” Smiled Susan, making her way down the hall with the device floating behind her.Stepping into the lab and bringing the device down to rest on the w...rktable, Susan let the forcefield slip so the object could sit where she left it. Looking the table over, the Invisible Woman made a face with her hands at her sides, finding it cluttered and messy from her husband’s efforts to make the device. She looked arou8nd for anywhere else that would have been better… But the whole place was a mess.“The. Jen wanted to grab him and hold him close, but knew it was going to take time, first for him to stop seeing her as a little girl, and then to accept that she could take August’s place in his heart and life. She knew if he loved her the way he had loved August that she would never leave him. She was sure too, that August would hate to see him in such pain. She still had no real idea why she had left, but from watching them she knew that he’d never mistreated her: far from it. The ride into town. She was startled at first, at the tall redhead’s sudden presence. Then she remembered that even as kids when she hid in this bathroom, Darb had always found her because she always forgot to lock the bathroom’s other door. ‘You came when you heard the yelling, huh?’ ‘Actually, no, I showed Cat to Craig’s room. When she didn’t find him there, she knocked on your door. I was in the middle of telling her that you were napping when she barged in, which just proves she has bad manners.’ ‘Only you. I was left by myself with Jessica. ‘Well Sir, that was quite a negotiation.’ ‘Yes it was. That’s the job I suppose.’ ‘It’s pretty early, would you like to grab some breakfast?’ As she spoke she brushed the hair from her eyes and glanced at her shoes. ‘Perhaps if you asked me the right way I’d agree.’ ‘What is the right way?’ ‘By completing that sentence with the word, Sir.’ She chuckled and shot me a look that was all too familiar. ‘I don’t work for you.’ Abruptly, she began gathering her.