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Skotti nodded and whispered to the room "About today, Luciano and I are extremely grateful that you all care so much about us to track us down the way you did. Just know that when the don tells us to jump, we jump. We are sorry that we did not let you all know but those where the circumstances and hopefully in the future, this won't have to happen again" he said.

Waffle and Sabe both leaned back on the corridor wall. The current news was great and all to Waffle, but her back started to hurt from standing upright for so long.

Meanwhile, a very tall and slender dark elf man walked by the group in the hall followed by a shorter light elf woman with split-color eyes. As the two walked by, the woman almost stopped walking when she saw Sabe in the corner of her eyes, with the same puzzled expression. The man turned around.

"Molly, hurry up please. We're supposed to be back at the lab 10 minutes from now, and I don't want to be late again." he said to her in a low tone.

'Molly''s attention snapped completely to her co-worker, and she kept walking forward.

The man looked toward who caught his friend's attention, and had a puzzled look on his face himself. It suddenly reminded him of something, and then he turned around and the two walked away quickly.

Pen nodded and herded the team back out. But before leaving she gave her last goodbyes to Skotti, Mandi, baby Devin and Grandma Gallows.

"Call us if you need anything."

Mandi sat in awe of her newborn son, brushing his cheek as he slept peacefully on her chest.
She turned to Skotti and whispered, " Today went by like a blur. It's almost like I don't remember giving birth." She said, laying her head back. "Oh by the way, sorry about your hand. How's it doing? Oh yeah, sorry about throwing that apple at you. Oh, and sorry for all the harsh words."

When Waffle and Sabe arrived home, they tiredly walked up the stairs and up to their room.

"Today was a ridiculously long," Sabe said, yawning while hanging up his coat and scarf and slipping off his shoes. "...and I need a nap after all of this drama."

He crawled into the bed, not bothering with the sheets as he buried his face into the cold pillows.

I should probably do the same. Waffle thought as she took off her shoes and laid down on the other side of the bed.
...but who were the people looking confused at Sabe, and why did he look back at them in the same way?

Waffle shook off the thought as she drifted off to sleep faster than she expected.

Luciano and Michelle took a cab home. He had plenty of money to spare, so he told the Cab driver to take whatever route he felt was best. Cab drivers had to make a living, too.

Michelle curled up to Luciano and whispered lovingly to him, "Are you ok?" Luciano sighed and shook his head, he said softly, "Not really. ." Michelle shut the small window so that the driver couldn't hear them talk. She sat up slightly and held his hand, "Tell me?. . . talk to me about it, Amor?" Luciano held back tears, he gently squeezed her hand, he did his best to hide that he was even crying but he knew that his efforts would soon fail. He said to Michelle, "This is the second time I've killed someone in my family. First it was my brother, now it's my uncle." Michelle turned his head so that they were face to face, she softly caressed his cheek and she smiled, ". . . Your uncle had it coming, you know." she was trying to put a smile on his face, and it worked half way. Luciano rested his forehead against hers and he said, "I'm going straight to sleep when we get home. . ." Michelle snuggled up to him, and she buried her face into his chest, "I love you. . ." Luciano held her tightly, despite his injured shoulder, ". . I love you, too. . I mean it."

"Hi boss family." Pen said as she emerged from the fridge door. Taking a bowl and some cereal she began her normal breakfast.