We all knew the score. The doctor, at Roses request having taken the week off staying with us and sleeping with her overnight. I sharing Mays bed onc... more, but by common consent not a word of what was to come was said. The morning of April the first dawned seasonally as grey as the day before and Rose washed and toileted her-self like any other day. The big car appeared and she bade us open our envelopes as soon as she had left and be ready to leave at 11, she kissed us each and then was. Then, I remembered this was most likely a dream, so who cared if he woke up? His brother told me to take care of him and that was what I was about to do. I sat next to him on the bed, making it move a little, but not enough to wake him. I bent over and kissed him softly on the lips, I drifted my lips to his cheeks and then his jaw line. I dared a little more and kissed him on the neck, sucking lightly on the little spot behind his ear. I heard Ethan moan a little in his sleep, looking down I. The gentle impact nudged against his wrist, and he groaned.“Ah, shit, sorry. Um, well, Jacob’s not so bad once you get to know him. He likes to keep Invictus at arm’s length though, cause, you know.”“Indeed.”“Don’t be like that,” Jen said, walking over to him and nudging up against his other side. “Really, you can trust the man more than you think you can.”Triss raised a hand. “But not completely.”“No no, not completely. That’d be a mistake, and Jacob wouldn’t want that. But you can trust him. .. ?” she asked, before I interrupted her.“Sweetie, I’m not sure that I’m human. I should have died a couple of times last night. The flame throwers incinerated that room, and there was no way out. There was a steel plate over the only doors, and I should have been a crispy critter. After that, he filled the room with chlorine gas, enough to kill a battalion of men. Again, I should have been ‘the late Bill’. Instead, I put an explosive charge on the glass wall between us and blew it out. The.