding her in his arms. Throwing her parties and making up for all the lost time together as a family, Now this party was basically all she could do for her. He sighed, He dreamed about finding her helping her through highschool dating and everything else but it was too late for any of that, She had her boyfriend, and probably future husband. She didn't have places to go on dates, she didn't have school anymore, No going to the Mall or to clubs to go dancing, no hanging out with friends, No sleep overs, none of the things he dream of helping her through. He could only smile, the world ended but at least he finally got to hold his daughter and see what a wonderful person she was.

Big Sugar smiled really wanting to hug her again, but right now she was in Max's arms, thanks to time and the world's end that's where she belonged now, Now in his. the drag queen sighed, He had big dreams, using his Kabuki theater to get both his kids through college, All that money was going to go to waste and became pointless now. She spent so long working towards that and paying detectives to Find Zoe and she was basically right next door. he had to assume the detectives didn't do anything and were scammers in hind sight with how fucking close his daughter was to him. The distance between them was about twenty miles. His baby girl hidden form him in plain sight, right under his nose...Assholes. He sighed so much time wasted in hindsight, If he knew what he knew now, he would have matched to the Drake house with police showed the contract and Taken Zoe away form her kidnapper, wicked half sister and wicked mother, the moment they moved to Sanjo when she was five. The fact the truth made Zoe more or less disown the Drake's as family meant She would have cheered and happily jumped into her daddy's arms. Sugar held his chin and made a mental note on how he would have handled Zoe's temper and tsundere ways and nipped them in the bud, so she could have been a lovedere for Max. He also would had nipped this boycrazy shit in the ass too, as Big sugar new pretty package normally holds shit inside of it. Fame and power corrupt. All our drag queen could do was sigh at what could have Been if his detectives had done their job and found his daughter, like they were paid to do.

Little Sugar was too young to think like this, He was just happy to have a big sister. Now sooner or later Little will ask what life would have been if he had grown up with his big sister always their to play with him, protect him and help him. Sooner or later he will figure out what the Drake's took from him, much like his father. This was on everyone's mind. Rose watched and went to pat Big Sugar's back but he rejected it.

Rose blinked but got it, She was a step mother who gained a step-son she wasn't a parent that had their baby ripped away form them by the other parent, and the step father, with help form said child's half sister. She couldn't relate to the man's pain and suffering. For years he probably wondered if his daughter was even still alive, and bitched at himself for not being strong enough to protect his baby. For years he had to suffer worrying about Zoe's safety, if the step father that took her away was harming her, That she was dead, that her own family slash kidnappers were hurting her, So many worried plagued Big Sugar it was clear that radiant smile of his was a fake, a mask to hide his pain. While Zoe wasn't physically hurt denied a parent, she had problems that went unaddressed or helped, allowed to roam around freely , to do what was basically chicken fighting, their was neglect , parental neglect which is legally child abuse. Hearing about Zoe's child hood and hearing about how she used to act basically confirmed many of big Sugar's worries. This was Zoe's birthday the only token or parental life Big Sugar could probably give her now in worlds end.

the doctor packed away sighing, Big Sugar's showmen ship wasn't really a useful skill right now. It wasn't something that came in handy as they were now. Business wasn't coming up any time soon, or at least till people could travel in the snow. Big Sugar is probably the saddest person in the room all the time, thanks to what happened and where it got him. Big sugar won't confess to this as this was Zoe's day. He did wipe a tear while smiling bitter sweetly as she and Max kissed. He found his daughter , most of his fears had happened, and she was all grown up now. It was too late for him to hold his baby.

to be continued.